Objectivity and Neutrality
RMJ (also known as Rachel McCarthy James) is a twentysomething who grew up in Kansas and currently lives in Virginia. She blogs about feminism and stuff at Deeply Problematic, where this was originally posted. Objectivity is a keystone of journalism that extends to institutions like Wikipedia; the idea that we can somehow remove our selves [...]
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Fears
Like many of the folks over at NY Mag (and, I suspect, most New York City residents), I also wildly fear being pushed onto the subway tracks, being murdered in the back of a cab, being doored by a parked car, and finding rats in my cupboards. It has also crossed my mind that I [...]
...read moreCar Repair is Women’s Work
By Ann Farmer, republished with permission from On The Issues magazine. Car mechanic and mother Audra Fordin dons her work gloves to do a grease job on an automobile in her shop in Queens, New York. She’s so comfortable under the hood that she’s embarked on a mission to teach other women the basics of [...]
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The Alt-Sex Anti-Abuse Dream Team
This is a post by pro-BDSM activist Clarisse Thorn, who blogs at Pro-Sex Outreach, Open-Minded Feminism. BDSMers face a lot of stigma around our sexuality, and this can be a major problem when BDSMers are trying to deal with abusive situations. I’ve written before about generally negative conceptions of BDSM — they can briefly be [...]
...read more“Thanks for the tacos, now get out of our country”
From an article on the Brooklyn Tea Party: Dr. John Press, president of the Brooklyn Tea Party, doesn’t believe in multiculturalism. Instead, he believes in “culturism.” Press believes in America’s roots as a Judeo-Christian society, and as such, his group believes in an adherence to the values associated with Judeo-Christian cultures. “When they say that [...]
...read moreYes, I’m sure immigrants are crossing the desert by foot for the free water
I can’t believe that this is even a dispute, or that there are people who seriously think it should be illegal to leave jugs of water out for desperate immigrants walking across the Arizona desert. Two years ago, Daniel J. Millis was ticketed for littering after he was caught by a federal Fish and Wildlife [...]
...read moreWrong bra gets lawyer barred from visiting her client
Also, no bra: Attorney Brittney Horstman was not packing heat. She was wearing an underwire bra. And when the metal detector went off on a visit to the Miami Federal Detention Center, security guards wouldn’t let Horstman in to see her client. The attorney reminded guards of a detention center “memo” allowing female attorneys wearing [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
You know what to do.
...read more‘I have earned the right to call myself anything I like.’
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...read moreWalk-Outs
The United States delegation to the United Nations, and at least 32 other delegations including the whole of the European Union, walked out on a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran after Ahmadinejad went on a 9/11 Truther rant. He claimed that the US government orchestrated the Sept. 11th attacks in order to rescue [...]
...read moreIt Gets Better
Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old student in Greensburg, Indiana, killed himself after years of homophobic bullying from his classmates. Dan Savage has launched the It Gets Better project as an online support system for LGBT youth. So if you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and you want to send a message via YouTube, head over and [...]
...read moreSex Ed Week of Action
It’s Sex Ed Week of Action, and Planned Parenthood is giving away some awesome prizes to the first Feministe reader who emails me with the correct answers to the following questions: 1. By age 25, what percentage of sexually active young Americans will have a sexually transmitted disease? 2. In how many American states is [...]
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