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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

Self-promote away. Include a short description of something you’ve written this week, along with a link. Make it specific, not a link to your whole blog.

58 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  2. Now Porn Comes Calling For Nadya Suleman: Looking at the offer she received to make a porn movie and the ways our abdication of social responsibility forces women into making choices they otherwise would not make.

    Did Kathryn Johnston Really Get Justice: Police officers were sentenced to 10 years for gunning down a 92 year old woman and attempting to plant drugs in her home. Does this seem a fair sentence?

    Sure Let’s Honour A Homophobe and An Admitted Abelist: Looking at why giving Jerry Lewis an award at the Oscars was a terrible mistake.

    Terrence Howard Is Ebony’s Renaissance Man: Looking at why it is problematic for a magazine that claims to represent all black people to feature a man that has admitted to punching his now ex wife twice in the face. What does this say about the value of black women in the community.

    Transgender In Iran: A look at a documentary about what it is like to be trans in Iran

  3. I’m very, very angry about a man raping a four year old at night in her grandmother’s home, and getting let off with a suspended sentence. [trigger warning]

    “Sex therapist” Bettina Arndt is cheering on marital rape: “The notion that women have to want sex to enjoy it has been a really misguided idea that has caused havoc in relationships over the last 40 years.”

    We look at the Maternity Services review – its implications for health funding, homebirth funding (none), Indigenous women and healthcare, interventions, and the possibility that attending a homebirth may become outright illegal nationwide within a year and half.

    On a lighter note, Guest Hoyden Chally from Zero at the Bone remembers Octavia Butler.

  4. I wrote a piece, for News Hounds, about Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly’s upcoming speaking engagement for a group (It Happened to Alexa Foundation) that provides funding and advocacy for rape victims. Bill O’Reilly is a misogynist who once said, regarding the victim of a rape/murder:

    “Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk.” (audio clip on Media Matters)

    http://www.newshounds.us/2009/02/28/bill_oreilly_to_speak_at_fund_raising_event_for_rape_victims_oh_no_he_shouldnt.php

  7. Fun times this week…
    We Must Cultivate Our…: I consulted with the seed archive organizer, permaculturalist Nance Klehm. My question: “What, say, seven species would you recommend for the inexperienced urban gardener? Keep in mind that I have two black thumbs. I have killed cacti. I make silk roses wilt…”

    Art + Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist: It should be of no surprise that some of the most peaceful and timid visionaries have met violent deaths. It seems that the power with which they create, forge, or even love is equal to that which opposes their very existence.

    Behind the Bedroom Door: Don’t be confused. While some of these essays are sexy, this writing is neither erotic nor academic. These are personal essays covering points across the adult female life cycle, the thoughts and feelings of individual women about their individual sex lives.

    Against a Trans Narrative: I realized that Against a Trans Narrative was arguably the best movie about gender I’ve ever viewed. It’s remarkably intelligent, sensitive and powerful. A documentary that presents contesting views about gender issues, transgender identity, queer and lesbian politics, and how all of the above play out in real life, it’s a captivating and educational watch.

  8. Does Not Compute
    Sex should be a normal, enjoyable, and desired part of a marriage/relationship, whether you have kids or not, and coming up with “excuses” to avoid the physical side of your relationship with your partner is dishonest and encourages the myth that men always want sex and women never do.

  11. Here I wrote about different things. I’m starting a new Web site on the truth about what’s been going on with my city’s police commission b/c of all the blatant revisionist history and outright lying going on the past several months. Also trying to find alternatives to filing complaints.

    Also, about a 15 year old girl who was beat by a deputy inside a jail cell and caught on camera. The video’s pretty shocking. The deputy has been charged with some degree of assault.

  12. What’s tricky about “what about teh menz” isn’t that anti-feminism/patriarchy doesn’t hurt men. Instead it’s that the hurt is usually indoctrinated so we don’t know we’re doing it, it’s usually self-inflicted so we could stop it if we recognized what we were doing, and, worse, when it hurts us it tends to hurt women disproportionately worse so it’s not like we deserve a lot of sympathy. I wrote about what I think is a classic example of the problem in “Patriarchy Hurts Everybody… Disproportionately.”

    For some reason I’m shamelessly pleased with “Significant Others”, which I think *very* nicely illustrates differences researchers are always finding between men and women.

    And while it might not even have been from the past week I want to really, really promote Amanda’s Dangerous young women who know themselves. There was a lot more attention paid to the cool (and eponymous, I think) final paragraphs but the “under my thumb” section awesomely scrutinizes bedrock stereotypes about libido, gender, and power.

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  17. For people who are interested, the fifth and final part of my antisemitism series is up. The first couple of sentences:

    I am not a Zionist. For the first half of my life and then some, the idea that a Jewish man or woman could say those words and mean them was almost as far-fetched as the idea that Jews had horns. Israel–it had been drilled into me from the moment I was old enough to understand there was a place called Israel–was a categorical imperative of Jewish existence.

