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  2. Finally: a woman of color as a prime time TV series lead – the pro’s and con’s of Shonda Rhimes’ new show: A Gladiator of Color in a Suit: on “Scandal”.

    On the inevitable dudes* who think they must add their voice to feminist discussions about sexual/street harassment, because they believe that women* have no idea about “the male* point of view” (…and why – surprise! – “Notes from Your Boner”, as Captain Awkward calls it, really aren’t anywhere near my top priorities): Let Me Spell It Out For You: I DON’T CARE.

    On germany’s so-called “Pirate Party” who think they’re magically “post-gender” (and “post-race”), and, consequently, declare affirmativ action/gender quotas as a mere, and I quote, “tits bonus” for the overemotional ladies* and very evil: How About A Vagina Mileage-Program?

  6. A busy week on Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona’s blog:

    The most recent installment in our STI Awareness series is about viral hepatitis in honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month. Since we covered hepatitis B last year, this post focuses on hepatitis A and hepatitis C, which aren’t sexually transmitted as commonly as is hep B, but can be considered STIs nonetheless.

    On Wednesday we published a guest post by Planned Parenthood Arizona CEO Bryan Howard. It contains the following quotation from Gov. Jan Brewer: “I do not support the goals of Planned Parenthood. They believe in choice.” There is a lot to love about Arizona but when our legislators say things like that, I must admit it can get a little embarrassing.

    Finally, on Friday our link maven Stacey gathered together a huge mess of headlines into one place — so if Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday doesn’t already give you enough reading material, WE HAVE MORE!

  7. This week at Mama Nervosa:

    Student Loan Debt & Grad School Economics
    Lauren talks about the mentality of graduate students/academia when it comes to money, and how ultimately destructive and awful it is.

    The Catch-22 Of Grad School Economics
    How Lauren tried and failed to balance income, academic progress, and raising a young family.

    What I Learned About My Identity/Career from a Craft Fail
    Lauren (convincingly) connects a craft project to some self-discovery about what she should look for in a job.

    How I Learned to Not Hate Oklahoma
    Lauren is wrapping up a series about growing up in the conservative South.

  13. A few mostly body-oriented posts this week:

    In looking for body-positive fitness DVDs, I reviewed Cardio Burn Yoga (originally released under the title Yoga Dance Fusion), which is up for a giveaway drawing through tonight.

    As part of my series on yoga for the hips (often contributing factors in chronic pelvic and low back pain), I collected variations on low lunge for hip flexor stretching and a basic analysis of boat pose for hip flexor strengthening.

  15. This week I participated in an ongoing blogging series called “Feminist Friday,” hosted by Transatlantic Blonde, this week at Circus Queen.

    My post was about Katie Roiphe’s (two months old) article about the book Fifty Shades of Grey, which I finally tracked down and read because we’d read the book in my book club. There are many problems with the article, but I focused on Roiphe’s process of arriving at and supporting conclusions.

    Newsweek, Katie Roiphe, 50 Shades, and a Bunch of Crap

    At the end I make up a little game about using popular books, movies, and TV shows to make conclusions about women, and invite you to play along.

  17. Well, I’ve been blogging up a storm this week. To hit just the high points:

    – I posted about a number of articles elsenet on women, law, religion, marriage, and St. Joan of Arc
    – I blogged about a talk by N. T. Wright in which he described his upcoming magnum opus on Paul
    – And an initial attempt to say something about the CDF, the LCWR, and Obedience (where CDF = Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith = the bishops and Rome, and LCWR = Leadership Conference of Women Religious = the nuns).

  18. This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman:

    Anne McCaffrey’s Women (Dragons and Harpers and Holders, Oh My!)
    Looking at the various roles of women and the aspirational qualities of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider’s of Pern series.

    Make It a Movie: Batwoman
    The Make It a Movie series continues with Batwoman, an epic caped avenger who is notable not only for her status as one of the few out lesbian superheroes, but also for her constant questioning of authority.


    So About that Glee Finale (But Mostly About Quinn)
    An examination of the past few years of Glee, and how exactly they went wrong, through the lens of the character of Quinn.

    The Power of the Triangle (in YA Fiction)
    The love triangle is a staple of YA fiction, especially speculative fiction. But what do the character’s choices tell us about our societal values, and is it a good thing?

    This week, stay tuned for the wrap up of Make It a Movie May, a Memorial Day tribute to female characters in uniform, and continued speculation on the future of Marvel and DC!

  19. Strip for This is my personal blog about stripping, anarchism, feminism, sex, etc.

    Arsonist breaks into and destroys Women With a Vision- New Orleans office!

    Women with a Vision not only does sex work harm reduction (STD testing, condom distribution, etc.) but also helps women transition out of sex work if and when they want to, and helped overturn a Louisiana law that required convicted prostitutes to register as sex offenders!

    WWAV is asking for in-kind donations such as computers and office supplies, furniture, and dressy clothing for women who are transitioning out of sex work and need something to wear on job interviews. Do you have some extra clothing or shoes in your closet that could use a new home? A laptop left over from your last upgrade? Or perhaps you’re in the New Orleans area and have furniture you’re not using? Everyone can pitch in, and every dollar counts. Please send WWAV something right now, even if it’s just $1.

