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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Chally

Well, clearly everyone at Feministe has had a bit of a ridiculous week this week, but that’s no reason you lot shouldn’t have lots of posts to share yourselves. Post a link and a short description of something you’ve written this week. Make it specific, don’t just link to your whole blog.

Not quite sure how this HTML deal works? Just use this as an example: <a href=”http://BlogPostAddress.com”>BlogPostTitle</a>

45 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  1. This week at SexGenderBody:

    Olga Wolstenholme reflects on relationships past, in In Praise of Visibility and childhood bears, in Big Bad Fear!

    jaded16 reflects on President Obama’s visit to her school, in ReDrawing Borders and the ability of people to ignore suffering, in The Disease of Being Universal.

    Jack Molay adds more well researched considerations of gender, sexuality, appearance and identity, in On crossdreaming or crossdressing as a fetish.

    Bekhsoos looks at human rights activism, in Jismi.net: A Campaign for Sexual & Bodily Rights in Lebanon

    fattou talks about being institutionalized, in days in hospital.

    Alex Karydi talks about ways to shape a life, in Lesbian Metamorphosis! 12 Ways to Transform Your Life..

    Beyond Meds looks back at her recovery, in Recap: 6 drugs 6 years of withdrawal…before that 39 drugs total: A portrait of poly psychopharmacology.

    And I reflect on childhood’s end, throwing myself under the bus for good measure, in <a href="http://sexgenderbody.com/content/oh-noez-divorce-monsteroh noez, the divorce monster!

  5. More than any one post, I’d like to promote an issue that has received too little public attention thus far: the body-scanners now employed at most major U.S. airports, and the “enhanced pat-downs” inflicted on those flyers who decline to allow themselves to be virtually strip-searched by the machines. These “pat-downs” amount to sexual molestation, because TSA officials are now required to grope the breasts and genitals of passengers and flight crews.

    This is an issue that enrages me as a feminist committed to bodily autonomy, as a civil libertarian, and as a mother of two young children. I think we’ve reached a point where we need to stand up and speak out, in hopes of reversing this new incursion on our human rights. I love it if bloggers with a bigger audience than mine would help rally resistance to these violations. Here’s what I’ve written so far:

    More reason to be crotch-ety about the TSA – my introduction to the issues.

    Are enhanced patdowns a form of sexual assault? Legally, probably not. However, they sure feel like sexual assault to a number of people who’ve experienced them. And it sure looks as though the scanners may violate child-porn laws.

  11. Pioneers’ Post-Election Regroup 2010: What Now? – Part 2 of my wrap-up on what the midterms meant to a young, queer, feminist, anti-racist, class conscious, environmentalist American like me.

    Waste-Not Wednesday: FIX IT – The oft-neglected fourth “R” of cutting down on waste and over-consumption.

    Finally, Phase 1 – Introducing D.C.’s only dyke bar, and why I love it so damn much.

    Billiejean’s Bunday Outing – One of my rabbits got to go for a walk today, and I took pictures – including the compulsory “rabbit with stuff on its head” shot.

  13. I joined many others in getting pissed off about an article in Maclean’s magazine that did a very shoddy job of reporting on students who perceive some universities as “too Asian”. I focused on only one of the problems with this article, and tons of other people have pointed out other ways in which it was loaded with fail.

  19. One post less than usual, due to my coming down with the stomach flu and not having the energy to oversee blog articles. Still, no reason not to enjoy what we do have!

    Natasha wrote about her relationship to food: how her father taught her to make food in order to show love and how that impacts her eating in Food Is Love Is

    Arial wrote about The Whiskey Sour

    Our guest Perverted Imp wrote about roleplaying in Consensual Non-Consent

    Finally, I beat a dead horse talking about my economic depression in Wishes & Willpower

  20. As if was even necessary at this point, I *deaddesk* about one particularly timely example of Glenn Beck’s hypocrisy:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/07/today-in-the-stupidity-of-glenn-beck/

    Can changing your name upon marriage ever be a “feminist” move?
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/09/changing-your-name-during-marriage-is-it-ever-a-feminist-move/

    Recent studies have shown that using charity as a social safety net instead of government welfare programs is unsustainable. And one of the main reasons people stop giving is btoh surprising and depressing:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/10/charity-in-place-of-welfare-programs-is-not-sustainable/

    What would a ban on menthol cigarettes look like? Who would it affect? And, most importantly, would it do any good?
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/11/fda-proposes-banning-sale-of-menthol-cigarettes/

    I would love some discussion on what makes you jealous. Specifically, are you more bothered by an exclusive romantic partner maintaining a friendship with an ex, or a historically-platonic acquaintance of the preferred sex? Please take the poll and discuss your answer in the comments:
    http://ethecofem.com/2010/11/13/who-makes-you-more-jealous/

  21. Part One of my analysis from a woman-supportive perspective of tv show – “The Good Wife” Is Not Only Smart TV But Offers Women Many Valuable Lessons In Love & Life http://bit.ly/afQBV3

    I’m compiling lists of productions, tv shows, events, etc that are supportive in uplifing the positive image of black women that we can bring attention to – Call for Links, Shout-Outs & Love To Each Other http://bit.ly/bis3aP

    Letting go of limiting thinking – How To Break-Free From the Indoctrination Mindset In 3 Easy Steps** http://bit.ly/cG2QJw

  27. This past week on Man Boobz, my blog critiquing (and sometimes just mocking) the Men’s Rights movement and antifeminism generally, I posted a bunch of guides to key issues:

    Men’s Rights Myth: False Rape Accusations

    Prison Rape

    The Gender Pay Gap

    Also, a post about an especially bizarre Men’s Rights take on hate crime legislation that actually suggests that Fox News is a tool of evil Feminazis.

