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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

Post a short summary of something you’ve written this week, along with a link. Don’t just link to your whole blog — make it specific.

72 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  3. I rant (admittedly belatedly) about Caitlin freaking Flanagan’s stupid Atlantic article about Twilight and what the article reveals about how totally fucked up her worldview is, while also getting a wee bit defensive about The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants here. Not that ranting about how angry Caitlin Flanagan makes me is super-original, but I personally believe it is a message worth repeating.

  5. Legalized Prostitution in Nevada: Politicians are expressing a desire to legalize for the sole purposes of taxation. What impact does this have on women?

    The cure for fatness: Looking at the story of a father who chained his daughter to a bed because he deemed her to be to fat

    When Religion Justifies Raping and Beating your wife: Looking at a Clerics declaration that marital rape should be legal and comparing this to the ways in which the western world also has a strong rape culture

    GLBT black and invisible: Looking at a study conducted of black GLBT members. How do they identify and what issues to they have with the movement for for gay rights.

    Drunken Negro Cookies: A bakery makes drunken negro cookies to celebrate Obama

  11. “We don’t choose our causes, they choose us. Most of my activism is related to animal issues because that’s the cause I found first. At age 6 I wasn’t able to stop family violence. I wasn’t able to stop political corruption. I wasn’t able to stop war. But I was able to stop eating animals. So I did.”
    from: http://www.vegansoapbox.com/getting-our-priorities-straight/

    “As woman’s rights advocates, as human rights advocates, and as animal rights advocates, we ought to encourage and allow more acceptance of animals in shelters for humans in crisis. Animals provide unconditional love and support to people in need. And animals deserve safety from human violence.”
    from: http://elainevigneault.com/blog-for-choice.html

  15. I’ve been posting like crazy.

    My post about the inauguration is up with an added post aboutprivileged whiners and Rev. Lowery’s ending benediction, as well as my expressing extreme anger(warning:extreme cursing) with the “Sanctity of Human Life Day.” I also begin to hash out the racism and sexism involved in crimes against transwomen(more on that later), and add some clarity to my anti-corporate position. I also have my Blog for Choice Day post, and my post on the repeal of the global gag rule and why being annoyed at President Obama’s way of dealing with the attention for that is kinda stupid, as well as a post on the empowerment inherent in fellatio and me dealing with being fat in a world that makes my fat a moral issue.

  26. chas, I’d really like to read but can’t. if you’re advertising, is there a way to let other people see what you’ve written?

  28. I posted a wake-up call about the prevalence of sexual assault in my small Nebraska hometown after finding out that one of the boys who sexually harassed me in high school had been arrested on multiple counts of sexual assault.

  29. This week at Yes Means Yes blog, I wrote about recently fired, corrupt and abusive rape apologist Dexter Yarbrough who was until recently the chief of the Colorado State University police. Out of the discussion that produced, I also asked whether folks thought that systematic underreporting of rape by colleges was a result of deliberate policies designed to evade reporting
    here.

  32. I’ve put up three posts, What We Talk About (And Don’t Talk About) When We Talk About (And Don’t Talk About) antisemitism and Israel, parts 1, 2, and 3 (I am now writing the fourth) that are responses to the two guest posts David Schraub did here on that topic.

  36. Howdy! It’s been a little while since I’ve been able to shameless promote myself on here. Hope no one missed me too much!

    First, most recently, I posted a <a href=”http://momstinfoilhat.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/reply-turned-post-high-priced-prostitution-style/”reply turned post based on the post here about Natalie Dylan, virginity hawker, and how to make it a true sociological experiment.

    I loved <a href=”http://momstinfoilhat.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/ill-doctrine%C2%A0-why-i%E2%80%99m-happy-why-i%E2%80%99m-not-satisfied/”Jay Smooth’s definition of patriotism.

    I got a little prolific when it came to blog for choice day.
    Post number one is a myths and facts list about abortion.

    That post spawned a reply turned post about how many women can only discuss abortion rights in the context of what they think they would do if faced with an unplanned pregnancy, and consistently ignore (and warp) the discussion of public policy. Major pet peeve of mine, considering how crappy the abortion discussion is handled, well, everywhere.

    Finally, I got with the program and posted a blog for choice day post that actually followed the theme.

    I have been pretty post-y lately and there’s more on there, but that’s shameless enough for one day.

  38. I’ve been sitting on my hands all day, hoping Richard Jeffrey Newman would promote his series on anti-Semitism so I wouldn’t have to. It’s really, really good.

  47. I’m also quite glad that I still have some vague shred of sanity left.

    At first I thought this said “I’m also quite glad that you still have some vague shred of sanity left.” And then I was thinking “I’m glad and actually quite surprised, too, but unsure what it has to do with anything. And should I feel a little offended that someone felt the need to comment on it?” LOL.

