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Jill

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

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  3. Trans sex worker assaulted: Despite having the name and the address of the perpetrator police refuse to arrest the man who raped a trans sex worker at gun point.

    Last Words That Are Not Famous: The Sounds Of Death Row: Looking at the last words of convicts who have been put to death in an attempt to humanize those that we have deemed not worthy to live.

    “Illegal” Word is a Gateway to Racism and Exploitation: Looking at how declaring undocumented workers illegal immigrants help to progress the racism that is aimed at them.

    Schools Teach More Than The Three R’s In Arlington: Looking at how the board attempted to deal with Racism by instituting a three hour seminar and why that is not enough to combat racism in education.

  4. It’s football season and since girls football is such a hot topic on GirlsCantWhat.com as well as one of the best-selling Girls Can’t WHAT? designs, I’m going to kick-off a fun contest to win a Football Prize Pack!

    Enter by leaving a comment and get bonus entries by re-posting on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets. The rules are simple and it’s super-easy to enter. Find out what’s in the prize pack and enter win at http://girlscantwhat.com/win-a-football-prize-pack-from-girls-cant-what/

  6. This week in Evil Slutopia:

    ~We can’t stop talking about Cosmo (we know, it’s a problem) – this week, we talked about some questionable sex tips and how faking an STD might not be the best way to get revenge on a cheating boyfriend.

    ~Last week it was Glee, and this week the One Million Moms are targeting the new comedy Modern Family, which is horribly offensive to them because the family in question is “multicultural” and includes gay people.

    ~ABC refused to air an ad for a cougar website during the new show Cougar Town, because apparently they only like cougars when they’re fictional.

    ~So what exactly is “Asian culture” anyway?

  8. Preliminary thoughts on the Rad Readers’ new selection “Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center” – http://piecesofstring.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/rad-readers-update-from-margin-to-center-and-my-beef-with-my-feminism/

    On “corrective” rape happening right here in the states – http://piecesofstring.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/corrective-rape-is-not-foreign/

    On male rape victims being, surprise, legitimate – http://piecesofstring.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/shocker-of-the-day-male-rape-victims-exist-and-are-legitimate-victims/

  11. I’ve recently transferred to the Savannah College of Art and Design, and

    -heard the most awesome/depressing story about censorship, ever.
    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/think-outside-box-but-not-that-much.html

    -was reminded of why I transferred from my previous college in the first place http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/dammit-i-knew-there-was-reason-i.html

    -felt sad about pressure for model Lara Stone to lose weight
    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.html

    -nerded out to Ladyhawke
    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-cannot-get-over-this-song-and-video.html

    -bought stuff at Urban Outfitters
    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/decor.html
    http://cannedartistshit.blogspot.com/2009/09/look-what-i-got-pt-2.html

    and over at Suck My Wit, (suckmywit.wordpress.com), we are collecting words/art for our Creative Juices issue.

  12. –My personal blog celebrated its fourth bloggerversary.

    –A proponent of waiting for marriage weighs in on Beyond the Birds and the Bees.

    –I started a new collection of insanity from the (*ahem*mostly right*ahem*) fringe here; my hope is that reading some of these out-there opinions will prompt more of us to contact our representatives, blog, talk and SPEAK OUT to have our voices heard.

  19. The Austin Chronicles: No Need to Worry: I finally got up another post in my series about being a California gal going to graduate school for Women’s and Gender Studies in Texas during the Bush Administration (no seriously) and how I learned more living in Texas than I did in school.

    OMG! Liv Dolls Totally Aren’t Bratz, LOL: These lolipop heads aren’t like those lolipop heads…really.

    Princess Vader: How I addressed the request that my three year old’s niece’s birthday present be princess related without alienating my in-laws, yeah.

  21. 1. Photo shoot pictures! – Finally got images back from the photo shoot for my upcoming show
    2. Sex, and the Effects of Hormones (pt 1) – I wasn’t able to find good information how how sex feels different for trans women before and after hormones, so I decided to write something myself (go here for info on how to get the password to the post
    3. Helen Boyd is wrong about Cisgender – The conversation about using cisgender/sexual continues, but Boyd doesn’t quite get it…
    4. Even more random links – The title sort of says it all

  23. Roman Polanski is arrested in Switzerland but will he ever be successfully prosecuted for the rape of a 13 year old?
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/polanski-phillips-kelly-and-other-would.html

    Part Two: Mackenzie Phillips Interview
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/mackenzie-phillips-follow-up-interview.html

    Response from Chynna Phillips –
    http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/phillips-incest-allegations-continued.html

  25. http://hypotheticalwoman.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/alignment-and-morality-part-1-why-dr-x-ample-isnt-evil-all-through/
    http://hypotheticalwoman.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/alignment-and-morality-part-2-hypothetical-woman-meets-neitzsche/

    My two-part morality study – comparing the D&D Alignment grid to Neitzsche’s Master and Slave morality theory!
    Look how all intellectual and philosophical I get, it almost looks like I know what I’m talking about… XD

  36. Fringe on DVD: I’ve recently become addicted to the show Fringe and I use this post to examine that.

    No boobs for you!: a guest post from RosieRed23 at Spare Candy about Megan Fox and the public’s perceived rights to women’s bodies.

    Bisexuality on TV?: in which I look at the character of Thirteen on House.

    A Mall-Working Rant: I really hate excessive PDA.

    The Women of Inglorious Basterds: a guest post from Amanda at The Undomestic Goddess about Tarantino’s new film.

    And my weekly reviews of Glee and Bones.

