So, Let’s Talk Paganism
(I probably don’t need to do this, but let me just say that the following post is going to contain a bunch of woo-woo crap. If that’s not your thing, please don’t make a big issue about how stupid it is or how I’m going to Hell or how we all need to embrace Christianity [...]
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When It Pertains To Transpeople, Do You Media Peeps Even Read The AP Stylebook?
One of the things I have griped about constantly since the founding of my blog in 2006 is the rampant use of incorrect pronouns by the media when it comes to writing news stories on transgender people. Before I get started, let me point out what the AP Stylebook, the professional journalist’s Bible, has to [...]
...read moreTennessee’s Infant Mortality Rate and the Lie of “Pro-Life”
So, our 2009 Tennessee Women’s Health Report Card came out last week and, needless to say, we didn’t do so well. We’ve been hoping to see some shift in our infant mortality rate, which remains abysmal. We have in five years lowered it from 9.4 per 1,000 to 8.3 per 1,000, but the African American [...]
...read moreEno Road
Writing about the Kingston Ash Spill reminded me of the whole Eno Road situation, which is another instance of environmental racism and the stupidity that results (I wrote about it last year, better than I am doing now). Here you have an instance of blatant racism, where white people were told of the dangers of [...]
...read moreFallout from the Kingston Ash Spill
Last December 22, a retaining wall at the Kingston Fossil Plant (run by the TVA) gave way and dumped over a billion gallons of coal ash slurry across a great swath of Roane County, Tennessee. It was one of the worst, if not the worst, man-made environmental disasters in our country’s history. People’s homes were [...]
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Moni’s Ground Rules
Hello Feministe! I’m Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot for those of you who have yet to be introduced to my writing either at my home blog, the Bilerico Project, or various places such as Racialicious, What Tami Said or Womanist Musings. For the next two weeks I’ll be guest posting here thanks to the gracious [...]
...read moreThe Fiction of Binary, Fixed Gender
Though I have long been a supporter of organized sports for young women, I cannot let Kai Wright’s piece on Caster Semenya go unnoticed here, particularly not after the comments produced on the Beauty and Power post on gender presentation in the women’s bodybuilding set late last year: [...] the reality is that Semenya may [...]
...read moreMan charged with kidnapping 11 year old girl and imprisoning her for 18 years suspected in serial killings of 10 prostitutes
(via Bound, Not Gagged) This story is beyond sickening. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a man named Phillip Garrido and his wife pleaded not guilty to abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago, who they had allegedly kept imprisoned on their property since then. During this time, Dugard had two children, allegedly fathered by [...]
...read moreAdios, Feministe!
My two weeks of guest posting are up today, a big thanks to Jill and everybody here at the Feministe community for welcoming me. You can find me over at Amplify, where (in my highly biased opinion) we have some of the best young feminist bloggers you’ll find on the internet tubes. I leave you [...]
...read moreNY Bans Most Shackling During Childbirth
A bill that bans most instances of shackling inmates during childbirth has finally been signed by NY Governor David Paterson. Shackling during childbirth — which can mean being handcuffed to the bed at the wrists, shackled to the bed at the ankles, and/or even being restrained around the stomach — is a much more routine [...]
...read moreA Comparative Free Write: The Wedding Industry vs. The Baby Industry
Crossposted at My Ecdysis Lately, my thoughts have been swirling around one comparative question: What’s worse – the wedding industry or the baby industry? Recovering my 2004 journal, the year I was engaged, I see loopy sketches of my fiancée with the word “love” underneath and short poems exploring life and commitment. To describe my [...]
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