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  3. As some of you might know, I’m in a band in my spare time. If you’re in the Chicagoland area, we’re playing on Saturday, January 28th at the Elbo Room in Chicago (the big stage, if you’ve been there before). Its our two year anniversary show and we’re playing it with a couple of other great local acts. Show starts at 8, we go on somewhat later than that. The cover is ten bucks but you can buy tickets online for $8 at the link below. Anyone who tells me they’re from feministe at the show will get a deal on merch. Details below.

    If you’re not a Chicago local but curious to hear us the show is going to be streamed online. The stream should start around 8:00 pm Central Standard Time.

    Details:
    Stream:

  6. More on being nice, working for nothing and not asking for much.

    Margaret Atwood turns Greek myth on its head, fun had by all: Meditations on The Penelopiad and its take on women vs other women.

    Lisbeth Salander doesn’t live here. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo vs. How Life Actually Works. What really happens to women armed with evidence, who try fighting back?

    The Delphiad presents: ten reasons why you’re not in a relationship. Inspired by Cosmo, HuffPo and the default home page of my web-based email provider.

    Nudity as protest, aka pimping out women for the cause.

    Venn circles of feminine/masculine/human logic.

  16. Happy Roe v. Wade anniversary, everyone!

    We posted a few articles this week on the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog. First, one of our long-time volunteers wrote about her experience at the Women Are Watching rally in Phoenix, in which pro-choice activists descended upon the Capitol to let legislators know that we’re keeping our eyes on them. http://ppadvocatesaz.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/at-the-capitol-women-are-watching/

    Second, an informative article for anyone curious about how an HPV infection can slowly progress into cancer. The virus is able to trick our bodies into allowing tumors to proliferate. Scary stuff, but luckily easy to treat if caught in its precancerous stages. http://ppadvocatesaz.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-slow-journey-from-hpv-infection-to-cervical-cancer/

    Lastly, a reminder that Planned Parenthood has more to offer its male clientele than condoms. You might be surprised to learn about some of the services PP has (I had no idea they did smoking cessation!). http://ppadvocatesaz.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/planned-parenthood-services-for-men-weve-got-you-covered/

  21. The Anti-Choice Desert, my contribution to NARAL’s Blog for Choice Day this year.

    In Boobs, I ranted a little about the Slate article on the same topic.

    Unwisely: Part 12 [discusses relationship abuse, self-harm] — The part where I tried for the first time to end a relationship. Not well.

    Finally, I reviewed Gail Carson Levine’s YA novel Fairest, particularly with respect to beauty standards.

  25. Heyo!

    I didn’t write anything this week but my friend at another website I contribute to wrote 20 reasons why Ron Paul is terrifying. Kinda a must read for those who think he’s the moderate/refreshing republican candidate. Plus there’s an added bonus of a hilarious comment thread of anonymous incoherent Paul supporters.

    Have a great week everyone!

  32. Thank Goodness for Mary Sue: Looking at how the term Mary Sue is used to attack female protagonists as well as who is excluded from the term and the racial implications of this.

    Cover Snark: leather – the good, the bad and the unnecessarily sexy :     Though leather is meant to be serviceable for many female protagonists, the covers of these books inevitably use this material to make the protagonist sexy.

    Being Human Q&A With Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath :     This week we had the opportunity to participate in a teleconference with the stars of Being Human U.S. about their new season.
    Self-Publishing: Sometimes the only Gate that’s Open : Considering that publishers and agents act as gatekeepers this means that we are offered the same privileged characters repeatedly, largely written by privileged authors. This post looks at the importance of support self published books.
    Cover Snark: When we Wish we Could Judge the Book on its Cover: Looking at the way a beautiful cover can sometimes disguise a horrendous book.

  33. The first time I was pregnant, I still worked full-time as an administrative assistant. This time around I’m home with a 3-year old. Guess which one sucks less? (Hint: one 3-year old is still less annoying than 8 grown babies.)

    http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/01/taking-care-of-babies.html

    Also, my January budget wine review is up at Moms Who Need Wine!

    http://www.momswhoneedwine.com/2012/01/review-beringer-founders-estate-merlot/

    – Meredith L.

    ** ** ** ** ** **
    Grey Skies: Read. Write. Parent. Drink. Complain.
    http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/

    Moms Who Need Wine.
    http://www.momswhoneedwine.com/author/meredith/

    “I do not like to write – I like to have written.” ~Gloria Steinem

  34. Was I the only one who noticed that not only were 2011’s major films dominated by men — like always — but even the animals were all male! Caesar the chimp in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Joey the War Horse, even Uggie the adorable fox terrier in The Artist . My post, “2011: in which even the animals are all dudes” explores why this might be the case.

  38. I wrote a angry blog post after finding out some homoepaths were suggesting they could cure domestic violence.

    I also blogged about my DLA (a non-means tested disability benefit given to people in the UK in recognition that being disabled is really costly) in support of the Responsible Reform Report. It is part of a big disability movement trying to curb a nasty Welfare Reform bill our conservative government has pushed through the UK House of Commons & is now blindly pushing through the House of Lords.

