Thanks For Having Me
Just a quick post to say thanks to all the folks at Feministe for inviting me to guest post here, and to the commenters for being so engaged and thoughtful. I had a blast! I hope you’ll visit us over at Change Happens. I post there from time to time–more frequently during the school year. [...]
...read moreMike Tyson’s Comeback
For reasons that the fantastic Sady over at Tiger Beatdown has enumerated, movies like The Hangover bother me. Now, I hate Forgetting Sarah Marshall and every Quentin Tarantino film as much as the next manhating humorless feminazi, but I believe that The Hangover is a special kind of awful, and here’s why: The Hangover doesn’t [...]
...read moreWhat Gives You Hope?
In a world that has so much terrible stuff going on, finding hope has always been incredibly important to me. I need hope to survive, and I need hope to do pretty much anything related to social justice or helping other people. I have to believe that somehow, what I do will help. It will [...]
...read moreAdvice From Two Grizzled Old Feminists
Recently, a friend and I were discussing ways to get men invested in ending gender oppression. We realized that we have some information that you (yes you!, dear reader of Feministe) might benefit from. Clearly, while it isn’t what I would call easy, bringing women to this work is a bit easier, and probably more [...]
...read moreA Thought Experiment
I’ve never been part of the sisterhood of traveling pantsuits, but I have to say, Hillary Clinton has been making me a very happy camper lately, with her work to address rape as a war crime in the Congo and her awesome response to a journalist asking her what her husband thinks about international policy. [...]
...read moreLove
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about love. Probably through some combination of Buddhist practice and reading a whole lot of bell hooks books, I’ve started to see love as the essence of what it is we’re really looking for and trying to express when we talk about ending oppression. In my life at [...]
...read moreHello World
Just a quick post to introduce myself to ya’ll. My name is Ashley, and I will be one of Feministe’s guest bloggers for the next week. You can usually find me over at Change Happens, the blog for the fantastic nonprofit organization Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER). SAFER trains college students in grassroots organizing [...]
...read moreThanks
It’s been great guesting here! Thanks so much to the Feministe crew for the invite. I’ll leave you with two things. First, this is a recent, absolutely fantastic series of five articles and brief videos about some of the most common claims about “innate” behavioral differences between the sexes. I can’t recommend it highly enough [...]
...read moreThis Time Syndrome
I’ve been noticing a common theme lately. It’s what I’ve come to call “this time syndrome.” There are a couple of versions of it. Version #1: Someone points out oppression in action, and person #2 responds by stating that although whatever is being pointed out is a problem, that’s not what is happening/they bear no [...]
...read moreMore Fathers Owning Daughters
I came across this article, and something about it totally creeps me out the door: He once sought blood. Now he wants justice. The father of a 15-year-old girl who reported being gang-raped after an underage drinking party in Neptune Beach a month ago said Monday he is patiently waiting for police to solve the [...]
...read moreStealth, Marginalized Communities, and the F word
When is the label “feminist” useful? I hadn’t heard of antifeminist “feminist” Megan McArdle until I came across one of her silly columns today (in which she bashes Feministe—good work, guys!). However, I’ve long been acquainted with Christina Hoff Sommers, Katie Roiphe, Cathy Young, Camille Paglia, and their ilk. All of these women spend their [...]
...read moreOne of these things just doesn’t belong here…
A few recent headlines: Iraqi guards kill female suicide bomber Female suicide bomber in Iraq kills 15, wounds 40 Suicide bomber kills 7 policemen in northern Iraq Can you guess the gender of the third suicide bomber? I spent a while as an anti-sexual and partner violence educator, and one of my favorite exercises to [...]
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