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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

Post a short description of something you’ve written this week, along with a link. Make it specific — don’t just link your whole blog.

57 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  2. I wrote about women’s fear of failure and how it relates to appearance-based anxieties. “Attempts at beauty can be seen as a mark of failure, and that if our sleight-of-hand fails, humiliation waits. … Our accomplishments—jobs, recognition, awards—are things we achieve. Beauty, we’re told, is both an achievement and who we are. It’s both our essence and our goal. We live in this awkward space between the effort of beauty and surrendering to nature’s assignment of it; as long as we treat beauty as both the essence of woman and her fundamental goal, its importance will fester in each of us like mold. The contradiction between achieved beauty and natural beauty sneers at us every time we put on a full face of makeup and still feel lacking, and every time we eschew makeup because it wouldn’t matter anyway. It’s damning to the woman for whom conventional beauty is an ‘achievement,’ and it’s damning to the woman for whom it’s a genetic gift.”

  3. I have written two rather personal posts this week: Too Much Information? about male “fauxminists”, intimate heterosexual relationships and dating in the age of Google-Stalking, and why my recent experiences with all of that pissed me off. Second, Pass The Fries, about the long way down 20 years of fat shaming, dieting and very late realiziations.

  6. I haven’t written a lot for a while, because I broke up with my boyfriend and moved into my first apartment. But I did write a little on moving. http://wisegrrrl.com/2011/11/22/moving/
    Hopefully there will be more on the way. I also wrote a little about Intuition through a skeptical lens, but I have bit of a unique viewpoint on it because I used to be Neopagan. Intuition was one of those deep-held beliefs that I had. http://wisegrrrl.com/2011/12/03/debunking-new-age-thinking-intuition/
    Also last week, I wrote a little on the show Degrassi, I hear a lot of talk about Glee, but this Canadian show hasn’t been talked about. http://wisegrrrl.com/2011/11/21/glee-feminists-ever-heard-of-degrassi/

  12. I respond to a statement made by a reader that it’s so much easier to succeed in the US if you are an immigrant: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/03/life-is-so-much-easier-when-you-are-an-immigrant/

    Are people who play video games immature? http://clarissasblog.com/2011/11/30/husbands-and-video-games/

    On tolerating barbarity: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/11/30/tolerating-barbarity/

    Guilty of ageism: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/11/29/guilty-of-ageism/

  13. VH1 debuted its tawdry new series “Baseball Wives” this week; I tried to even the playing field a bit by spotlighting five amazing women who are married to (or partnered with) big-league ballplayers:

    http://ablogoftheirown.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/the-real-wives-of-big-league-baseball/

    Further shameless self-promotion, because it was exciting for me: A national baseball writer linked this post and said it was a “breath of fresh air” with none of the self-loathing of watching “Baseball Wives.” Hee!

    Thanks/enjoy….

  18. A big one this week: someone translated Section III of my book The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Lantern Books, 2006) into Spanish.

    The Lifelong Activist is a self-help guide for activists and progressives. Part III discusses how to overcome internal barriers to success, including procrastination, perfectionism and blocks. Please tell all your Spanish-speaking friends about it – especially activists and artists and students.

    Download here: http://lifelongactivist.com/hillaryrettig.com/free/The_Lifelong_Activist_Part_3_Managing_Your_Fears__Spanish.pdf

    As a reminder, a Spanish-language version of my ebook It’s Not You, It’s Your Strategy: the HIAPy Guide to Getting Work in a Tough Job Market is available in my shop (pay $0, or whatever you want):
    http://www.hillaryrettig.com/shop/
    You’ll find the English version of It’s Not You on the same page, also pay what you want.

    Thanks!

  21. How to get more women professors: A success story from the northernmost university in the world!
    http://wp.me/1xS1Q

    With focus and commitment, the University of Tromsø has become Norway’s leading university for gender balance. New statistics have arrived and they reveal that 27.4% of our full professors are women. […]

    We have acknowledged that structural impediments are part of the reason that fewer women than men reach the rank of full professor. As a consequence, we work to reduce the impact of those impediments with women who are currently in the system, and we work to change the system so that the impediments will be eliminated for future generations. […]

    It is possible to create a more fair system. Change can be achieved. With focus and commitment, universities can become better workplaces — workplaces with higher qualifications and with the conditions necessary to accomplish even more.

    http://wp.me/1xS1Q

  23. UPDATE: Rape apologist Rev Charles Phelps has resigned from the board of Bob Jones University, after bloggers and students dogged his ass relentlessly.

    http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2011/12/rev-charles-phelps-resigns-from-bob.html

    Thanks to feminists, atheists, and victims of fundamentalism/religious abuse, for taking up the banner and helping! Atheists on Reddit spread the story to the four corners of the earth, and deserve a BIG ASS medal (kisses the atheists!) … until now, there was a total media blackout locally. Now that he has resigned, they will at last cover the story. But they certainly didn’t help get rid of him!

