Unsolicited Advice to Women’s Professional Soccer
Saturday night, I went with my good friend, Patrick Reis, to see the WPS Sky Blue vs. Western NY Flash game. As he’s a journalist, I asked him if he’d share his thoughts on the experience. So… guest blogger under guest blogger. But it’s a new and fresher perspective than mine — I’m already an [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Go ahead.
...read moreBearing Faithful Witness and the Social Justice Life
I choke up every time I read “She Should Write,” Ann Friedman’s farewell to Feministing earlier this year. (Jill recommended it here at the time.) Being committed to social justice means, at its worst, living in defeat. Sometimes no matter how many victories I have, no matter how many wrongs I live to see righted, [...]
...read moreIf you can’t beat them and you won’t join them, you can at least take their names
In the Washington Post today, Lisa Miller brings what looks like old, unwelcome news to feminists like me: Now, in a reversal, some conservative Christian women are tentatively claiming the feminist label for themselves. In the reframing, feminism has nothing to do with a woman’s right to choose an abortion or with government programs for [...]
...read moreThe art of boobs
A gift for the artistically inclined, or really for anyone who’s ever wondered how Power Girl can run without concussing herself: Webcomic artiste Ovens offers a quick and handy tutorial on drawing boobs that actually resemble regular, human boobs. It’s revolutionary. Advice highlights: Boobs do not defy gravity. The bigger the boobs, the more weight [...]
...read moreShabbat alert.
Just a quick note: As mentioned in my first post, I’m Jewish — as not mentioned, I’m a little more observant than many. I don’t work on Shabbat, and thus won’t be around to fish comments out of moderation or respond from now until Saturday night. I’m sure the other good folks will approve comments [...]
...read moreThings I do of which I am ashamed.
Please note UPDATE in the comments (#82). I’m a feminist. I’m 46 years old, and I have never known myself to be anything but a feminist, in word and in deed. I marched for the ERA as a young high schooler, had a copy of Our Bodies Ouselves when it was still thin, and knew [...]
...read moreLife in America sucks. It used to suck more. Discuss.
Huh! So – not a single comment [thanks for the comments there, too!] on my Israel/Palestine post! Hardly even a click to see how I look on the small screen! I’m so used to people just waiting to jump into battle on that front, that I hardly know what to do with myself. I’ll actually [...]
...read moreBreaking: Nafissatou Diallo speaks out at press conference
The video, via Reuters.
...read morelinks for 28-7-2011
In Arkansas, as high school decided having a black girl as their valedictorian would be too controversial, SO THEY APPOINTED A WHITE CO- VALEDICTORIAN. This is actually so ridiculous I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Amy Winehouse passed away this week, which is sad, because she was a human being, and a very [...]
...read morePalestine, the UN, Israel, the Oslo Accords – & me, on Russian TV.
UPDATE: I’ve added a link with some basic background on the conflict in the comments. When I introduced myself earlier in the week, I said that I write a lot about Israel/Palestine, but that I also write about a lot of other stuff as well. Given the nature of this blog, I led with some [...]
...read moreThere’s an app for that. (Yeah, I went there.)
The fight against violence against women has reached the Office of the Vice President–which is good, because there are a lot of other offices that would have let it sit in the foyer without even offering it a cup of coffee until it gave up and went home. Even better is the surprisingly modern approach [...]
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