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Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

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A complement to our long-standing Shameless Self-Promotion Sundays, this thread is for links to pieces on other people’s blogs that you have found memorable/provoking recently.  Please save the self-promotion links for this Sunday – use this thread to let Feministe readers know about the other blogs you love to read.

Guidelines:

  1. Ensure other readers have enough information about the post to make an informed choice on whether to click on your link. Content notes are advised for posts discussing problematic issues/incidents that might be NSFW or potentially distressing/triggering.
  2. Keep this thread focussed on the linking – the idea is to make your comments on the other blogs being linked! If you feel you must discuss it here, please take it to the Open or Spillover threads, depending on your assessment of its zombie stoush potential.

19 thoughts on Selfless Signal-Boosting Wednesday

  1. One of my favorite blog posts on the topic of childlessness/childfreeness is written by author Gloria Bowman, who wrote On Being Childless, Childfree, and True to Our Natures.

    What I like about this particular post is that Bowman approaches her subject candidly but compassionately, with a wisdom acquired through age and experience. She honors every woman’s right to choose the lifestyle that is right for her while acknowledging that for some women, that choice might be off the beaten path.

    This post has gotten a fair amount of traffic but nowhere near the amount it deserves, IMHO. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂

  2. Warning: Explicit Discussions of Rape

    I’ve mentioned her elsewhere on the blog, but Tucker Reed’s blog, Covered in Bandaids, and her activist work in general, is excellent. Ms Reed is a college student at the University of Southern California who has been advocating on her own behalf to seek justice two years after she was raped. She is currently raising money to cover her legal fees.

    1. Donna and others having trouble with linking text:

      <a href="URLGOESHERE">TEXT HERE</a>
      Enclosed text will turn into a link to the address you put inside the quotes.
      (The address must be the exact complete URL as copied from the address bar of your browser.)

      Source: Comments: allowed HTML (2)

      1. We just get a “nothing found” message when following your own “allowed HTML” link.

        Is it possible it is a post only viewable by mods?

        1. Ha! Hoist on my own petard – I misconfigured the link! Even when you know how to do it, mistakes can still happen 🙂

          Fixed now.

  10. CN: Misogyny, misogynistic slurs, gender essentialism, butch/femme conflicts.

    This blog post is actually from April, but it is such a great piece that I thought I would share it on Feministe. It’s on Autostraddle, and it’s a piece by: Kate (posted by Rosa Middleton), called: Butch Please, Butch With a Side of Misogyny. It talks about the fact that in many queer circles, gay women who identify as butch (not all of course) have the same attitude as chauvinistic straight cis men in how they treat other women. Especially toward femme gay women. It’s a great piece that really talks about the misogynistic problems that go on even among queer spaces that one wouldn’t think would actually be happening. And how we need to work on fixing those problems, especially other butch lesbians.

    Here is the URL because I’m having trouble making into a link.
    http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-with-a-side-of-misogyny-174442
    (maybe someone could help make this into a link… Thanks!!!)
    [Fixed – the URL has to include the http:// bit ~ tt]

  12. Susana Orozco has just compiled a historic analysis of gender in (US) spec script sales (all spelled out in a colorful infographic): Gender as Represented in Spec Script Sales. No one has ever put these numbers together before and it’s opening up a big conversation about under-representation of women in US screenwriting, and the concomitant issues of implicit bias, old boy networks, and the mechanics of and remedies for gender discrimination in the filmmaking industry.

  15. I’ve just come back from an internet and cell-phone-free vacation, and found this excellent post about sexual harassment, rape culture, and systematic disrespect of women. The author, Genevieve Valentine, a novelist who was at the center of a sexual harassment case at an F/SF con last year, discusses what she’s experienced over her lifetime, and contextualizes them in the larger problems we all know:

    Dealing With It.

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