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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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It’s that time of the week once more. Post links to and short descriptions of posts you’ve written this week. Be 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>

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  3. WordPress:

    Bisexuals aren’t necessarily attracted to just two genders.

    “The Anatomy of a Slur” (the difference between being systematically oppressed and just insulted).

    Tumblr:

    Refuting “feminists just want to make all women victims” crap.

    “This is how oppression works, Part 90998390837409873985793284958739:” using misogynistic slurs to shame women *gasp* perpetuates the patriarchy. Even if you’re a woman and a feminist.

    On the social justice community’s really frustrating tendency to use violent rhetoric: “Hey There, Can You Maybe Watch Your Language?”

    “This is How Oppression Works, Part 213948712309847129.” (“Oppression does not just systematically attack the oppressed, it endangers the oppressors. It makes your rights, your value as a person, and your safety conditional on how well you fit an arbitrary criteria. And that puts you in a pretty precarious situation, no matter how privileged you may be.”)

  4. I took on the neuroscientists and their essentialist views on sex and gender identity, via Lady Gaga’s Born This Way:

    <a href=”http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/sex-lies-and-neuroscience-the-gaga-effect/''Sex, Lies And Neuroscience:Fact checking Lady Gaga

  33. I spent a lot of time reading and writing about the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire:
    The Centennial Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

  39. Shorties II – A series of short, mostly unrelated posts that on their own were not long enough to constitute blog entries of their own. Divided we are weak, together we are strong! The common theme of all the shorties is female sexual dysfunction.

  47. On gender myths and feminism for men
    If Oxytocin is the “Love” Hormone, and Only Women Have Oxytocin, Why Do Men So Often Get Sticky After Even One-Night Stands? | Figleaf’s Real Adult Sex I’m welcoming answers to two questions in comments. Also, while I may not have time to post about it this week but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the whole macho “you poke her you own her” meme is a really terrible coping mechanism for male mawkishness in the face of the social construction of masculinity. That post would either enhance or supersede… If Men Are Great Hulking Indifferent Brutes Why Do They Want Partners Who’ll Make Them Feel Special… The Wrong Way

    My bogus Two Rules of Desire post continues to attract links. The latest entry in the series is The No-Sex Class and Paying For Sex By Paying For Dinner and Flowers

    I didn’t self-promote shamelessly last week so I’m embarrassingly promoting it this week: Why I Prefer Feminist Mormon Housewives to Man-Hating, Anti-Feminist Laura Schlessinger Any Day (It picked up a lot of links, retweets, and a Stumbledupon.)

    figleaf

  50. I just wrote a post about why I’m in favor of efforts to expand definitions of beauty even though they can reinforce the problematic emphasis on beauty as source of self-worth.

  52. I wrote a long (but worthwhile, I promise!) post on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for the History Carnival. She was the first European woman who went to the Turkish Empire and wrote about how the Turkish baths were like a “woman’s coffee-house.” She wrote extensively in defense of the veil, eyebrow-shaping, etc. She brought back the smallpox vaccine. She is delightful, she is awesome, and everyone should know about her.

    http://millicentandcarlafran.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/lady-mary-wortley-montagu-and-the-womens-coffee-house/

  53. From womenworthknowing.org, this week we met June Graham, a high-end jewelry designer and mother of two, from South Africa, we found out what former profilees Gina and Angie are up to now, and then got started on a new weekly column by Jamie about how she saves money for her family through couponing.

    And, over on The Outside Lane, I talked about appreciating people like fine art, reviewed Duran Duran’s new album, and told you what the powder room looks like in Houston’s, a Dallas restaurant.

    Happy reading!

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  62. At Femin Ijtihad, we praise the New York Times’ special feature on the perspectives of young Muslim activists: http://feminijtihad.tumblr.com/post/4038242918/the-new-york-times-features-young-muslim-voices, highlight the efforts of Indian Muslim women to achieve greater legal equality: http://feminijtihad.tumblr.com/post/4076888836/indias-muslim-women-demand-legal-protection and proudly announce that we are to be represented by Marge O’Leary at the Clinton Global Initiative: http://feminijtihad.tumblr.com/post/4093803691/fis-marge-oleary-to-attend-the-clinton-global.

  64. Good evening, fellow feminists!

    I’ll be honest: It was nearly 80 degrees (26 C) and sunny this week in Charlotte, NC. There was afternoon boozing in the sunshine. The weather was lovely and has already turned back to cold. So this week? This week blogging over at Flâneur in the City was light, short and sometimes fluffy. Here’s a few quick hits:

    (TW for mention of victim blaming) A visual reminder: Amazing protest poster making the Internet rounds this week of a checklist against blaming victims of rape.

    Did you know there’s a print magazine on blogging? Seriously.

    David Bowie was all over the place this week. And I do love that lad insane. You know you do too.

    Women make less then men. This is not new, but it still pisses me off. Especially at 1 a.m. when I am grouchy.

  69. I posted a few videos I’ve come across that I really enjoyed, like: Ralph Nader being interviewed by Riz Khan, and one called Washington Burger, which is pretty funny. Also, my absolute favorite I’m-Really-Pissed-Off song.

    I went on an epic Facebook rant around 4 AM this morning. I pasted it on the blog, since it was certainly long enough.

    Also, after reading that short and stupid “obesity is like shortness and so it’s not offensive” story, or whatever, I had to respond. Ugh.

    An open thread/link roundup (I love link roundups!)

    And finally, how do you differentiate between punishment and justice?

  71. Nalo Hopkinson spoke at a science fiction symposium at the University of South Florida this past week. She spoke about the low numbers of female science fiction writers, which I structured my posting for the week around, though I also question whether we ourselves are propogating our absence from the genre by writing under male pseudonyms.

    USF Sci-Fi Symposium: Women Who Write Science Fiction

    http://www.hercampus.com/school/usf/scifi-girls-usf-sci-fi-symposium-women-who-write-science-fiction

  73. So until I start my new spiritual writing intensive on april 1  — I am just doing the two entries per week – so in Inspiritual Reflections I wrote about how we stop needing to performing and acting in other people’s roles for our lives and be ourselves in No more casting calls — http://www.inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-reflections/2011/3/22/no-more-casting-calls.html
    In the Zenful Kitchen, I wrote about how things like classes and cookbooks are awesome teachers, but that is just that – at some point we become brave enough to step forward in faith and build on what we have been taught by our teachers. So I ask the question — Are you ready to go through the door — http://www.inspiritual.biz/the-zenful-kitchen/2011/3/23/are-you-ready-to-go-through-the-door.html
    feel free to join in on the inspiritual conversations and if you write anything spiritual and would like to share it, you can do so at http://www.inspiritual.biz/share-your-inspiritual-reflect/
    in the words of meg christian — great wisdom through painful experience is an inside job

  74. I finished up my series on class & culture in England (parts 1 and 2) – this time on how the welfare state, and the unprecedented social mobility it allowed, confuses how we think about class. (Series soundtracked by Frank Turner, PJ Harvey and Billy Bragg, because if you want to talk about Englishness you are contractually obliged to bring Mr Bragg into it somewhere.)

    And complained about my colleagues assuming that mental illness = punchy violence. And talked about getting felt up on the tube.

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