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  2. Feminism and (Catholic) Religion – on why I personally (and as an ex-Catholic) think that (intersectional) Feminism and Catholicism are incompatible, and that voluntary membership in a discrimination club means you discriminate, whether you agree with certain doctrines or not.

    [TW: racism]
    Your Childhood Memories Don’t Trump Mine – on how it is racist and disgusting to defend your beloved childhood “Negro doll” and to refuse to use different language, let alone let go of white supremacy, and to instead make fun of people of color’s alleged “oversensibility.”

  4. This week at Mama Nervosa:

    Lauren rants about post-academic job search chaos.

    Jen shares the hilarious and somewhat feminist (and not imperialist, thank goodness) Hello Kitty American History collector cards.

    Lauren amuses you with tales of morning sickness and clips from Home Movies.

    Lauren and Jen discuss their lives as young female members of online music fan communities in the early(ish) days of the internet. Lauren was a Rustie (Neil Young fans) and Jen was a Phunky Bitch (Phish fans).

  5. I went to the National Network of Abortion Funds conference, and had a roaring good time! First of many posts on it is here, on the unexpected differences between the US and the UK.

    Back home, Julie Bindel – Britain’s shining example of the exact worst that feminism can produce – has decided that bisexual ladies don’t exist. As a bisexual lady, I disagreed. Or did I? Maybe I just imagined it? But how can I imagine something if I myself do not exist? Oh dear…

  7. My May Reading Roundup: I managed to read 12 books this month, all of which were by women. I swear, it wasn’t on purpose! The post includes short reviews of Catherynne Valente’s Orphan’s Tales, N.K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon, Seanan McGuire’s Discount Armageddon, and the fantastic essay collection about Dr. Who: Chicks Dig Time Lords

    AND. I explain Why I don’t Read Comic Books, despite my love of superheros. Spoiler alert: it’s mostly because of the misogyny. And the fanservice. And the catastrophic DC reboot.
    But, having decided to get BACK into comic books, I’m looking for recommendations. So if you have any… please comment!

  8. Researchers from Harvard, NYU, and University of Utah discover that men married to housewives discriminate against women in the workplace: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/16/a-study-on-men-married-to-housewives/

    A sex expert suggests women force themselves to have sex “for the good of the relationship”: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/11/women-should-force-themselves-to-have-sex-for-the-good-of-the-relationship/

    Obama disappoints on immigration: http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/15/obama-disappoints-on-immigration/

    And a bit of humor: myths my students believe http://clarissasblog.com/2012/06/12/myths-my-students-believe/

  13. Anita Blake: Faux Champion of Sexual Agency : Answering the claim that critics of the series have problems with women and sexual agency

    Disney Princesses: New Drawings, New Problems: The Disney princesses have been re-imagined to make them appear tougher but to do so, new isms have been engaged once again.

    Face Off: Kristen Stewart vs Movie Goers: In which we compare K Stewart from Twilight to K Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman

    And of course we have something to say about True Blood Season Five, Episode One: Turn! Turn! Turn!

  14. I have up my first Everyday Yoga Call for Submissions, looking to get as many folks as possible submitting their versions of easy pose with whatever props or modifications they use to make it work for them. Please submit yours if you’re interested!

    I also wrote an Open Letter to Bra Manufacturers, asking them to please learn the difference between a ribcage and a boob. With pictures and graphs!

    And I talked about Hating Gym: Volleyball Edition, how my ninth grade PE teacher worked so very hard to squarsh my love of physical activity.

  16. Well, since you offered… 🙂

    In Si muove (she moves), I wrote about a mostly sedentary person re-visualizing herself as an exerciser.

    In Upward slope, I wrote about the challenge of cycling up very steep hills — and through clouds of gnats.

    In Here and now, I wrote about the odd trend to record live performances rather than to actually watch them.

    And in Precious and few, I wrote about how important friendship is to me, especially friendship with women.

    Thanks!

  17. I’ve just started my online journal (http://mellowness.dreamwidth.org/). It’s basically an outlet for me in which I discuss a host of sociopolitical issues, rant about things in our society and culture (especially stupid sociocultural norms), and hopefully more later on. Right now, I just have one journal entry about why I became a feminist. It’s a good one to start with, since it’s a way to know where I’m coming from (though it’s certainly not the whole picture).

  22. Continuing with my studies on Paul, this week I posted some Thoughts on Romans.

    I also wrote a fair bit on the situation involving the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR, nuns) and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF, Vatican):
    – Engaging with a post by a UCC pastor of Roman Catholic background, Beyond the Bumper Stickers
    – Reflecting on the phrase “product identity” used by the head of a CDF in a recent interview
    – Quoting the statement by the CMSM, the counterpart to the LCWR for men’s religious orders

  29. “How I Learned to Stop Torturing Myself over ‘Bad’ Decisions“–I was being a little to hard on my past self. Here’s how I learned to be nicer.

