Let’s read books – Sex is not a Natural Act and Other Essays – long post in which I talk about the first section of a book about sexuality/sexology. And then there is a Weekly blog link roundup.
AlterNet has a great post on the off-brands you find in the dollar stores, where the last change you scrape from under the couch cushions buys supper. Who knew that Royal Dansk butter cookies were made in Indonesia? http://kmareka.com/2010/01/30/who-knows-where-its-been-me-vida-local-ii/
This weeks Sunday Shame we have an epic battle 70’s vs 80’s music weigh in and tell us which decade needs to be wiped away by the sand of time. A Pelvic Exam Without Permission is Rape: It seems that Canadian medical students are performing pelvic exams on unconscious patients without getting consent from the patient. Why are there no fat vampires: Looking at idealized bodies within the occult genre. Blogger Paul Shirley To Haitians: Please Use A Condom Once In A While: Yes, the most clueless, racist diatribe of the year so far. The People of Walmart an Exercise in Shame and Discipline: Looking at a site dedicated to shaming people for not conforming and examining our surveillance culture. Buying A Trophy Orphan Is Just Part Of The Game: Looking at a video game that encourages kids to buy orphans based on real celebrity kids. Yep dress them up and then feed them things like rats cause that is what kids of colour like.
Over at Femonomics, Coca Colo explains dry sex and its role in the spread of HIV in Africa – http://femonomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-dry-sex-and-why-do-you-need-to.html Whole Foods BMI employee discount program makes us Femangry – http://femonomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/whole-foods-announces-bmi-based.html More femanger over Judge Hafele of Miami’s ruling that victims private healthcare records were admissible in a sexual assault civil suit – http://femonomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/sex-offenders-can-now-access-victims.html We discuss why women (may) make better investigative journalists – http://femonomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-2008-michela-wrong-on-why-women.html
This week, I reflect on what could possibly be bad about gender parity in Bolivian president Evo Morales’ new cabinet.
What’s new on Women’s Glib… A school bans The Diary of Anne Frank…WTF. And yesterday was our first blog birthday!
This week, I wrote about an anti-feminist editorial in a Canadian national newspaper http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-post-and-feminism.html I also commented on an employment ad being rejected for discriminating against non-reliable workers, and I would especially like to hear other people’s opinions on this http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-asking-for-reliable-workers.html And lastly, I wrote about Canadian hospitals giving women pelvic exams without their consent http://ms-marx.blogspot.com/2010/01/pelvic-exams-without-consent.html
How to change your name in five steps. (This is about social name-changing — it is not legal advice.)
Scott Roeder was convicted of murder in the assassination of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder’s defense lawyer compared the defendant to Martin Luther King. Are our memories so short? The spiritual father of the anti-abortion movement is not Civil Rights, it is the Ku Klux Klan. http://kmareka.com/2010/01/31/sons-of-terror/
A Way to Dampen Roeder’s Martyrdom- http://johnnykaje.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/a-way-to-dampen-roeders-martyrdom-pro-choice-holiday/ In which I propose a pro-choice holiday, Tiller Day, where we donate to Planned Parenthood and fight for repro justice in Roeder’s name.
My response to Scott Roeder’s trial: Pro-life terrorist found guilty of first-degree murder (and the discussion following with a clinic escort who identifies himself as pro-life).
This week at Radical Bookworm, I posted the first of two entries on the gender gap in higher education, and how it relates to patriarchy and male entitlement: Men Still Studying Less, Earning More than Women. I also briefly reflected on Scott Roeder’s trial and the erasure of women from the abortion debate.
My co-blogger Rachel has posted a book review of The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Sacrificial Womanhood Sacrificing your interests, making your body serve everybody else’s purposes except your own, suffering, accepting pain as your natural state of being – these are some of the most popular ways of signalling your belonging to female identity. http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/01/sacrificial-womanhood.html
On the recent sorority hazing at Rutgers and mean girls in general… “Bleeding to get in” http://thefemspot.com/2010/01/30/bleeding-to-get-in/
I’ve been blogging on the fallout of the trial of the former police officer who was convicted of one count of sexual assault under the color of authority. His sentencing was postponed but the judge had some interesting comments about the testimony of several officers who in his view ruined their careers.
Finally letting you in: On Dollhouse’s finale. Last Train to Baghdad Part I: Classic Melrose. Just Say ME! Secret Life of the American Teenager’s female masturbation episode. Carmela Gets Her Groove Back: Carmela Soprano takes charge of her life and I love it.
