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Geeks, cosplay, artists, kids… you know, the usual:
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2012/10/asheville-comic-expo.html
A lot of yoga stuff this week, for whatever reason. (Well, reasons. One, I am stressed. Two, I hurt.)
Crowdsourcing Shoulders — Looking for help on loosening up my shoulders/chest/upper back, where I tend to store stress.
In my anatomy series (currently focused on hips and pelvis), the deeper butt muscles. (Because, deep down, I have the maturity of a stereotypical nine year old…. BUTTS! Though this *is* work safe.)
Okay. And Enough Books, on the laughable state of education funding in my area.
Please check out my etsy store
http://www.etsy.com/shop/AMBWorks
and my Society6 page
http://society6.com/ambonomo
This week I did a feminist analysis of Katniss, heroine of The Hunger Games. http://canbebitter.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/katniss-everdeen-the-girl-who-was-a-feminist-icon/
Or Monday afternoon, as the case may be.
Losing faith in the calculus professor, who enjoys giving trick questions:
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/mathochism-annoyance-and-dismay/
On finally realizing this really is a weed-out course, and how much that sucks:
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/mathochism-thrown-to-the-wolves/
Stuff I wrote this week:
I’m tripping over you, God : A critique of Dr. Eben Alexander’s claim of visiting the afterlife while in a coma, which was made a cover story for the most recent issue of Time magazine.
Tripping a little more : Some more thoughts on the above.
I would recommend…. : A brief post promoting the awesomeness of comedian Tig Notaro
Political dietary supplement : On the importance of letting third party candidates speak
$75k happy : On a recent study which says that money can make you happy, but only so much. And how I’d be happy to just make that much money.
I wrote about an enigmatic 1924 portrait, “Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dale Dine Out,” by Guy Pene du Bois, and I explored a bit of the history of the couple in the portrait, Chester and Maud Murray Dale. N.b.: I’m not an art historian or anything close to that. I just like wandering around museums.
I hope to find out more about Maud Dale in the future. I’m fascinated by her right now.
Did anyone hear someone mention women were taking over the world? Because the last time I checked, people who control the world a) do not have to go on strike over anything; and b) they sure as hell don’t make international headlines just for not doing dishes.
Susan G.Komen got whiplashed– slammed by women for de-funding Planned Parenthood, and condemned by the Archbishop for re-funding PP. The ‘would be’ Republican princess who created this mess wrote a book, and she’s piling on Komen too. Karma’s a bitch.
Susan G. Komen- Run Over Forward and Reverse
This week I wrote about…
sexy Halloween costumes and slut shaming;
and why I personally care about National Domestic Violence Awareness month.
The AP asked if black people support Barack Obama because she’s black. Short answer: no. Longer answer: NOOOOOOOOOO. (at PostBourgie)
This week, I transformed my personal experience with Sexual Harassment into The Tale of The Gentleman Groper.
Possibly because I’ve been reading too many novels. Who can say?
At Muslimah Media Watch this week:
Sana wrote about the repetitive one-dimensional images of Pakistani women represented in Western media.
wood turtle looked at a photograph of a mysterious woman in niqab, rising out of the water, and why this image isn’t quite as revolutionary as its photographer claims.
Anike wrote about the recent news of Nigerian women being denied entry into Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, supposedly because they didn’t have appropriate male accompaniment.
Eren considered debates around religion and secularism when it comes to gender equality, and asked where we might be able to find a middle ground.
I review the US vice-presidential debate:
Pissed Off: VP Debate Edition
“How can Ryan claim to be such a deficit hawk when him and Romney want to increase military spending by $2 TRILLION? Oh, that’s right, they’re going to pay for it by gutting Americans’ healthcare benefits. Which alone still won’t be enough, so they’ll also have to cut education funding and a whole bunch of other useful stuff they refuse to specify in any detail. This will surely help save the future for our grandchildren.”
This week I reviewed Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which I first saw recommended on this site. I enjoyed it for some slightly original aspects, but on the whole I just couldn’t get into the writing style or the jerky pacing.
I wrote a bit about National Coming Out Day. I also wrote about gender in sports, and how tricky it can be to navigate sport when you’re trans*.
This week at The Provider Project…
Finally, some good news about reproductive rights! Chantal writes about how Northern Ireland is opening it’s first private abortion clinic.
What happens when fatphobia and sexism combine? Amy writes about one seriously messed up frat party t-shirt.
A study finds free birth control leads to fewer abortions. Duh. So why aren’t we there yet? Perhaps Jon Stewart can help Lily with this one…
In honor of Day of the Girl, I’m asking Why Is It Important to Celebrate Girls?
This week I added my thoughts to the many that have been shared about Savile, The BBC and ‘Groping’
I have been watching Thor a lot lately, and wrote about how Thor is a feminist.
Oops. Don’t think I did the link properly.
http://freedurian.blogspot.com/2012/10/let-us-talk-about-thor-for-moment.html
I posted a call for nominations for the October biblioblogging carnival, which my co-bloggers and I will be hosting over at BLT.
We’re hoping to broaden this carnival beyond the usual suspects (mostly men), so if you read or write in an academic vein on the Bible (Jewish, Christian, deuterocanonical, apocryphal) or related subjects (translation, archaeology, theology, liturgy… there’s a longer list in the linked post), please nominate the best posts you read or write this month by emailing the URLs to bltcarnival AT gmail DOT com.
