Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday June 27, 2010 Jill Do your thing. Also, frowny-face for the USA loss yesterday. Let’s go Germany!
Do you feel empty inside, out of touch with your feelings? Do you inject your face with a potent neurotoxin? Did you read the list of potential side effects? Botox Paralyzes the Body-Mind Connection
This week at Modus Dopens… I talked about Juneteenth, and the lack of its inclusion in my school syllabus and life as I was growing up. I responded to the Tory budget (UK-centricity alert). I wrote a response to Kaz’s excellent post on the trope of curing disabilities in fictional narratives. –IP
This week at re:Cycling, we take a quick look at the Endocrine Society’s statement on hormone therapy; wonder whatever happened to the old reliable diaphragm for birth control; discuss the recent New York Times op-ed about making the Pill available over-the-counter; and offer up links to our favorite women’s health articles from the previous week.
Top 100 Blogs For Women My Ass Forbes: Looking at the the list of blogs recognized is not inclusive. New Trans Prof at Chicago State University Is Clueless When It Comes to Race: Despite being marginalized due to being a Trans Man the new prof is ignorant when it comes to race, yet he is teaching at a traditionally Black college. “The Hidden Face of Cleopatra” By Kola Boof: Looking at whether or not it is appropriate for Angelina Jolie to play the part of Cleopatra True Blood: Beautifully Broken: A critical break down of last week’s episode. Finally, this week’s Sunday Shame: Can’t Crack an Egg Edition: Looking at cooking disasters and kitchen products advertised on television. Come and share your shame.
This week at Femonomics: We discuss Rand’s “sexy” rape scenes, respond to feminists who criticize Republican women in a sexist manner, and talk about holiday erasure with regards to Juneteenth.
I wrote posts! My favorite part of Please Give, about my reinvigorated interest in actor Thomas Ian Nicholas. “It happens when you’re not looking.”, about what not to say to single people. I want to see his scatting and jazz hands., about my new comedian crush, Rob O’Reilly. “Brought to you by Coca-Cola.”, about FIFA’s restrictions at the World Cup. Enjoy!
Presentation of gender in Toy Story 3: examining how Pixar is still not perfect. Sexual assault in Back to the Future, or “I’m totally about to ruin your nostalgic love for this movie, so get ready”: discussing the use of sexual assault in the movie, and pointing out why the ending grossed me the fuck out.
Three Questions – What do you love, what do you fear, and what do you want? A yellow sky – Chicago’s storms led to some surreal sky photography Thereapissed off – I strongly disagree with the doctor prescribing my antidepressants
A discussion of the need to emphasize the matriarchs as individuals, not just the patriarchs, as well as some thoughts on how we categorize male and female websites, and where the lines should be drawn.
From the G20 protests in Toronto: Pampered Western-world guys trash stuff and erase women’s voices. Again. Background: see My Toronto, unfortunately
ok, those links didn’t come out. Trying again From the G20 protests in Toronto: Pampered Western-world guys trash stuff and erase women’s voices. Again. Background: see My Toronto, unfortunately
Wondering what inspires pro-lifers with such hatred and such contempt for human life and wellbeing, I wrote an answer: Why is abortion like setting fire to kittens? Also, not so much a self-promotion as an anti-promotional google-effect: you can find pro-lifer Gerard Nadal’s blog most easily by googling disrobing gerard nadal. Should anyone want to do that…
I forgot to add Re-defining Shakti Or Otherwise Known As Patriarchal Manipulation: Looking at sexism in Hindu texts. This is a fascinating guest post.
What exactly is a Homosexual Agenda? I shared a customer service experience of mine dealing with someone who is obviously homophobic and not willing to do business with my company because of our alleged agenda. I would really like some feedback on what is or if you consider there to actually be such an agenda. http://vegetarilin.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/whats-so-funny-about-peace-love-understanding/ Also, for any of you who have lost a beloved pet as I did this week, I’ve included a tribute to my friend and companion Shana: http://vegetarilin.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/memories-of-shana/ On a lighter note, here’s a simple tasty recipe for baked quesadilla’s http://vegetarilin.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/baked-quesadilla/
I have a degree! And wrote a self-affirmatory post about it. And I talked about why I want a tattoo of the Holy Grail.
7-months-pregnant Melanie Williams subject to police violence for seeking medical attention: A FLA woman was shoved onto her stomach during arrest for evading a routine traffic ticket. New research confirms SAT racism: Looking at the huge gap between black and white student’s scores.