    “Thinspo, Fitspo, and Judgment: What Do Others’ Bodies Mean to You?“–I read some articles saying fitspo is just thinspo in workout clothes, but is getting inspiration from athletic bodies really the same as thinspo?

    I also wrote a brief analysis of the video “Daughters” by Nas and take a look at some of the gendered double standards Nas is tackling in the song.

    Balancing Jane also featured a great guest post by Martha Wood on being a politically liberal Texan.

  30. I read Hilary Mantel’s magnificent “An Experiment in Love”, about female awakenings in 1970s England,

    Hunter Thompson’s extraordinary report/novel “Hell’s Angels”, disturbing and brilliant in equal measures,

    David Peace’s “The Damned United”, whose only saving grace is the horribleness of everything else every written about football/soccer,

    and finally the great Alan Moore’s “A Small Killing”, with art by Oscar Zarate, an underrated masterpiece about Thatcherite England.

  31. At Muslimah Media Watch:

    Guest contributor Maheen covered a story where two women went into several mosques in Sweden to ask imams for relationship advice (with disturbing results).

    Merium wrote a follow-up to her piece from a couple weeks ago, looking at race and gender in how a sexual assault case in the UK is being talked about.

    New MMW contributor (yay!!!) Anike looked at a song called “Sexin’ Islamic Girls” by a popular Ghanaian rap group.

    Eren wrote about the generalisations made in discussions of polygamy, whether from within Muslim communities or from the outside.

    And Samya gave her thoughts on a recent Twitter campaign aimed at enforcing “dress codes” in the UAE.

  32. Three new blogs this week, because I forgot to post last week and I did two this week.

    First up: The Feminine Mystique. I’m 36 years old. Do I really have to read it?

    http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/06/real-oclock-feminine-mystique.html

    Second: “”There was a part in the blood orgy that reminded me of my children.”
    Let me explain.”

    http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/06/so-it-will-make-us-mad.html

    Third: The new tenants of my former apartment intercepted and cashed a $200 check meant for my new baby. Here is what I hope for them.

    http://greyskiesnyc.blogspot.com/2012/06/open-letter-to-new-tenants.html

    -Meredith L.

  35. On the Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona blog, we posted about human papillomavirus (HPV) in males. It’s hard to find this kind of information all in one place — check it out if you want to know how HPV affects people with penises, what can increase their risk for acquiring HPV, and why they cannot be tested for HPV in the absence of symptoms.

  36. The end of the livetweets of Greatest Story Ever Told. Parts 1 and 2 were last week.

    Thoughts on writing.

    Headdesking through the Apocalypse. A conversation my husband and I had about what would happen the day 90% of the world just didn’t wake up. (warning, language. I have a deliberately provocative title)

    A bit of shameless self-promotion. (I have three stories releasing this month) And a snippet of one.

    Thursday and Friday brought a crisis of writerly confidence. Apparently this is what I do now instead of just holding up the tiny umbrella, Wiley E Coyote style, when I run out of cliff, aka submit a book.

    Next week, Braveheart livetweets

  37. Hi all! This is my first comment here, although I was crossposted on feministe once for a post I wrote on No Longer Quivering. I’m part of the spiritual abuse survivors network (I’m an adult daughter of a fundamentalist parent). I blog at The Phoenix and Olive Branch.

    I just wrote a series explaining how fundamentalist Christians teach their kids homophobia:
    Homophobia: It Really is About Fear (Introduction)
    Homophobia, pt. 1
    Homophobia, pt. 2
    Homophobia, pt. 3

    I also wrote:
    Fast Cars and Misogyny: How Girls are Prevented from Learning “Masculine” Skills
    A Pro-Life Rally That Kills Me Inside
    Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture

  38. This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman:

    Budding Bromances and the Female Gaze
    How the bromance has been coopted by a rising movement to appeal to women through homoeroticism and male sensitivity (like in USA’s Common Law and Suits), and why this is just as bad as men coopting female friendship.

    Nikita’s Lessons in Sexiness
    The character of Nikita can teach us a lot about how to be sexy. Hint: it has nothing to do with what you wear, and everything to do with how you act.


    Stop Trying to Make Me Hate Strong Women!
    In King Arthur and Centurion, the antagonists manifest as strong, empowered women with a perfectly justified wish for revenge against Rome. So why are the movies trying to make me hate them?


    Guest Post: Californication and the Misguided Pursuit of “The One”
    The TV show Californications is problematic in a lot of ways, not least of all the way it portrays the main character’s longtime partner as a life-sucking harpy, and his pursuit of her as a stop to his character growth.


