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You know the drill — leave your links to posts you’ve written this week in the comments, and provide a brief description. And be specific, rather than just linking to your whole blog.

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  4. This week at Adventures of a Young Feminist:

    No One Can Be Perfect 100% of the Time: how I view my sometimes problematic taste in music in light of my feminist values.

    I Don’t Want to be a Hepburn or a Hilton: a look at the virgin/whore dichotomy through relationship books.

    Where Did Teens Sexuality Go?: what is so magical about the number 18 when it comes to teens expressing their sexuality?

    Are Clothes More Important Than Intellect?: how the media’s focus on Michelle Obama’s clothes is a way of silencing her from meaningful political involvement.

    Hollister Continues Sexualization of Teens: Hollister has a new line of sexually suggestive t-shirts marketed towards young teens.

    Slaying the Vamps: the feminist implications of the strong women of Buffy is examined in this edition of Feminist Flashback Friday.

    Breast Implications: Kiera in Advertisements: how Kiera Knightly’s breasts are airbrushed in ads and the societal implications of that.

    Isn’t It Romantic: Twilight fans are getting a little too out of control for my taste.

  5. On the ableism in the phrase “blinded by privilege”.

    Kicking off Success Sunday today with the story of Dr. Roxanne Shante, the first female rap star, who was dumped by her label but used a clause in her contract to get Warner Brothers to pay for her college education, culminating in a PhD from Cornell.

    On a Utah trans woman, Candice Metzler, and her struggles with employment, and attitude towards BTIALGQ individuals in Utah and Salt Lake City.

    On the transmisogyny, racism, and sexism in MediaTakeOut’s accusation that singer Kat DeLuna has a penis.

    A recipe for avocado macaroni salad.

    A guest post from Recursive Paradox on cis privilege

    On Mad Men (I know, I’m getting sick of it too) race and Matt Weiner’s white privilege

    Kate Blatt was told to give a doctor’s note and a picture of her genitals on condition of her employment with Manpower staffing services. I also included contact information for anyone who wants to tell Manpower how fucked up that is.


  9. *My* Privilege     Regarding the careless remarks I made a week ago here @ Feministe re: the posts on polyamory. Also includes two links for education and information that I found immensely helpful. My being called out has not only led to greater understanding and awareness on my part, but also to a great conversation. So, be sure to check out the comment thread.

    Black vs. black, White vs. white About race and terminology. I link to an article written by Luke Visconti of DiversityInc.

    Do I Need To Have Given Birth To Justify *My* Stretchmarks? Regarding stretch marks, and that some of us have them with out wearing the badge of motherhood

    Trolls
    Some thoughts re: the impact of trolls, especially on the blogs of people of color and women, and a helpful resource for dealing with trolls.

  17. i got some Fuzz Therapy for you all to enjoy, featuring two grumpy pets of mine.

    Little people = little burgers? looking at the new ad campaign for Jack in the Box.

    But men aren’t pretty! how challenging gendered language causes confusion among some people.

    You know what’s totally hot ladies? (trigger warning). this new product that romanticizes stalking! thank you twilight! /snark.

    and my first post over at SexGenderBody features my sonnets to genitalia. Crossposted here.

  18. On swallowing shit: ““Just complain,” people say. “Accessibility problems? Talk to people! They all mean well! All you have to do is ask!” Now, what happens is that every single time I want to ask for an accommodation, I get to make a risk assessment. I get to wonder, however momentarily, if this is the time that I’ll be attacked.”


    On unexamined privileges and unconscious behaviours    : on conscious racism, unconscious racism, and outrage

    National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: Results: The nation’s top honours. Click through for a gallery and virtual tour.

    Quickhit: Invisible women, invisible politics – Blokes at Crikey are wondering why they don’t have more female subscribers, and “Where are Australia’s female political bloggers?”

