Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday January 5, 2014 Jill Promote yourself. Netiquette reminders: Want to recommend someone else’s writing instead? Try the weekly signal-boosting thread. we expect Content Notes as a courtesy to our readers for problematic content in linked posts and/or their comment threads (a habit of posting only triggering/disparaging links may annoy the Giraffe (you really don’t want to annoy the Giraffe)) extended discussion of self-promotion links on this thread is counter-productive for the intended signal-boosting – the idea is for the promoted sites to get more traffic. If it’s a side-discussion that would be off-topic/unwelcome/distressing on the other site, take it to #spillover after leaving a note on this thread redirecting others there.
I read Beyonce’s new album as an ode to radical motherhood. Is worry about the postmodern condition the academic version of “kids these days” hand wringing?
New at Human with Uterus this week: Procrustean Obstetrics Episiotomy as American Genital Mutilation http://humanwithuterus.wordpress.com/
I’m investigating the way undergraduate students blog – whether about their academic course or (more usually) not: this week I posted a request to hear from people, and the first piece arising from the responses so far: Student Bloggers: I Want To Hear From You! Student Blogging: Veering Off Course
I wrote about: –Things that give me hope. –Is creativity dead in Boston? Not the one I know, and a follow-up post with more reflections and lots of pictures of art around the city.
This week on Ask an Aspergirl, I reviewed the book Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges — http://t.co/2HMav3JGUi
Should Your Boss Play Doctor? If the boss can tailor your health insurance to their personal beliefs, where will it end? Christian Science discount plan, anyone? Just sayin’, You’ll Never See a Movie Called ‘Him’ All this Duck Dynasty whining, as if television was free– When the Smothers Brothers Got Censored
Trans* People and Mental Illness — Thoughts on trans* folks and diagnosis, as a trans man studying mental health. What Are Femininity & Masculinity? — Sketching out an answer to a tricky question.
At Bitch Flicks last week… A Call for Writers for our January Theme Week: Representations of Sex Workers. A roundup of all of our posts for Child and Teenage Girl Protagonists Week. Love is an Open Closet Door in ‘Frozen’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: A Moving Tribute to Music While Transcending Gender Tropes The Masculine Adventure in ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: C’mon Marty, You Can Do Better! Oprah Winfrey Succeeds in a Tough Role in ‘The Butler’ Exploring Bodily Autonomy on ‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Friendship, Fandom, and Female Agency in ‘Lost Girl’ ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is More Than Just a Spoonful of Sugar ‘Obvious Child’: A Rom Com Gets Real Over Choice (Fundraising)
Why would a guy screw a girl just so he can brag? And why’s that too often more important than sexual pleasure? Why Some Guys Want to Screw You
This article definitely hit a chord. [snip rest of long comment - from the OP: "extended discussion of self-promotion links on this thread is counter-productive for the intended signal-boosting - the idea is for the promoted sites to get more traffic." Please make your long comment on the linked post, not here. ~ mods]
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I wrote about the various types of responses to Pope Francis in Francis, Discipleship, Fandom, and Factionalism. Over at Are you Catholic? Did you Know…?, the topic this week is Epiphany: read, share, & vote in the poll. Happy Epiphany!
It’s time to talk about our messages about masculinity: 3 films to start us off: humaneeducation.org/blog/2013/12/19/time-talk-messages-masculinity-3-films-start/ 7 tips for nurturing compassion in young children: http://humaneeducation.org/blog/2013/12/26/7-tips-nurturing-compassion-young-children/
I have a couple new recipes posted: Lemon Risotto with Seared Scallops (this post includes some really beautiful photos of my mom) Chocolate Bark with Chipotle Pepitas and Pop Rocks
I really loved your blog! In fact, if I don’t get too lazy, seeing it inspired me to do a blog about my baking which combines narrative and recipes, starting with my experience making various cookies, cakes and brownie/blondies for my father-in-law while he was receiving chemotherapy and the process I made for making the marijuana infused butter which so helped which his chemo side effects.
Oh, wow. Thanks, Fat Steve. The food I make is so wrapped up in the people I make it for. Blogging about it–telling those stories and sharing the recipes–has been a great experience. If you decide to start a baking blog, I hope you’ll link it here! I’d love to read it.
Here’s a brief list of ways to make more meaningful new year’s resolutions. I also wrote about celebrities and food, but I’m not totally satisfied with the post, so I’d love to hear what other people think on the topic.
Well, I can see one glaring problem. The title explicitly refers to Celebrities and ‘food,’ yet the picture shows a McDonald’s burger.
Well, as the Fat Nutritionist would say, all foods are real foods. Well, I didn’t use the word ‘real’ because I was, in fact, making a jokey comment, but also implying that I liked everything else about her blog post. However, I cannot go along with the Fat Nutritionist’s comment “If food is keeping someone, somewhere alive, then it is real enough,” especially since I just read about that guy who was trapped in a cave for 9 days and survived by drinking his own urine. It may be ‘real’ as in, it exists, but it is not food.
Not so much new content from me over the holidays, but I did post a round up of my top ten posts in 2013.
Seriously, Miyako Fujitani is the real martial arts hero you’ve never heard of… Would Steven Seagal Treat Arizona Like He Treated His Wife?
Vagina Chronicles Podcast has released a new episode for the new year about setting daily creativity goals rather than resolutions that infer that we’re just not good enough! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vagina-chronicles-podcast/id734130194 We have a lot of great interviews scheduled for 2014, so stay tuned! Love!
This week (and last week) on Kiss My Wonder Woman: Love Actually isn’t a perfect movie, and that’s okay Doctor Who‘s Christmas special was everything I hate Frozen: sisterlove, racism, and the importance of kids’ media Broken people make for the best stories (American Hustle) Sherlock‘s new season is a turn for the better (maybe) Strong Female Character Friday, with Aya Fuse from Extras Tune in this week for reviews of The Hobbit (finally), more Sherlock, Neil Gaiman’s new book, and more!
I recapped the last year in terms of my pet sitting assignments in New Zealand, Malaysia and the Netherlands. 2013: The Year In Cats.
I do some double checking of a gender violence factoid that’s appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times recently.
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Over at delagar, I did a retrospective post: The Top Ten Posts of 2013. Also, I wrote a brief post on my new post for Grounded Parents: Why My Kid Had Purple Hair.
I made a webcomic. It’s something I’ve only done once before, and am trying to work on. This one is about the notion of “common ground” being a premise, an agreement you make with someone while arguing about what is true, in order to move on to the conclusions you both think should be drawn from it. My own conclusions from doing it are: 1. It took way too long to make, and 2. I need to work on conveying ideas more effectively. 🙂 But I’m still pretty happy with it.
As a white queer anti-racist feminist, I wrote about why it’s not my place to state that I’m an ally to people of color, Ani DiFranco’s non-apology, and offer links to some powerful voices belonging to both women of color and white feminists (including a white male) on the subjects of racism, intersectionality, and whiteness.
Shameless Self Promotion is for promoting your own work over the past week. This should be taken to the Weekly Open Thread (or abandoned entirely).
On finally learning calculus in a safe environment: http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/mathochism-the-joys-of-mooculus/
I took a look at the latest annual Swedish police report on trafficking: Sex trafficking in Sweden, according to the Swedish police