    Strong Female Characters Need to Grow
    As we learned from Aeryn Sun in Farscape, strong female characters need to grow in order to hold our interest. But where do you take a character who’s already empowered in the pilot episode?

    Tune in this week for the proper way to write a villain, a newby’s look at Buffy, and more!

  41. Stuff I’ve written lately:
    The big bad atheist will blow your religion down?: On comments made by CFI president Ron Lindsay regarding why atheists are “scary”
    Sexist trolls, meet Streisand Effect: On how attacks by misogynists vaulted Anita Sarkeesian’s Kickstarter project on sexist tropes in video games way, way, WAY past the amount of money it would have raised otherwise, and what that means
    The beauty of internet legal absurdity: On the hilarious (and ongoing) story of a ridiculous lawsuit threat against webcomic The Oatmeal, as told by an awesome lawyer at Popehat

  45. I’m hosting a feminist blog carnival! The deadline to submit to this first edition is 6/20, so get your posts in soon. This month, we’re talking about female friendships.

    This week, I wrote about The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the movie trailer that was recently released.

    I also had a guest post about a new project that will allow teen mothers to tell their stories, because we’re tired of hearing it from shows like Teen Mom, which don’t depict reality at all.

  52. Heya! I went to the Scottish parliament to meet an MSP who is looking to bring the ‘Swedish model’ (i.e criminalise demand) to Scotland, and had an …. enlightening chat with her. I also responded to a post I’ve seen doing the rounds on feminist(ish) Facebook sites etc, Stela Marr’s ‘Pimps posing as ‘sex worker activists”. She’s not yet un-moderated my comment drawing her attention to it, which I’m on the verge of finding a bit cheeky, because she *did* ask my thoughts (via a comment), so. But y’know.

  53. On Being Uncomfortable with Comfort. Reflecting on this challenging passage in Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution: “There are plenty of liberals who talk about poverty and injustice but rarely encounter the poor, living detached lives of socially responsible but comfortable consumption.”

    30 Things to Do Before I’m 30: Remember Where I Came From. Continuing to elaborate on some goals I have before I read 30. This is about me remembering on where I came from.

    [Victoria] The Last Name Project. Victoria has a hyphenated name, is proud of it, and will keep if when she gets married. She also mentions how annoying it gets when people ask “what if your kids names don’t fit on their soccer jerseys?!”

    Should Feminists Use Menstrual Cups Instead of Tampons and Pads? I’m interested in switching from mainstream pads/tampons to more eco-friendly, and potentially more feminist, alternatives like menstrual cups. If you’ve used them before, let me know what you think in the comments!

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

    Check out Laura Augustin’s essay “Helping women who sell sex: The construction of benevolent identities”, & learn from the ugly, classist, coercive & hypocritical history of women’s entry into the “caring professions”- particularly with regards to the construction of the “prostitute” as a particular subject in need of saving, reforming, and steering into respectable middle-class life by “benevolent” ladies during the “rise of the social” in the 1800’s and into present day.

  58. This week at re:Cycling, Chris and guest Lisa Leger collaborated on a post inspired by Gloria Steinem’s classic essay, “If Men Could Menstruate”, to visualize what pharmaceutical ads would like if suppression drugs were sold to men; I wrote a response to a recent post at Art of Manliness about why tampons may not be such handy survival tools as they think; and our weekend links feature includes info about menstrual huts, EC, metaformic theory, and more.

  60. This week at MsBehaved.com:

    http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/11/work-it-kelly-shibari-porn-star-and-marketing-consultant/
    Work It!: Career interview with Japanese American BBW Porn Star and Marketing Consultant Kelly Shibari. She talks playing Roseanne in the porn parody, breaking the stereotype of the “tragic pornstar,” and gives great advice for women working outside the 9-5

    http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/12/fathleticism/
    The Joys of Fathleticism, Part One: Why We Don’t Work Out, by me: identifying the reasons we avoid fitness so we can rethink inclusive fitness for all bodies!

    http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/14/notlikethis/
    Shannon Humphreys takes on the creepy abuser enabling that goes down on online pregnancy forums

    http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/12/eatmypodcast/
    Interview with With Melinda Hill & Jillian Lauren of Eat My Podcast, a podcast where they interview celebs about what they wanted to be when they grow up

    A peek inside the glamorous wardrobe of Chicago Sex Worker and Performance Artist Betty Devoe:
    http://msbehaved.com/2012/06/14/ms-behaved-style-icon-betty-devoe/

    Plus: Vegan Ice Cream in Austin, Gluten Free Chocolate Cookie recipe, HBO’s Girls, Jenna Marbles, an amazing guide to American Whiskey and more on Msbehaved.com!

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