You know how this goes. Hope you’re having a marvellous day!
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I’m kind of freaking out about the plane crash in Austin, since it was down the street from the job I just quit, so I wrote a couple posts about that. The first one is more general, the second one is about Scott Brown’s response.
I also wrote a post in response to some friends who basically claimed that the “obesity crisis” was a problem and anorexia was not.
Tough week for Sarah Palin. She came in third runner-up in the Conservative Popularity Pageant, behind Mitt Romney. She’s outed for abandoning her grandchild Tripp to the horrors of socialized medicine. And Andrea Fay Friedman, an actress with Down Syndrome tells Sarah to lighten up. What an ingrate–after everything Sarah’s done to improve the lives of people with disabilities…
http://kmareka.com/2010/02/19/talking-back-to-sarah-palin/
1. A Few Thoughts On Gender, Power, And Hair.
2. You May Say I’m A Dreamer: Why I dislike “Imagine” by John Lennon.
3. Some Thoughts On Feminism And The Origins Of Gender Identities.
4. How Being Butch Affects My Daily, Public Life. Responding to a question from formspring.
Lady GaGa’s Vagina is Not Your Business: Breaking down the sexist and trasphobic tropes thrown at lady GaGa in an attempt to discern what her genitalia looks like.
The Olympic Flowers represent women’s activism: A little known fact that the florist supplying the flowers is a community program aimed at helping survivors of domestic violence, drug abusers, sex workers and ex felons attain a marketable skill.
Canada is about to deport a bi-sexual man to Jamaica: Despite clearly breaking the law, should this man potentially receive a death sentence by being forced to return to his country of origin?
When the ignorant speak: Looking at the fact that privilege prevents prevents people from recognizing that words like retard is hate speech.
I’m Gay is offensive? A man is prevented from having I’m Gay as his vanity plate because the government feels it might offend people.
Finally this weeks Sunday Shame: Childhood Crushes. Pop by and admit the childhood crush that is positively shameful. I bet you can’t beat mine
A discussion of religious versus cultural Judaism by Dina as well as of the need ethnic sensitivity by Shira
In his first test of character, Sen. Scott Brown proves weak and timid. His greatest political skill is a Palin-like vagueness. He is an empty suit, and Massachusetts, he’s yours. How do I despise him– let me count the ways…
http://kmareka.com/2010/02/20/massachusetts-what-have-you-elected/
We recently began our I ♥ FR Campaign, with the goal of raising $5,000 between Valentine’s Day and the end of March. So far, you have donated $525 – over 10% of our goal! While we’re off to a great start, we still have nine-tenths of the way to go. Your support is what keeps Feminist Review going, and we appreciate the opportunity you give us to continue moving forward.
Cynthia E. Orozco attempts to shed some light on one of these ignored civil rights movements in her book, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed. Her chronicle is a fascinating exploration at an overlooked chapter of American history.
This documentary, which clocks in at just twenty-four minutes, will continue to haunt you long after it ends. The Line is Nancy Schwartzman’s wonderfully brave effort to interrogate the circumstances of a sexual assault she endured while living aboard. Because she is not a “perfect victim” (the incident happened after she willingly went home with a guy, as opposed to having been raped by a stranger), she soon finds that this leaves her no recourse in the eyes of law.
Luc Besson is credited with the “story” for this violent comic book of a thriller that is an insult to Paris. Years ago, Besson wrote Le Dernier Combat and The Fifth Element, flicks that are still worth seeing. He either wrote
From Paris With Love in one second on the back of a postage stamp, is imaginatively bankrupt, or really needs the money. (All three perhaps?) Here’s the so-called story.
Hello all!
“Almost Right, but Not Quite”, an excerpt from the sequel to Steve the Penguin. Chapter 15 completed!
“Needs more Jaleesa.”, about Sinbad’s return to the spotlight.
If only I were less bossy. and The back pocket girl, about the “black girl curse” in the dating world.
and
“Denise is the other black woman who works here.”, about racial tension headaches.
Enjoy!
