Roe V. Wade Anniversary
I’m keeping this short since I feel sick: The Well-Timed Period’s History Lesson Feministing’s Happy Birthday to Roe
...read moreAnti-Abortion Catholic Group Targets Pro-Abortion Rights Catholic Politicians
Grab your torches, it’s a witchhunt! American Life League, the nation’s largest grassroots Catholic pro-life educational organization, will hold a press conference on Monday, Jan. 24 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. At the press conference, American Life League will unveil a two-page ad identifying the 72 pro-abortion Catholics in the U.S. House and [...]
...read moreThe Illusion of the Third Wave
From the new issue of Ms. Magazine, the generation gap is an illusion: It’s no mystery why the discourse that has developed around the waves is divisive and oppositional. Writers and theorists love oppositional categories — they make things so much easier to talk about. Similarities are much more difficult. So, naturally, much has been [...]
...read moreOn Being Woman in a “Revolutionary” Group
[7pm: Edits are boxed in for clarification. I stand by everything else.] This week I went to the first EG Collective meeting for the new year. I neglected to comment on the meeting because I am still gathering information about the group’s goals, commitment, and identity. There are things about the group that pique my [...]
...read moreGender Roles
Today’s featured article in the wikipedia is on Gender Roles. Refresh your memory.
...read moreRap Music: More On “Take Back the Music”
I have been thinking about the “Take Back the Music” project by Essence magazine ever since I read about it on Ms. Musings. The first rap song I ever heard was 2 Live Crew’s “Me Too Horny,” soon followed by “Banned in the USA.” I vaguely remember hearing about the “Cop Killer” uproar and calling [...]
...read moreThursday Feminist Reading Material
• Ayelet of Bad Mother talks about her own 2nd trimester abortion: To be relevant to the contemporary world, to be valid, the pro-choice movement must listen to pregnant women. We must listen to the woman and value her words. A woman who is unwillingly pregnant, whose pregnancy at, say, 10 weeks, is nothing more [...]
...read moreMyth of the Man-Hating Feminist
It’s back! That’s right, the horrible man-hating feminist so angry she cannot function in the real world with even the likes of the chivalrous Neil Cavuto: Ladies, if a guy holds a door open for you, do you like it, or feel patronized by it? The reason I ask is that I did just that [...]
...read moreGuardian: Debbie Stoller Interview
Debbie Stoller is interviewed by Zoe Williams for the Guardian on the knitting wave, feminism, men, and more: In person, she elaborates: “Women’s work is never done, and it’s drudgery, and it’s tedious, and you always have to do it again the next day. But you know, here at Bust a lot of the work [...]
...read moreFeminist Blogs
I am currently rearranging my blog links into categories, one of which is “feminist blogs.” I am including not only those people who write on feminism, but also those who declare themselves expressly feminist, pro-feminist, womanist, etc. If, when it appears I am completed, you would consider yourself a blogging person who falls into this [...]
...read moreAndrea Yates and NOW
I am not the biggest fan of NOW, but being the most recognized feminist organization in the United States, feel the need to come to NOW’s defense in this instance. Jay Tea at Wizbang, in discussing the recent ruling to re-try and -sentence Andrea Yates, wonders: It was really driven home to me this time, [...]
...read moreI Was a Teen Mom
I was a teen mom. I suppose it’s a label I’ll carry around for awhile, watching people do the mental math when they discern my son’e age minus my own. I’ve written about this many times before. I got pregnant within days before my eighteenth birthday and Ethan was born before I turned nineteen. I [...]
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