Auf’ed Is A Word In Every Gender: A Few Reality TV Notes
So here’s the thing: while waiting this past weekend in my just-across-the-block-from-the-evacuation-zone apartment for the threatened transformation of New York from this: Into this: …I did not spend my weekend writing posts for Feministe, as was my brief, but instead watching Project Runway. Project Runway Australia. I won’t qualify Project Runway as a guilty pleasure. [...]
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Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.
This is a guest post by Debbie.
Throughout his political career, Jack Layton championed progressive and feminist causes, including reproductive rights, pay equity, LGBT rights, affordable housing, improving public transportation, and fairer immigration policies.
I’m too pretty to come up with a title for this post. I wonder if my brother’s busy.
Unimportant update: Turns out my brother was actually busy recovering from back surgery, which slipped my mind only for a second, I swear. Regardless, he was game to do my homework for me, thank God. I believe the children are our future, let them blah blah whatever Screw some homework, amiright? (Actually, yeah, screw some [...]
...read moreUNITAID in Cameroon
Last week, I was in Cameroon with Cheryl Contee, Baratunde Thurston and Mark Goldberg, as part of a press group following UNITAID Chairman Dr. Philippe Douste-Blazy as he visited hospitals and clinics that served patients via UNITAID-funded programs. It was an incredible trip, and I have a much more detailed post in the works, but [...]
...read moreEric Angell admits to raping a woman
Eric Angell is some guy I’ve never heard of, who was apparently employed by The Second City in Chicago. And last week, he decided to get on stage and give a nice little monologue about raping someone in her hotel room. And of course he expected the audience to be laughing right along with him.
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Via Karnythia’s tumblr, I found this post that summarizes Chef Karl Wilder’s attempts to feed his family for two months on the allotment a family gets on food stamps. Wilder, who did this as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank, documented his and his family’s experience on his blog. Now [...]
...read moreThe deficient single woman
Chally is a former Feministe staffer. She writes at Zero at the Bone. I’m really quite troubled by the centring of romantic/sexual relationships at the expense of all other ways of organising lives. Right now, I’m going to explore this in terms of single women being seen as deficient. I’ve seen so many divorced and [...]
...read moreGo see The Interrupters
I caught this new documentary by Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) & Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here) during its sold-out run at the Siskel Center last week. Trailer: The Interrupters Imagine walking down a street where everyone is armed – with guns, rocks, knives – and a fight is breaking out. Imagine walking [...]
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I will post this week
Just catching up after Irene, which is why I’ve been MIA. No serious damage in my town, but power outages and annoyance abound. However, I will say this: I’m going to kick the next jackass who whines that the storm was overhyped. (It actually wasn’t, it was a category 2 and category 1 hurricane in [...]
...read moreBronze Bikinis for Beneficence
Well, Labor Day weekend is coming up, and if you live in Atlanta and don’t have room to fart in Midtown with the addition of 40,000 tourists dressed like stormtroopers, you know what that means: DragonCon. And if you’ve ever been one of those 40,000 tourists, pressed tit-to-bare-back with a chick in a bronze bikini [...]
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So Long!
Well, it’s that time! Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. I learned a lot in these conversations and had a blast doing it. Now the furry despot is calling. See you in the comments!
...read morePolice Violence at ICAAP 10
Police have beaten and arrested Korean activists at a peaceful protest against the free trade agreement at the 10th International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP) in Busan in South Korea. Some of my colleagues are over there, and are thankfully all fine. More information can be found here and here. A statement [...]
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