At SWOP Colorado, I wrote some personal posts and there were general posts by the group. My personal posts: Erasure of sex workers and sex workers rights activists by The Feminist Majority Foundation. Help vs. Liberation inspired by a quote used here on Feministe. SWOP Colorado: MADRE Speaks on Sex Work at the US Social Forum. The Reason I Left School a documentary about the children of sex workers and their mothers by SANGRAM, a sex workers rights and HIV prevention organization in India.
Blog Note – what I’ve been up to lately and why I didn’t have any interesting new content up this week. Followed by Interesting posts, weekend of … Missed weekends. – a big blog link roundup of some feminist blogosphere news that happened during my absence.
A historian excludes women and African-Americans from his research because he believes their opinions are not relevant: http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/06/bernard-von-bothmers-framing-sixties.html http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com/2010/06/dumbed-down-bernard-von-bothmers.html
This week at Yes Means Yes Blog: ”Ugly”: The Last Refuge Of The Lazy, about the laziness and intellectual bankruptcy of the common insult that any woman who speaks out against sexism is ugly. My jumping off point is the comment thread that followed Chloe Angyal’s GritTV appearance, I quote a notable feminist domme, bury a Robert Frost reference and draw from the ancient Stoics. Insults Independent Of The Truth, a follow-up to Ugly. Insults of that kind are framed as assertions of a particular fact (e.g. “she is ugly”,) but they’re used even when that’s obviously untrue. That’s because they’re not that kind of empirical claim. Instead, they are reassertions of a social structure, and their target is only one audience; the other audience is every other woman, who the speaker attempts to chill by demonstrating the cost of speaking out. New York’s New Bullying Law. Laws alone don’t change social structure, but this law, which covers not only sexual orientation but also gender expression, could help. Virgins And Other Mythical Creatures. Virgins don’t exist. Virginity doesn’t exist. Virginity can’t be defined without defining sex, which can’t be done in any useful and fair way. So, the notion of virginity belongs in the scrapheap of bad ideas. What we have is a learning curve; reducing that process to a single point is a mistake.
I wrote two posts on the G8/G20 summits. The first was about a talk that I did regarding women’s issues at the summit, with a focus on abortion that depicts the consequences of gay marriage. The second post was about a police enforcement law that was passed secretly and contradicts the Canadian Constitution. I also posted a video about gender inequalities and the second shift entitled “Girls suck at video games”. Commentary on a new Craigslist Ad for Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign in which they require their models to be natural, yet flawless. Lastly, I posted another quick infographic about privilege.
Doll parts: Barbie, beauty and resistance http://feministfatale.com/2010/06/doll-parts-barbie-beauty-and-resistance/ Let’s talk about sex (and support indie media) http://feministfatale.com/2010/06/lets-talk-about-sex-and-support-indie-media/ Toys Receiving Makeovers: New, Improved, Sexy? http://feministfatale.com/2010/06/toys-receiving-makeovers-new-improved-sexy/ Global Girls Hit the Airwaves on KPFK Radio! http://feministfatale.com/2010/06/global-girls-hit-the-airwaves-on-kpfk-radio/
I was lucky to be at a discussion with David Miliband, potential leader of the British Labour party, and I asked him about the lack of women in parliament. Impressed with his answer! http://delilah-mj.blogspot.com/2010/06/david-miliband-backs-all-women.html This week, I also became obsessed with hats and wrote about the female bishop who wasn’t allowed to wear her hat (because it was a symbol of status), while women at the Ascot Ladies Day were praised for theirs (symbols of beauty). http://delilah-mj.blogspot.com/2010/06/hats-off-to-men-unless-were-looking.html
Yay Germany! I’m having a fine art giveaway over at my blog if you might be interested in an 8 x 8 giclee original (by me): http://walterhelenaphotography.blogspot.com/2010/06/whp-giveaway-three-of-twelve-flowers.html xo, WHP
At Macha Mexico: A Lesbian Guide to Mexico City this week, we’ve been covering the death of Mexican cultural critic, public intellectual, and GLBT advocate Carlos Monsiváis. Anahí’s describes Monsiváis’ funeral, where a rainbow flag was placed on his coffin along with the Mexican flag and his university’s flag, and discusses the implications of this posthumous outing. Meanwhile, guest poster Susanísima describes her brief friendship with Monsiváis and considers different levels of meaning about his decision never to publicly come out.
This week at Unnatural Forces, it was “fuck the abusive person who has started harassing me about my blog after I wrote about his abusive behavior” week! So I talked about aiming not for love but for health in my relationships, and how there is no ethical duty to protect your abuser. Ever.
