Guest: Brigid
Brigid is one of our 2012 roster of Guest Bloggers.
On Friendship
The raw thrill of both “How Should a Person Be?” and “Girls” (and let me acknowledge here that I am hardly the first person to compare the two) is in the way they treat heterosexual coupling as secondary, and how they depict the profundity of female friendships, not to mention their real perils—which are quite [...]
...read moreScience Fiction: Saving Me, Saving the World
Story Collider is a podcast and magazine collecting “true stories about how science has affected people’s lives.” Aaron Wolfe’s story, “Saving Hubble, Saving Aaron,” is about how science fiction makes a life of science possible — by sparking wonder, sure, but also by allowing us an escape from the brutality of scientific reality and offering [...]
...read moreThe Uncanny Valley of Media Masculinity
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to see people I’m attracted to — really attracted to, people who I’d be attracted to in real life — on my television. Regularly. The screen is a step away from reality for all of us; TV and movies are vehicles for our fantasies. But my guess [...]
...read moreGreetings from Western Mass and an offering of Sagan
Hey folks, I’m Brigid. You may remember me from last year. I’m a queer femme writer, sometime environmental researcher, and anthropologist at heart. I recently relocated from Washington, DC to Western Massachusetts, where the beer is crafty and the humor is always self-referential. I enjoy science fiction, political art, and arguing amicably about things I [...]
...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 moreAdoption as a Feminist Issue
There is some really excellent discussion happening in the comments of my last post, “Pregnancy: a Public Affair,” in which I wrote about how society allows and encourages people to make pregnant bodies their business, and how that has affected my thoughts on whether or not to ever become pregnant. One topic that has come [...]
...read morePregnancy: a Public Affair
Figuring out whether or not you want to have kids is the weirdest thing. I have gone through about three distinct periods: When I was a kid, and I assumed I would have kids; when I was an adolescent and young adult, and I was sure I never wanted to have kids; and now, when [...]
...read moreWho cares if we’re “born this way” — and who decides if it matters?
Do you ever look for evidence of your adult traits in memories, photographs, or other records of your younger self? (Keep your answer in mind. There will be a quiz.) Born This Way is a submission-based “photo/essay project for gay adults (of all genders) to submit childhood pictures and stories (roughly ages 2 to 12), [...]
...read moreMy Femme: A partial personal history, or a purpose statement in progress
Hi, folks! I’m Brigid, twenty-something queer femme femininist, environmental researcher, and aspiring badass. I live with my butch husbian, two rabbits, and an elderly cat in Washington, DC. I blog at O, Pioneers! about our misadventures in building a life that’s socially just, environmentally conscious, and personally fulfilling — from urban gardening and angry letter-writing [...]
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