  20. Why the President needs to be more cowboy and less diplomat to make sure health care gets passed
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-lack-of-fortitude-will-seal-his.html

    Lateisha Green Murder Sentencing Update & Interview with her mother.
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/lateisha-green-post-conviction-update.html

    Sisterhood podcast discussion with Ananda Leeke on Women of Color & Marketing
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/sisterhood-blog-radio-podcast.html

  21. I wrote posts!

    Part of the Problem, about my dating woes as a black lady. 🙁

    I would go to a movie with both of them., about my ongoing desire to hang out with both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Elijah Wood.

    I thought I’d like Drop Dead Diva, about the show on Lifetime and Househusbands of Hollywood.

    Whenever I hear the words “Thomas Jefferson”, about the slave owner/rapist.

    Like Hello Kitty, about The Slanted Screen, a film about Asian actors in television and movies.

    Enjoy!

  23. 1. Trans Form works-in-progress video – A ~8 minute clip about getting my name changed, from my upcoming one-woman show ‘Trans Form.’
    2. 2 Hot Transsexuals Finally Give Some Answers – I know I’m late in posting this but, if you haven’t seen it, it’s hilarious.
    3. That’s So Gay – GLSEN and the Ad Council have launched a campaign against using ‘gay’ as an insult. Penny Arcade posted a comic indicating they think the campaign will not be very valuable, and I post my response.

  28. This Week At Merda D’Artista

    Caster Semenya, womens colleges, and wondering what makes a woman a woman in the first place:

    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/08/so-what-makes-woman-woman-precisely.html

    Project Runway glee:

    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/08/youre-either-in-or-youre-out-or-youre.html

    What to do when a Facebook friend sends you a series of messges telling you that you’re “not bringing glory to God”:

    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/08/they-will-know-that-we-are-christians.html

    I also started a series called “Dispatches From the Crazy BFA Community”, detailing some *headdesk* moments during a year and a half at a women’s college:

    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/08/dispatches-from-crazy-bfa-community.html (Eew! Breasts are gross!)

    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/08/dispatches-from-crazy-bfa-community_19.html (Sex is okay to have, and to talk about in the cafeteria, but it’s a verboted discussion topic in an art appreciation class)

  31. I took a glance at the erotic imagery in the new British magazine, Filament. I think Filament has a great philosophy, but so far the pictures seem geared to young women (or at most, to older women who are turned on by very young men.

    In what I intended as constructive criticism (since I do strongly support breastfeeding), I looked at the costs to mothers of breastfeeding.

    And finally I turned a rant about a sexist quirk of my “good” health insurance into a plea for the public option.

  32. The Illinois Family Institute, a right wing Christian organization famous for their homophobic activities, is now targeting an atheist public school teacher. They’re telling parents to pull their students out of his class simply because he’s an atheist and blogs about his beliefs. He never mentions it in the classroom, but they don’t care – simply having an atheist as a positive role model is horrible.

  37. For the sake of your health…don’t skip happy hour about the health benefits of beer for women.

    Women in the Boardroom about Norway’s mandated corporate diversity.

    Too fast to be a girl about the gender test for South African sprinter Canter Semenya.

    Choosing Security Over Environmental Justice? Not Exactly about a new law allowing a pipeline from Canadian deposits of oil sands to cross borders into the U.S.; this law will cause environmental and health effects.

    Finally, Gender Across Borders is looking for EDITORS! More info click here.

  40. Just One More Week to Enter to Win a Freestyle Vibrator from Babeland!

    The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism: They starkly confront the challenge of reconciling sexuality and spirituality from the perspective of those who study, worship, and identify with the Torah and the Talmudic tradition of critical analysis, while also maintaining active feminist belief and commitments to social justice that often seem to conflict with Jewish law, at least as it has been traditionally construed.

    The Cheese Chronicles: A Journey through the Making and Selling of Cheese in America, from Field to Farm to Table: I detest the term foodie. My boyfriend teasingly calls me a foodie in his WASP-iest voice. It seems so pretentious, so elitist, so… stupid. I can’t deny, though, my great love and interest in all things food.

