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  2. This week I’m guest posting over at Greta Van Der Rol’s blog, “Perceptions of Reality,” on the topic of moving past your “Aha!” moment in order to write something worth reading:

    http://gretavanderrol.net/2011/12/08/clear-your-throat-then-write/

    My professor did not want half-baked musings. He wanted well-developed theories with cohesive, backed up logic. He wanted to be lead on a journey of discovery, rather than handed some undergrad’s fleeting moment of insight.

    -Meredith L.

  6. The combination of the flu, my couch, laptop, tea and many fails has led to three posts this week:

    “Cut the Crap”, a shot rant about the male white privileged ignorance that intersectionality is still treated with.

    “Why Is the Rum Gone?”, a post about germany’s so-called “Pirate Party” and their fuzzy edges, and why their self-proclaimed progressiveness in terms of gender and race is complete bullshit.

    “Fauxminists, Season 2”, about the latest annoyance produced by self-proclaimed “troll feminism”, rape apologism and wannabe-witty fauxminists who do not even understand the mere basics of rape culture, slut shaming and victim blaming (obviously: Trigger Warning!).

  10. Catching up on some slightly older posts as well as recent ones, not in that order:

    Most recently, I asked how you deal with social justice DO NOT WANT cropping up in your favourite sources of entertainment/relaxation.

    For Hallowe’en, I also rambled on about my thoughts on the intimate relationship between racism and cultural appropriation, and why it’s not just harmless borrowing. (101 stuff, not harrowing new insights.)

    Finally, a little while ago I went through a funk about what the hell a would-be activist is doing in an academic institution and asked in general how people cope with meeting their ideals in less-than-ideal realities. I’m not nearly so despondent about the issue as I was then, but I’m still completely torn about what the hell to do after finishing up my current degree, and looking for any and all insights from other people’s experiences, similar or different.

  18. I blog over at Oklahomans for Reproductive Justice, but I’d rather shamelessly promote our other writers today (’cause they blow my mind, duh).
    Sandra breaks down rape jokes in an post I might print out and give to everyone in my life.
    Carly gets real about having her identity co-opted by our local pro life militants and dissects the flaws in opposition to MaterniT21 prenatal testing.
    Mallory connects the dots between racism, stress and birthing complications.
    Finally, for a pick me up, I like to reread Judie’s hilarious guide to non-racist halloween costumes for white people. Any noun!

    If you like those there’s plenty more to read at OK4RJ.org and more being added all the time. Reproductive Justice is real in Oklahoma, everybody!

  21. A woman as a syringe. Do female bodies have a value of their own, or do they simply serve as devices to provide sustenance to others? http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/10/through-the-eyes-of-a-stranger-a-woman-as-a-syringe/

    Should feminist writing start abandoning the passive voice? http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/10/passive-voice-feminism/

    Is your partner unemployed? Here I share my experiences with how to provide support to an unemployed partner:

    http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/08/how-to-provide-emotional-support-for-an-unemployed-partner-part-i/

    http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/09/how-to-provide-emotional-support-for-an-unemployed-partner-part-ii/

    Talking to my students about femicide: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/07/is-femicide-a-good-thing/

    We’ve also had a great discussion on the blog about how to stop suffering from anxiety: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/12/06/how-to-stop-suffering-from-anxiety/

  22. On society’s message that things are not worth doing unless you’re great at them right away, and how that is often pushed hard at women, since women who excel at anything not stereotypically female are seen as exceptions:
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/mathochism-math-pride/

    Careless mistakes, not getting complacent, and why a new professor may or may not wind up being a bad thing:
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/mathochism-the-final-chapter/

  24. Kathy:
    This week I wrote aboutchoice feminism(areactiontoanarticleonapopular,ostensiblyfeministsite),and on my Tumblr, brought back my list ofmusic writing with a few new additions.

    I just wanted to add that in the first post I linked to a six-year-old article here (not the one I just mentioned), which I hope is okay because I know that bloggers’ opinions change over time, but the discussion that followed was worth the link, too.

  26. The motherhood penalty: it’s not children that slow mothers down

    http://curtrice.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/the-motherhood-penalty-its-not-children-that-slow-mothers-down/

    There are fewer women at the top because they have a different work/life balance than men, it is claimed. Mothers’ careers progress slowly because they are mothers — because they have to spend more time on their children.

    There’s some appeal in this explanation; it seems intuitively correct. Mothers have greater childcare responsibilities than fathers. And while we may hope for a different division of labor some day, we speculate that these work/life realities explain why women who are mothers are on slower career tracks than men.

    It’s the realities of daily life behind the statistics that in fact explain the statistics. Correlation becomes causation. But that’s a mistake in how we think. There’s more to the story.

    And you can read it at the link above.

  28. I help run a blog with a group of wonderful Oklahoma feminists. We write about anything reproductive justice related. This has included:

    An entry on what it’s like to be a rape crisis advocate:
    http://ok4rj.org/2011/11/so-you-want-to-be-a-rape-crisis-advocate-trigger-warning-discussions-of-rape-and-sexual-violence/

    A post on how to respond when someone says you’ve done/said something racist:
    http://ok4rj.org/2011/11/it’s-okay-that-you-said-something-racist/

    And a piece on chosen families and radical activism. Chosen families are important here in the South because many of us have identities (being queer) or engage in activities (being pro-abortion rights) that our biological families think are immoral.
    http://ok4rj.org/2011/04/i-choo-choo-choose-you-chosen-families-and-radical-activism/

  40. Yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three wonderful, deserving women.

    And yet there is something ironic, boarding on tokenistic in this particular award.

    I wrote a piece called “The Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s problem with women” at http://wp.me/p1xS1Q-aD

    It starts like this:

    This year’s Nobel Peace Prize award makes it clear that the current Peace Prize Committee has a serious problem with women. In fact, they have two.
    Their problems have nothing to do with the choice of laureates; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman are all inspirational winners with exceptional accomplishments.

    But the way the award was made this year exposes two uncomfortable realities: (1) The men who speak on behalf of the committee are ambivalent about the importance of making the award to women, and (2) the consequence of dividing the prize three ways in practice diminishes the value of each woman’s contribution.

    Read the rest at the link above.

  47. I wrote about my concerns on how people seem to view school shootings and moral issues around it. I also wrote on how some people think you can make life easier in books if it’s aimed at younger generations (you know, life is good, bad things don’t happen). It’s all centered around one author, who I refuse to ever read a word by again.
    http://katreadsbooks.blogspot.com/2011/12/message-to-todd-strasser.html

    I also am making something called “The Making of a Feminist Character”, concerning how feminist characters are made and aimed towards children and teens (it’s not as serious as it sounds, being very light hearted with characters I.

  52. This week, I complained about dating advice that treats things that are generally true as being some mysterious quirk of just one gender.

    I also started reading some kung fu instruction books, in particular Hung Gar (The basis of earthbending in Avatar: The Legend of Aang) and Wing Chun (which it turns out has a pretty feminist background, being devised by a woman, and then according to legend used to defend herself against would-be “suitors”)

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