This week over at femonomics:
We discussed our love for great feminist magazine Bust, and talked about why women can’t be like men in the workplace like all the “career experts” want us to.
We also dissected the Tiger Woods apology, discovered a new favorite TV show, and considered the benefits of the proposed National Children’s Study.
And we talked about air travel, both whether airport security is making us safer, and whether we’re too fat to fly Southwest.
Come join the conversation!
an asian american rant about asiaphilia.
further down on the page (the only other public post so far), a list with an absurdly long title from 2009.
This week at Happy Bodies:
I wrote about gender in the classroom: what’s a girl to do when it’s the same men who speak up every day?
nko said Oh HELL no to Carrie Underwood’s fat talk.
We asked our campus to c’mon get happy with new posters targeting male body image.
Anti-Porn Feminists; A Contradiction in Terms?
http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/02/anti-porn-feminists-oxymoron.html
What’s wrong with third-wave feminists?
http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-i-dislike-third-wave-feminism.html
Spotlight on UCSD:
“Racist Frat Mocks Black History Month” at a party called “the compton cookout”
and the “ungrateful n—–s” response that was broadcast on the campus tv station
and some responses/justification
http://thatneedstogo.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/spotlight-racial-heat-at-ucsd/
Three different bloggers attended and reviewed a showing of the documentary “Graphic Sexual Horror” this week.
(arvan) Film Review: Graphic Sexual Horror.
(Annabelle River) Graphic Sexual Horror and the Ambiguity of Consent.
(rabbitwhite) Reflections on Graphic Sexual Horror.
Guest Post – on the social construction of sex – this is a guest post by a blogger who lives with vulvar pain, reflecting on the cultural expectations & pressures of sex.
Early last week, I remarked on a Bolivian newspaper’s lukewarm endorsement of sex toys, and yesterday, I considered two recent and rather different government proposals for gender equality in the Andean nation.
Whoops! You can access the piece on sex toys here:
http://eugeniadealtura.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/16-de-febrero-del-silencio-a-los-juguetes-sexuales/
Hey all,
Wanted to let you know of the first-ever Blog for International Women’s Day event on March 8! This year the theme is “Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for all” and any blog can sign up. To see what other blogs are participating and for more information on this new blogging event, click here.
Trouble for Women of the Wall
Women who run, and women who RUN
Don’t forget to leave your own links in tomorrow’s Global Feminist Link Love [GFLL], where we highlight our favorite blog posts and news articles from around the internet.
The mother-daughter dance: This week’s SLAT featured a strained and very offensive comparison between high school and the holocaust, and a huge hullabaloo over girls who carry condoms. Apparently that means you’re open for business, slatterns!
One Tree Hell: A confusing tale in two promos.
I wrote about yet another instance of high-tech medicine co-opting the language of the natural childbirth movement. And in a totally different vein, my colleagues and I disproved the old claim that “all feminists are humorless.”
Adoption Bingo (or stuff not to say)
I made a bingo card of stupid/ignorant/frustrating/rude things people say to “ungrateful” adoptees and others who have criticisms of adoption
Holding a mourning ceremony – Can I give myself permission to grieve for the pre-transition life I never had?
Cupcake and Shut The Hell Up Day – I’m trying to figure out how much a good joke is worth (in response to Steak and BJ Day)
Depression as a hole – My therapist gave me a useful analogy for depression
Happy Sunday!
I took the Pitchfork Tumblr Incident as an opportunity to remind People (Old and Young Alike) to back up their blog:
Tuesday was week seven of Copy Edit Craigslist Tuesday.
And Saturday I saw Dan Deacon in his hometown of Baltimore. There’s nothing thought provoking here, but maybe seeking enjoyment and perplexing videos is enough?
They only thing I wrote worth linking to is a list of some Realizations I’ve been having.
My S&M coming-out story was published at last:
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/sex-dating/82830/love-bites-an-sm-coming-out-story
And I wrote a followup blog post about it, of course.
http://clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/my-sm-coming-out-story-published-at-last/
I was distressed by something in the New York Times. I know, you’re shocked.