This week at SexGenderBody: Beyond Meds explores her experience of having been both patient/ex-user of psychiatric services vs. professional in online circles, in The mental health professional and the mental patient (wrapped into one). Christina Engela continues her thorough coverage of the spread of anti-gay hate, throughout Africa in Out of Focus. James Turnbull looks at gendered parent messaging in media and advertising in Korean Sociological Image #41: Mothers of Warriors. LaPrincipessa illustrates the need to directly address the funding gap for women’s sports in Why Title IX Matters. Alex Karydi debuts at SGB this week with a warm and powerful testimony in Am I ready to be a Lesbian Parent? FilthyGrandeur talks about gender roles on film in Presentation of gender in Toy Story 3.
This week at f/law: marketing to women in private practice http://canadianwomenandthelaw.blogspot.com/2010/06/marketing-clients-in-private-practice.html
This week, I discussed how and why a Florida teacher was fired for having premarital sex: http://michelleg3399.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/fired-for-having-sex-outside-of-marriage/ I also responded to Blanchard’s op-ed piece on making the Pill available over-the-counter: http://michelleg3399.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/over-the-counter-birth-control/
What’s new on Women’s Glib… The NYTimes referred to Reproductive Health Act advocates as “squabbling activists.” I got mad. Why I love Regina Spektor. On Ophelia as a feminist symbol.
This week on Eugenia de Altura: 1. A guest post at Womanist Musings on the terrible decision of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to allow more women to die due to unsafe abortion. 2. At the home site, a piece on indigenous beauty contests, and your chances of being raped and killed in La Paz, Bolivia.
I wrote about the anniversary of the crash on the red line of DC’s metro, and the train operator who died in the accident.
This week in Evil Slutopia: ~We did a super all slut-shaming edition of Cosmo Quickies. ~We admit it. We’re going to miss Amanda Bynes if she’s really retiring from acting. ~We reviewed the premiere of The Gates. It’s no True Blood. The Gates: Another Vampire Show That Kinda Sucks? ~Show your pride this week in NYC! ~We took a look at a Slutty Celebrity Quote from Christina Aguilera. ~Ask ABC to correct the misinformation spread by D.L. Hughley and Sherri Shepherd on The View about HIV/AIDS. ~Glenn Beck hates the World Cup. The world is too busy enjoying the World Cup to care. ~Have we ever mentioned that we love Johnny Weir? So of course we’re psyched for Johnnyfest. ~We’re nominated for the BlogLuxe Awards! Vote for us and we’ll love you forever. ~We don’t understand why the One Million Moms still hate the Secret Life of the American Teenager. You’d think they would love it.
I thought I posted this, but it didn’t show up, so apologies if this is a double post. I wrote about the bigotry that has prevented the movie from being released in the US.
Why is it so difficult to avoid letting personal feelings affect one’s classroom performance? http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/mathochism-lowered-expectations/
I wrote a highly personal post, largely about what it means to love one’s neighbor and look for the best in people, even when they hurt us. Now I Know in Part; Then I Shall Know Fully
New at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman… Four articles I’d like to read about Julia Gillard, K-Rudd and the ‘spill’: the completely confusing way in which Australia got its new, famously female, prime minister. A love letter to Tavi Gevinson: and why she’s an awesome role model for teenage girls.
This week I tried fighting anti-Lady Gaga misogyny with a Gaga / Le Tigre mashup and writing (too much?) about Michael Jackson, my childhood, and anxiety.
Allure magazine published a sexist poem objectifying Fox News’ female anchors, and I was not amused. Also, I wrote about Australia’s new body image standards for the fashion industry.
I ranted about the Dix Poppas case, a doctor who mutilates intersex children and then brings them back to his office annually for vibrator tests on their genitals. He’s at Cornell. The OTHER thing I noticed in Michael Hasting’s Rolling Stone article: This Rule About Not Killing People Is SO ANNOYING
On Nuthuggers and embarrassingly awesome dads. http://thefatalfoxtrot.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/nuthuggers-a-belated-fathers-day-tribute/
This week at Red Vinyl Shoes: Tuesday Two-Fer: In Toothsome Condoms and Oily Prayers We Trust – an anti-rape condom that may have some unwanted side effects, and Sarah Palin’s decision to implore her god to take care of the Gulf oil spill. Being Black in Washington State – a black girl gets punched after being stopped for jaywalking and a school board member thinks black people have smaller brains than white people and Asians. Read Before You Write: The Rush to Doubt Al Gore’s Accuser – on feminists making fun of alleged sexual assault victims.
