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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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It’s a little bit late today folks, but self-promote away.  Leave a link in the comments to something you’ve written this week, along with a brief description.  Be specific — don’t just link to your whole blog.

55 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  1. I’m skeptical that Justice Breyer is convinced that it’s constitutional to strip-search eighth-graders.

    I’m annoyed that student newspapers are buying into shoddy anti-student studies promoting alcohol hysteria.

    And I’m appalled that a Washington high school is suing two teenage girls who it kicked off the cheerleading squad for taking naked photos of themselves on their cell phones.

  4. Women As A Tool TO Justify Transphobia: New England is currently working on House Bill 1728 which bans discrimination based on gender identity or expression in the areas of employment, housing, credit, public accommodations and public education. In order to defeat this bill opponents have chosen once again to raise the supposed dreaded spectre of “men in womens bathrooms”.

    Stay At Home Mother Not Considered A Professional: On Bring your child to work day a stay at home mom is told that her children would probably spend the day watching tv and not learning anything.

    Matthew McConaughey On Black Women: Apparently all black women are fat and wear tight dresses, so of course this make us not cover worthy.

    The Craigslist Killer Is Just A Normal Guy:When white men are accused of serious crimes unlike black men they are not made representatives of their race.

    We Sure Loves Us Some Chicken: Popeyes runs out of chicken after a special and the media uses the opportunity to perpetuate the myth that all black people love chicken.

  6. I posted a picture of an issue of Allure magazine which I took the time to mark with post it notes every single full page ad.

    Wrote about one of my friend’s absurd views about chivalry and argued that he was being sexist.

    My thoughts on the book Skinny Bastard that comes out tomorrow. It’s by the authors who wrote Skinny Bitch.

    Wrote about how some well-off men are dealing with losing their jobs and spending more time with their kids.

    And posted about an interesting article about how Michelle Obama is working to carefully craft a certain image of herself, focusing on her more domestic qualities.

  8. I wrote about a community theatre adaptation of Ellyn Spragins’ edited collection of letters, written by 40 famous women, including Maya Angelou, Ann Curry, Olympia Dukakis, Naomi Wolf, etc. Five local actresses sat comfortably on cozy sofas, while taking turns reading letters written by older women to their younger selves. The reading reminded me of Pink’s powerful song, “Conversations With My 13 Year Old Self”.

  9. I kicked off the “Acting Out” edition of my blog this week with the following:

    – Problems with Marriage
    – Critiquing Glow magazine, May 2009. I get Glow magazine because I signed up for it with my Shoppers Optimum card, and I kinda like it.
    – Race in Cartoons
    – Random Story about my oldest teddy bear.
    – Name issues, which tie in with language issues.
    – One of my race issues. More as I go along.
    – My ally issues.

    On the original LJ (Redux edition), I wrote a brief rant on the responsibilities of friends when out drinking. It was in response to the Professor Foxy column at Feministing last week and I just got so mad at the number of “well, other people aren’t responsible for your actions” bullshit.

  16. Over on my pop culture blog, in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, I wrote about the six best (IMO) Shakespeare films and eight more I love in spite of their flaws (many of them having to do with gender). I also blogged about the connection between media objectification of women and the Advil-strip-search debacle and complained about a classist car ad.

    And finally, on a political note (because it’s another horrible “man has argument with wife, opens fire” story) and a personal one (I knew one of the victims, Ben Teague, one the kindest and best people I’ll ever know): Georgia professor sought in shooting death of wife, two others. Please keep the victims’ families in your thoughts. Our community is really shaken up by this.

  19. A comment on a mailing list by a transwoman caused me to ponder a 1970s alternative to pink blankets/blue blankets and recall Marlo Thomas promoting “Free to Be, You and Me”

    I called the piece “Green Blankets” Considering it is Earth day Week I thought that might be appropriate for a discussion of the backlash against gender/sex equality that has happened in the years since.

    http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/04/26/green-blankets/

  22. Bea Arthur Tribute: Maude’s Dilemma Pioneered Reproductive Rights Before Roe v. Wade http://snipurl.com/grnh8

    Oprah declares herself to be weave-free but that doesn’t stop the policing of black women’s hair in The Racial Politics With Black Women’s Hair http://snipurl.com/gpfm4

    White Rapper Asher Roth decides to revive the Don Imus insult to BW, apologizes, then lies and says someone else had hacked into his Twitter account in You’re So Lame Award of Shame – Asher Roth & Larry Summers http://snipurl.com/gkwp

    Overachieving HS student has to convince her parents she can not only get accept to Oxford but figure out a way to pay for it. Why do expectations betray our best efforts? Sometimes Parents (And Others) Just Don’t Understand http://snipurl.com/gj2ds

  24. my thoughts on the new movie Obsessed: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/obsessed-hot-interracial-cat-fight.html

    on my own whiteness: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-my-own-whiteness.html

    connotations of “terrorist”: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/language-of-racism-todays-word-is.html

    feminist analysis of robert poe’s Return to the House of Usher: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/legacy-of-poe-return-to-house-of-usher.html

    adam lambert wears eyeliner: http://filthygrandeur.blogspot.com/2009/04/adam-lambert-nail-polish-and-eye-liner.html