I also reflected on this week’s Torah portion and was dissed by my daughter for having a messy car.
Dipping my toes in for the first time…
“Can’t you take a joke?” Hipster -isms and jokes that just aren’t funny.
This week at f/law our contributor examines the traditional billing structure of private practice law firms, and proposes new schemes that would be more work/life friendly. http://canadianwomenandthelaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-balanced-life-in-private-practice.html
I wrote about DADT and militarism.
This week, I responded to Jay Smooth’s reaction to John Mayer’s general douchiness, a (terribly biased and ridiculous) article in my college newspaper about Abby Johnson, the woman who “converted” to anti-choice and quit her job at the Planned Parenthood here in Bryan, TX in November, and logged my disappointing and upsetting confrontation with anti-feminists in the biggest Doctor Who forum on the internet, Gallifrey Base.
…and forgot to post the link to where I wrote about DADT and militarism, oops:
http://screamingatthepatriarchy.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-militarism-and-repeal-of-dadt.html
On not being in America: note from beyond the centre of the universe. A post addressing hegemony in the US media and feminist blogosphere, in response to Pilgrim Soul’s (The Pursuit of Harpiness) post in response to Chally’s post here (phew).
I wrote about:
what we mean by “gendered violence”,
my feelings about people’s surprise that sexism happens and they don’t notice, and “nice girl” ideology,
and why it’s not good enough to have “disabled” facilities separate from everyone else’s facilities.
–IP
This week at re:Cycling, we comment on the possible place of PMDD in DSM-V, an ad for Chilean PMS remedy that portrays a woman with PMS as a wrestler, the “Last Stand” ad and response, an upcoming presentation in NYC about marketing ladyproducts, a program to distribute cloth menstrual pads in Africa, a proposed invention to reduce the duration of menstrual flow, and special running shoes for menstruating ladies.
I couldn’t get one sentence of Tiger Woods’ apology out of my head this week, so I wrote about it.
http://noticingthegap.com/2010/02/20/entitlement/
This week at Yes Mens Yes:
Things Nice Girls Don’t Do. What do BDSM and the inability to scream during sexual assault have in common? Mental blocks created by gender role socialization.
Also, I missed last week’s self-promotion thread, when I would have linked to this:
No Place To Tell This Tale, the story of trans man, who was raped while presenting as a woman. It’s his account not just of the rape, but of the aftermath and people’s inability to deal with his experience.
This week at CBShe:
I wrote about reactions to women’s hockey victories, the Harper government’s choice to exclude abortion and contraception from the G8 initiative to improve maternal health, and “Adventures in Sex City,” a sex-ed video game aimed at teenagers.
Some thoughts on Viking attitudes to sex, and In anticipation of Titan 2312, a silly post inspired by the Olympics.
I wrote about my criminally inadequate sex education.
A news round up on the Greek debt crisis: http://aleksandreia.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/a-quick-round-up-on-the-greek-debt-crisis/
And one on news from Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, and Libya (Chad and all the countries that neighbor it): http://aleksandreia.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/news-round-up-on-chad-and-its-neighbors/
Hello All,
I am writing to let everyone know that I’ve started a political/feminist/queer/trans/whatevermatterstoyou blog called “Feminuity”. (www.feminuity.com)
It is newly up and running and I am committed to being a full time contributor to get this off the ground, but I am also looking for folks who’d like to contribute on any level, on any topic. I’m really trying to create a productive, creative and alternative forum for topics to be discussed, so any contribution is welcome.
For those who might be interested, I am looking for whatever level of commitment works for you – it can be once a day, once a week, once a month, or just whenever something strikes you.
Please note also, if you do not have any experience blogging – that’s perfectly fine and you can send me your links/pictures/posts/thoughts etc. to this email (sarah.jane@feminuity.com) and I can post them under an alias of your choosing or set you up with your own log in to the site so you can do it on your own as well.
Thanks for reading folks, and thanks to Feministe for making this open forum for everyone!
