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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

Jill

Promote yourself.

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29 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  1. I posted to CNN iReport about our anti cosplayer harassment efforts across the country, it includes our first cosplayer story-sharing video (we have a couple more that will be released throughout the effort). IReport officially vetted it last week!

  3. It’s been a while since I Shamelessly Self-Promoted, so these’ll be a few weeks worth of links.

    I recently discovered Jane Austen. And then I wrote her a love letter.

    Ever been on benefits? Ever tried to contact social welfare offices about the things you need? Ever been unable to physically get to the office? Have a post about Calling Social Welfare.

    I’m part of a video made by the wonderful Trans Equality Network Ireland (TENI) and LGBT Noise calling for cis people to stand up and be counted as supporting trans* people’s rights.

    Finally: The British Pregnancy Advisory Service posted an advertisement in the Irish Times yesterday, challenging the Irish government to provide care for Irish pregnant people. I responded to some of the things people are saying about the ad. Content note: antichoice rhetoric both in the post itself and the comments.

  5. This past week at Bitch Flicks was Women and Gender in Cult Films and B-Movies Theme Week. We featured analyses/reviews of Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, Rocky Horror Picture Show, NIght of the Living Dead, The Craft, Freaks, Friday the 13th, and more.

    Check out links to all of the posts in the round-up:
    http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/11/women-and-gender-in-cult-films-and-b-movies-the-roundup.html#.UnZko5T5kpY

    We will be posting a Call for Writers for our November theme week–Male Feminists and Allies–on Monday.

  9. I wrote about my fun times with mental illness and how I’m trying to figure my female, mental-case brain out (I don’t think it’s a trigger post, but it does mention, without detail, rape, eating disorders, etc.): Brain Trouble

  11. A few that might be of interest from my blog this time around:

    Heroine Addict – a guest post in which Emma Kendall talks about fiction, growing up, and role models for women

    Cracks of Doom – on fantasy and sci-fi (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Star Trek) and the ideological problems with wrestle with or try to paper over

    “I didn’t come to university to study this!” – on hearing this from students, and why I don’t think it means this generation is “consumerist” or “entitled”.

  12. Some men comment on my blog, saying that women should give men sex–the way men want it–regardless of what she wants. Sometimes, they they say it’s simply a matter of quid pro quo give-and-take. Including a marriage counselor who has his own blog.

    I ask why they don’t try having sex in ways that are mutually enjoyable, instead of expecting their partners to suffer through something they hate. And I sometimes write about how to have mutually enjoyable sex. Here’s one of those posts:

    Sex-Loving Guy Marries Sex-Avoiding Gal
    http://broadblogs.com/2013/10/28/sex-loving-guy-marries-sex-avoiding-gal/

    I also posted something that one of my Muslim women students wrote on why she wears hijab–and it’s not to keep men from sinning:

    On Burqas and Being Subordinate
    http://broadblogs.com/2013/10/30/on-burqas-and-being-subordinate/

  13. With the U.S. ranking 60th globally for women’s representation, only 43% of people think it would be a good thing to elect more women to Congress – so I wrote about the woman problem we have in politics.

    With the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday, conservative writers are still comically ignoring the very large gender gap in polling.

    Finally, after WaPo ran an article, “Why you won’t hear as much about abortion from Wendy Davis as you might expect,” I wrote a response as to how this was a ridiculous premise, expecting about a woman running for governor of Texas to be a one-note candidate.

  18. I want to touch the sun, but the lithium tremors get in the way. Why do we think people with disabilities need to be brave and positive and all that?

    Also, remembering a 1975 episode of Mr. Rogers where he and Margaret Hamilton helped make the Wicked Witch a little less terrifying (I was 5.)

    And, finally, in response to a “What Would You Do With XYZ?” question, I contemplate a million dollars worth of tampons in comparison to the billions in cuts to SNAP (food stamps) which took effect Friday.

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