There’s usually a distinct lack of women bloggers nominating themselves for this carnival, and I’m guessing the same dynamic applies here as in more techy fields: ie, women tend to set a higher standard of excellence before considering their own work worth promoting than men do. So: If you’re not sure whether something you’ve written qualifies, a) it probably does, and b) if you’d like to run it past someone first anyway, feel free to email it to me at gaudetetheology AT verizon DOT net. (That way I get to read all of your cool stuff, woo!)
Thanks!
In honor of Season 3 of The Walking Dead premiering tonight, I wrote a three-part series examining what post-apocalyptic fiction tells us about our cultural values. I examined how it shows our value for intellectuals, art, and–finally–whether it suggests that feminism is a luxury that’s at odds with survivalism. The introduction and links to all the posts are here.
I also wrote a quick post about how I’m very, very sick of comments about the First Lady’s looks.
For religious fanatics, sex is something that wives should “give” to their husbands in order to manipulate their children: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/10/14/religious-fanatics-hilarious-view-of-sex/
Even more proof that anti-choicers don’t care two straws about fetuses: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/10/11/i-told-you-they-dont-care-about-fetuses/
Whenever my students have anything to say about women, they come up with something very puzzling: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/10/10/strange-creatures/
[Trigger warning for rape and rape pornography]
On Tuesday, The Good Men Project published a piece of rape pornography, then took it down two hours later without comment. I noticed, posted a short summary, then called on all my feminist Twitter friends to yell about it until we got an explanation.
We did, and BuzzFeed eventually picked it up, getting interviews and explanations from GMP, whose response left quite a bit to be desired.
So I wrote a much longer analysis of the situation, incorporating Dianna E. Anderson’s questions on GMP’s editorial process.
I wrote about meeting Amber Benson (aka Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and my mixed feelings about her new movie.
I wrote about Halloween, comedic drag, and transmisogyny: http://gudbuytjane.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/men-in-dresses-transmisogyny-and-halloween/
One more:
Learning by failing may suck, but I’m still going to try, because I really enjoy calculus:
http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/mathochism-acceptance/
We made lots of headway in our ongoing Meet Our Candidates series, posting twice a day from Monday to Thursday. There are some really cool, progressive candidates running in Arizona!
Depression and do-gooding: activism as therapy.
A day in the life of an abortion fund phone volunteer, or, “Mondays can fuck off”.
I’m barely scraping a post a week at the moment, but I did just put of a post on gender stereotyping in children’s clothing choices. Newsflash: gender stereotypes still exist! *is shocked*
I wrote about Milan Kundera´s novel Ignorance and how it hurts to be foreign somewhere. Read it HERE.
I reviewed the cult film Glengarry Glen Ross: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/33503612890/cult-cinema-glengarry-glen-ross-1992
and selected 5 interesting links of the week: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/33503612890/cult-cinema-glengarry-glen-ross-1992
Problems With Feminist Labels – A lot of educated, bright, intelligent men and women want to be distanced from the word – and its baggage – and that’s their right. It’s only a word, but it brings about so much confusion and emotion with it.
This week I wrote about Lena Dunham’s book deal and reviewed Jack Halberstam’s new book, Gaga Feminism.
I wrote about authors you want to love, but can’t, and imagined what a conscience clause for people working at stores that sell guns would look like – which is a very long way of reinforcing just how weird conscience clauses for pharmacists and other health-care workers are.
I wrote about Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier and how many of the scenarios and ideas he presents are still relevant 75 years later
I wrote about the process of overcoming a fear of pregnancy and the sense of losing bodily agency.
I also asked whether buying nothing new and rather frequenting thrift and consignment stores is ultimately bad for the economy. Does it penalize “bad” companies just as much as eco-friendly, sustainable, ethically-sourced and produced “good” companies?
At Consider The Tea Cosy:
On World Mental Health Day: What it means to me is about living with mental illness, how crutches are a damn good thing, and how it’s not about ‘overcoming’ anything.
Making it look easy: Poly. A little bit about how everything isn’t how it appears, and the work that it sometimes takes to get to a place where relationships work out.
Oh, and and ancient post of mine, Men’s Rights, Child Mutliation and the Evil Feminist Agenda, started to get some MRAish comments. Figured I’d let you all know, just in case anyone fancies having a go at ‘em. ;)
And over at Gaelick, a wee rantlet about a pro-lifer talking on the pulpit about how she believes her special needs kid is a punishment from god for her abortion. Tis a bit triggery.
My article about the new revelations concerning the famous photograph, “The Kiss”.
http://thegrown-upgirl.blogspot.com/2012/10/taking-advantage-of-kiss.html
Do something scary: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/one-small-step-do-something-scary.html
3 resources for finding (somewhat) ethical Halloween treats: http://humaneconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/3-resources-for-finding-somewhat.html
My reply to Miami University’s “Top 10 Ways to Get Away with Rape” –
Inappropriately Calm: Why Dispensing Rape Advice is Not an Emergency for Miami University
http://catholicfeministreader.com/?p=63
I wrote about how the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah emphasizes the issues of the “old boys’ club” already so prevalent in Orthodox synagogues.
http://feministfreedomofspeech.blogspot.com/2012/10/simchat-torah-and-andocentrism-in.html