    Here’s a short list from their web site of what your (tax deductible) donations can make possible:

    $50 will buy a case of male condoms;
    $100 will cover a month supply of harm reduction kits,
    $250 will replace one of our reproductive health models;
    $500 will enable us to make a month’s supply of hygiene kits;
    $1000 will buy a case of female condoms; and
    $2000 to replace our two cases of OraSure rapid HIV tests.

  24. P.S. I really, really like and appreciate this idea of having a self-promotion moment for bloggers to share some of their important write-ups with others. I especially like the word “shameless” in it! I’d like to start the same thing on my blog and title it “shameless self-promotion” as well but would first ask the consent of those who came up with this idea in this blog.

    Thanks!

  27. This week at my blog:

    Some thoughts on going to the Brisbane Slutwalk and what I liked and didn’t like about it.

    Questioning why the sort of love found in romantic and sexual relationships seem to be the most important thing there is (other than parent love) and how other forms of love are classed as lesser.

    And a bit of a rant on dreams and doubt and why I feel like I constantly have to question myself and justify myself in terms of my identity as asexual.

    Look forward to reading everyone else’s posts later today! 🙂

  28. Sherlock Series 2: not plugging my work this week, but my mate Sophie, who has written possibly the definitive (and certainly the side-splittive) commentaries on the BBC/ Cumberbatch/ Gatiss/ Moffat show SHERLOCK

  32. At Muslimah Media Watch this week:

    Eren asked what the idea of an “Islamic state” means for women, in theory and in practice.

    Nicole looked at France’s new Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, and the potential impact of his politics on Muslim women.

    Guest contributor Arwa Aburawa interviewed Samar Hazboun about her film Hush, which features women living in a women’s shelter in Palestine.

    Samya looked at the TEDxMogadishu talks, and how these might challenge images of Somalia as only ever a place of suffering, war, and poverty.

  37. I’ve started selling my fiction to supplement my income. Information on my first publication can be found on my blog here.

    Unfortunately, I have been freaking out enough trying to figure out what would be worth selling, i haven’t really updated my blog all that often these last couple of weeks.

  39. The bumper of the car in front of me during my commute home gives me some tips on making well-meaning but too-optimistic advice more useful.

    A study suggests women increase their intention to buy by 200% when models look like them. So why don’t advertisers embrace diversity in their representations?

    My campaign against Kraft’s MilkBite commercials and their multiracial stereotypes continues. A video about a previous campaign (the Kraft Athenos brand) showing their ad company Droga5 bragging about how offending people drives publicity suggests they knew exactly what they were doing by putting these stereotypes into their campaign.

  42. Hi all,

    I was responding to some mild trolling on a post at womynews, the online zine of my uni’s women’s collective, and was wondering if anyone’s made a guide to help would be male feminists in leaving their privilege at the door and realising the inappropriateness of leaving what about the menz style comments on feminist posts.

    Does anyone here know of one, and if not, do you see a need and what would you include?

    This is what I’ve come up with so far:

    I, among with many other feminists, are subjected day in day out to a world in which our voices are treated less valuably than men, and where women’s concerns and issues are treated as less important. Personally, I am tired of using feminist spaces to debate the inclusion of men and men’s issues in the feminist movement. It’s been done to death. This is why you get this phenomenon in the feminist blogosphere where a male commentator comes on board, says something tangentially related to the article to the effect of “men are oppressed by the patriarchy/kyriarchy too,” and is shot down in a very terse manner by the resident readers. You will particularly notice this when you try to explain how women are doing feminism wrong. Don’t get me wrong — I’d love to have a debate about the use of the word kyriarchy in feminism; but I do not want to have that debate in the context of why your model of feminism is better than Charlotte’s.

    The feminist blogosphere is a place for women’s voices. We are told how we think and feel constantly in the outside world, but this is our safe space, and visitors have to respect the rules: let women speak, don’t tell them how best to do feminism and keep the “what about the menz” comments to a minimum, preferably focused directly on the subject at hand

    You have to check your privilege at the door. At the moment, as far as I can see, you are not doing that well enough.

  44. Europe is becoming the Third World, the USA is already halfway there. Or: “The maid resisted. What do we do?”

    A short post on the difference between left-wingers and right-wingers.

    I can’t believe Feministe hasn’t written about the Marissa Alexander case. She fired a warning shot into the wall above her abusive husband’s head, harming no one, and got 20 years in prison. Florida’s “stand your ground” law was supposed to protect her. It didn’t.

    Why Mitt Romney’s education plan doesn’t work. Vouchers are nice rhetoric, until you examine them close up. Then they’re about as useful as a $1000 coupon for a new Mercedes.

  51. Taylor explains why she will take her husband’s name and keep her last name as her middle as part of The Last Name Project.

    For some fantastic, easy, and preservatives-free tortillas, check out this recipe.

    Sierra at The Phoenix and the Olive Branch contributed to <a href="“>The Last Name Project to explain why she’s keeping her name and lists the top 15 reasons women take their husbands’ names when getting married.

    I compiled some of my favorite posts for this week, including Kathy Escobar on how power is not like pie, Libby Anne on patriarchy and bodily ownership, and more.

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