Friday Reads
There are so many things I wanted to write about this week but didn’t get around to. Check out a few (and sorry in advance for those of you who follow me on Twitter, since this is basically my feed reproduced):
...read moreJust saying no
A quick pointer to a couple of interesting posts on the “art of no” at CaptainAwkward.com, a highly informative, often hilarious, and thoroughly feminist advice blog. In the first post, the Captain notes that: Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a [...]
...read moreNews of interest
From The Hindu, Meira Kumar, the first woman speaker of the Indian lower house, Lok Sabha, gave an address at Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University; check it out. In the same nation, from The Times of India, here’s a piece about taking a gendered lens to the state of Rajasthan. The UN Entity for [...]
...read moreFeminist Reads
Various things to check out this fine Tuesday: -Barbie has cankles: Christian Louboutin is the latest designer to create a signature Barbie, but he’s redesigning her feet because he says her ankles are too fat. Yes, Barbie is now too fat for the fashion mainstream. -Outsourcing Pregnancy: Doree Shafrir covers the issue for the Daily [...]
...read moreMonday Reader
Hope everyone is having a good weekend, and that those of you who are observing are having a good Yom Kippur. Or at least I hope that you aren’t totally starving. Lots of stuff for your perusal this fine Monday: I don’t link to Tiger Beatdown enough. If you’re not already reading it, go. Sady [...]
...read moreMore things to read
I suppose I could write something substantial, but there’s too much good stuff out there for you all to check out, so do peruse the following: Combating the Campus Rape Crisis: Jaclyn Friedman, co-editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and one of my personal favorite feminist [...]
...read morePost-Vacation Round-Up
I’ve been away for two weeks and the guesties have been holding down the fort, but now that I’m back home and sifting through my email, I have many a link to share. So check out the good stuff I’ve missed: Shotgun Adoption: The amazing Kathryn Joyce (author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement) [...]
...read moreUpdates on the Murder of Dr. Tiller
There is currently all kinds of news streaming in with regards to yesterday’s assassination of abortion provider Dr. Tiller. I’m following it rather closely and obsessively, and thought it was about time to update readers here with the most important of it all. This will basically be a link roundup. ACTIONS The Feminist Majority Foundation [...]
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Weekend Reads, Easter Sunday Edition
AND NOW WE KNOW: Aunt B reveals a little more in the category of anti-abortion politicians for whom, if you have an abortion and it kills you, that’s a knowable and acceptable outcome to him and the people that vote for him. POLICIES FAIL: A young woman reports her rape to the university health clinic, [...]
...read moreWeekend Reads
My apologies for putting off the Weekend Reads for a few weeks, but I’ve got some excellent stuff to get us back in the habit. THE HEARTLAND: I don’t know why I haven’t seen much about this yet in my corner of the blogosphere, but Iowa is the first midwestern state to legalize gay marriage. [...]
...read moreWeekend Reads
JOBLESS: Everyone’s been talking about the interactive map published by The New York Times on unemployment rates in the U.S. This instructive piece of info is useful for finding the areas of the country most affected by downturns in manufacturing and housing bubbles. Unfortunately the map is also accompanied by one of those class- and [...]
...read moreWeekend Reads
NOVELTY AND CHOICE: After having a terrible 2008, Chen Xiao decided to let go, and let China’s netizens decide how she spends her days for the price of a small fee. She won’t do anything she considers illegal or immoral, but she will pick up dinner for your family, or deliver a hot lunch to [...]
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