This week at Red Vinyl Shoes: Being Black in Washington State – a black girl gets punched in the face by a cop and a school board member thinks black people have small brains. Tuesday Two-Fer: In Toothsome Condoms and Oily Prayers We Trust – Anti-rape condoms that may have unintended consequences and Sarah Palin’s decision that the Gulf disaster requires divine intervention. Read Before You Write: The Rush to Doubt Al Gore’s Accuser – Feminists making fun of alleged sexual assault victims and the left’s blinding idol worshipping.
We have had a change of PM, but not of government, in our humble nation. I attempt to tease out events using (1) Shakespeare and (2) LOLcats, via Rebekka.
Gwog, Girl Wonder’s groupblog about women creating, reading, and starring in comics, is back! I open festivities with a post about the gender disparities in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
It’s already Monday so maybe this post belongs in the next edition, but I just wrote an open letter to my body. Last week, the one post I am actually proud of that I wrote this week is on empowering people with disabilities while excluding them.
American Desi(girls): An Interview with Filmmaker Ishita Srivastava Born and raised in Delhi, India, queer filmmaker Ishita Srivastava is slowly making her name known in the feminist blogosphere through the circulation of her short documentary on queer South Asian women, Desigirls. Made while a Cinema Studies student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the film highlights the varying experiences of women of South Asian descent who are trying to reconcile their complex and, at times, conflicting sexual and cultural identities. Desigirls presents their illuminating stories of desire, fear, acceptance, and resilience.
If You Like It Then You Should Be Able to Put A Ring On It Adorable, DIY-style animation and quirky music start off this excellent and important film about marriage equality in Ireland. Cara Holmes and Ciara Kennedy cut and paste stories, images, protests, and facts into a clever, witty, and purposeful narrative. In Fish Out of Water, Ky Dickens recalls her effort to reconcile her devout, Christian faith with her homosexuality. I Am Love In stories such as these, and throughout film history, the unfaithful woman is typically punished for her infidelity. When an unexpected tragedy befalls the Recchis at the height of Emma’s affair, it seems that this will be her fate as well. Interestingly though, she takes this devastation as an almost needed inspiration to follow her heart and abandon her marriage. Tea on the Axis of Evil After two years of providing security intelligence about the activities of Al Qaeda to the United States government in the wake of 9/11, the Bush Administration publicly dubbed Syria a threat to democracy by including it in the so-called Axis of Evil. Knowing very little about the secular republic, filmmaker Jean Marie Offenbacher decided to spend a year in Damascus in order to offer a look at everyday citizens of Syria and combat stereotypical depictions put forth in the mainstream media.
A day late, but I spent most of yesterday afternoon rewriting my post about male and female music fans.
This week on Gender Across Borders: Australia’s new (feminist?) prime minister A victory for trans people’s rights in Ireland HPV vaccines for boys and a new dynamic of sexual equity GAB’s Kyle Bachan reports from the G8 summit in Toronto
Well, its shameless self promotion Sunday and here I am, shamelessly self promoting again. Aside from being a difficult person on the internet and a helpful person in the therapist’s office, I also front a hard rock band in here Chicago. Tomorrow (or, according to the clock, today) we’re teaming up with/competing against seven other local bands t the Elbo Room (2871 N. Lincoln Avenue) for I AM fest. Doors open at 8 PM (we’re scheduled to take the stage around 10:30) and there’ll be something like eight local bands over three hours for $8 at the door. More info can be found at our website Sutured Psyche which has links to Facebook and Myspace for music, videos, and all sorts of other good stuff. I’ll give a free demo to anyone who shows up and tells me they’re from Feministe because I know people like free stuff. If you can’t make it, don’t do crowds, aren’t in Chicago, or don’t have the $8 (damnable economy, I promise free shows come August) the show will be streamed live at the I AM Fest Battle of the Bands website. Even if you don’t want to sit through the show, just clicking through on our name (Sutured Psyche) between 8:00pm and 12:00am central time would be a big help because some of the points awarded are based on that.
This piece on The Curvature is also a very good article on the trafficking bill in NY and on the Feminist Majority Foundation erasure of the role of sex worker rights advocates and organizers in writing the bill and getting it passed.
Guys, this is not a feminist issue. It’s an issue nonetheless, so I am publishing the link here, with the hope that more people will read it, think about it and comment it. http://torrentfreak.com/damaging-to-culture-online-library-smashed-by-police-100630/ In short, an online library was raided in my country from the police (fighting with organized crime). Six people were arrested and the server was taken. According to the law, it’s not sure that there’s been a crime.