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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

Self-promote away. Leave a brief description of something you’ve written this week, along with a link.

46 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  7. lots of stuff this week: brief comment on the planned parenthood gift certificates, info on the court decision that CA failed to implement a health care plan for people with HIV, outrage on bossip’s bullshit misogynist commentary on the jennifer hudson murders, thoughts on commercial surrogacy in india, thoughts on US involvement in and responsibility for narco violence in mexico, and snarkiness about the bush administration’s use of the movie “chuck and larry get married” as evidence of potential fraud in federal benefits for same-sex partners.

  9. So here someone leaves a comment on my blog in august declaring why, to him, “people cannot take most feminist views with any seriousness is because […] it’s EXTREMELY anti-intellectual” there’s a little more to that comment as well. I’m a new blogger, and as you may see on our blog we don’t really get any comments. So for the most frequent commentator to frequently oppose our views let alone declare most feminist views to be anti-intellectual with out offering much more for a dialogue I found insulting. So I reacted to it. Probably not in the most constructive way or articulate way. this led him to respond on his blog. My blogging partner then chimed in with her insights here. Finally I apologized for my strong reaction and promised to offer a more thought out response to his claim that most main line feminism is anti-intellectual. anyone have a suggestion as to where to start?

    other than that, Etheline the other blogger on our blog offers some insight about the recent Victoria Secret Fashion Show..

    thanks!
    Olives

  13. You should all check out this week’s edition of our Dreams for Women project (we have asked people to send us postcards with their Dreams for Women on them ex. I Dream that no woman is seen and not heard).

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/dreams-for-women-millennium-scholars-edition/

    Also, we REALLY need your help! With only one month left of 2008, we still have 350 copies of our 2009 Dreams for Women Calendars left to sell! The money raised by selling these calendars is instrumental for us to launch Antigone For Girls (a magazine written by and for girls aged 10-15 that will encourage them to get involved in leadership and politics). They’re only $20 (Canadian!)

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/

    For Bloggers:

    We’re giving FREE calendars to the first 15 bloggers who write about the calendars and pay a $5 shipping fee at this link:

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/dreams-for-women-blogger-giveaways/

    For Non-Profit Organizations:

    Raise money for your organization by selling calendars! We sell calendars to non-profits at half price and allow them to sell them to raise money for their organizations! Or just buy them as thank you gifts for a special low price. Find out more information here:

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/

  22. This is only quasi-self-promotion, since I’m promoting the impressive work of my co-bloggers, and not my own. Stacey May Fowles wrote a moving personal account of how she has been involuntarily sexualized for talking openly about her sexuality. Already, one of our co-bloggers has posted either in: Lee Jacobs Riggs here. Feministe’s own Cara has written on a related topic, an old Katha Pollitt piece that seems really to not get it on the revocation of consent, here.

    I’m most of the way through the book, Yes Means Yes, and I’m incredibly impressed by the depth and quality of the essays that make up the collection.

  24. We suggested 10 things you can do on World AIDS Day.

    We talked about how much Saxby Chambliss really really deserved to lose his Senate seat, which unfortunately didn’t happen.

    We addressed PA Governor Ed Rendell’s comments about AZ Governor Janet Napolitano being a great choice for DHS Secretary because she has no family and therefore can devote 100% of her life to the job.

    In our ongoing feminist watch series, we discussed NOW’s 2009 Feminist Agenda, and the survey that they’re doing now to collect feedback on which parts of the agenda are most critical to us right now.

  25. Over at Pink Scare:

    LN shares her reaction to last week’s New York Times Magazine’s story on a Times writer who paid a woman to carry and give birth to her baby. It leads to a discussion about privilege, resentment, and giving other women a break…

    I get into some theory about identity and revolution and Wendy Brown’s critique of feminism (she says feminists are afraid of politics).

    And T keeps us posted on the latest political developments and analyses in Venezuela, Thailand, and Mumbai.

  27. I posted my favourite recipe, which is more or less self-invented (I had to look up what to use as the base in a book, but after that it’s all my own experimentation): a curry for the masses!

    In Destroy what we cannot control, I wrote about the tyrannical tendencies of the New labour “project” in Great Britain, with respect to the internet and sexuality.

    I wrote about my latest visit to the doctor, and some curious self-identity issues it threw up – but not in the way you might expect.

  28. I cover the rightwing blogosphere. There was a time when the only lefties being read were the dreaded war bloggers. Dr. Frank was the former front man of Mr. T Experience. He wrote a blog post in 2003 urging Bush to more neoconservative. In the good doctor’s mind; the only way Bush could connect with the masses was to channel his inner-neocon.

    I also spotlight Michelle Malkin appearing in a mink calendar. The only purpose of the calendar is to offend the Left.

    Tas and Litbrit Mock Silly Bloggers

  34. Check out our Dreams for Women postcards this week. The Dreams for Women project asks men and women around the world to submit their Dreams for Women on postcards (ex. I dream of a world where no woman is seen and not heard).

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/dreams-for-women-millennium-scholars-edition/

    Also, we REALLY need your help! With only one month left of 2008, we still have 500 copies of our 2009 Dreams for Women Calendars left to sell! The money raised by selling these calendars is instrumental for us to launch Antigone For Girls (a magazine written by and for girls aged 10-15 that will encourage them to get involved in leadership and politics).

    Please forward this e-mail on and let everyone know what a great project, organization and calendar this is. Buy copies of the calendar for yourself or as holiday gifts for family and friends. Or buy one for a special woman in your life who has helped YOU make your dreams come true!

    http://antigonemagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/its-here-the-dreams-for-women-2009-calendar-is-here/

  38. The Daily show makes light of three deaths on Black Friday, and they get the three stories totally wrong.

    http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/so-not-funny-daily-show.html

    The trailers for Milk and the AFA propaganda film They’re Coming to Your Town are kinda similar, in a funny way, blast-from-the-past sort of way.

    http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/12/fear-teh-gayz.html

    And this was something I wrote a few weeks ago. But since Feministe brought up that Quinn guy this week, I thought I’d link up to a post about another crazy conservative commentator, Bill Cunningham. What’s the difference between Cunningham and Ayman al-Zawahri? I don’t know!

    http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/11/which-is-which.html

  39. Reviews of note this week:

    The Women: The biggest debit of the film, though, is that its only women of color are served with the worst-written characters, and pillaring English for her racial insensitivity is only one issue I have with the film.

    Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!: In the proud feminist parade of successful and enriching anthologies, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! marches to a beat unlike its predecessors such as Listen Up!: Voices from the Next Generation and Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. First, it’s my favorite kind of feminism: it doesn’t label itself or even use the term feminist in its description, and it’s a powerhouse of creativity.

    Synecdoche, New York: Okay, I know all the reviewers are raving. My husband raved (and I’ll let him justify that on his blog). I suspect the reviewers are raving because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do. It’s a deep and serious movie. It’s existentialist! It’s about the meaning of life! It’s surreal! Yes, it’s all those things, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

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