In Solidarity (and thank you, once again, for having me)
Hi, Feministe-ers. It’s been two weeks, and I haven’t written every day or written everything I’ve wanted to. I’ve written some things that have made you angry, and some things that have made you happy, and some things that I hope have made you think about something differently. I wanted to write a post in [...]
...read moreThe Newest in Creepy from Crisis Pregnancy Centers
There’s another strategy that’s gotten less attention: an under-the-radar campaign by large anti-choice organizations, like the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and Focus on the Family, to fund and guide the conversion of CPCs into licensed, limited-service medical clinics, ramping up their services to include pregnancy tests and ultrasound. Although they offer only [...]
...read moreFor Lovers And Fighters (Or, Wherein I Fangirl Dean Spade)
Capitalism is fundamentally invested in notions of scarcity, encouraging people to feel that we never have enough so that we will act out of greed and hording and focus on accumulation. Indeed, the romance myth is focused on scarcity: There is only one person out there for you!!! You need to find someone to marry [...]
...read moreReturning to the scene of the class war
Aggravated today by a New York Times story in which striking Verizon workers were forced to argue that their wages weren’t, in fact, “too high”–seeing them make the very valid point that living in the New York area and raising a family on $40,000-$70,000 a year doesn’t actually make them rich–I tweeted angrily: “How the [...]
...read moreControl: Or, How I Learned My Feminism From 80s & 90s Women in R&B
As promised. Well before I was even remotely cool enough to listen to music that wasn’t on the radio, I was surrounded by a fierce pro-woman message. If, as I wrote before, the message in Dirty Dancing sank in well before I had any idea what was happening to Penny, then it’s obvious that I [...]
...read moreOne Silver Dollar: Concerts, Women I Love, Rock’n'roll
[The Kills, performing a cover of Marilyn Monroe's song "One Silver Dollar" from the film River of No Return. Lyrics here.] I learned my politics from rock’n’roll. It’s a fact, but these days I am listening to less and less music that’s overtly political. I like reading between the lines these days, mostly because I [...]
...read moreI Had The Time of My Life–Dirty Dancing, Remakes, and Battles We’re Still Fighting
Monday night I went to a screening of Dirty Dancing hosted by Jezebel, benefiting the New York Abortion Access Fund, and featuring a Q&A session with the film’s screenwriter and co-producer, Eleanor Bergstein. Is there any better way to spend a Monday evening than watching one of your favorite childhood movies on the big screen [...]
...read moreIt’s the class war, kids
This morning my Twitter feed is full of two seemingly disparate things: the riots in London, the cleanup, the aftermath, and then the recall elections in Wisconsin. Two things that seem so far apart but when you look at them, aren’t so different at all. Sure, one is the “right” response to an austerity agenda [...]
...read moreBack 2 The Base
Hello, Feministe-ers! I’m Sarah. I’ve guestblogged here before; you can find my stuff here. This time around, well…I’ve sort of broken up with feminist blogging. I’ve taken Latoya Peterson’s advice and taken my feminism to another arena, which is mostly writing about the economy. I still, as bell hooks framed it, advocate feminism. But I’ve [...]
...read moreHappy May Day!
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” -Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Hellraiser. Here in the U.S. Labor Day is a muted affair celebrated at the end of the summer. It’s mostly lost its meaning to millions of people as anything other than the time at which kids go back to school [...]
...read moreThe Right to Fuck Up
I almost called this post “Fucking Up: A Right or a Privilege?” but I decided that A. I am tired of debates over privilege and B. I believe we SHOULD have a right to fuck up. I’m not talking just about fucking up in feminism/social justice movements, mind you. I’m talking about life fuck-ups. I’m [...]
...read moreGrandmothers
This isn’t the post I was going to write today. I was going to write about the right to fuck up in feminist/progressive/social justice communities. Maybe you’ll get that one later in the week. But this morning I woke up late and the first thing Twitter told me was that Elizabeth Taylor had died. I [...]
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