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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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  6. I’ve created a series of YouTube videos on Test Prep without Corruption that may be of interest to parents and teachers who want to prepare students for state tests without sacrificing what is amazing and wonderful about learning. Video 3 talks about stereotype threat, which impacts girls on math and science tests.

  7. This week at the Tea Cosy:

    The difference between pity, compassion and empathy, and why those of us in social justice movements need to ditch the first and work our asses off on the others.

    AnOther Irish Abortion Abroad tells the story of one woman’s experiences travelling to the UK for an abortion. Because Irish abortions happen every day. They just don’t happen here.

    In Poly musings: on her others I get personal, and talk about how I feel about the other people my partner is in relationships with.

    I get furious for We Are Not Your Afterthought: responding to LGBT Soup. Ireland’s major LGBT publication posted a biphobic, transphobic piece by their deputy editor calling for all letters other than G to be removed from our acronym. I got angry.

    And finally, for the day that’s in it: Drink From Me And Live Forever: the case for Vampire Jesus is an analysis of the resurrection and a plea for greater understanding of our vampiric brethren. Tongue firmly in cheek.

  8. I posted a Holy Week potpourri of Lent Madness results, liturgical reflections, and Pope news, notably his inclusion of women in the footwashing rite on Holy Thursday and why that’s such a big deal in the Catholic church.

    I also want to give a shout-out to Dr. Free-Ride’s blogging on the Pycon incident involving Adria Richards. Her three posts on the incident and resultant debate over “naming and shaming” stood out among what I’ve been reading because they are written in the discourse/diction/register of the sciences, rather than the humanities register typical of most feminist writing. I think this gives them a good shot at reaching folks who are either unfamiliar with or dismissive of feminist analysis.

  14. And now I’m noting that my super-slow tablet typing and linking means I’m promoting my posts that Victoria Gaile has already promoted above.

    Thanks, Victoria! (Curse you, slow fingers!)

  17. This being Passover week, I thought I’d add my own ending to the Song of Miriam. The Bible verse is in bold, followed by my verses:

    Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted:
    The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
    He has liberated us from Egypt, from slavery;
    We must now liberate ourselves from hatred.

    Sing ye to those who have died, sing a dirge in mourning.
    Sing for the Jews and the Egyptians.
    Mourn also the hatred which has brought us both here.

    Sing out against hatred, cry out against oppression,
    Ours and others;
    May the world never again see such.

    1. I mean the Song of Miriam from the Bible (JPS version) is in bold, followed by the additional lines to it which I have written.

      1. Good idea. Here it is:

        Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly exalted:
        The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
        He has liberated us from Egypt, from slavery;
        We must now liberate ourselves from hatred.

        Sing ye to those who have died, sing a dirge in mourning.
        Sing for the humans and animals, the Jews and the Egyptians.
        Mourn also the hatred which has brought us both here.

        Sing out against hatred, cry out against oppression,
        Ours and others;
        May the world never again see such.

  18. Also I found this cool Buddhist poem which I did not write but am sharing. It is by the nun Mutta, rendered as follows by Thanissaro Bhikkhu:

    So freed! So thoroughly freed am I! —
    from three crooked things set free:
    from mortar, pestle,
    & crooked old husband.
    Having uprooted the craving that leads to becoming,
    I’m set free from aging & death.

    Which could also be:

    So freed! So thoroughly freed am I! —
    from three crooked things set free:
    from mortar, pestle,
    and crooked old husband.
    Having uprooted the craving that leads to becoming,
    I’m set free from aging and death.

    Susan Murcott suggests that muttiyā could better be rendered as “freed by means of.” So then the poem would be:

    So freed! So thoroughly freed am I! —
    freed by means of three crooked things:
    freed by means of mortar, pestle,
    & crooked old husband.
    Having uprooted the craving that leads to becoming,
    I’m set free from aging & death.

    Or:

    So freed! So thoroughly freed am I! —
    freed by means of three crooked things:
    freed by means of mortar, pestle,
    and crooked old husband.
    Having uprooted the craving that leads to becoming,
    I’m set free from aging and death.

    1. So if you go by Susan Murcott’s idea I think it means she was actually freed by realizing how lousy her husband and her life with him doing all the work with the mortar and pestle (probably cooking) was. So in a way she was actually inspired by him and the lousy division of housework to become enlightened, or “freed”, because that’s what convinced her to become a nun.

      This poem is number 11 in the Therigatha collection supposedly recited by early members of the Buddhist sangha in India around 600 BC. It has no title.

  19. It’s the last day of Endometriosis Awareness Month! Learn about the many treatment strategies for endometriosis. There are both pharmaceutical and surgical options, each with their own side effects, advantages, and drawbacks.

    It’s also the last day of Women’s History Month! Meet Mary Peace Douglas, who fought for reproductive justice during a tumultuous time in Arizona’s and Planned Parenthood’s history, helping to bring abortion services to Southern Arizona.

  20. My boyfriend recently started a new blog, “The Atheist Database,” for the purpose of archiving everything one might want to know on the subject, from the different types of atheism to the most current rebuttals to theistic arguments for God.