  40. I already linked these first two on the Feministe threads that inspired them, but here they are again:

    How we’ve changed–comments about weight, Karen Carpenter, Mad Men, a few other things…

    Rant inspired by cable-TV nastiness directed at Jessica Lange’s FAT ARMS… yes, it doesn’t matter if you win an Emmy and two Oscars … what about THOSE ARMS, Missy! (Jesus H Christ already.)

    …

    Odds and Sods, Lizard King edition wherein I predict that Glenn Beck will have a spectacular flame-out… yes, I go on the record!

    Stupid people responsible for mass turtle deaths— warning to all animal rights people, very disturbing. 🙁

    Republican Candidate launches campaign with assault rifle giveaway Yes, more fun with South Carolina politicians! (This thread also features an invasion from a posse of assault-rifle trolls –but just ignore them, if you don’t mind. Pay no attention to those gun-nuts behind the curtain!)

  43. I’m having a hard time getting over those Huffington Post / Maureen Dowd columns about the national happiness study that (misleadingly) claims that women have been getting progressively unhappier since approximately the Nixon administration.

    First of all, as Language Log and Echidne of the Snakes point out the numbers don’t really show that at all. If you look at the aggregate info — which I did in Pursuit of (Gender) Happiness Part One: Looking at the Numbers — it turns out that overall happiness for men and women are pretty much unchanged! In the early 1970s 85% of men and 86% of women said they were happy. In the 2000s 86% of men and… 86% of women report they’re some kind of happy — a “huge” increase of 1% for men.

    Second of all, though, I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I was so irritated by Maureen Dowd’s column on the happiness study but in Pursuit of (Gender) Happiness Part Two: Looking at the Language of Expectations I finally had a big epiphany that what’s not being taken into account is rising expectations outpacing progress. And, more importantly, that it’s actually really good for progress when expectations can rise faster than progress does.

    And finally, Anne Bartow at Feminist Law Professors neatly turned the study results on their head and asked men’s declining high-school, college graduation, and grad-school graduation rates were responsible for their “increase” in happiness. I explain why I think turning the tables like that is so great in Serious Fun With Statistics: Ann Bartow Asks Whut About Teh Menz.

  44. Posted a video for the video call out for Common’s “Make My Day” over at Current TV. It’s in the style of video art. Picked abstract over narrative because I wanted to do my little bit in promoting alternatives to the hypersexualization of women in music vids that narrative sometimes helps to bring on.

  49. Hello peoples,

    Somebody sent the unhinged racists in St. Bernard Parish to my site, where they were enraged to learn that I oppose racial discrimination in their parish. Mind-boggling comments ensue. Upon my return volley, there were many flounces. Then, they pathetically attempted to shut my blog down. Didn’t work, but it did send my hits up through the roof!

    Um, in non-blog-drama news: I am bored with people yelling Socialist! instead of engaging in real debate, but out of curiosity, how do you define socialism?

    And finally, Czech queers and AIDS activists protest the Pope’s visit to the Czech Republic.

  52. Oxygen devised a new show from a most novel idea: produce a “food show” as a documentary, or in their terms, as a “docu-series.” The show, The Naughty Kitchen, has the drama of the popular Top Chef without the competition. Instead, it delves into the mania and frenzy of the restaurant business from Chef Blythe Beck’s perspective. The docu-series, therefore, documents Chef Beck’s ascension to the role of executive chef, as well as the trials and tribulations that await her in her quest to achieve, in her words, “total world culinary domination.”

    In her painfully honest and touching memoir, Invisible Sisters, Jessica Handler revisits the heartbreaking losses of not one, but two of her sisters: Susie (from leukemia at age eight) and Sarah (from a rare blood disorder in early adulthood). Survivors’ guilt is a term that describes the feeling that arises when one pulls through an unimaginable situation while others do not. Handler writes about the burden she carried of being the “well sibling” in a family that slowly foundered under the weight of sorrow and tragedy.

    I read In Her Own Sweet Time: One Woman’s Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment, and Motherhood in one day. It, like the author, and like the problems she explores, is not perfect. Like the author, this book is lovable and I eagerly devoured it for the stories she tells, the problems she outlines, and the social phenomena she identifies.

    Comprised of an impressive array of interviews, statistics, and visual demonstrations, The Coat Hanger Project is an informative documentary about the symbolism—and reality—of the coat hanger and its relationship to abortion. Circling back again and again to the coat hanger, the film weaves personal and political histories of abortion and reproductive justice in the United States and around the world.

  53. From the Bitch Magazine blogs…

    Eastwick Has Got Some Seriously Empowerful Witches, Y’all, quasi-mainstream-pornulated formulation of female empowerment that has very little to do with what women are actually like

    Feminism, Essentialism, and the Dalai Lama, What does it mean for this spiritual leader of millions to call himself a feminist?

    American Girl debuts new marketing strategy….err, doll., the first American Girl Doll to be living in a homeless shelter will soon be on sale

    Is No Sex Still Sex Positive?, Can you be sex-positive and still choose or advocate celibacy? Or are the two things mutually exclusive?

  59. Here I am, a day late and a dollar short, again, but here goes nothing:

    I have been writing about race on my blog.

    Post one is a photo and letter to the editor regarding a racist display with a cardboard cutout of Obama and a stuffed baboon and a book and wild chimpanzees at a local tourist shop.

    Post two is about interactions on another blogs and racism denialism.

    Post three is a reply turned post, prompted by a comment thread on post one. Ironically enough, even after I wrote a post on racism denialism (see post two), someone claimed “reverse racism” on post one.

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