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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Chally

It’s that time of the week again. (Actually, it’s 6am Monday where I am, so this is a little odd.) Leave links to blog posts you’ve written over the last week. Be shameless!

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65 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  1. The Vampire Diaries: Memory Lane: Looking at last week’s episode from a womanist perspective.
    ‘Black on Black Crime’ and the Hot Wing Controversy: A restaurant decides to name its hot wings Black on Black Crime and of course blames their Black BFF and didn’t mean to offensive.
    The Crime of Growing Too Much Broccoli: Apparently, according to city zoning laws, Miller broke the law when he started producing that many organic veggies on his land.
    Bullying Is Not Just An LGBT Problem: Though the focus has recently been about anti-gay bullying because of the high suicide rate 85% or disabled kids get bullied.
    Did Rick Sanchez Deserve to Be Fired?: Questioning whether the media has over looked Sanchez’s experiences as a Hispanic male.
    If You’re On Food Stamps, No Soda For You: Mayor Bloomberg is working on stopping those on food stamps from purchasing soda and this is a completely classist and fatphobic action.
    Class and Pet Ownership: Looking at how the inability to afford expensive food and difficulty paying for vet bills is constructed as not truly loving ones pet and the ways in which pet ownership is constructed as a privilege despite the proven health benefits of an animal companion for all people.
    Finally this weeks Sunday Shame: The Pizza Edition: Pizza should not be eaten with cutlery and pizza is too a good topping.

  5. This week at SexGenderBody:

    Olga Wolstenholme discusses bullying in What if it Doesn’t Get Better? and shares further work place sexual harassment thoughts in My Cleavage Strikes Again.

    Christina Engela shares some of her experiences and perspective garnered while transitioning, in Choice – A Matter Of Perspective.

    Alex Karydi discusses the physical & emotional sides of a relationship, in The L in Love vs. Lust in Lesbian Relationships.

    jaded16 discusses women carving out their own spaces and colonialism as reflected in literature, in Weekly Textual/Sexual Reader; shares her take on privilege, gender and class in
    ‘Skin Deep’ In Whose Skin?     and explores the different experiences as a woman in Negotiating Silences Within Spaces.

    Jack Molay addresses the language, intentions and misconceptions around gender in What Harry Benjamin Really Meant about Crossdressers and Transwomen.

    lilith land reviews recent findings on sex lives and sexual identity in The Largest Sex Survey Since the 90’s Shows Some Changes in How We Have Sex.

    Beyond Meds talks about recovery, disability, identity and how we define our own agency in Undiagnosing myself: bipolar no more.

    Quiet Riot Girl reflects on role models both popular and personalm, in Queer Icon.

    Lastly, I shared my own challenges with privilege in The Long Dark Night of My Sex-Positive Soul.

  11. So, this week at Unnatural Forces, I talked about my real life job which has recently gotten more difficult: holding corporations liable for gross human rights abuses has gotten much, much harder as of late. We live in a country which protects corporate freedom of speech, but grants corporations immunity for genocide, war crimes, or torture. Go U.S.A. They hate us for our freedoms!

    But then, because, YOU KNOW, I whinged about my period, along with other folks in comments, and I wrote about having no idea what is appropriate for polite conversation anymore.

  13. I can’t be PMSing, I don’t have a uterus! – Transitioning is more than just physical changes, and the emotional ones often take me by surprise. (Such as, for example, crying into a box of cookies while reading children’s literature.)

    A periodic gap – A follow-up, on whether not actually menstruating makes me less of a woman.

    You will remember – An eighth grade visit to the US Holocaust Museum gives me strength as I face transphobia in my own life.

  15. oooh! this is fun!

    http://returntoworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/10/early-dismissal-screws-up-my-life.html

    Borrowed from The New Yorker. Fucking brilliant.
    http://returntoworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/10/going-back-to-work-cavewoman-style.html

    Yeah, I drove a minivan and not afraid to say it:
    http://returntoworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/10/ill-never-drive-minivan-and-other-lies.html

    Shut up about your kid already.
    http://returntoworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/09/school-open-house-does-not-mean-parent.html

    Do what we girls do best. Talk. Or as called today, “network.”
    http://returntoworkmom.blogspot.com/2010/10/you-can-get-by-with-little-help-from.html

  16. Do You Know What Time It Is?: A bit of a rant about the people you get to talk to if you work in a call centre.

    Feminism Ruins Everything: Like getting a seat on the bus.

    Homophobic Bullying Happens In Canada Too: The timely release of statistics on bullying in Canadian schools serves as a reminder that the US is not the only country with a bullying problem.

