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This week on broadsspeak: thoughts on Debra Harrell and individualism: http://broadsspeak.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/on-kids-alone-in-parks-we-need-a-collective-response/
This week on Valprehension, I muse about how all the dudes who expend energy trying to make sure feminists know that “not all men” are misogynists and rapists could so much more productively harness that defensive energy if they just directed at the people who actually do think that all men are misogynists and rapists (i.e. misogynists and rapists).
I reviewed Camille Claudel 1915, a biopic starring Juliette Binoche: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/92328674276/camille-claudel-1915-2013 and chose some weekend links: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/92330676876/the-weekend-5
This week on the blog, I discussed how writing helped me accept myself for who I am and explore confusing emotions — “Expressive mediums: In crayon, poems, and imagery”
This week I put together part 1 of an extensive abortion myths vs. realities series. This was largely inspired by some of the comments I received on an older post on anti-choice protesters.
Last week at Bitch Flicks… Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke Praise Patricia Arquette’s Performance in ‘Boyhood’ The Neverending Search for Good Sci-Fi: ‘Defiance’ Edition Leaning In to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Female Purity Is Some Bullshit: My Problem With ‘Ida’ Top 10 Superheroine Movies That Need a Reboot Girls Film Project Wedding Movies Revisited Facing Down the Devil in ‘The Lesser Blessed’ When Can You Laugh at Suicide?: ‘A Long Way Down’ Seed & Spark: The Spectrum of #BetterRepresentation
This week on Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents: Five Essential Lessons Learned from Pittsburgh Pridefest (Content: homophobia, right wing zealotry, reference to police misconduct, classism) The debut of “sisTers” on Transperience.TV, the first all trans content television station (available online and on Roku.) (Content: transphobia, violence, footage of an arrest, references to self-harm and addiction.) Another murder of a trans woman of color in Baltimore. RIP Mia Henderson. (Content: violence, transphobia, misgendering) My reflections on why the hyperfocus on ride sharing (Lyft and Uber) makes me so very angry. (Content: homophobia, classism) After laundering my partner’s wallet 🙁 I discovered she still has the card I gave her 11 years ago with my phone number. She still has my number!
Check out this bizarro world: There’s a special class of patients who don’t have the same rights to safety and privacy as other health-care recipients, and when they see their doctors they invite their bosses to come with. It felt like we woke up into that world last month, when the Supreme Court did away with buffer zones at abortion clinics and opined that bosses’ religious beliefs could determine their employees’ level of birth-control access. * * * In 2000, we were *this close* to eradicating syphilis nationwide! Unfortunately, in recent years syphilis has been making a comeback, and rates have doubled since 2005. Learn who is most at risk, why syphilis is dangerous, and how you can protect yourself!
Over at delagar, I talk about my first job: First Job It’s a gripping tale of oppression and resistance, y’all!
Hey all! This week on Keepinitglassy, I posted about the slippery slope America now faces in its assertion that religious preference trumps human rights (arguing back to a certain piece in the New York Times that entirely missed the point…) I also most recently posted on the relationship between feminism and motherhood, and how they do not have to be mutually exclusive entities. There are posts on approachable pop culture feminism, sex education, and analysis of primetime television (SCANDAL!!!) Check me out, and follow me on twitter at @keepinitg1assy for more updates! -Rachel
I’ve been posting a few excerpts from my students’ final papers lately, discussing their struggles on the road to a more feminist perspective. Like this one, by a young woman who has struggled with pressure to feel pretty, or not, the punishments and rewards that follow, and trying to find her way to a more authentic self. I Didn’t Want To Be Pretty http://broadblogs.com/2014/07/02/i-didnt-want-to-be-pretty-2/
This week, I shared my experience with anxiety since I was in college until now, as a pregnant woman. I also talked about how hard it is to have a good body image when you’re pregnant and your body seems to be betraying you (even when everything is perfectly “normal”).