We’ve had lots going on this week at re:Cycling. We said good-bye to Sarah Haskins; reported on new research about the dangers of douching; reported new research about using HPV tests instead of Pap smears to screen for cervical cancer; shared OBOS’ invitation to participate in the next edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves; and discussed the banning of the word catamenia (an older, medical term for menstruation) in a guest post by David Linton. We also commented on a recommendation of menstrual suppression with OC for singers, and discussed menstrual humor in two posts: one about Dave Foley’s “Guy with a Good Attitude Toward Menstruation” and one about the ubiquitous iPad humor (comments in both threads are also worthwhile).
In which I consider giving my hubby the boot. The logical conclusion of any anti-abortion argument. My thoughts on the marital politics of sterilization.
This week I wrote a response to a horrifyingly racist opinion article in the “alt” newspaper at Texas A&M University–the article argues that racism is not that big of a deal and does not systemically oppress minorities in a way the government can or should address. It was a piece of work, and frankly emblematic of the attitudes towards race that many A&M undergraduates have. http://austintotamu.blogspot.com/2010/01/ruins-yet-another-one-of-my-days.html
I forgot Chris Matthews was a douche Awesome video of the first woman to win a professional bowling tournament
I wrote posts! Identifying with and inspired by Conan O’Brien, about experiencing failure. “It’s AT&T, not AT & Steve.”, about The Daily Show and John Oliver. Not Ugly Betty! Nooo!, about the cancellation of one of my favorite TV shows. Enjoy!
Copperfield’s “Worst Illusion Ever”, where he gets rape charges dismissed thanks to mystical allegations of prostitution against his accuser.
Not the most prolific week for me, since exams took up most of it. I added my own 2 cents to the forthcoming Tim Tebow Superbowl ad. Specifically, I have a problem with the target audience and FoF’s argumentative inconsistency.
hmmm. Well, two weeks’ worth of doing the html right was apparently too much to ask for. On Tim Tebow on CBS
Composed of clockwork – I’m feeling a bit trapped by being trans and transitioning, and am having a hard time dealing with it all “The Phantom Genitalia” would be a great band name – A study shows trans men and women have different experiences with phantom limbs than cis men and women Any experience with Birthright? – A friend is trying to talk me into going on Birthright Israel, but ‘traveling while trans’ makes me nervous My mom is awesome – All the anger I’d been feeling toward my mom, but not acknowledging? Turns out she had been thinking about the it, too.
Feels a bit weird participating in one of these again, but I thought some of you might want to submit your posts (or other people’s) to the Carnival of Feminists. Submissions close on the 1st so get going! Here’s the call for submissions. Don’t be shy!
The first in a series on the challenges of eating responsibly. Is organic always the best solution? http://sirensmag.com/2010/01/feminoshing-my-organic-conundrum/
Hey all–It’s been a while since I posted anything in the Self-Promotion Sunday comments section, but I just wanted to post a link to an essay I wrote for Wunderkammer Magazine titled “The Other Detroit”: http://wunderkammermag.com/politics-and-society/essay-detroit In large part it’s a response to the widespread media attention that’s been given to the city, and a reflection on what’s been left out of the conversation.
Hey all, here’s what’s been goin’ on at Gender Across Borders this past week: Transgender Children — includes a heartwarming story of two transgender girls who become friends What does a (disabled) feminist [poet] look like? Jessica Simpson’s Shoes ≠ Relief for Haiti Can Feminists Find a Place in the Catholic Church? Oh, and we’re looking for a Junior Editor! Position description and application info is here.
I finally got around to starting a blog. My first post is an anecdote about fat acceptance and the way very young children perceive the bodies of others. It’s here: Children and Body Image I don’t know many people round the blogosphere, so everyone’s invited to read and comment!
This week at Yes Means Yes Blog: I Fear This, in which I react to Sady Doyle’s reaction to Clay Shirkey. As the parent of a young daughter, I dread the culture of aggression among middle school girls and the possibility that no matter how much strength and self-esteem I equip her with, she’ll face a culture determined to destroy her ability to feel good about her own abilities.
Realized I’d never seen a blog by a male dominant, so asked for some. clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/where-are-all-the-male-dominant-bloggers/ Summed up my first four pieces on CarnalNation: the first about a lesbian activist’s murder, and the next three about sexuality and HIV prevention. clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/sex-positive-in-southern-africa/
On from the rib? Shira blogs about crossing racial lines in Judaism: http://fromtherib.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/deflating-the-connection-between-judaism-and-whiteness-looking-at-transracial-adoption/ I blogged about women, wearing Kippot: http://fromtherib.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/deflating-the-connection-between-judaism-and-whiteness-looking-at-transracial-adoption/
Posting spree week…let’s see… I wrote about de-centering non-disability. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. (There may or may not be further installments in this series, so watch this space.) I also wrote about ,a href=”http://modusdopens.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/mmr-panic/”>anti-autism sentiment in anti-vaccination panic. –IP
This week at Happy Bodies: Norma posted about her obsession with awful fad diets and blatantly stupid workouts, I wrote about others writing about teaching about the birds and the bees, and we advertised for our weekly discussion group on campus, as always, using images from magazines.