    Family, and the Conservative Inability to Conceptualize Change: “The Family” is dead! Long live the family!

    What A Picture Is Worth: It won’t tell you whether this woman is “timid” or “badass”.

    Rejecting Binaries: Men Have Curves Too: The absurdity of the way we talk about men’s and women’s bodies.

  17. This week on Gender Across Borders, our editors and contributors blogged about the shortcomings of the Clinton Global Initiative special session and its neglect of women as active participants in peace processes, Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, a simple but poignant response to the recent LGBT teen suicide epidemic, the gendered discrepancy in HIV solutions in Swaziland, where attention is being paid to solutions for men in a manner that leave women vulnerable, and The Social Network’s problematic representation of gender difference, wherein men are brilliant geniuses, entrepreneurs and Olympic athletes while women, for the most part, are simply hot or not hot.

  20. I wrote about another facebook meme where the location of your purse, stated in a sexually explicit way, is supposed to somehow support breast cancer (at least one commenter is not happy with my thoughts on this).

    I also found out this week that my son might have aspergers, and I posted about my feelings of guilt as a mother in relation to constructions of normal childhood behavior.

  25. This week I wrote a piece that I consider one of my more important pieces titled “Bullies and the Bullied”
    http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/10/08/bullies-and-the-bullied/

    Unlike many I do not make excuses for bullies or the damage they do. Bullying is all too often a path to success and popularity. It treats courage and toughness as the ability to inflict pain and emotional trauma on others without guilt as a positive thing rather than as sociopathology.

    The damage done to the bullied includes the destruction of their education and a life time of both pain and lessened expectations.

    Lately it seems as though the conservatives have made bullying into a virtue.

  28. Hello there,

    I have just set up my new female-focussed, ethical and feminist-inspired sex toy website, Electric LadyLounge (www.electricladylounge.com), which sells a carefully-selected range of quality sex toys at a reasonable price. We aim to only sell things which we think represent good value, are free of phthalates and other dodgy chemicals and live up to their promise. The content is designed to educate and give a realistic view of what you can expect from a toy, not be full of gushing hype about any old tat.

    To celebrate the launch, we’re offering new customers a whopping 30% off their first orders. Simply enter code 5DD4Y at checkout.

    If you have any queries in the meantime, email me at: info@electricladylounge.com

  33. I wrote a couple little posts about some videos I saw across the intertubes. Christine O’Donnell’s weird-ass
    I’m You” campaign ad:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/10/09/im-you/

    and “Why I’m voting Republican”:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/10/06/why-im-voting-republican/

    Also, my take on that new study about how men apologize less frequently than women do, and how it is decidedly not a sign of privilege-blindness:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/10/07/apologizing-less-privilege/

  35. This week on Man Boobz: A bunch of short pieces highlighting some particularly retrograde statements by Man’s Rightsers and anti-feminists, as well as a post about a really creepy iPhone app.

    Dating advice from an MRA: Have sex only with women who have absolutely no idea who you are or where you live, then flee the country.

    Quote of the Day: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Easily Impressed Hot Chicks

    Quote of the Day: Only ugly women complain about rape.

    And the creepy iPhone app, called Design Your Dream Asian Girl

    Oh, and I may have mentioned this in the last self-promotion thread, but here’s my take on Clarisse Thorn and Amanda Marcotte’s discussion of male “creeps.”

  37. When people want to intellecutalize away dire situations that don’t directly impact them.
    http://actsoffaithblog.com/beware-the-armchair-intelligentsia-your-life-is-not-a-dissertation

    What gets in the way of black women looking out for their best interests
    http://actsoffaithblog.com/further-conversation-for-those-black-women-who-put-race-above-common-sense

    How black women teachers, specifically African-American are being railroaded over poor school performance of students
    http://actsoffaithblog.com/african-american-women-teachers-are-being-scapegoated-for-the-inferior-performance-of-the-underclass-population

  40. I am a longtime follower of Feministe, male, and have never posted here, so commenters, please be gentle with me. My blog is nominally about Ultrarunning (anything longer than marathon distance of 26.2 miles), but I post a bunch of other stuff as well, including this post I am shamelessly self-promoting. And I post something new daily.

    My blog post in question deals with misogyny in classic rock music. See what you think. URL = http://mistertristan.blogspot.com/, scroll down to my post from Friday, 8 Oct, “Sirius/XM Radio: (Un) healthy Relationships.”