    And a post about another Men’s Rightser who somehow has convinced himself that “feminism shackles feminine worth to her ability to attract a man.”

    And if you haven’t checked it out already, The Worst of the Men’s Rights Movement is pretty, well, scary.

  29. This week at Yes Means Yes Blog:

    When The Bully Is The Coach, about a basketball coach who whipped high school basketball players with a belt.

    The Coming Wave Of Oppositional Sexist Panic. The recent incident where a boy was kicked off a football team for wearing pink cleats in support of breast cancer awareness seems like a bizarre overreaction to us, but transphobes see the world of clearly defined and carefully policed gender roles starting to come apart at the seams. They’ll get more and more strident as they fail to stop the changes.

  30. This week at Modus Dopens:

    Why I wasn’t at the Fund Our Future march (but wanted to be). For those who have been following UK politics, this is a post about public service cuts, and campaigning when you face multiple disadvantages.

    I’ve been writing a lot this week about social justice and Remembrance Day, but this one is probably my most substantive: What I’ll be thinking about this Remembrance Day.

    And finally, the call for participants for the Disability Blog Carnival.

    –IP

  33. Hey everyone.
    So we have been hard at work writing new posts this week. Some of the interesting topics we covered include: Taylor Momsen from Gossip Girl, Sarah Palin on the Letterman Show, Lady Gaga, and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
    Follow us on twitter: Twitter.com/popcultpop
    Thanks! Have a great Sunday and let us know what you think of Pop Culture Poparazzi

  34. Here’s what’s been goin’ on at GAB:

    We had a mini-series from World Pulse “citizen journalists” who have come to the U.S. to speak about women, justice and experiences of violence, impunity, and struggle in their communities. You can read those three posts here, here, and here.

    This month’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [SRHR] Situation Report is on the UN Gender Mainstreaming Process

    Some Thoughts on Weddings and Abled Privilege

    A book review of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women by Holly Kearl

    Also, we’re having a series on Women, Gender, War and Peace and we’re looking for writers! Click here for more info and how to submit an article before the deadline, November 29, 2010.

  37. I’ve been dumped, and amongst other things, this post muses on the myth that only women want commitment and guys only want teh sex.

    I tried out OKCupid’s “My Best Face” experiment and was a little surprised by the outcome – I’d appreciate people commenting and giving their input on that post, please!

    I posted a self-review of a new fairy story I composed, called The Heartless Witch, where “heartless” is a physical, not emotional, description. I’m a little bothered that its symbolism might be troubling from a feminist perspective, I’d be intrigued to read people’s reactions to it.

    Finally, a really shameless self-promotion: buy my music online! Two instrumental tracks only available (for free!) so far, but songs will be added later.

  39. WTF, NYTimes Book Review?
    Hope you’ll check out my book and reflect on the various issues that are on a lot of women’s minds. Really surprised the NYTimes slapped a cutesy “mean girls” label on a serious examination of issues that many real-live girls and women care about. Cheers! http://nyti.ms/dl7s34

  40. This week at Musings of an Inappropriate Woman…

    No, not sexualisation. Objectification. Say it with me:

    When you really dig down to what lies at the root of these fears, it’s stuff like girls being confronted with scantily clad, gyrating images of their gender. It’s about girls growing up to believe that their main value lies in their appearance. It’s about things like make-up, fashion and eating disorders (very different phenomena, I know, but all connected to beauty culture).

    But these things aren’t new, nor at their heart are they about sex (and nor, for that matter, do they impact only children and teenage girls). In fact, there’s a very handy old-fashioned word to describe just this process. It’s called objectification.

    Thoughts on meritocracy, aspiration and privilege:

    Some manifestations of privilege are obvious: how much money you have, how many influential people your parents know. Others are a little more subtle: access to books, computers, travel and art. But one of the forms of privilege I find most fascinating (and insidious) is a person’s sense of the possibilities available to them.

  43. Too late for me to be self-promoting anything, maybe, but I’d still like to shamelessly self-promote some other people.

    First, Holly of the Pervocracy deconstructs “sluttiness,” and I mean really deconstructs it, in, well, Slut, Deconstructed.

    Next at a local community-service fair this weekend I ran across two organizations everyone else might know about but I didn’t.

    First, the YWCA sponsors a group called Babes Network, “a sisterhood of women facing HIV together since 1989.” BABES network is Seattle based peer support group. Their mission is to reduce isolation and stigma and to promote empowerment and quality of life for women and families dealing with HIV.

    Second, there’s the Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services or ADWAS.org which “provides comprehensive services to Deaf and Deaf-Blind victims/survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. ADWAS believes that violence is a learned behavior and envisions a world where violence is not tolerated.” They also started in Seattle, in 1986, and have spread to 20 communities around the U.S.

    Meanwhile it’s been sort of a chaotic week for me. I was able to write three related posts about condom culture, possible changes proposed pee-on-a-stick STI testing could bring about, and how til George W. came along the Bush family has been passionately pro-choice. (His grandfather was the original treasurer for Planned Parenthood back when contraception was strictly illegal.) I’ve been putting more heart into pushing back against social expectations even well-meaning people create: Adults Should Absolutely Stop Spreading the “Everybody’s Doing It” Fantasy to Children, Hugo Schwyzer on the “Paris Paradox,” How Sexualization Replaces Opportunity With Obligation, and More on Rhetoric and the Creation of Social Expectations: Prostitutes Are Not The Jobs they Do.

    I hope everyone has busy, productive weeks.

    figleaf

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