Go for it.
Author: has written 5096 posts for this blog.
Return to: Homepage | Blog Index
69 Responses
Comments are closed.
(or browse the Archives by date, category, tags etc)
Recent Comments
- Willard on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- The Kittehs' Unpaid Help on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- The Kittehs' Unpaid Help on Living in a pretty ugly world
- Alexandra on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- Alexandra on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- Andie on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- Willard on Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- Andie on Living in a pretty ugly world
- Marksman2000 on Living in a pretty ugly world
- Marksman2000 on Living in a pretty ugly world
Recent Posts
- Baylor told Brittney Griner not to talk about the, y’know, lesbian thing
- Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
- Healing the Toxic Intoxication of Fat Hatred
- The brutality of reproductive control
- Living in a pretty ugly world
- Breakfast: Not Sexier than Before, but Funnier than Ever
- Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday
- Weekly Open Thread with Tapestry
- Angelina Jolie and her mastectomy. (It was going to come up eventually.)
- No, actually. No. Violence against women actually isn’t funny.
Most Commented Recent Posts
- How to be an ally with bisexuals (197)
- The brutality of reproductive control (134)
- Weekly Open Thread with Tapestry (128)
- Angelina Jolie and her mastectomy. (It was going to come up eventually.) (117)
- Living in a pretty ugly world (102)
- No, actually. No. Violence against women actually isn't funny. (66)
- Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday (50)
- Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday (45)
- LGBT community to the state of Minnesota: "YOU'RE WELCOME." (29)
- Healing the Toxic Intoxication of Fat Hatred (25)
Yes Means Yes!
Reproductive Health Matters
We’re in the Guardian
More of Feministe On
Sponsored By
Tried and Tested
The authors of this website have hand-selected these titles because we believe they may be of interest to a feminist audience.
Consider them for gifts to friends, family, or yourself! We do receive some income if you choose to order these titles based on our recommendations. All funds help support our costs to provide this space.
Consider them for gifts to friends, family, or yourself! We do receive some income if you choose to order these titles based on our recommendations. All funds help support our costs to provide this space.
Engaging in radical cartography: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/engaging-in-radical-cartography.html
Rethinking the 4th of July: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/bill-bigelow-rethinking-4th-of-july.html
Check out IHE president Zoe Weil’s new TEDx talk: Solutionaries: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/solutionaries-zoe-weils-new-tedx-talk.html
This week at Nursing Clio:
http://nursingclio.wordpress.com/
No original posts this week (Happy 4th) but in our weekly news round up:
The sexy history of canoes, lost and found report cards, and the most disturbing feminine hygiene ad ever. This is your Sunday Morning Medicine.
My 4-month old baby has a ghost mommy. I’m not so much jealous of her, as I wish she was more corporeal so she could change poopy diapers.
http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/07/ghost-mommy.html
-Meredith L.
Still recapping “Merlin”, and wrestling with its representation of women. This week “Sins of the Father” and “The Lady of the Lake”
We are Voice of Choice – standing up to anti-choice bullies! Check us out and join up!
Web: http://www.vochoice.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vochoice
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/vochoice
Check out our month-long social media series—Men in the Movement—in celebration of the men whose support, guidance, and commitment to social justice is helping to build a better world.
We asked our colleagues, allies, and supporters to submit stories and partnered with Role/Reboot to share a few that have been published there. This series is an acknowledgement of the fathers, best friends, colleagues, and mentors whose passion and partnership has made a lasting impact on our lives and in our world.
http://www.ippfwhr.org/en/category/topic/men-movement
I wrote film reviews on:
The French Film ‘Goodbye First Love:’ http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/26567033119/goodbye-first-love-review-aka-un-amour-de-jeunesse
and
Almodovar’s ‘The Skin I Live In:’ http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/26701945657/the-skin-i-live-in-aka-la-piel-que-habito-2011
This week I examined the issue of privilege and how depression is a manifestation of a character flaw.