  26. I wrote a followup to my post about how to spot an abusive jerk, incorporating people’s comments. It includes a “life-altering” relationship test involving the use of Fiona Apple’s second album: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/dude-people-read-this-thing/

    And I found a 100+ year-old book on the history of Japan. Written entirely in words of one syllable, because that was supposedly a valid learning tool. Hilarity ensued: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/re-writing-history-in-words-of-one-syllable/

    And this last one is a little old, but deals with the slapstick comedy that results when the near-blind momentarily lose their glasses: http://talulahmankiller.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/nerd-love-averts-nerd-tragedy/

  29. This week in Evil Slutopia:

    ~Vice President Biden was honored at a symposium on the 15th anniversary of VAWA, so of course we had to add that to our Joe Biden Feminism Watch.

    ~We also had to add Fox News and right-wing radio host Glenn Beck to our list of people who can suck it. We’re still recovering from researching that one.

    ~We still haven’t parted with the issue of Cosmo that we bought on the way home from Boston recently, so this week we wrote about how Cosmo will keep you safe if you’re a woman living alone, and also addressed the fact that Cosmo apparently thinks sports are icky.

  34. This week at City of Ladies:

    I wrote about why the United States should have had a role in the UN Conference Against Racism: The Divided Nations

    Brian wrote about Miss California and giant gay-repellent umbrellas: This Week in Sexuality

    (I stay up late and refresh and refresh to try to be near the top of comments, and what do I get? :P)

  36. A handful of reviews from the week…

    Boyfriend University: The premise is both insulting and intriguing: “Take advantage of your man and learn while you can.” The authors offer details of their personal dating history and all of the invaluable information they gleaned from the men they spent time with. Auto repair, how to smoke a cigar, how to play beer pong, kick in a door, fix a clogged toilet, and barbeque anything.

    Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status is about the ways in which three groups of young adults in the United States test, push, and break the boundaries of an identity that paradoxically remains largely invisible, yet overwhelmingly dominant: “Whiteness.”

    Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery: In one of the most devastating passages of the book, Kara locates sex slavery at a “massage parlor” in Los Angeles. The young woman he meets was trafficked from Thailand with promises of a job as a waitress. Once in the U.S., she was told that she owed $20,000 to the “massage parlor” owner she was sold to, which she would earn by having sex with several men a day.

    Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design: Levine gives a brief introduction and makes some intriguing statements that piqued my curiosity about the history of this movement and the idea of thinking about craft as a politicized feminist phenomenon. From a feminist perspective it was interesting to read that ninety-five percent of the crafters Levine interviewed were women.

  37. I went a bit postal at a writer on AfterEllen.com in After Ellen’s “The Trouble with “Bisexual”” and why I am not a Cheeto, including the part where I say

    Bisexuals are not Cheetos. We don’t come with an expiration date. It’s not like we go bad if we are not used in a timely fashion. I don’t know where this idea came from, which I often see banded around in the lesbian and gay portions of our community, that if you haven’t been actively dating both sexes concurrently and very currently, we are not really bi.

    And then I got cranky at Jessica Valenti for an lame attempt at a Goddess joke that doesn’t play well with Wiccans in Feminist Weddings, the “Goddess”, and Jessica’s latest article at The Guardian – which is a look at feminist Wiccan weddings. Jessica and I are cool though, cuz she totally apologized in the comments.

  47. I didn’t think I’d have anything this week, but it just occurred to me that (outside its legal definition… and possibly inside it too) a big problem with “consent” is that it’s radically sexualized. Whereas respecting the decision behind consent, not to mention respecting the decision *maker* is scarcely acknowledged at all. I posted about that here. Amanda Marcotte illustrates the problem here

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  49. I’ve got some good stuff this week!

    A gender/racial analysis of the recent episode of “Bones”: The Girl in the Mask. Being a show I like, I was rather disappointed in this ep.

    And what I’m sure will become a semi-regular feature: People I Love Who have Done Shit I hate. Up on this post? Seth Rogen, and Nathan Fillion.

    Speaking of Nathan Fillion… I had an interesting couple nights that culminated in me writing this post: Sex Dreams and Nathan Fillion.

    And last for the shameless promoting… a pretty picture.

  52. Thank you for being a friend http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/thank-you-for-being-friend.html

    Women’s History_Mae West http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/womens-historymae-west.html

    Metalicious http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/metalicious.html

    Katie m. Berggren – Painting Intimate Moments of Motherhood http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/katie-m-berggren-painting-intimate.html

    i dream i can fly http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/idreamicanfly.html

    Sock Horror http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/sock-horror.html

    The sMacshop http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/smacshop.html

  53. Feminist Media Review: Parks and Recreation about a feminist approach to the new sitcom, Parks and Recreation starring Amy Poehler.

    Mothers in Africa are Dying: Whose Responsibility is it? about maternal mortality in Africa.

    Book Review: When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen, a novel about love, mental illness, families, and memory.

    Alcohol or a Corporate Prostitute? about African sexual dynamics within an academic institution.

    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Woman is Accused of Inciting Troops and Militia to Rape Thousands of Women about former Minister of Women and Family Affairs, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko about her crimes during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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