  40. This week at re:Cycling, we’ve got a retro tampon commercial from the 80s, a theory about the relationship between child abuse and early menarche, a guest post from Feminist Figure Girl about body building and menstruation, a response to the new research about why women menstruate, and why the news about the pill and menstrual pain isn’t newsworthy — plus weekly round-up of links.

  41. I posted on why the new movie Red Tails is everything The Help tried to be, but failed at being.
    http://katreadsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-red-tails-is-everything-help-tried.html

    I also posted on the idea that apparently no matter how bad books are (like the ones which think stalking = love) that we apparently should like one little part of a book. We don’t. There are books that portray rape of either gender as sexy. Apparently my evil liberal-feminist bias is preventing me from liking a book where a girl being sexually harassed is sexy and romantic, with me as the evil one. I debunked the person who told me I should try hard to find the good in books like that.
    http://katreadsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-frigging-middle-finger-is-defying.html

    Why “Choose Life” is no longer an anti-choice statement (hint: it has something to do with George Micheal).
    http://katreadsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-guess-i-should-be-liking-andrew.html

    And I posted a review of a fail of a book (Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater):
    http://katreadsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/shiver-by-maggie-stiefvater-redo-review.html

  44. “We control our children’s access to computers pretty well, but I am about to ban video gaming altogether in our house. The mood changes and impulsiveness that our kids display after playing them for even a few minutes is just crazy. And study to be published in the February 2011 issue of Pediatrics seem to show that it isn’t just our kids:”

    http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2347

  46. Interesting that there’s already one band post in the comments. 🙂

    Following up on a post about the formation of my new band on the last full moon (I know, not this past week), I wrote about how this band is different for me than those I was part of 25 or more years ago.

    I know I’ve bitched about reviewers who write “all-girl band” or “all-female band” when they would never write “all-male band,” but I’ll say it once anyway — this band is made up of four women. And for me, that is really exciting! One great thing about Vancouver is that for the most part this is no big deal — a band is a band.

    I also wrote one more piece about how songwriting is, well, writing, and writing is work. I’m reforming my ways! And among other songs, working on one about violence against women.

  51. This week I wrote about Suzanne Valadon, a self-taught artist whose name should be as famous as Renoir & Degas:

    Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) was a successful, self-trained artist of Montmartre in Paris. She began her career modelling for such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was close friends with Degas and the composer Erik Satie (who proposed to her immediately — but she turned him down). Watching how the artists painted her, she taught herself how to paint and rose from the background of a poor, uneducated street child to become one of the most notable artists of the period.

    » Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris

  52. Last week, I wrote a soft review of Orgasmic Meditation, the sexual practice created by Nicole Daedone.

    I speak openly about my experiencing with OMing & my issues with it. Namely, that the practice seems to be reserved for white, middle-class cisfemales in hetero monogamous relationships.

    Despite its marketing exclusions, the practice is quite revolutionary.

    Part I
    Part II

  58. Noah Brand discusses microaggressions.
    http://noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/on-microaggressions/

    I ask people to share what they find hot.
    http://noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/myth-of-men-not-being-hotbeauty-myth-open-thread/

    I talk about the social support gap and the societal narratives keeping men from having strong friendships.
    http://noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/male-friendship/

  66. This week, I wrote about the famous 2007 publication, Women matter:

    Gender diversity makes organizations better workplaces. Gender diversity makes organizations more profitable.

    These are the central conclusions from Women matter: gender diversity, a corporate performance driver. In the five years since its appearance, McKinsey & Company’s report has become one of the most visible works on the value of gender diversity.

    As we work together to develop the best arguments for enhanced gender balance in academia, we can look to Women Matter for inspiration.

    Read the rest of Women matter: gender diversity, a corporate performance driver.

  69. Finally bought my domain name and actively started tweeting this week! Reposted a great piece from Feministing on trying to make the best of two potentially bad decisions (as a woman travelling alone).

  72. I started by writing about the submissive role in D/s, and what I called questioning obedience as opposed to unquestioning obedience.

    About midweek, I was hurting a bit and discussed the parallels and divergences of kinkphobia and dhomophobia, and talked about how some of that worked in my personal life by asking, when did I realise I was straight?

    As the weekend turned around, I turned my mind to dating, and wrote about not feeling bad for rejecting someone with no “red flags”

    And that triggered a chain of thought that led to realising that I’m not failing at political blogging, even though I felt like I was.

  77. Melinda Tankard Reist doesn’t speak for me

    Melinda Tankard Reist is an anti-abortion feminist who is very popular with the media in Australia, who, bless their little hearts, like to conceive of feminism as a hivemind. Thus I try to put some distance between my atheist, prochoice self and MTR – especially as she’s just tried to shup up another feminist blogger, Jennifer Wilson, with a legal threat, because JW asked questions about her religious background.

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