It’s been an amazing two weeks at Wimbledon, and as usual the gender politics over women’s play and women’s appearance prompts me to make a couple of comments.
First, did you notice Serena Williams’ fantastically natural hair? I write briefly in celebration of her gorgeous hair and what it symbolizes in our crazy hair world.
And second, the Women’s Tennis Association is developing a plan to delimit women’s grunting on court — JUST women, mind you. I offer a satirical thank-you to the WTA and suggest other ways of tweaking the players’ behavior to make it more appealing to me personally.
I don’t know if yous remember, way back (about a month ago) I wrote the first of my trafficking posts, ‘what we talk about when we talk about trafficking; or, technically I’ve been trafficked you know‘. Anyway I finally got round to writing (most of) the follow-ups to that, thus: part two, part three.
This week I wrote a short post about rethinking the feminist canon, and just for fun, coming to terms with one of my long-standing pop culture transgressions.
I reported on Religious Liberty: Theology, Law, & Effects on the Church, a forum held at my parish as part of the “Fortnight of Freedom” campaign spearheaded by the US Catholic bishops in response to “an array of threats” to religious liberty, including the HHS contraceptive mandate.
In my summer course on Paul, I wrestled with a largely Protestant Pauline concept, in Justification? and the Traditional Reformed perspective.
Fetishisation of violence against women in fashion, a comment about the photoshoot “Beauty victims” of the Bulgarian 12 magazine.
http://illfb.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/beauty-victims/
In Back To Shouting, Then. I wrote about a big German public radio station’s decision to have a discussion about sexism in/and video games and yet, only invite white dudes to discuss it, about (surprise!) various sexism and racism fails during the program and when having to react to criticism, and my delightful experience with a self-declared feminist ally* who has now sworn off Feminism (TM) forever, because I was really mean to him…
Do you inhabit your pelvis, or is it a numb absence at your center? This month I wrote about reclaiming your body by bringing awareness to the bony structure of your pelvis. Change the Rules, Inhabit Your Pelvis.
It’s been a while, but I finally got pushed over the edge on a pet peeve of mine and had to put something down on it:
Today’s Peeve: White Whine/First World Problems – an argument for why these are badly-applied, problematic terms.
Some talking about butts.
And a letter to clothing retailers on the various frustrations of shopping for plus-size clothes. Now with extra fractions!
Hating Gym: The Last Mile dealing with running, PE class, endometriosis, and a teacher who, um, didn’t give a crap.
Finally, I’m trying to do one more summer giveaway.
I tried posting on Daily Kos after a long break and got a good response.
Stop Drugging Children Into Obedience
This week I continue my series of the summer blockbusters by holding a discussion with my friends on the sexuality and objectification of Magic Mike and dig into The Amazing Spiderman’s tendency to see women as constantly in need of protection.
I also advocate for Sarah Robles, the strongest woman in America, who isn’t getting the attention she deserves!
I just recently posted 100 Attraction Principles from the book Why Men Love Bitches.
Had time for only one post this week: Instant Replay, about the aftermath of the finger slicing incident. Finger and brain are better now, but the lessons aren’t lost on me.
Women in Teen Wolf – The Menfolk Say it’s a Matriarchy : Despite the fact that the show has actively proclaimed that women are the leaders it seems like it’s the same old sexist nonsense.
Women in the Anita Blake Series : Looking at the ways in which this series continually plays out tired sexist tropes.
True Blood, Season 5, Episode 4: We’ll Meet Again : A critical look at the latest episode of True Blood
Face Off: Have Sex Later, Damn It!: Why actually move the plot alone when the characters could be having sex?
We are now accepting submissions for the second Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival! This month’s theme is Women and Film, and the deadline is July 18, so get writing and submit something today!
Filed under “I can’t make this stuff up”: I need my husband’s permission to pay bills.
Feel free to promote yourself on my site, too, in this month’s Monthly Review.
Over at Care 2, I wrote about 5 surprising books my students love and a reflection on the American Dream in honor of the 4th of July.
A reading of Diane Di Prima’s Recollections of My Life as a Woman.
