Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday January 2, 2011 Chally It’s that time of the week again, readers. Post a link and a short description of something you’ve written. Not quite sure how to work the HTML? Just use this as an example: <a href=”http://BlogPostAddress.com”>BlogPostTitle</a>
This week I did a photo tour of my husband’s hometown with the magic of holidays and the recent Northwest-US blizzard, introduced our five-day challenge to eat exclusively from the curriculum cookbook for Cooking Matters, a program that teaches healthy, budget-friendly cooking skills to low-income earners, and did a compulsory New Year’s post that just happened to involve a gay wedding, Rachel Maddow, and cocktails (but not in relation to each other).
I wrote about being angry: http://www.declassifiedadoptee.com/2010/12/being-angry.html If you all come back and visit me Monday, I reflect on the seldom understood nor heard about adoption reunion process and the institutionalized discrimination that Adult Adoptees face. One year ago this month, I reunited with my mother.
Happy New Year! (I know some of you are still on Jan. 1). I finally gave in to the temptation to write about Julian Assange, concluding that the charges against him are still unproven, but if they’re true, he’s guilty of sexual assault. Oh, and the evidence is in that he’s definitely, certifiably a douche. Closer to home, I wrote about the corporatizing university, which trains consumers instead of educating citizens. Good for capitalism, I’m sure; not so hot for democracy.
As a new blogger, I thought I would start the year off right with a New Year’s day post on running. I hope you’ll add your feedback. Runforyourlife
This week I wrote about awkward pregnancy photos (http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.com/2010/12/pregnancy-photos.html), synchronized walking in Japan (http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.com/2010/12/only-in-japan.html), wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the feminist/progressive war (http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-heck-is-going-on-in-blogosphere.html), the importance of not texting and driving (http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.com/2010/12/dont-text-or-talk-and-drive.html), and what I read in December (http://marie-everydaymiracle.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-i-read-in-december.html).
The final two installments in a series on getting a hip replacement. First, a bad therapist can make an already tough time even worse, while a good one can make it so much better: http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/the-hip-chronicles-part-ix-in-therapy/ Then, the question of whether getting such surgery was worthwhile: http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/the-hip-chronicles-part-x-was-it-worth-it/
I wrote some brief posts on why all bodies are beautiful, weilding my hairy legs for defense in chatrooms, and my personal feelings on terms like ‘blowjob’. Some longer reads: I Live in a Bubble : A handful of scenes from my life to give people an idea of the type of environment I come from; it’ll certainly be reflected in my writing. Using Sex to Recover From Rape : How being promiscuous after I was raped helped me heal. (The post references sexual assault, but there are no details.) The Illusion Starts to Crumble : Remembering the event that started to open my eyes to the sizable cracks in my relationship. (Trigger warning: said event is reminiscent of violence during sex.)
This week I talked about Michael Vick, and asked the question: Is the concept of the “rape continuum” useful?
–we start this month with Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” and “So Long a Letter” by Mariama Ba. We’d love for anyone who’s interested to join us in reading and discussion, whether it’s for one month or twelve!
I wrote a blog post at the National Women’s Political Caucus of Washington blog titled: “The Future of Public Campaign Financing and the Impact on Women Candidates” http://www.wpcnet.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/4-The-Future-of-Public-Campaign-Financing-and-the-Impact-on-Women-Candidates.html
This week at The Jaded Hippy: “Word to the Wise:” White Anti-racism’s White Supremacy Rant rant rant on the idea that the only fruitful discussions are “across the aisle.” I say, fuck that. Indigenous Peoples in Late-Twentieth Century Science Fiction Television: Is There a Place for ‘’Indians” in Our Visions of the Future? “Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?”
This past week on Man Boobz, my blog cataloguing and critiquing misogyny online: I look at a disturbing blog post by a self-proclaimed “nice guy” who is so resentful of women he’s actually celebrating the probable murder of a missing Las Vegas dancer. In On Herpes and Hypergamy I look at how one pick-up guru mangles anthropology and medical science in an attempt to “prove” some faintly ludicrous notions about female sexuality. Some thoughts on an incredibly stupid new blog called Boycott American Women Apparently some Men’s Right Activists have no trouble believing the rape accusations against Julian Assange. They just have trouble giving a damn about rape.
I wrote about the word ‘victim’ and our associations with it. TW for rape: http://wide-eyed–wrong-footed.blogspot.com/2010/12/v-word.html
A post on the lessons I hope to learn from my cousins in the army and the way that they willingly sacrifice themselves for something greater.
An Open Letter to Mac McClelland Mac is a young journalist, a ‘sex-positive feminist’ who speculates about finding a ‘sugar daddy’ to deal with the expenses. I’m an old woman–the kind of feminist who isn’t always polite. I remember when women had few choices. I cleaned some toilets and worked in some factories. I can’t take for granted the freedom not to sell my body. It’s dearly won.