    Thirst: Tae-Joo is a modern update on the femme fatale of the ’40s, right down to the way she convinces Sang-Hyun to murder her husband, clutching his shoulder a la Norma Desmond. And as in the best traditional noir films, it is she who steals the show and whose story we ultimately remember most. This is due in no small part to Kim, who is both classic and creative in her journey from a ghost of a young girl to a delightfully manipulative monster of a woman. To think that this young actor’s career has only just begun is truly exciting.

  41. NY Times ‘Half The Sky’ Issue, The New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend is a “special issue” about women in the developing world. So, how’d they do?

    Is CouchSurfing.org Safe for Women?, Since 2004 CouchSurfing.org has provided a way for budget travelers to connect with people across the world to take advantage of free hospitality—from a place to sleep to acting as a tour guide to simply meeting for a coffee. But do the site administrators go far enough to ensure its members aren’t sexual predators?

    From Page to Screen: Can Book Adaptations Bring Greater Visibility to Women Protagonists? , …though I can’t speak for everyone, and I do occasionally loves me some gratuitous explosions, I’m fairly certain that an adaptation of Eat, Pray, Love is going to get more women in theater seats than say, G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.

    Feminists Protest PETA For a Change, On Tuesday evening, the Portland Feminist Action League stood inside (and then outside once they were kicked out) of Powell’s and gave Ingrid Newkirk (and her fans) a piece of their minds.

  50. Brandee Sanders of MetroGypsy focuses on high quality original mini top hats, tilt hats, feather fascinators, custom Sally Rand feather fans and one of a kind vintage and up-cycled pieces created for stage performance, burlesque and anyone who loves standing out. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/08/metrogypsy.html

    Debra Blazer of Blazer Arts creates quality custom 14K gold and sterling silver jewelry handset with genuine stones. Many of my items incorporate what she calls “black silver,” which is sterling silver that has been oxidized and then coated with a clear enamel coating. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/08/blazer-arts.html

  51. You may recognize this artist from a previous mention on Feministing (http://www.feministing.com/archives/016451.html). Native New Yorker Melissa Giges (GUY-gus) has already won a loyal following with her mesmerizing performances and strikingly beautiful voice. Now, the singer-songwriter arrives in the national spotlight with the release of her national debut, Evident. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/08/melissa-giges.html

    You may also like this artist. Born in rural Oregon, Brandi Shearer’s singing career began by entertaining her grandmother with versions of “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” and “Isn’t It Romantic” played by numbers on a Sears Roebuck electric piano. Later, she moved to Europe where she learned about Billie Holiday and singing effectively in front of drunken audiences. French girls taught her to artfully apply makeup and wear her hair just so. She sang in bars, clubs, festivals & living rooms across the continent until landing in Hungary. After some time spent living the expatriate life, she returned to the States to pursue a career in music on her native soil. http://www.suchcoolstuff.net/2009/08/brandi-shearer.html

  57. Writing Violent, considering the uses of violence in my recent work

    Writing Violent 2: William Golding, a discussion of why I don’t really care for Lord of the Flies

    Privilege, Experiment, and (Non)sense, a reflection on the ways privilege can appear in experimental poetry

    Respecting Identity, a consideration of how normativity requires certain identities to be explained and others not to be explained

    and Abuser are Not Tragic Heroes, another fail from CNN.

  61. Over at Pink Scare, we’ve got lots and lots about healthcare and how badly the Democrats are failing us, and lamenting the failure of the Obama administration to even listen to single-payer supporters when he claimed to be welcoming all voices.

    I write about one of my greatest pet peeves, the happy, “Have you lost weight?!” compliment.

    T wrote a great post that rejects the notion that feminism should be an open plurality of ideas.

  65. This week I hesitantly wrote about Caster Semenya. It seemed that writing more about her was just one more person discussing her without her consent, but there were some things I wanted to say about how we discuss sex and gender.

    I also talked about Pitt refusing the bequest from the shooter, and wondered if maybe they should have taken it and given it to the Women’s Studies department as a final eff you.

    On a much lighter note, I also wondered if perhaps Always created the all-maxi pad swimsuit.

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