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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

You know the drill: Post something you’ve written this week, along with a description. Make it specific; don’t just link to your whole blog.

In other news, congrats to Ghana for the win this morning — that game was the only thing that could have gotten me out of bed at 10am after being out until the bars closed last night. I’m very sad it came at the expense of my team (Serbia!), but it was a history-making win. First African team to win a World Cup game on African soil? Pretty awesome. If my team is going to lose, I’ll take that context for it. Good job, guys.

Now, Germany-Australia. Who are you cheering on? (I will alienate half of the Feministe blogging team when I admit: GERMANY!!).

72 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  6. I’m going to cheat a bit; if I had my own blog, I would have linked to this amazing interview with The Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256760383984280.html?mod=rss_careers

    The whole thing is blame-worthy, but this question & answer in particular has amazingly unfortunate implications:

    Q: How do you stay in business, considering love is so unpredictable and can go sour?

    A: I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can’t find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

    I suspect I’m happier not knowing what her clients want that needs to be subcontracted out to foreign countries. Seriously, the mind boggles.

  8. This week at re:Cycling, we wrote about how Tampax’s “Outsmart Mother Nature” campaign is getting tired; teens using the rhythm method for birth control; soliciting support for Trixie Films’ current project about reframing virginity; a strange sign found in a bathroom; weekly recommendations; and the role of meat in early menarche.

  11. ‘I really want some of what Cathy Young is smoking’: critique of Cathy Young’s odd misconceptions of feminism, of Sarah Palin’s politics, and of politics in general.

    ‘freedom of association’: open letter poking fun at Rand Paul’s politics, with a tongue-in-cheek appeal for him to support Red & Black Cafe’s recent decision not to serve a police officer.

    ‘the authoritarian’s trump card’: picking apart the ‘Look at Somalia!’ argument people often make when pooh-poohing anarchism.

    ‘Where is her mother?!”: my irritated reaction to common criticisms of the ‘Baby Gaga’ video.

  16. This week at femonomics:

    Mad Dr discusses “Toxic America,” and the responsibility of companies and the government to protect citizens from hazardous emissions before the fact.

    Mongoose6 gives a feminist review of a horror film where Dr Frankenstein and the monster are both female–Splice.

    I talk about the line between restrictive eating and disordered eating. When does improving our health through dietary changes come into conflict with taking care of ourselves as whole people?

    Mongoose6 celebrates the gains women made in the primaries this year, while I rain on the parade by pointing out the incredibly sexist coverage of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, including the NYT devoting a 1,000 word article to Fiorina’s off-hand comment about her opponent’s hair, and calling Whitman her “BFF”.

    Lastly, in response to the continual need of commenters to defend the “artistic” use of blackface, I write a point-by-point guide to determining if blackface is offensive, and challenge them to compare the instance they’re defending against my proposed criteria.

  19. Don’t take it personal, but your kind is not welcome. It is better to turn away one customer than risk losing ten. The luxury of being in the majority is never dealing with these situations, it’s not their problem. What happens when you’re out with friends and you don’t want to be a bother? Just go home?

    http://kmareka.com/2010/06/08/nanny-state/

    It’s our own Yankee Mardi Gras, a celebration of nature in the middle of the city. Behind the strip mall is a hidden sanctuary, a poisoned pond.

    http://kmareka.com/2010/06/12/third-annual-urban-pond-procession/

  21. Sunday Shame: It’s Not Waste if the Bottle is Empty Edition: If you are the type to put the milk back into the fridge with only a teaspoon of milk this post is for you.

    Dear White Feminists Stop Erasing my Womanism: Looking at the differences between feminism and womanism and why it is important to acknowledge womanism as a valid part of women’s organizing.

    My Disabled Body: Looking at why pieces about disability receive less commentary.

    Too Disabled To See Your Children: A woman loses visitation rights when her husband decides that her disability is too damaging for her children.

    Claudia Schiffer Makes Blackface Fashionable: Looking at how Blackface is once again being excused because the intent was not to be offensive.

    Kola Boof talks about how the term golddigger is attached to Black women by Black men in an expression of internalized racism and sexism, while not perceiving White women as non-threatening. She then goes on to examine the language women use to speak to each other.

    Helen Thomas Reties: Does a fight against injustice really mean the end of Israel?

  25. I wrote about the senior pastor of Colonial Hills Baptist Church, Indianapolis: Pastor Chuck Phelps has sincere love for rapists (One of the rape victims Chuck Phelps used to have blamed and sent away, finally had the courage to come forward and tell her story…)

    I wrote We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. about the many victims of the conflict in Israel, and how the many unarmed Palestinians who are killed by Israeli security forces are simply ignored by the Western media.

    I also wrote Privacy Matters, about Yahoo’s making their new social network opt-out rather than opt-in (so that anyone who has a yahoo mail account may find that things they think they’ve posted privately are in fact being broadcast across the Internet).