    This week, as his blog just started, he focused on defining “atheism”.

    First, he explained the definition succinctly: https://atheistdatabase.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/a-succinct-definition-of-atheism/

    Then, he detailed and responded to the five most common misconceptions of atheists: https://atheistdatabase.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/common-misconceptions-about-atheists/

    Finally, he addressed four common objections to the definition (of “weak atheism”): https://atheistdatabase.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/common-objections-to-the-definition-and-their-responses/

  23. I write this piece on some of the challenges faced by Irish women when trying to travel to access abortion services in England. It’s something that’s generally absent from the discourse around abortion in Ireland.

    Women with money have options, women with nothing have babies.

  29. This week I reviewed Horizons, a mid-future sci-fi book. It’s got great worldbulding, particularly in its explanations of why the orbital stations want independence. It also does a good job of letting the protagonist’s sexual and romantic preferences be fluid and keyed to people rather than labels. That said, it can seem to skip from one plot to the next without letting things breathe and have an emotional impact.

    I also wrote a post about editing Kelpie, a middle-grade fantasy novel with a female protagonist and a full cast of characters who feel like, you know, actual people. 😛

  31. New Fromage, the cheesiest blog around!

    To do is to be is a music post about Hether Fortune of Wax Idols, doing stuff when you’re young, and still doing it anyway even though you’re no longer young.

    And for Easter, a post with church in it! I heart NY (a lot) is full of highlights of our recent trip — the Met, Park Slope shopping, theatre, Balaboosta, and more.

    1. I’d love to visit New York. Have done ever since reading Helene Hanff’s Apple of My Eye. The Met and Central Park would be my top spots.

      I think autocorrect was out to get you on the blog: it spelled Monet as Money! 🙂

  32. This is actually from last week, but I thought I’d share anyway: a post on the victim-blaming culture that comes from the idea that ‘women need to be more careful’ and that somehow we can avoid being raped that way. There are some real flaws in that argument which mask two things: that women are God damn careful already, and that rape ‘prevention’ aimed at victims just doesn’t work. Alongside other things.

    When will women stop being told to be more careful?

  33. In a blissfully restful Easter break, I’ve done a new picture of Mr Kittehs from scratch. Nothing of importance to anyone but us, but hey, it is shameless self-promotion Sunday (well, over the dateline, anyway).

    Dedicated Whovians might recognise the leather jacket. 😉

  34. I have started to host biweekly discussions on the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena: http://quicksilver-ink.dreamwidth.org/17554.html

    While there’s more LGBT representation on TV now (in both the US and Japan), this was the first TV show I saw that had overtly queer characters, and I would love to hear the views of other folks on this show!

    1. I love that post. Thank you.

      It’s easy to say “I’d never.” I’d never put a kid younger than two in front of the TV. Except when, you know, I only got three hours of sleep because of a combination of him being up at four and my having insomnia, and my whole body aches, and he never, ever stops moving and I’m feeling older by the minute, but I can get old episodes of Sesame Street on Netflix, and he’ll sit on lap and watch those and I can check my email, and I guess I’m the worst auntie in the world, but that is just the way it is sometimes.

      1. I thought it was great too. Look at comment # 4 — it’s so perfectly typical of the responses to this kind of post that I’m tempted to believe somebody made it up.

        1. Ah, that wasn’t there when I’d read it. Indeed, perfect of its kind–you brought your baby’s tongue-tie and your PPD on yourself through your own choices so why should I feel sorry for you! I so envy these people who can control perfectly the events of their lives through their expert decision-making and never require the compassion of strangers. It’s a shame I’ve never met one.

  36. I didn’t write a whole lot lately, but there were some big items I did write about.

    Remember when San Francisco’s Supervisors claimed that events were exempted from an exception to the nudity ban they passed last year? They lied, as nudity is not allowed at any event there this year, not even at protests like the one that took place on March 22. And not only did they lie about that, they also lied about not arresting people for breaking that ordinance. I branded them as professional liars.

    Because of this, I called on feminists to help fight ALL nudity bans such as this one – I have silenced my Twitter until further notice until more of us fight for nudists’ civil rights.

    Rape cases in Torrington, Conn. and Murfreesboro, Tenn. are rife with victim-blaming, just like Steubenville, Ohio.

    Rick Ross has a new song and it endorses rape. He failed in his attempt at PR Damage Control. I’ve also linked Ultraviolet’s petition to demand that Reebok drop him as a sponsor.

    In response to the name of Steubenville’s Jane Doe being leaked by the media 22 HOURS after the trial ended, I called on the current rape shield law to be renamed and expanded to shield the identity of ALL crime victims from the media and public.

    Here is something else people should thank feminists for: larger, more legible and brighter highway signs (including Proper Case Street Name signs); and the requirement of a Crossbuck assembly at passive grade railroad crossings – the former of which is a major assistance to people with a visual disability and the latter of which is a major assistance to people who have an auditory disability. The feminist community’s tireless work for the civil rights of disabled people was a major factor in the writing of the 2009 MUTCD, which has since had two minor revisions to it.

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