  19. I wrote about Amnesty International’s “Rape is Cheaper than Bullets” campaign, what giving cheese sandwiches to children whose parents can’t or won’t pay for school lunches teaches children, and this week’s episode of Dollhouse. I also marked Rare Disease Day with a personal story about anti-thrombin deficiency.

    What excites me most, however, is that my first book of poems, Magdalene & the Mermaids is now available from Paper Kite Press. These are poems written out of my own recovery from sexual assault.

  22. Here’s what the ESC has been thinking about and doing this week:

    That Michael Savage has such a deep and intuitive understanding of women, doesn’t he?

    Some parents in the UK are horrified because the fact that the host of a popular children’s show happens to be disabled might actually force them to have a real conversation with their kids.

    And a lovely conservative group in Kansas has asked the library in Topeka to restrict access to certain books about sex so that only patrons who are 18 and over can take them out. There are four books on the list, and they’re pretty random choices.

    We’ve also launched a new cafepress store, because we just couldn’t bury our feelings about the Bristol Palin/Greta Van Susteren interview any longer.

  23. Can anyone direct me to a good feminist critique/rant/takedown of that new show “Dollhouse”? It seemed pretty over the top misogynist, even for Hollywood/TV.

  28. This week I spread the word about a petition to end Joe Arpaio, rejoiced that the Feds will no longer be raiding medical marijuana dispensaries, shared info on Green Day’s new album, discussed my married but non-monogamous sex life and the sex party I was going to this weekend, spread the word about a writing prompt from My Ecydsis, shared criticisms of the movie Milk, and its associated Osacars speeches, and revealed what actor is playing “Alpha” on Dollhouse.

  37. Hi, all—I love this blog and am now officially de-lurking for a suitably shameless reason. I just started a blog of my own and kicked things off with some brief observations on the opera trope and the politics of visibility in Milk.

    whatsername, your post on Milk is fantastic, and I’ve taken the liberty of adding a link to it in mine.

  39. Jenna of J2 Jewelry creates “rad jewelry for rad people.”
    http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/j2-jewelry.html

    TotusMel Tats offers original and unique needle tatted jewelry and accessories, including some really gorgeous masks created by artist Pamela Quevedo.
    http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/02/totusmel-tats.html

    Ayumi Horie throws a bowl on the potters wheel using no water. Ayumi developed this technique as a student at Alfred in 1995 and has been using it ever since to make bowls, dishes, and plates.
    http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/02/ayumi-horie-dry-throwing-bowl.html

  40. I’ve been thinking for quite some time about why I continue to read and come back to trans fiction of questionable quality, and I recently wrote another post on that subject. I hoping to eventually consolidate my thoughts into one cohesive thesis, but this latest post explores the draw of seeing sympathetic characters in ‘trans’ situations (even if the characters would not identify as trans.

  42. Pink Scare gets tough on Obama!

    This week we learned about the Accountability Now coalition, a PAC formed by “bloggers and labor activists” to keep Obama accountable to the apparently most progressive elements of the Democratic Party. But the new coalition assumes that Obama is a true progressive at heart – which, as T shows, he’s really not.

    Obama challenged every American to commit to one year of post-secondary education or training. Nice thought and everything, Arvilla says, but how the hell are working-class people supposed to pay for it?

  45. Inspired by the controversy over the Mandy Van Deven and Brittany Shoot post at Professor What If, I co-hosted a discussion about women of color working in the feminist blogosphere with Professor Tracey from Aunt Jemima’s Revenge.

    We were joined by Faith from Acts of Faith, Renee from Womanist Musings, and Monica from Transgriot. We talked about how black women bloggers are marginalized within the mainstream femisphere and sometimes the black blogosphere; how transgendered black women bloggers are marginalized in LGBT communities; support and lack of support in the black blogosphere; whether WOC bloggers need white allies or should go it alone. As you can imagine, with such amazing, take-no-prisoners, truth tellers involved, it was a great conversation–frank, sometimes controversial, and never dull.

    [Note: The focus of our discussion did eventually narrow to black, female bloggers specifically–I would imagine because of the voices represented.]

    Listen.

  46. I wrote my very first blog post! And it is about the soon-to-be-introduced rights of British IVF mothers to name whoever they chose as their legal co-parent: and how frothinly angry the Daily Mail is about this.

  48. My friend Kara and I made a parody of bad sex ed, Cosmo articles, and the general oversimplification and warped nature of sex and relationship attitudes and advice that permeate our culture. We call it “Sex Hacks”. We teach you how to “hack the fuck”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhoqsLstsUI

  50. I just put up a post about how the Global Seed Vault in Norway is just a cover for transnational corporations like Monsanto to control the food supply for the whole planet through genetic manipulation and patent law and how we can protect our food sovereignty by saving the seeds.

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