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  2. Hey all! Here’s what’s been going on at Gender Across Borders this past week:

    The Place of the Privileged about why white, heterosexual men can be allies in the feminist blogging community

    This month’s Global Feminist Profile is on Suraya Pakzad, an Afghan women’s rights activist

    Only boys throw punches: about the ponytail scandal with University of New Mexico women’s soccer player Elizabeth Lambert

    Are you a F*&^#ist? about what being a “feminist” stands for

    Also, GAB is having a series on Women, Art, and War in mid-December and we’re calling for writers–find out how you can contribute!

  3. For this weeks Sunday Shame we compare Twilight and Charmed. Drop by and weigh in on which is most shameful.

    According to Google Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are: A look at what is revealed when the two names are googled.

    Honouring the Rage: Looking at we we need to consider the legitimacy of rage when someone reacts with violence after being targeted with an ism.

    But accessibility is too expensive: Looking at why cost cannot be an issue when it comes to making a public area accessible.

  9. I’d been on a break for two Sundays this month so I have got quite a lot of work to do.I announce my triumphant return to the blogosphere here – Back for more which also includes a few links of interest.

    Vulvodynia to be on TV again, interviewees wanted – if you or someone you know has vulvodynia, please let them know that we can expect to see another TV show on the subject sometime in the future. And that this TV show (which isn’t named in my sources,) is looking for people willing to open up about living with the condition.

    Also since I was out for most of the month, I missed Shameless Self Promotion Sunday during a week where I really wanted to promote this – Talking about FSD: How Not To analyzing a lot of problems with typical articles about female sexual dysfunction.

  14. Some queer lady friends and I started a new girl/queer music blog (videos, interviews, reviews, mp3s mixes). We were all tired of reading the same manblogs about the same manbands, searching for the occasional mention of a woman or queer person playing music. On the queer/girl websites, one is hardpressed to find music info on anything other than Lady Gaga these days (ugh).

    P.S. Eliot and Punk Rock Loveletters is the first entry on the blog, and it’s about a girl band from Birmingham, and how I wrote them a ridiculous band loveletter like I did in the early 90s. Write your favorite new band a loveletter and encourage them! Don’t just consume!

  16. This week on Yes Means Yes Blog:


    Couldn’t Give It Away    . I took the title from Tina Fey’s quip on Letterman, and it’s really about how women’s choice not to take the options available for partnered sex is important, and has to be supported against the tide of compulsory sexual activity.

    I also put up a TDoR post about Gwen Araujo, not because she symbolizes every transgendered person who has been killed or is in any way representative of every dynamic that the day means or any other rational reason, but simply because she sticks in my mind.

  21. This week in Evil Slutopia:

    ~According to Cosmo, self-love is not so hot, but apparently slut-shaming is.

    ~We reminisced about a classic Slut-Shaming Pop Culture Moment from Beverly Hills, 90210.

    ~We took a look at one of those ridiculous fear-mongering email forwards about Muslims in the Obama administration.

    ~We rounded up some good gay news, and we’ve officially created an adorable little feminist guest-blogging monster.

    ~Cosmo’s latest sex tip could lead to some wacky vibrator hijinks.

  22. A pro-lifer I was having a discussion with, turned away problematic (to a Catholic) issue that the Netherlands achieves the world’s lowest abortion rate with accusations that the Netherlands kills handicapped babies: this was a pro-lifer whose repeated argument consisted almost entirely of the assertion “ABORTION IS MURDER!”

    So I discussed the issue at more length with better cites: On the Netherlands and ethics, or lack thereof.

  26. Nov 22, 2009
    I have been looking for a pair of women’s stretch jeans everywhere. Nothing fit until I tried the Latin stores in the mission. Everything is stretchy enough to fit any body.
    This is my look. I am playing with feminine silhouettes rather than bright colors. I am emulating a chic but sexy feminine look. It has a strong political message. "I have a sexy feminine body without hormones. Deal with it!"

    This week on Jasperswardrobe:
    Homosocial Bonding & Sorority Girl Femininity In A Karaoke Bar
    I combine Photos and Audio. http://emansipashun.jasperswardrobe.com/2009/11/the-girl-i-never-got-to-be/ I thrive on the homosocialty among women. It is a source of support and comfort in my life. Ironically I had to disidentity as ‘Man’ before I could experience the comfort of feminine social space.

