links for 5-11-2011
First time! via INCITE! The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities , is a new and necessary anthology that needs to be read by everyone in activist communities. So often we see ourselves as above perpetuating the same oppressive and violent actions within our own communities and intimate relationships. This book [...]
...read moreHow a Fetus Gets Its Face
The coolest/weirdest/creepiest thing you will see today. (And yes, there are pictures and descriptions of fetus-faces at that link, as the title would imply. So if you don’t want to look at fetus-faces — they look kind of like modern sculpture and then pigs? — I would not click).
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But what about when boys call me “foxy”?
Ay yi yi: Animal ethicists are calling for a new vocabulary about animals, shunning words such as “pets,” “wildlife,” and “vermin” as derogatory and even suggesting “animal” is a “term of abuse.” Common language on fauna betrays an “anthropocentric bias” and impedes an understanding of our interaction with the non-human species sharing the planet, argue [...]
...read moreNot Another Odd Future Think Piece: Rap, the Internet and Female Agency
This is a guest post by B Michael Payne. B Michael Payne writes about a variety of things. He has a weekly thing at Fuse.tv, a website, and he’s probably tumblogging here, right now. You can email him at b dot michael dot payne at gmail dot com. *Sexual assault and violence trigger warning.* There [...]
...read moreFeminist blogs that aren’t about feminism
Recent commentary ’round these parts has me thinking: who’s got a blog that’s feminist, but isn’t about feminism? Personally, I didn’t start blogging because I wanted to blog about feminism. I wanted to blog about sex — and because my particular flavor of sex has a fraught history within feminism (famous German feminist Alice Schwarzer [...]
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