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When my daughter brought a kindergarten readiness checklist home form preschool, it made me question whether the goal of education is learning or conformity.
I wrote: backlash against fat acceptance means we’re making progress. I also (finally) put up some pictures from a fat-positive day of movement almost a year ago that included yoga, bellydancing, and self-defense.
Over at delagar, I blogged about my new post up a Grounded Parents, which concerns body issues in our children: Do My Knees Look Fat?
This week I posted my feature on ‘Hook Up Culture’ and the growing phenomenon of Sex Weeks on college campuses on my blog…my professor assigned the project along with the assertion that women biologically cannot engage in casual sex in the same way that men can… I obviously sought to assert the REAL reason hooking up can be problematic for women- it has everything to do with the way we talk about sex, and little to do with a women’s biological makeup. There are also articles about ‘Equal Work, Unequal Pay’ and the struggle this presents for American mothers, rants about the approachable feminist movement and Cheryl Sandberg, and much more! Check it out, follow back or post a comment!
Last week at Bitch Flicks… ‘Belle’: A Costume Drama Like and Unlike the Others Seed & Spark: Agency and ‘Afternoon Delight’ ‘Transmormon’: The Spaces In Between Religion and Gender Joss Whedon’s Indie Film ‘In Your Eyes’ Disappoints Profile of a Wit: A Review of ‘Public Speaking’ When It Seems Like the Movie You’re Watching Might Hate You ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2′: Rise of Electrozzzzzzzz Call For Writers: Representations of Female Sexual Desire History We Need: ‘Chisholm ’72′
This week I wrote about Frozen and depression. Also, if you missed it, take my quiz to find out what kind of feminist you are!
Women are women, but men are people. Why are people, including some female Democrats, uncomfortable with the idea of a two-woman presidential ticket? The birth control coverage mandate: our work isn’t done. My experience dealing with a blood clot caused by hormonal birth control is just one example of why we need coverage for all forms of contraception. Activists in California are working to make sure that happens.
CN: Politics Disenfranchisement, take two. I am tracking all the politicians and pundits who call for revoking women’s suffrage. CN: Religion On what I believe. My answer to Christians who ask why i don’t believe in (their) God. CN: Religion, mental illness I am MPD and Still Sorting Stuff Out Pretty picture of what I did with leftover broken crayons since my kids are past the crayon stage Visual casting for my next book, because “urban” shouldn’t mean people of color when applied to crime or culture and yet have urban fantasy be all white. Thinking about appropriation, same sex romance and problematic female bodies.
Prolific week for me. I revisited the first time I was confronted with a maxi-pad that came with safety pins – it was 1983 and I was like “wth is this?” It has shaped my work to collect products for low income women and girls since. CN – mental illness symptoms discussed. May is Mental Health Month and I’ve written two posts so far. One recounts the first time I saw a therapist (1992) and the second explores how anxiety can derail day to day activities. CN – contains spoilers, references to child abuse. I reviewed the documentary “Finding Vivian Maier” CN – stalking, harassment, sexual assault content. I also explored how several harassment situations have threatened my peace of mind and what I’ve done to regain it. Finally, I explored how the growth of animal welfare organizations can hurt low-income neighborhoods.
What To Say Instead Of “Chosen Gender.” I ask our allies to join me in using accurate, respectful language to describe transgender people. Next time you’re tempted to say something like “chosen gender,” try one of these words instead. How Do People Know Their Gender? Responding to a reader’s question about how people know what gender they really are and what gender feels like.
What I reported on this week at RHRC: Louisiana Anti-Choice Advocates, Lawmakers Exploit ‘Black Genocide’ Myth Hundreds of Nigerian School Girls Remain Missing, Activists Demand Action Iowa Legislature Passes Repeal of Laws Criminalizing HIV Supreme Court Declines Request to Review Former Kansas AG Phill Kline’s Case
Again, the NYT offers the Libertarian answer to poverty– use the poor as organ donors. Desperately Selling a Kidney
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I’m graduating this month! So I have a couple of pieces of good news about that. And I posted a brief review of Edith Stein: Scholar, Feminist, Saint.
I’ve been doing a course in floristry, just started second term of a year-long course. Petal Skills is where I’ve been posting photos. It’s a tumblrblog, so posts are in reverse chronological order.
a commentary on the viral letter “To My Future Wife” and the issues it raises on gender boxing and gender expectations
I looked at how people who promote coercive gender roles and get into moral panics about parents who want to raise their children without gender coercion are contradicting themselves: http://failbluedot.com/moral-panic-genderless-kids
I’m not promoting myself, but promoting someone else who deserves to be promoted but isn’t. Ezra Klein wrote a post about ‘fat hatred’ where he failed to credit the many pioneering feminists who have written well research pieces on this phenomenon years before he did, and when Melissa McEwan called him out on this, he responded by demanding she do work for him.
Mutha Magazine published by essay Inconsistent Advice of a Single Mom this week and the response is blowing me away with so much love and high-fives. “Single parenthood is like drowning and being on fire at the same time and everyone will go on and on about how beautiful the spectacle is—how strong you are, what brave work you’re doing, how they could never do something so incredible. And meanwhile you’re on fire, you’re drowning, and you can’t hear them at all, you just keeping thinking I’M DYING I’M DYING I’M DYING. But then you don’t die…”