Wages O’ Sin Bristol Palin buys a foreclosed house with cash. Pity the poor fools who were evicted after paying twice the price. Predictions 2011 You heard it here first.
I wrote about President Obama’s public forgiveness of Michael Vick and questioned to what degree we should extend forgiveness, expanding the scope of the post to talk about those who have committed atrocities in the past. Should Societal Judgment Be Time Limited?
‘Tis the season: a post about food, the cooking thereof, and the intersections of gender, disability, and socioeconomic status. Happy new year, folks. –IP
This post (on how American women are all being “boycotted” by someone who sounds like a real winner) netted me a blog record number of trolls, so I mocked a couple of them.
I wrote about being home for Christmas, the gender norms: http://mturnstyles.tumblr.com/post/2555461735/home-for-christmas-part-1-gender-norms and the body talk:http://mturnstyles.tumblr.com/post/2555726123/home-for-christmas-part-2-bodies
I’ve just discovered this blog and i like it quite a lot! good job. anyway- my cycling blog rarely deals with things related to gender issues, but this week i read a ridiculously offensive post by a pro cyclist about why women’s cycling isn’t treated as equally as men’s cycling and just had to respond.
YOUNG WOMEN’S CAUCUS: WHAT YOUNG WOMEN WANT February 10, 2011 hosted by Bonnie MacAllister Live Performances and Films by the Young Women’s Caucus Members 1) “on our own volition” featuring: Artists: Amanda Moyer, J.R. DeMers, Susie Danielson, Stephanie Trevino, Amanda Mears, Dawn Hiltz Description: Women have traditionally gathered to discuss their desires, their passions, changes they want in the world, and their lives. Women have congregated around watering holes, in kitchens, in bathrooms, over quilts, and at tea tables, just to name a few. Six ladies from Finlandia University will be gathering together in the Raandesk Gallery to discuss their wants and desires for their lives and the world through narrative movement and sound. 2).”Spoken For” Artists: Marina Kelly, Megan Katz Description: Marina Kelly and Megan Katz will work with two male performers from The NY-based Notion Collective to create a live performance. Kelly and Katz will collect video interviews of a variety of women talking about what they want. The male performers will memorize the women’s words and perform them in the gallery space, live and in synch with a silent video projection of the women speaking. 3). “Requesting Access” Description: Requesting Access is collaborative photo shoot performance by Chanel Matsunami Govreau (played by Asian Barbie), photographer Martin Solheim and makeup/hair artist Tamara Qabazard. This performance layers the exaggeration of cultural costuming over questionably (un)real storytelling. This is combined with the friction and vanity of flash photography to explore multiracial identity and gender in interracial relationships as it combines with expectations of sexuality and its possible profit. 4) Title: 45th Presidency by Alex Dilks Pandola and Green Light Arts (Philadelphia) Description: It’s January 20th, 2013 and you’re invited to the inauguration of the 45th President of The United States of American, America’s first woman President, Sarah Louise Palin. If you don’t think it can happen, please see the 44th President. Is this the last thing women want? What women? Join Green Light Arts as we listen to President Palin’s Inaugural Speech and see how she intends to turn the Mama Grizzlies loose on Washington. Keep your car doors locked! 5) Trading Flowers for Love Stories Artist: Amanda Lovelee Free wild flower (photo) for you’re of love story. I have gathered images of wild, uncultivated plants. I would like to trade a photograph for a hand written love story. Simply show up write down your story and then you can pick any picture. You can keep it anonymous or you can include names, dates, times, locations. The stories will be gathered and compiled to form an archive, a historical record, and a book. You will receive the link to the print on demand book if you would like a copy. And in the film room: “I am the doubter and the doubt” Artists: Megan Kelley and Suguna Sridhar and Title: “Deconstructed Breath Verse” Artist: Bonnie MacAllister — for all press or inquiries, please contact macallister.bonnie@gmail.com
I’ve tried to be on blogging holiday as well as physical holiday over the Xmas/New Year period, but a couple of things still caught my attention that I deemed worthy of immediate response: The ConDem coalition in the UK decided to cut off funding for a free books for children programme, and then made a fake U-turn on the decision. I made a short post commemorating Jayaben Desai’s passing – a name that I am ashamed to say I had only heard this summer as I read about the history of Britain in the 1970s.
In light of the New Year, I give to you all of my “popular” posts of 2010. http://wisegrrrl.com/2011/01/01/new-beginnings/
This week at SexGenderBody: the gay love coach talks about building a working relationship, in New Year’s Resolutions for Gay Couples LaPrincipessa talks traditions she can do without, in A non-comprehensive list of ways the holiday season grates upon my feminist sensibilities. jaded16 examines how little control women have over the mention, description and ownership of their own bodies, in Re-Presenting Absences Looking For My Body. James Turnbull dissects a music video and gender images, in I Don’t Care by 2NE1 (투애니원): Lyrics, Translation, & Explanation. I spoke with an amazing woman as she helps women and families break free from oppressive religions, in An SGB Interview with Vyckie Garrison of No Longer Quivering.
