Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday
A complement to our long-standing Shameless Self-Promotion Sundays, this thread is for links to pieces on other people’s blogs that you have found memorable/provoking recently. Please save the self-promotion links for this Sunday – use this thread to let Feministe readers know about the other blogs you love to read.
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Weekly Open Thread with Sand Shadow
A distinctive shadow on the sand of one of the world’s famous tourist traps is the host of this week’s Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
Any readers participating or otherwise aware of any guerilla knitting happening in their neighbourhoods this weekend, please drop links to what’s happening in this thread.
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Open Games of Thrones Thread
To mark the Games of Thrones Season 3 finale: if it hasn’t been broadcast in your timezone yet, then BEWARE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS BELOW.
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Weekly Open Thread with Knitted R2D2
To mark the 3rd annual International Yarn Bombing Day happening this weekend, this week’s Open Thread is hosted by last year’s Yarn Bomb seen around the world: Sarah Rudder’s knitted R2D2 in Bellingham. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
Any readers participating or otherwise aware of any guerilla knitting happening in their neighbourhoods this weekend, please drop links to what’s happening in this thread.
* with a few netiquette exceptions
...read moreStar Trek Into Darkness and Khan
Guest Bloggers Paul and Renee: We blog and review at Fangs for the Fantasy. We’re great lovers of the genre and consume it in all its forms – but as marginalised people we also analyse critically through a social justice lens.
...read moreLeave Amanda Bynes alone; look at yourself instead
I’m writing about Amanda Bynes’ very public breakdown at the Guardian, and what the media coverage says about American views on beautiful women:
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Weekly Open Thread with Keyboard Cat
Hosting this week’s Open Thread is Keyboard Cat. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
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...read moreCheerios definitely has an agenda.
And it’s to so thoroughly entrance you with this unbelievably cute little girl that you’re to the grocery store, through it, and back out in the parking lot before you realize you’ve bought six boxes of Cheerios and you don’t even like cereal. I mean, look at her.
...read moreFacebook finally agrees to remove posts that celebrate violence against women
As noted by Jill, thanks are owed to Women, Action, and the Media; the Everyday Sexism Project; and Soraya Chemaly, as Facebook has agreed to remove the kind of content that celebrates violence against women and has been heretofore brushed off as “crude humor.” They have also promised to review their content moderation policies and educate their content moderators — and they really need to.
...read more![St Andrew's Cross Spiders (Argiope keyserlingi) are named for their bright, cross-shaped web decorations.
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Weekly Open Thread with Andrew’s Cross Spider
One of Australia’s less scary spiders is the host of this week’s Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
* with a few netiquette exceptions
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Weekly Open Thread with Tapestry
Hosting this weeks open thread is Carole King’s classic hit from the 70s. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.
* with a few netiquette exceptions
...read moreAngelina Jolie and her mastectomy. (It was going to come up eventually.)
In February, Angelina Jolie had a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy. This week, she wrote an op-ed about it for the New York Times. And here’s all I’m going to say about it.
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