    Feminine Markers wiki page
    I document my experience integrating women’s fashion into my wardrobe at emansipashun.jasperswardrobe.com/2009/11/queerpedia-femin…

    Naked, Fat, Transvestite, Crippled Bodies
    I played with two girlfriends and a camera. We appropriated a Renaissance nude by Titian and mutated it into our time and our Fat, Transvestite and Disabled bodies.
    The photos are interesting, but more interesting is the girly slumberparty that produced it. We were just three girls sitting around in our underwear and playing with our digital images. emansipashun.jasperswardrobe.com/2009/11/contemporary-nudes/

  34. Did I already mention I just had my 1st blogiversary? Well, I did.

    In my “Czechness” folder, I point my readers to information about the Czech Legion… a little known yet awesome chapter of World War I. Yes, I say “awesome” because essentially this is a story about how a group of Czech POWs decided to resist being manipulated for other people’s war games and decided to simply find their way home. Across Siberia.

    Here is a satire piece I wrote, upon hearing that Lincoln University is forcing it’s fat students to go to fitness class if they want to graduate: Obesity, Like Poverty, Is the Result of Personal Failure.

  38. Fundamental Conflict Between Rape As Crime Second Only To Murder And Proceeding When Other Person’s Willingness Not Certain discusses how people cannot truly believe the first when they tolerate guesswork or generic assumptions about consent.

    Homelessness and sexual assault provides information about Australian research including the importance of having trauma informed policies in services for the homeless.

    It takes 2 not to tango (rape) discusses a statement made in opposition to: “It’s not the victim’s duty to stop a violation, it’s a violator’s duty not to violate.”

    Trouble with “inviting trouble” discusses statements made about a case where a college student and basketball player was accused of rape which pass judgment on the alleged victim because she sat on his bed to watch a movie.

  39. Starting with the serious:

    I wrote about concerns with how the Labour government in Britain is proposing to start a “Domestic Violence Register and while the problem it aims to solve is horribly real, I don’t think it will help to solve it.

    I also express concern over the BBC’s advice to teens on porn (and point to Scarleteen as a much better example of how to do it).

    And the very silly:

    After Archbishop Rowan Williams went to confront Pope Benedict XVI over the latter’s attempts to poach worshippers from the Anglican church, I pictured the whole thing as a grudge match boxing fight.

  45. People with transsexualism and people with trangenderism have been fighting a war based on and umbrella that claims we are the same when we often view the world completely differently based on how we experience life.

    Within Transworld there is a hierarchical structure that places post-SRS women who are pretty on a pedestal as a peak level attainment of what starts out with cross dressers at the bottom.

    In the real world we are not part of this hierarchy and indeed may well be disadvantaged people who are poor and struggling with under employment and all the issues cis-sexual women struggle with.

    In short we are no longer part of transworld but rather are part of the cis-sexual world we assimilated into.
    http://womenborntranssexual.com/2009/11/19/class-structure-in-transworld-vs-the-reality-based-world/

  47. Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage
    Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its 700-year metamorphosis, burlesque has utilized various styles of music and performance to poke fun at issues spanning social and political themes, particularly conventional gender roles and sexual scripts. Combining the fundamentals of classical burlesque—parody, double entendre, and risqué sexuality—with elements derived from their own ethnic traditions, New York City’s Brown Girls Burlesque (BGB) is a 21st century incarnation of Chaucer’s magnum opus. Founded two years ago by AuroraBoobRealis, BGB is drawing a new audience to this old art form by blending women of color’s experience and artistic aesthetic with this historically Caucasian craft.

  49. Oh My God: Peter Rodger’s trek across every inhabited continent in search of the answer to one of humankind’s ultimate questions—“What is God?”—is both a revelation on the unifying conceptualization of something higher and a celebration of what elevates us.

    Trouble The Water: The vintage news coverage interwoven throughout the film provides a contextualizing counterpoint to Kim and Scott’s story as they assume places in front of the camera; simultaneously, their story works as a powerful antidote to the coverage of the hurricane as seen from above, lorded over by pundits. The viewer hears the story of the storm, and the story of a city chronically afflicted by poverty cheek by jowl with its chipper tourist industry, from those who have lived it.

    Women of Color and Feminism: The limitations I find in Rojas’ already expansive account is the omission of feminist work by women of colour whose goals are integrated within mainstream feminism’s agenda. This is important, especially in her final chapter on transnational feminism in which she stresses the key to feminism’s dynamism is the need for common links with other feminists to be established on a continual basis—not just with other women of colour, but with white women too.

  55. I’m still blogging on the police officer trial. Something came up when the defense attorney cross-examined one witness, about whether there was a difference between getting arrested by an undercover officer for agreeing to accept money for oral sex or getting coerced to give oral sex to a uniformed police officer and then have him pay money after the fact to help him locate drug dealers.

    It reminded me of the myth about how sex workers can’t be raped.

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