This week in Evil Slutopia: ~Does Joaquin Phoenix qualify as a famous Puerto Rican? ~We participated in NARAL Pro-Choice New York’s Reproductive Health Act (Phone) Call to Action. ~We read Cosmo so you don’t have to: Cosmo Quickies February 2010 ~Speaking of Cosmo, we’ve been following their ongoing coverage of Scott Brown’s election. It’s quite insightful.
Two pieces of original writing, and two commentaries on news items: Lunching with students and the impact of white privilege:http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/a-teacher-shouldnt-go-broke/ Chris Matthews stumbling over race: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/i-forgot-he-was-black/ Do White women feel threatened by the presence of Black women? http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/danger-black-woman-present/ Musings re: whether more goodies in a town are in fact better: http://missincognegro.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/is-closer-always-better/
This week at f/law our contributor discusses the use of gender based statistics in calculating damages in personal injury cases. http://canadianwomenandthelaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/use-of-gender-based-statistics-in.html
http://community.livejournal.com/fandomnews/ is a fandom oriented newsletter that links to posts about race, sexism, sexuality issues in fandom.
Sex advice for my future children, inspired by recent remarks on the sanctity of virginity by Australia’s opposition leader.
I wrote a piece on UK queer musician Ste McCabe, who, to show solidarity with trans people, dropped out of playing an event which featured transphobe Julie Bindel. At Questioning Transphobia, I finished out my guest-blogging for January with a note on Lu’s Pharmacy for Women, and their recent dropping of their womyn-born-womyn policy.
I wrote “Photo Relief,” in part, as a response to the exploitative coverage of post-disaster Haiti, and argue for a more compassionate, effective form of documentary photography: http://femmalia.com/2010/01/26/idealize-this-photo-relief/
I ask (concerning both religious liberals in Israel and progressives here) “how do you ‘win’ the game when your side cares about actually accomplishing goals while the other side thinks the government you’re competing to control fundamentally isn’t quite legitimate anyway?”
I’m starting a new “Beauty, Overheard” segment on Beauty Schooled — email me whenever you hear something truly astounding (positive or negative) on the subjects of beauty standards, beauty routines, body image and the like, and I’ll post ’em. (Names changed, of course.) http://beautyschooledproject.com/2010/01/25/beauty-overheard-tabitha-looks-terrible/ In other news, I had an awkward run-in with a paraffin dip: http://beautyschooledproject.com/2010/01/27/oils-from-the-earth-on-my-jeans/ Otherwise, apologies for the dearth of posts last week, and advance for this week coming up — we’re moving house and facing down all sorts of chaos. But Beauty Schooled will be back to regularly scheduled programming very soon!
Politics, politics, and a lovely, short open letter to Mr. President himself on language and optics and the rule of law: http://duckbilledplacelot.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-hieroglyphs.html
Long time no see! I wrote a post wondering how many orphans are in Tim Tebow’s parents’ orphanage in the Philippines due to the lack of safe, legal abortion and adequate contraception. If Focus on the Family was truly pro-live, they would have other things to put in their ads.
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/contrary-to-popular-belief-white-people-dont-always-know-best/ post abut those caught trying to smuggle children out of Haiti to be adopted within the US
I run a sex blog of sorts, and this week I wrote about cyber harassment: I blog about sex. That is not an invitation. I’d love it if some Feministe readers came over and added their two cents!
Kissiegrrrl discusses a recent Lifetime movie that had a surprisingly progressive bent. I talked about an experience I had at work the other day with a very hostile stranger who wanted to use my lighter, and how that related to women being treated more negatively for assertions than men are. N discusses technology and how it relates to progressive politics.
Tried to unpack the village concept & non-compliant women. http://troubledcorpuscles.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-loving-kids-who-are-not-your-own.html
Quasi-obligatory iPad post about women as a demographic for mass-market technology Review of The Purity Myth, with some size acceptance mixed in
Hola gente. At The Czech: Christians Claim Jesus Told Them to Steal Children I let out my rage towards the idea that stealing Haitian children is a way to “help Haiti” post disaster. Why does this idea even exist? Yet it’s weirdly, disturbingly common. Today in Idiotic White Supremacist News Get the latest on what ridiculously stupid white supremacists are up to! I left off the whack-job who’s starting the all-white basketball franchise because, well, everyone else covered that.