Pleased to Meet You
Hey everyone. My name is Cara and I’m the latest in the round of guest-bloggers. You may know me from my blog The Curvature. Or you may know me from a guest-blogging stint that I did a couple of months ago at Feministing. Or, I could be totally brand new. I know that lots of [...]
...read moreWhiteness and Blogging: An Interview Request
A well-timed entrance, if I do say so myself. Hey y’all, hope your week’s wrapping up nice like Saran. My name is Katie, and I’m an undergrad at Harvard surviving writing my senior thesis on whiteness in U.S. feminist and pro-feminist blogs. Evidently my interview with Jill the other day wasn’t too traumatizing: she’s generously [...]
...read moreA Christmas Pussy Carol
We have a talented and funny commentariat here at Feministe, as evidenced by the comments here in the Feministe’s Next Top Troll thread. One concept I’d like to pick up from that thread is the Christmas Pussy carol that got started with micheyd’s comment: “Fiiiiiive golden Nuvarings!” and went from there. It’s not finished, though. [...]
...read moreSexism in our Everyday Professional Lives
One of the roles I think feminist blogs can play in our lives is what the “Women’s Libbers” liked to call “Consciousness Raising.” While the phrase evokes a coven of Farrah-Fawcett-haired women in an avocado and harvest-gold living room, I think the concept still has feminist legs. In short, we tell our stories about living [...]
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Looking for some volunteers from the British Isles or Australia
To try out this thing: It’s the Faveo Freedom Bra, and its inventor, Joanne Morgan, swears it’s comfortable and supportive for large breasts. It just, well, it looks weird. And entirely counterintuitive. But if it’s really true that it’s supportive and comfortable, I’d shell out the $90 it’d cost me to have the thing(s) shipped [...]
...read moreHi There. Plus, Postfeminism: Innocuous Descriptive Term or Crock of Antifeminist Poop?
Hi y’alls. Thanks to Jill for asking me to participate in the summer o’ guest blogging, especially since the only thing I write regularly these days is e-mail. I’m excited to be kicked in the pants to write more, and also to be part of the conversations here. A little bit about me: I used [...]
...read moreBecause I promised…
Way back when I was tagged to be a guest-blogger here, I said that I would write some race-relations 101 posts. I have some ideas (and I’m hoping to flesh out at least one of them today), but I’d like to know what there’s an interest in too. I know there isn’t a race equivalent [...]
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Well, it’s been quite the week, hasn’t it? My time here at Feministe is coming to an end, and I just wanted to say a quick thanks to Jill et. al. for handing over the keys to the Porsche. I hope I didn’t put too many dings in it. In all seriousness, this has been [...]
...read moreSleeping with the Enemy, Part 2
I know I promised to make Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 2 about what happens in your community, family & culture when you go from over a decade of queer relationships to dating a straight cisgender man, but honestly, I’m fighting off some narsty illness that’s swollen my throat nearly shut and made me run [...]
...read moreAnswer the WAM!2008 Call for Proposals
As the Conference organizer, I’m a little biased, but I gotta say it anyhow: the Women, Action & the Media Conference kicks ass. And we’ve just (like, as in, five minutes ago) released our 2008 Call for Proposals, and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share it with you. I’ll quote myself: At Women, Action [...]
...read morebook recs for children
One of the consequences of being the only literature person in a room full of doctors (parents’ friends, usually) is having to come up with endless recommended reading lists for their children. A lot of Indian parents, and I’m not sure if this happens elsewhere, seem to believe that there’s something inherently virtuous about the [...]
...read moreSix questions for Feministe readers
I suddenly realized that one of the lovely perks about being able to guest blog here this week is that I get to ask questions to a very large audience, much larger than I am used to. I’m in the process of working on two posts that are incomplete so until they are polished, I [...]
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