The Problem with GLBT Representation in True Blood and Lost Girl : Even both shows have prominent LGBT characters much of the inclusion is still very problematic.
Blue Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells Book 5 of the Sabina Kane Series : A look at the epic conclusion to this series.
Cover Snark: Why Did you Change the Cover? : A look at how in editions released for different nations turn perfectly acceptable book covers into a hot mess
Cover Snark: The Eyes Have It : There are a lot of disembodied women and overtly sexualized images on book covers, but what happens when they focus on the eyes?
Gender discrimination in Russia: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/07/04/russia-discriminates-against-men/
On friendship: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/07/06/friendship/
On the “demisexuals”: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/07/03/demisexuals/
Feel free to self-promote here: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/07/08/sunday-link-encyclopedia-and-self-promotion-35/
THIS is My Fitspo an awesome video shows me that fitspo doesn’t have to be thinspo in disguise.
I Was On Foodstamps; I’m Not Lazy-A Facebook post pokes a raw nerve about food stamp stereotypes.
Watching Cruel Intentions as an Adult- What was my mother thinking letting me watch this?
My Take on Brave: Does it Have a Boy Problem? I really liked Brave, but does it have a boy problem? (spoilers)
A short rant (mostly venting) on the pro-rape attitudes I’ve been noticing everywhere recently: http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/2262.html
Trigger warning for obvious reasons.
In A Trip to the Library I wrote a bit about sex-seperate restrooms as well as the rather nasty experience I had using the men’s room at the library. (Nasty as in encountering people who are just so dang put-out that they can’t attack people for using the ‘wrong’ restroom, not nasty as in like, a gross mystery puddle on the stall floor.)
http://leighanoisgocuramach.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/these-women-is-the-west-wing-sexist/
Given all the hype around Aaron Working I decided to go looking for sexism in the west wing.
I wrote about recovering (probably temporarily) from depression: http://brutereason.net/2012/07/02/when-i-knew-it-was-over/
Mama Nervosa wrote about the tour de France, camping with kids, and embracing the heat wave. Come on over.
I wrote about consent this week. Nothing groundbreaking, but I was tired of people online assuming that because a woman said yes to one thing she was saying yes to all kinds of other things–and not just in sexual situations.
#46: Understand that consent is temporary
I’ve posted about some pretty rad neo-pagan musicians lately:
Bill Laswell: http://heartacheintobeauty.blogspot.com/2012/07/monday-music-break-bill-laswell.html
Moving Breath: http://heartacheintobeauty.blogspot.com/2012/06/monday-music-break-moving-breath.html
Stuff I’ve written lately:
How to cash in on internet guilt giving : On the recent tendency of strangers on the internet to donate large amounts of cash to people, particularly women, they’ve seen mistreated.
Operation: tweezin’ for a reason : On finding a very old copy of the kid’s game, and some fun research into its background and various forms
Does it get easier? : A woman who works in the gaming industry asks whether caring about sexism will ever not just get her branded as a killjoy. My answer.
…Not yet. : A brief follow-up to the previous post on a recent particularly brutal attack on Anita Sarkeesian
Weekend web readin’ : Yesterday’s semi-weekly installment of interesting articles I’ve found around the web
Ok so for once I won’t be plugging my own blog. Instead, these are “The Fictional Woods”, a literary board http://w11.zetaboards.com/thefictionalwoods/index/
It’s a forum mostly centered around modern/postmodern fiction, but we have extraordinary poets and a surfeit of post on poetry, philosophy and, for some reason, theology. It is easily the best place to discuss literature I ever found.
Registering can on occasion be a bit arduous, but here’s a short how-to http://w11.zetaboards.com/thefictionalwoods/topic/7420067/1/#new
Really, there is no single other online reading community like this one.
We are now accepting submissions for the second Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival! This month’s theme is Women and Film, and the deadline is July 18, so get writing and submit something today!
Filed under “I can’t make this stuff up”: I need my husband’s permission to pay bills.