    Regards/Gary

  46. Aggravated by an unfortunate silence from conservative-financed anti-prostitution activists I probably went a little bit overboard… but only a little bit… when I wrote Unlike Some People, NYC Schoolteacher Melissa Petro No Longer Prostitutes Herself to Support Her Academic Career.

    In the same vein I also wrote Why Sexually Active Men Aren’t as Alarming to the Jim DeMints and Susan Walsh’s of the World as Sexually Active Women.

    I’ve also been delving into the not-quite paradox wherein male privilege and entitlement is almost always driven by low self-esteem and self loathing. Holly Pervocracy on Why Male Privilege/Entitlement and Low Self-Esteem Are Mutually Reinforcing and More on the Drastically Overlooked, Under-Accounted For Phenomenon of Men Needing to Feel Special. Both were inspired by Holly’s just generally awesome post about the no-win “madonna/whore” dichotomy in The Slutadox.

    figleaf

  48. I started off the week with a post about the ongoing child welfare catastrophe in Haiti, the mounting desperation of Haitian parents, and those poised to take advantage of the situation.

    Monday-
    Meanwhile, in Haiti…

    Tuesday-
    Vote now for the 4th annual Demons in Adoption Awards

    Wednesday-
    Adoptive Columbine tragedy: rescued 6 yr old Adopted Boy “severely malnourished” and abused

    Thursday-
    OH Supreme Court rules re: the putative Fathers registry & Wyrembek seeking custody of “Grayson”

    (This is ultimately a post about parental rights. While a Father in this case, in other cases we could be discussing a Mother trying to prevent an adoption without her consent, and how few protections there are to prevent such.)

    Followed by two Basic Building Blocks Posts:

    Friday-
    “Foster-adopt” as a case study in the problems of adoption language & information hiding (BBBP part 1)

    Saturday-
    When discussing Foster-Adopt, these are some Foster realities to bear in mind (BBBP part 2)

    Both of which lead into:

    Sunday-
    Federal bonus bucks to the states for moving kids out of foster into adoptions (regardless of the damage)

  51. I started a new blog! It’s about feminism, rape, abuse, anti-oppression, and sometimes number theory. Mostly personal narratives.

    lethaea.wordpress.com

    It only has one post, and a few lines of “about me,” but I will be writing more for suresies.

  57. New at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman…

    Whitewashing women’s magazines: racism or just bad photoshop? (or maybe a little bit of both):

    Something you may not know: as part of my last job, I was responsible for sourcing and lightly photoshopping images for publication.

    No make-up week and compulsory beauty work:

    My annoyance sprang less from being criticised (it’s not like I hadn’t noticed I had three tiny pimples on my face) than from the notion that these criticisms actually mattered, that they were something I should be worried about – and that if I wasn’t worried about them, others would worry for me. That unless I went around looking flawless, there was something wrong with me.

    Back in my day, sexual harrassment was just another way of saying ‘hi’: personal reflections on sexual harrassment, circa 2004 and 2010. And a follow up: what happened when I recently ran into some guys who sexually harrassed me in my youth.

    And finally, I wrote the cover story for the Sydney Morning Herald Sunday magazine supplement this week, on the changing public discourses surrounding single women, choice and “having it all”. Would be interested to know your thoughts!

  59. I see a couple of other people wrote about the firefighting fee thing in Tennessee. I wrote about it, drawing parallels with historical precedents for such behaviour: conservatives really are Greatest Minds of the 19thCentury (and 1st Century BC).

    I wrote about a night of dreams I had, the dreams might even have feminist relevance!

    At my tumblr:

    I posted a brief tribute to “Taylor”, one of my parents’ cats who died last week aged 19.

    On Thursday, I did the day’s emotional events as a scoring report, with both soccer and baseball analogies!

  60. Apparently it was femme week over at failure is impossible!:

    Poor little bisexual femme: “As a bisexual femme in a long-term relationship with a heterosexual, cissexual man, my queer identity is essentially invisible. I continue to benefit from straight privilege, and in a year, I will have the privilege of being married. My place in the queer movement is undefined and uncomfortable, and I continually feel the need to justify my own identity. Essentially, I don’t feel queer enough.”>

    Is femme subversive?: “Femme women, because they don’t look radical, are often accused of being heteronormative, of having unexplored internalized misogyny, or otherwise conforming to gender norms in a way that butches do not.”>

    Slacktivism and you: “October is ostensibly Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but we might as well start calling it Feel Smug About Your Flirty Facebook Status Made Under the Guide of a Good Cause Month, because that’s about the extent to which most people participate.”

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