    To those who linked on tumblr, etc, copious kisses! xoxoxo.

  25. I wrote about why an offer of asylum abroad is really the only hope for Gulnaz, the Afghan rape survivor who was imprisoned, coerced to agree to marry her rapist and then freed by president Karzai.

    Here’s a bit:

    In Afghan society, a woman in Gulnaz’s position is essentially enslaved in her new household. She is not treated as a wife, even a second or third wife. Instead, she is forced to do the most back-breaking chores, grudgingly given meager food and clothes, and subjected to incessant ridicule and physical and sexual abuse. She becomes a literal punching bag for multiple generations of men and women from her husband’s bloodline. Often, after a few years of torture and confinement, she is quietly murdered by her new “family.” Rural Afghanistan abounds with such horrific stories.

    These crimes become the stuff of gossip whispered between neighbors meeting on narrow lanes and drawing water at communal wells, but almost never result in police investigations. They are deemed “family affairs” in a country that privileges the privacy of its men over the fundamental rights of its women.

  27. I wrote a small apology to my Gender Politics and Public Policy class for my cranky reactions to their presentations sexism in the media and for calling male news anchors “hobbit-like.” It turned out that their silence had more to do with being overwhelmed by the material rather than an overall boredom with the topic, so I am relieved (at least where from where that is concerned).

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    Dionne:
    IwroteasmallapologytomyGenderPoliticsandPublicPolicyclassformycrankyreactionstotheirpresentationssexisminthemediaandforcallingmalenewsanchors“hobbit-like.”Itturnedoutthattheirsilencehadmoretodowithbeingoverwhelmedbythematerialratherthananoverallboredomwiththetopic,soIamrelieved(atleastwherefromwherethatisconcerned).

    37″>Dionne:
    IwroteasmallapologytomyGenderPoliticsandPublicPolicyclassformycrankyreactionstotheirpresentationssexisminthemediaandforcallingmalenewsanchors“hobbit-like.”Itturnedoutthattheirsilencehadmoretodowithbeingoverwhelmedbythematerialratherthananoverallboredomwiththetopic,soIamrelieved(atleastwherefromwherethatisconcerned).

  31. Cover Snark: The Sideways View: T&A for Everyone! : Looking at the way women are posed on the covers of books as sexual objects though the characters in the book are meant to be examples of strong womanhood.

    Enter to Win Rise of The Governor : This month we are giving away one hardcover hope of The Rise of the Governor, the fist book in The Walking Dead seriess. Pop by for a chance to win.

    Review of Cold Magic by Kate Elliot Book One of the Spiritwalker Trilogy

    Urban Fantasy’s Guide to an Authenic British Vampire : Tired of all the Dick Van Spike trops we discuss how a modern British vampire should sound. There is so much bloomin and bloody one can take.

    Finally a review Being Human U.K. pilot , episode one and episode two

  35. I am, most definitely, mad – In which I discuss how I’d really like to have children and a career, but just don’t feel like I can do both well. And it makes me mad that I live in a society where I, and most women, have to choose between the two.

    Book Review: He Said What? – My review of He Said What?: Women Write About Moments when Everything Changed. A great book for any woman who has ever interacted with men. So, everyone.

  36. Fangsforthefantasy:
    CoverSnark:TheSidewaysView:T&AforEveryone!:Looking at the way women are posed on the covers of books as sexual objects though the characters in the book are meant to be examples of strong womanhood.

    You can’t be a sexual object AND a strong woman?

  42. My weekly diary for Daily Kos on bad books focused on two “classics” of anti-feminism, Modern Woman: The Lost Sex and The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation.

    Here we go!

  45. This week at re:Cycling, the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, we wrote the persistence of TSS; the advantages of menstrual cups (they really aren’t as big as they look!); the bleeding of women boxers; and our weekend links featured Siri and the new ACOG guidelines for better treatment of transgender patients.

  47. I started the week with a telephone interview for a job working on the London Olympic Games next year; the experience was interesting, in that I found myself in a frame of mind that was quite unfamiliar – after the interview ended I was left with the weird feeling, “Was I just flirting?” (obviously, I didn’t actually flirt with the interviewer, because that would be inappropriate in the extreme – it was the frame of mind that felt as though I had been somehow in “flirt mode”)

    I also went to the inaugural General Assembly of Occupy Tunbridge Wells, which seemed shambolic to start with, but did result in a camp being set up later that night.

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