Feel free to promote yourself on my site, too, in this month’s Monthly Review.
On Loving Politics
Gender policing in World of Warcraft.
This week at re:Cycling, we wrote about efforts to educate about the very real risk of tampon-related TSS; how we maintain a relationship with our own bodies; menstruation and poetry; and our weekend links have some great videos, including an awesome music video about the inconveniences of menstruation, and Chella Quint’s TEDx talk about shame and menstrual advertising.
Not so much self-promotion, but definitely promotion! The awesome, queer feminist musician Maki Yamazaki is in the process of making a ukelele album. She’s looking to get it recorded in time for Nottinghamshire Pride, and she needs your help! Even if you can’t donate or anything like that, her music is definitely worth checking out :)
Last week I wrote obviously titled “Abuse is Not Funny” in which I discuss a Shrink4Men post called “The Crazy Bitch Quiz.”
I started blogging for Planned Parenthood Hudson Ceconic this week – check out my post about slutwalk and reproductive justice:
This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman, we talked about…
The Women of Red Dawn Suck
How the 80s classic missed a golden opportunity for some kickass characters by obsessing over the story and not the characters.
Werewolves, the Us We Wish We Were
Why wolves? I mean, out of all the animals in the world, why are we so obsessed with wolves? And how did we take a species that is actually pretty egalitarian, and make it so patriarchal in fiction?
Guest Post: Supernatural, the Girliest Show on Earth
Supernatural is girly not because it’s a show for women, but because it’s got the most feminine interpretation of storytelling. Guest writer Kyla Gorman goes into what exactly that means.
Spidey’s Girls
A quick review of Amazing Spiderman, and how the women in this one compare to the women of the previous films. Quick hint: pretty well.
Check us out this week, when we talk about chick flicks, a new sci-fi show you should be watching, and more!
A fun week on Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog:
Keeping Medications and Contraceptives Safe through the Summer: We’re in Arizona, where triple digit heat is taken for granted, but I hear tell there are major heatwaves taking place across the country. That makes this article especially timely. High temperature can alter the molecular structure of birth control pills or shorten the shelf life of a condom, so it’s good to know about any precautions you might want to take this time of year.
10 Sexually Transmitted Infections You Probably Don’t Know About: There are more than 30 sexually transmitted pathogens, and we compiled a list of some of the lesser-known STDs. Spoiler alert: No. 1 is donovanosis. Check this post to see what else made the list.
Also, today’s relatively fluffy post:
Casual Sunday. Casual everyday. : On the moral and sartorial dimensions of dressing casually
Strip for This is my personal blog about stripping, anarchism, feminism, sex, etc.
This week I freak out about a workshop about sex work I’m giving at the Anarchist People of Color Convergence, and then get stoked about the Blackfly Ball and DragonCon.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2012/07/08/seven-chile-beef-tacos/
As part of a blogger’s series on sharing lists on favorite books on several topics, I shared the top books for what I’m going to read this year, my feminism, my faith, marriage prep, and books the world should read. What’s on your list?
10 Books I Plan To Read This Year: Some must-read books for 2012.
5 Books that Influenced My Feminism: A short list of the books that helped grow my feminism.
10 Books that Changed My Faith: A compilation of the most challenging and helpful books to my faith.
5 Books the World Should Read: Of course, I included my all-time favorite, 1984.
5 Books that Prepared Us for Marriage: A few great resources for the engaged and married.
My novel, The Seven Perfumes of Sacrifice, about the search for the divine feminine and the ancient, lost origins of honor killing in the Arab world, got a spectacular review by Kirkus Reviews, the oldest book critic authority. I spent over a decade researching how honor killing got started and wove my original theory into a suspenseful novel. I am giving 10% of my book’s proceeds to The Global Fund for Women.
Hi welcome to the desert fellow nomads check out the backside of the internet; a brand new technology magazine made for everyone where you become a member and post or reply day one.
Discussions include technology-science-culture-politics, even sci-fi. Also a member’s only breakroom where you can commune with fellow spacemen/spacewoman.