Consent Redux – My post about consent from last week was picked up by the “Mens Rights” section of reddit, prompting some interesting conversation (to say the least) New Year’s Resolutions – Thoughts on why I’m so reluctant to make resolutions
I wrote another post about dating with hairy legs. I also posted part of a conversation I overheard my children have about gender and beauty when they were watching a dance show on television.
A list of what I’m reading. I declare ethecofem an Assange-Free Zone until further notice, because I’m so tired of hearing about him. The thread where I declare this is sort of an open thread now. We’re talking about the weather. KFC’s “Double Down” sandwich is really just a chicken sandwich without a bun. I find the fact that unmarried men are more excited about hypothetical unplanned babies than their partners to be rather unsurprising. imnotme on cohabitation and personal change. I was stuck inside NYE because of a poorly-timed ice storm, so I put together a list of fun stuff with which to wave goodbye to 2010.
It’s up to the courts to decide if this guy Julian Assange is guilty of the accusations against him. What’s been bugging me, a lot, are the underlying assumptions that if heterosexuals can’t have low-trust, low-hygiene sex there can be no heterosexual sex at all. First, there’s this barking contradiction: Missing the point: After Easily Hooking Up With (At Least) Two Women in 24 Hours, Assange Calls Sweden a “Feminist Saudi Arabia” Then there’s the assumption that “only in ‘feminazi’ Sweden” would the justice system care if a man didn’t use a condom or date-raped a sleeping partner. The gendered of the counterexample is telling: “Should” Women Have Sex Like a Man? Depends on Your Idea of “Sex Like a Man!” Here’s Why I Say Yes, Absolutely! And finally, there’s this weirdo notion that “knowingly transmitting” stuff to others without their consent ought to be perfectly fine. The One and Only Way HIV, Fecal Matter, and Sperm Are… Or At Least Ought to Be… Treated Identically Under the Law. The last paragraph in this post makes it very, very clear that it’s not just feminists who fulminate about “knowingly transmitting” sperm. Going a little further back (I haven’t shamelessly self-promoted here lately), this post about gender assumptions was reposted and retweeted “Should” Women Have Sex Like a Man? Depends on Your Idea of “Sex Like a Man!” Here’s Why I Say Yes, Absolutely! And finally, while switching hosting companies I found a bunch of missing posts from my old co-blogger. Her posts had mysteriously, and frustratingly, disappeared last year during a major software upgrade. New Year’s Day Happiness: Switched Servers, Fixed Database Errors, Restored Former Co-Blogger Kochanie’s Missing Posts Happy 2011! figleaf
My thoughts on WikiLeaks and Feminism: “…but though i am moved to an almost numinous optimism about the mushrooming of this public discussion about our rights, rights to free speech, information and the need to know “the truth about what really happens behind the mahogany doors of power,” i am incredibly pessimistic about its implications for women’s rights.” http://akkadia-word.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-thoughts-on-raising-your-daughters.html
First, I want to thank Feministe for this idea. while I have written this to you privately, I also wanted to acknowledge publicly how your willingness to make this space available encouraged me to do the same on my site. So thank you. So what have I been writing about this week. Hmm. Well one of the pieces that I wrote was about staying conscious. All too often we go through life in a semi-conscious or unconscious state and are not mindful of what we say or do or even why we say or do these things. staying conscious is not easy, but necessary if we are going to evolve spiritually or personally http://www.inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-reflections/2010/12/27/staying-conscious.html The other day I made my wife’s favorite dish for her and a close friend who is staying with us for a few weeks. the two of them were enjoying the dish so much that it sounded as if they were doing something other then eating cabbage casserole. Our discussion of this dish that had them both having “orgasms” in their mouth provided me with some spiritual insights and understandings. so this week I also wrote about the lessons I learned from cabbage casserole and yes I do include the recipe http://www.inspiritual.biz/the-zenful-kitchen/2010/12/29/lessons-from-cabbage-casserole.html Then there is the continuation of my 9 week spiritual journey. The topics I wrote about the last seven days are Change — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2010/12/27/week-2-day-6-change.html Rewarding yourself and spreading roots http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2010/12/28/week-2-day-7-rewarding-yourself-spreading-roots.html Releasing others control over us — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2010/12/29/week-3-day-1-releasing-others-control-over-us.html Stopping the internal judge — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2010/12/30/week-3-day-2-stopping-the-internal-judge.html Interrupting the need to control others — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2010/12/31/week-3-day-3-interrupting-the-need-to-control-others.html Letting go of negativity — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2011/1/1/week-3-day-4-letting-go-of-negativity.html Accepting and reaching for support — http://www.inspiritual.biz/stirring-my-spiritual-waters/2011/1/2/week-3-day-5-accepting-and-reaching-for-support.html
Darn it all. In my comment, above, the link in the third paragraph was way wrong. It should have been Then there’s the assumption that “only in ‘feminazi’ Sweden” would the justice system care if a man didn’t use a condom or date-raped a sleeping partner. The gendered of the counterexample is telling: Why Aren’t MRAs and Naomi Wolf in as Big an Uproar over Daniel Rick’s “Date Rape” Prosecution as They Are over Assange’s? Someday I’ll learn how to accurately copy and paste HTML. Sigh. figleaf
I’m starting a blog about being a radical feminist coming to terms with her kinky side. I’ll be writing about getting into sex work and my experiences in the fetish world as well as the more philosophical kinds of posts I started with: What It Means to Be a Kinky RadFem: Part One What It Means to Be a Kinky RadFem: Part Two
http://thefemcritique.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/a-feminist-friendly-playlist/ A feminist list of music! Please check it out and let me know what you think!
