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Female Hip Hop Callout

This is what you have been waiting for: to release one of your homemade tracks on our new netlabel called femalehiphop.net. For our first release “Flip Flops – The Instrumentals” we are looking for beats you’d like to share with the world. We will then release six selected tracks online on femalehiphop.net. This basically means that you can download an mp3 of the track and either listen to it or – this will lead us to our second release “Flip Flops” – add your own rap to the instrumental and send it to us. We’ll then choose the best versions and publish them as Flip Flops.

Via FlipFlops, you’ll be able to work with a beat/a vocal track of a producer/an MC you didn’t know before, so you could sit in Berlin while your MC would be e.g. in Detroit or Sydney. Our motivation to start a netlabel is to push female MCs and producers who didn’t get a chance to publish a record yet and also to connect female mcs worldwide. Your tracks will be published under a Creative Commons license (please visit creativecommons.org or www.femalehiphop.net for more information on the license). So get your equipment running and hit us with some banging beats at flipflop@femalehiphop.net! Good luck!

So, so cool. Any music makers out there?

The Scourge of the World

It’s a wonderful day when I’m told in at least two places that my little family is ruining “good” society.

If my life is bad, bad is looking pretty good.

Second link via B3.

UPDATE: Two days in a row! I must be onto something.

Women in Iraq and Elsewhere

Apologies to Whirled View, but this post deserves to be quoted in full. PLS writes:

George W. Bush says that women’s rights are protected in the current draft of the Iraq constitution.

Iraqi women insist that they are losing rights under this document. And eleven U.S. Senators who are also women are worried, too.

Who’s telling it like it is here? Do you trust the testimony of worried Iraqi women or the airy speechifying of an American President who has lied again and again about the Iraq fiasco?

Let’s continue with this questionnaire:

Who’s denying financial support for reproductive health care around the world, thus causing the death of thousands of women and babies?

The George W. Bush administration.

Who thinks little girls who’ve been raped or subject to incest should become mothers?

The George W. Bush administration.

Who wants to curtail Title IX and return to the days when girls’ sports could be systematically underfunded in order to support bloated football teams?

The George W. Bush administration.

Who nominates a Supreme Court candidate who gleefully finds arguments against enforcing laws mandating equal pay for women?

The George W. Bush administration.

Why do women vote for George W. Bush?

Beats me.

Yes. And thank you.

For Every Girl

Oh, I love this poster:

This is part of the CrimethInc gender subversion kit.

via Pesky Apostrophe

Sigh

CNN: Where are the women bloggers?

via Dr. B.

Ethan plays with his Legos, having constructed a propeller-based police vehicle thing with a little person standing majestically on top, holding a sword and looking generally menacing. As usual, Ethan detailed what each Lego was meant to be, its purpose on the vehicle, and how much it cost the police officer.

“This piece cost one thousand dollars,” Ethan says, holding up a translucent red brick. He holds up another. “This one will save the world.”

“Wow,” I said. “That must have cost him a lot of money.”

“Mom, this police officer is a girl.”

Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men

Emily sent me this link forever ago, and it’s such a cute slideshow that I can’t believe I haven’t posted it yet.

For those of you who don’t know, Rosey Grier was a professional football player for the Giants and the Rams. Bonus points for having Pam Grier as a cousin. He was apparently well-known at the time for his hobbies of needlepoint and macrame, obviously notable for their lack of the expected athletic machismo. I have nothing else to say about this except that Rosey Grier is my hero for the day.

Queer it up, Mary.

The Women of Gitmo

There are countless reasons to be outraged about the abuses of detainees at American military prisons. But there is one abuse about which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President Bush: the exploitation and debasement of women serving in the United States military. This practice must come to an immediate end, and the Pentagon must make it clear that such things will never be tolerated again.

Surely no one can approve turning an American soldier into a pseudo-lap-dancer or having another smear fake menstrual blood on an Arab man. These practices are as degrading to the women as they are to the prisoners. They violate American moral values – and they seem pointless…

Religious conservatives have made their presence felt in so many other parts of the Bush administration, but they have been strangely quiet about these practices. And where are the members of Congress who wring their hands over the issue of women in combat? It’s obvious that the Bush administration will never offer a real reckoning on the prisoner abuse, or that the Republican Party will demand one. But surely the dehumanizing of America’s military women is a nonpartisan issue.

Yes, it is nonpartisan: For the most part nobody cares.

Read the rest, and accompanying commentary from Roxanne.

Mailer v. Kakutani

Sounds like somebody’s scurred.

And he deals with it by launching ridiculous insults at Michiko Kakutani, one of the New York Times’ best book reviewers. Long-time misogynist Norman Mailer tells a Rolling Stone interviewer:

Kakutani is a one-woman kamikaze. She disdains white male authors, and I’m her number-one favorite target. One of her cheap tricks is to bring out your review two weeks in advance of publication. She trashes it just to hurt sales and embarrass the author…But the Times editors can’t fire her. They’re terrified of her. With discrimination rules and such, well, she’s a threefer…. Asiatic, feminist, and, ah, what’s the third? Well… let’s just call her a twofer. They get two for one. She is a token. And deep down, she probably knows it.

How about, she got (and has kept) her job because she’s damn good at it? I read Kakutani’s reviews regularly, and she’s fantastic — she doesn’t kiss ass, and she doesn’t fawn over a writer’s work just because they’re well-established or because they’re some hot new thing. And aren’t Asiatic women supposed to be quiet and submissive, according to all the played-out sexist and racist stereotypes that Mailer peddles? He should go back to complaining about angry black women and ball-busting femi-nazis, territory he’s more familiar with.

via Mike

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