Hi, there. I’m Plain(s) Feminist (or PF, for short), a Women’s Studies prof, activist, and now breast cancer survivor (and breastless woman, which I am finding to be an interesting change after my DD days). I have just returned to the land of DSL, and I have been on dial-up for so long (visiting parents) that I feel alienated from the interweb and have to think for a while before I post. I have been thinking a bit about mothering and sacrifice and the breast-feeding debates, so you might get something about that to begin with. We’ll have to see.
I’m at Blogging While Feminist, and like Sally, I don’t do much modding at my place (but I also don’t get many comments). My general rule is, “don’t be an asshole” (can’t remember who I’m copying that from, but it works). Other than that, respectful comments of all flavors are welcome. I will not police anyone’s politics, but I might not let through comments that are obnoxious.
I still call myself a feminist, but I do this while recentering my feminism to focus on issues that have frequently been at the margins of feminism – poverty, racial profiling, and other issues many/most women face but that are often seen by middle-class white feminism as being about something other than middle-class white women and, therefore, as not women’s issues, after all. This broadening out of “women’s issues” is also how I try to teach Women’s Studies, which is a field I continue to have faith in (whether we call it Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Feminist Studies, or whatever). I know we can do this better.
I’m also a mom, and it’s bath time at our house, so I will catch you later.