I wrote about Kathleen Hanna and Jessica Valenti’s op-ed at http://www.feminizzle.wordpress.com, where I write with some friends from college- check it out- comments, discussion, and story ideas welcome- email feminizzle@gmail.com
Also, check out She Should Run, a nomination platform where you can ask a woman in your life to run for public office, and she can get the resources to help her start! http://www.SheShouldRun.org
I wrote about the idiotic and outdated attitudes that prevent women from achieving eqaulity in the workplace:
http://life-is-a-question.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-justify-why-you-should-be-allowed.html
(It is a private blog, but if you want to read e-mail me at SpeechIsFree AT yahoo.com).
Still blogging on the incident involving my city’s former police chief and the cover up. It’s an ongoing thing and unfortunately, it’s looking worse as it goes.
What if you wrote a report and no one signed it about questions which arose in the unsigned police report of the incident.
Community reaction and the quote on top is what officers were told during roll call by the current acting chief who suffice it to say doesn’t like bloggers much.
Questions about the white wash probe
I took a brief look at Emily Bazelon & Dana Goldstein’s recent BloggingheadsTV discussion about Lori Gottlieb’s Marry Him book.
I’ve been so busy with school, and obsessively playing the Wii (just bought it, how exciting), that I have been neglecting my blog lately. I did, however, write a quick post about how weird it is that discussing marijuana use in public is totally normal, and how that makes the fact that it’s still illegal in most all circumstances really… ridiculous.
I meant to highlight “in the US” in my description, since marijuana obviously isn’t illegal everywhere. Sorry!
Elaine Donnelly Blames Women in Uniform for Abu Ghraib, proving once again that she is an expert on nothing.
Other nation’s military forces integrate women fully, so is the U.S. Military Less Professional That Forces of Other Nations?
Military Culture Punishes Rape Victims Instead of Rapists
The way you react to criticism is important in That Stuff on Your Shoe.
Medical providers should listen to women because their medical care needs to be a partnership, and that requires Trust.
Oh, and also:
What if we had “family units” instead of spouses or marriages?
http://animeg.blogspot.com/2010/02/system-broke-because-we-didnt-think-of.html
and the system broke…
I do a weekly post, “Your Friday Awesome” that is usually kittens and puppies and other unicorn chasers, but this week I celebrated awesomeness. Specifically, the awesomeness of a friend who is a Peace Corps volunteer in Rwanda. She is working to connect a reliable, clean water supply to a health clinic and you can help her do it.
I did a brain dump about receiving unsolicited medical advice, particularly as it relates to me and chronic pain. The public version is here.
Single mom recovers from her nightclub bartending past, works on her Masters, toddler-wrangles, and teaches Enrichment English to teenagers who would rather be studying for drivers’ ed.
eightarms.weebly.com
Acid Attacks and Real Nightmares — A description of an acid attack in India and another woman’s reaction to it.
I wrote about the survey findings that 56% of Londoners believe there are circumstances that mean a victim is responsible for someone raping them. Keying on the fact that the 18-24 age band (the lowest band used in the survey) was the most likely to think this, I then created a petition for the Prime Minister to order a review of sex education in Britain so that it properly addresses and actively opposes such thinking in young people. The petition is direct linked here. Please publicise it widely, especially if British people read your blog (since they’re the ones who have a vote in UK elections, they’re the ones who petition the PM)!
Over at Care2 Women’s Rights Channel blog:
Monthly Joy: Access to Sanitary Pads May Lead to Better Education for Kenyan Girls
She Asked For It: Survey Finds Women Blame Victims for Rape
I write the very first post in my new blog, giving an in-depth review of the pros and cons of different menstrual products.
http://goodredroad.wordpress.com
On Beauty Schooled:
*I worked on my first “real” client!
http://beautyschooledproject.com/2010/02/22/my-first-real-client/
*And learned the secret to sucessfully selling beauty products: Make Stuff Up
http://beautyschooledproject.com/2010/02/18/selling-on-up/
What do you think about how the industry is teaching me and my fellow beauty school students to handle customers? And how does the pressure to sell interfere with the weird intimacy of getting naked in front of a stranger?