I continue to advocate for my son, who has autism,this time with the Catholic church. I am also starting a twitter feed @pammyisms. It is all the great advice and wisdom my ex’s girlfriend feels she needs to tell me. It is either this or I’m going to explode 😉
It was a sort of finish up the year by finishing a couple of posts I had been kicking around in unedited form. One was about how I look at some of the things LGBT/TQ people are focusing on now and they seem almost reactionary in comparison to things we stood for in the past. http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/12/28/some-of-the-things-we-lgbttq-people-are-supposed-to-want-seem-really-reactionary/ Another post was about how having GID (Gender Identity Disorder) in the DSM was being used as a barrier when it comes to TS/TG people getting the same rights as lesbian and gay people on matters like the repeal of DADT. http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/12/30/the-gid-diagnosis-being-in-the-dsm-is-a-barrcade-to-equality/
Happy New Year, everyone! We did a couple of posts about our goals for 2011. http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2010/12/31-for-2011.html http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2010/12/28-for-2011.html I compiled a list of some of my shopping don’ts that I’ve gleaned from my many years of retail jobs. http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-shop-and-be-decent-human-being.html Also, a post about Deliverance the novel and Deliverance the movie. http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2010/12/ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-daaaaa.html And, some gorgeous photos Rebekah took yesterday at the annual Polar Bear Swim in Toronto. http://2zelda.blogspot.com/2011/01/polar-bear.html Have a good evening!
Happy 2011 nice people! I didn’t feel like doing any year-in-reviews or best/worst-of lists, or things like that… sorry for my lack of holiday spirit, but at least I wrote a few little tidbits…. Poor People Blighting New Orleans North American English Dialects Black Man in Diabetic Shock Attacked By Gang of White Cops
Thanks for the opportunity to share 🙂 I wrote about self-preservation: Womanifesto, pt II Happy New Year!
Last week was pretty slow, but I did write “Dear Parents” and “Merry Christmas for Those of You Who are Into That Stuff”
I blogged about my trip to VT: http://robotprincess.net/2010/12/30/x-mas-in-burlington-post-1-the-beginning/ http://robotprincess.net/2010/12/30/x-mas-in-burlington-post-2-graffiti/ http://robotprincess.net/2010/12/30/x-mas-in-burlington-post-3-the-things-that-have-changed/ http://robotprincess.net/2011/01/01/x-mas-in-burlington-post-4-making-icecream/
Oh! For any wine dorks (or newb wine dorks) out there, my husband just started a wine blog called Most Wine is Good. He focuses on reviewing high-quality, inexpensive reds, and also offers accessible 101/beginner info.
I started a new blog. My first two posts are about New Neutrality and Cordelia Fine’s “Delusions of Gender.”
Having an interesting discussion on my blog about men and women – are we really as different as people think we are? http://delilah-mj.blogspot.com/2010/12/danger-of-assuming-that-men-and-women.html Happy New Year 🙂
I wrote an off-topic post about playing the guitar and one on-topic about alternatives to classroom response systems
While a fish doesn’t need a bicycle, a woman should have at least one bike that she loves to ride: the better to see the whole world. I’ve recently launched a site that includes info on how to cook, eat, and live sustainably. This week, I’m exploring the theme of riding a bike in greater depth because California’s Central Coast is as much a cycling destination as a foodie destination. Living Sustainably: ride a bike
While a fish doesn’t need a bicycle, a woman should have at least one bike that she loves to ride: the better to see the whole world. I’ve recently launched a site that includes info on how to cook, eat, and live sustainably. This week, I’m exploring the theme of riding a bike in greater depth because California’s Central Coast is as much a cycling destination as a foodie destination. Living Sustainably: ride a bike