  31. A.I.R. Gallery would like to share our participation on kickstarter.com

    The majority of women artists in the late 1960’s had few places to exhibit their art. In response to this problem, a group of women artists founded A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) in 1972. It was the first cooperative for women artists in the United States. The goal of the gallery has been to provide a professional and permanent exhibition space for women artists to show work of quality and diversity.

    We are promoting our Open A.I.R. program which gives all women artists and art professionals the chance to have their curatorial vision realized at A.I.R.
    Please visit our kickstarter.com site at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airgallery/open-air
    and consider donating to this wonderful cause.

  43. Now, Germany-Australia. Who are you cheering on? (I will alienate half of the Feministe blogging team when I admit: GERMANY!!).

    Oh, Jill. Ohhhhhhhhhh, Jill.

    1. I’m sorry Chally I’M SORRY!! I want to love Australia, I do… but I lived in Germany so I’m biased. And they’re so cute 🙂

    1. Oh god, someone wants me to talk about soccer? WOOOOOOOO AUSTRALIA!!!! I lived there, so I’m biased! Also, Australia is better, so IN YOUR FACE!

      Does that help?

  47. This week, I wrote about another round of frustration in challenging patriarchy – this time homophobic language. (The mods and acceptable use terms of that online space may technically have been on my side, but it didn’t help much!)

    I also celebrated Diane Abbott’s nomination for Labour Party Leader – she may be the rank outsider in most people’s reckoning, but I like having hope in the meantime. I’m almost tempted to join the party just so I can vote for her!

  49. This week at SexGenderBody:

    Beyond Meds takes issue with left’s neglect of people who have been psychiatrized in Attention liberals and feminists.

    Two South African bloggers address attempts to institute censorship, install theocracy and repeal human rights. ptaguy addresses using Porn as justification in Fundamentalist Christians & Your Porn and Christina Engela goes after theocratic intolerance in Puppet Electorate.

    James Turnbull returns, posting The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Part 2.

    LaPrincipessa posts a great send-up on political correctness in Feminist Rules – A Recap.

    jolie du pre addresses the overlap in misogyny, racism and religious intolerance in Teacher Let Go For Having Sexual Intercourse Out Of Wedlock; What’s the Real Reason?.

    the gay love coach talks about moral and choices in dating in Getting Down & Dirty With Your Dating Values.

  50. Arizona Mayor Doesn’t Want “Lacy-Drawered, Limp-Wristed” Gays in Military
    http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/06/arizona-mayor-doesnt-want-lacy-drawered.html

    Ban Left-Handed Marriage
    http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/12/ban-left-handed-marriage.html

    St. Pete’s Florida Gay Pride Ads Rejected by Major Billboard Company
    http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/06/st-pete-florida-gay-pride-ads-rejected.html

    Will Part of the Trans Community Go Extinct?
    http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/06/open-forum-will-part-of-trans-community.html

  52. Hello y’all, I wrote a sort-of analysis of gender in the new Alice in Wonderland just because I thought it was intriguing. I’d love it if people would give me their takes on the subject. The post is here:

    http://sunnypages.livejournal.com/50489.html

    I also link to Gender Without Borders’ post on the subject within. 🙂

  54. Hello! My name is Sally Jordan, I’m 17, and I started a blog about feminism/other social issues and my take on them as a young feminist. I’d REALLY like some feedback from experienced bloggers!

    This week I wrote about Buffy, ‘no homo’, and the Lady Gaga penis rumors!

    http://sallytheblog.blogspot.com/

    Please let me know what you think!

  59. The makers of The Killer Inside Me know their anti-hero is a personality void, so they accentuate violence, like real misogynists. This can’t hide the littleness of the man, or how empty the movie is.

    In Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan present twenty-nine essays by young feminists from all walks of life with the intention “to collage together a picture of contemporary young feminists…to discover what it is that still brings a diversity of young people to try on the feminist label despite the obvious risks.” The collection they’ve compiled is inspiring, insightful, and funny in all the right places, and I had to resist the urge to shout, “Preach on!” as I read it.

    I went to the launch event for Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune’s book Reclaiming the F Word at The University Women’s Club…I discovered it is a private members club in Mayfair, and perhaps an unusual place to host a gathering of rowdy young feminists! Slightly pleased I’d worn a nice frock for the occasion, I set off from work to catch the tube to Green Park and finally meet a woman I’ve admired for a long time.

  60. Oh Cara, barracking for the Australian football team only leads to heartache. The only sports we’re good at are cricket, rugby, swimming and of course women’s aerial skiing.

  68. This isn’t shameless self-promotion, but I guess maybe the shameless promotion of someone who isn’t good at promotion: a blogger, Cluegirl, who I read regularly, mostly posts personal stories etc. but often has some great observations on gender and particularly sexual practice. This week she wrote a great little article called “Vanilla Privilege” about the tendency of others to make some weird distinctions between their sex and her sex. This was an eye-opener for me, who had long looked at BDSM as just a space for rape fantasies and fake empowerment.

    http://cluegirl.livejournal.com/1224038.html

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