Looking forward to seeing new pioneering cosmonauts. Peace V
hey luv…been a while. good to see you again. <3
pardon me, i'm still warming my pen, so this week it's one steam whistle on the remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:
http://blkcowrie.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/rant-im-a-gurl-with-a-dragon-attitude-3/
and
a reblog of a fine article on what chronically ill folk would love to hear from those of us who love 'em:
http://blkcowrie.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/toni-bernhard-what-those-with-chronic-pain-or-illness-do-want-to-hear-you-say/
feel free to peruse these and other gems while you're by. ;)
I wrote about the strange conviction that the Union side in the American Civil War was motivated by slavery. Then I ducked.
I’m probably crazy: Random Rant: Are We Computers?
A lullaby and some thoughts on censorship. I’m sick with a cold so they may be a bit hazy.
http://kristinking.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/thats-an-honest-lullaby/
http://kristinking.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/censorship-on-overdrive/
Both my posts on Collegiate Feminist in the past week or so are about gender and cultural norms in Colombia.
“Mi Linda”
http://www.collegiatefeminist.com/1/post/2012/06/mi-linda.html
A reaction to the “plastic” Colombian women and my own struggles dealing with my body image following my recent breast reduction surgery. Switching back and forth from Spanish and English in a free writing form…
“The Trail of a Lost Feminist in Colombia”
http://www.collegiatefeminist.com/1/post/2012/07/the-trail-of-a-lost-feminist-in-colombia.html
Recounting my experiences/observations being a “gringa” and a women in Medellín and my reaction to the traditional gender norms, beauty standards, hypersexualization, machismo, etc… Also trying to reconcile my feminist identity with my current outsider “otherness”…
I found some more posts about power and the Black Widow in “The Avengers,” and wrote my own take about the gendered significance of Natasha Romanoff’s vulnerability.
I find it insane how quickly a conversation about abortion can turn into a misogynistic rant.
Not much new content this week, but I have updated my Pinterest #WaronWomen2012 board of shame here.
World Magazine Calls Out the NAE on Contraception
A post on body image and the annoying perpetuation of using negative language to talk about people with slighter builds in an attempt to eliminate body-negativity. (An interesting paradox, I know).
musings on what I’d find in my feminist utopia: http://canbebitter.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/looking-forward-looking-back/
This wek I posted the 50th Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival, and shared my thoughts on that thing people call “dating”.
I wouldn’t usually do this, but I need to point out to people reading the post on “demisexuals” in comment #26 is basically a hate post that walks all over people’s identities, calling demisexual people repressed and sick and basically losers. Please don’t support this sort of bullshit on a feminist site like this, and if you must read, please be aware that delegitimising people’s sexual identity isn’t ok. But I’m sure everyone else here knows that.
I just read Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, and wrote about how I thought this book related to travel on my travel blog (I like to write about what it’s like to be female in other cultures). I’d love feedback!
http://www.theepicadventurer.com/2012/07/feminism-and-travel-my-two-favorite.html
And I’m still in need of $500 for Special Olympics – please help me raise it!
http://www.overtheedgeboston.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=488834&lis=0&kntae488834=E42795DC987D48BE874698410D0D9DFB&supId=360953680
I give some thoughts about the upcoming season of Breaking Bad and that show’s take on masculinity. . .
Link fail: reposting . . .
On the new season of Breaking Bad and its take on masculinity . . .
We are an all-female crew making a documentary that examines the act of revenge— by getting revenge and documenting the process.
Watch our teaser and learn more on our Kickstarter page here:
http://kck.st/LAIUkv
Love ya,
Kat
On Narcissistic Abusers:
http://rootedinbeing.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/the-narcissist-and-why-we-blame-their-victims/
I just started publishing around the web and am unduly excited, so I hope you guys enjoy it!
Six Unexpected Reasons You Can’t Concentrate
I didn’t include “distracted by rage about inequality” on there, but in retrospect, I should have.