  50. Reflecting on the recent Cultural Appropriation imbroglio (mostly on livejournal) I was moved to write about playing together in the City of Invention: the City itself was conceived of by Fay Weldon in Letters to Alice, but, as I wrote:

    …if you want to build a house from another tradition, the material often has to be carried for miles, to great resistance from the European/American dwellers in the City of Invention, who will point out that with all the material for building already there, why do you need to bring in more? Look at the stockpiles, they say – we’ll never run out. Look at the material stored in the Castle of King Arthur, look at how elegantly the buildings made in our tradition fit in with the buildings already here. Your imported material breaks up the plan of the city, it stands out, it looks weird, it’s badly designed, you don’t know how to build! Do it like we do it, and your house will stand for the ages. Your way makes the streets look messy, it blocks traffic, it’s just not right. When the European/American dwellers in the City of Invention make use of this imported material, however, they do so – in the estimation of all their peers – tastefully and thoughtfully, using a familiar foundation, lightly and decoratively blending the new imports with the old style.

    I also wrote about how “Scottish fantasy” is mostly written by people who never lived in Scotland…

  51. We did an overview of who’s who in the Obama administration.

    We talked about the national doughnut tragedy that was averted when Krispy Kreme caved in to the American Life League.

    We discussed a conversation we had with someone who didn’t understand the big deal about Barack Obama becoming president because after all, “He’s only half black“.

    We celebrated the fact that Senator Clinton is now Secretary of State Clinton. (And of course we’ll be taking a look at our replacement senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, this week.)

    And for Blog for Choice day 2009, we did our pro-choice top 10 list for the next few years.

  52. Been lurking for awhile, but I have a post worth self-promoting this week! At my book review blog, I reviewed a new addition to the genre of young adult queer literature, Down to the Bone, which wandered into being a bit of a rant about the low quality of characters that have often been presented in this genre, especially in this book as it also tries to tackle issues of race along with sexuality.

  59. Hello everyone!

    At The Czech:

    An examination of why prominent conservative Ken Blackwell is against a stimilus plan that creates 600,000 jobs.

    NSA spying on American journalists in America. What was that about a free press being part of a healthy democracy? Well, I guess it only matters if you want a healthy democracy.

    More on the pope opening more space for antisemitism in the Catholic church.

    Did ya’ll notice that the MSM coverage of Obama’s repeal of the Global Gag Rule was really f’ed up? If you listened to any of them, you’d think we’re sending the US military to Africa to personally make sure all pregnant women abort their babies. Which, I might add, is incorrect.

  60. I’m actually going to shamelessly promote a post by someone else, a very interesting post by By CJ Turett & Heather Corinna on Scarleteen.com called Let’s Get Metaphysical: The Etiquette of Entry.

    There’s some pretty wonderful, thought-provoking, blog-post provoking material in there from anatomical misconceptions (“A Vagina is Not a Sock, and Other Helpful Hints“) to constructed gender assumptions (“For some men, a lot of homophobia can also be tied up into them being entered, as entrance has historically been constructed as a passive or more feminine role“) to the construction of intercourse to mistaking body signals (lubrication, for instance) as communication of consent.

    I’d have shamelessly promoted the posts I want to write about it but… well, I haven’t written them yet. So I’m shamelessly promoting the source instead. 🙂

    figleaf

  62. Using Margaret Atwood’s feminist novel The Handmaid’s Tale as a jumping off point for some philosophizing on what makes things the types of things they are, and why we get so freaked out about the idea of our institutions changing.

  66. In Australia, as in the US, the culture surrounding various codes of football and other male team sports is all out of whack; excessively masculinist, misogynist, drunken and violent. Recently, a revered ex-footballer and administrative Big Cheese in the football world was viciously assaulted in the street. His wife wrote an article in the paper bemoaning the morals and behaviour of the Yoof of Today, but did not once mention the contribution of “footy culture” to the problems we see. I thought I’d call her on it.

  70. A bit of a departure:
    Letter from a Feminist After Attending the Inauguration

    Reviews this week:
    Feminism and Pop Culture: In Feminism and Pop Culture, Bitch magazine cofounder Andi Zeisler is able to do what does not regularly happen in the pages of the magazine. Introducing readers to the reasons why the relationship between feminism and popular culture is important, example after example illustrates how feminist interpretation of television, music, film, and news events has progressively become an important part of understanding our world.
    The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change: McRobbie examines our current social and cultural landscape, one that is often referred to as “post-feminist,” and presents a compelling analysis of how images of women in contemporary pop culture contribute to an “undoing” of feminism. Throughout the book, McRobbie positions post-feminism as not just anti-feminism (in the sense of anti-feminism being a straightforward backlash against feminist positions and ideas), but as a form of backlash that “takes feminism into account.”

  71. From Womanist Musings, How to be a Gori Girl, Shada Meye, Memsahib, or Farangi in India reads, There is an interesting push and pull to being a White American woman living in Calcutta, India that turns everything that I thought I knew about power and hierarchy and resistance on its head… I realized that this white girl didn’t know nothin’ about nothin’ in this new place, or maybe in the old place either, and every day since is one where I struggle to learn, and re-learn, what I need to know to be a self-aware agent of social change.

  72. I just stumbled across news that the U of Michigan has closed its investigation into the professor who paid a law student for sex a few months ago (and who, she says, physically assaulted her in the course of that encounter).

    A university spokesperson says the investigation is over, and that he’s currently on paid leave, so apparently he didn’t lose his job. She refused to say anything more about the case.

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