getting lip injections while ridiculing fuller lips on poc, and other bizarre things white people do: http://thefatalfeminist.com/2014/07/17/imitating-the-appearances-of-people-of-color/
We’ve collated a Pinterest page of inspiring stories of solutionaries & changemakers: http://humaneeducation.org/blog/2014/07/14/find-inspiration-support-stories-solutionaries-changemakers/
Responding to ’15 Women Say Why They Don’t Need Feminism’ – Descending into snark Thoughts on the White House’s non-response ‘response’ to the petition on non-binary genders – Once again, the ‘We The People’ petition site results in a swing and a miss
Hey, hello. This play I’ve been working on about Aphra Behn — famous British playwright and spy — premiered at the Washington, DC fringe festival this week. There are still two more performances — Wednesday and Friday — if that’s the kind of thing that you’re interested in. https://www.capitalfringe.org/festival-2014/shows/358-empress-of-the-moon-the-lives-of-aphra-behn
I blogged about Bernard Häring’s 1968 essay on the 1968 papal encyclical banning artificial birth control for Roman Catholics. In The Encyclical Crisis Then (and Now), I comment on a number of excerpts as they still apply to the Catholic church today, either with regard to the teaching on birth control or the more general question of authority in the church. In Debts, or Trespasses? And Other Riffs on the Lord’s Prayer, I share some personal variations on this prayer and how I’ve engaged with the text over time.
Trans ≠ Transition. I was trans before I started transition, and I will be til the day I die. No choice I can make will ever change or “fix” that. There’s That Sound Again. Flash fiction with a novel metaphor for gender dysphoria. Bzzz. There’s that sound again. Bzzz. Bzzz. You shake your head, like you could shake the sound out of your ears…
I’ve gone from writing nothing for months to four posts in a week… I compared that headteacher’s inspirational letter which went viral to a somewhat less inspirational letter I received back in my school days. Piper Chapman as a shining example of how not to navigate your own privilege. Haircuts, abortion funds, and learning to STFU. And my own particular experience of the intersection between queerness and mental illness.
Hello world! This week, I considered the slippery slope America now faces due to the Hobby Lobby decision to privilege religious preference over human rights. The article delves into the function of religion in debates of human rights. Also, I wrote a piece about the relationship between feminism and motherhood, and the mindset that creates them as mutually exclusive entities. There are posts on sex education, pop-culture media analysis, and the “approachable” feminist movement. Check it out, and follow me at @keepinitg1assy for regular post updates! -Rachel
I’ve started a feminist blog about UK politics. The first post is about the need to include women at the top of progressive politics, citing the awful treatment of the Labour Party’s Deputy leader Harriet Harman as an example. I’ve also written about the recent reshuffle of the UK’s Cabinet ministers and how it paves the way for an even more right-wing Conservative Party.
This week I simultaneously got ripped off and had my intelligence insulted by a local 10-minute-oil-change place.
I dismantle MRA’s one dudebro at a time. Today we watch Judgybitch eat lots of hay. http://www.mancheeze.wordpress.com
The first post of my blog where I gush about moving out. http://nosingularmoment.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/freedom/
After taking nearly 6 months off from blogging, I’m back on duty over at Self-Rescuing Princess Society with the first in a three-part biographical series about the amazing Mary McLeod Bethune.
Can we tout a blog with something important to say that we ourselves did not write? Then I’d like to spike this blog, and this article, on NAMALT: Not all men are like that! http://nymeses.blogspot.ca/2014/07/another-perspective-on-namalt-not-all.html
As per the netiquette notes, we prefer that writing by other people go in the Selfless Signal-Boosting thread, so I’m happy to leave your post here but would you mind copying the link over there?
Hiya, this weeeeeeek I wrote about Marvel and writer Jason Aaron’s plans for Thor to become a woman and how that’s a great thing for comics in general. (lame) xx
The Gunshot Hit Archie Where? The death of Archie plotline is well-intended but sort of hamhanded and embarrassing. Everyone Hates Atheists Except Jews And Atheists. Survey shows that even Democrats don’t like atheists. Superhero Character Changes: Thor is a Lady, Batgirl is a Hipster I’m not as optimistic about the new Thor as some folks have been, alas. Study Shows Enormous Sentencing Discrepancy Against Men. The study is interesting in that it tries to capture decisions made by prosecutors before trial – which is an incredibly important area that typical studies don’t cover.
On “respectability politics” and birth control, and why we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about contraception and sex.
Releasing Comparisons & Competition. All about my new aerial hoop skills and how for a recovering over achiever, a solid middle of the road performance can be SO freeing
My latest article on that study that “proves” men like women who are nice and women don’t like men who are nice: http://queereka.com/2014/07/25/breaking-college-men-respond-positively-to-women-behaving-in-stereotypically-feminine-ways/
Last week at Bitch Flicks… Bitch Flicks Weekly Picks One Cut, One Life: Love, Death, and Jealousy Everything’s Coming Up Braverman in Parenthood Love It or Hate It, Emotions Served Raw in the Music of Les Misérables Inviting Global Celebration of Films #DirectedbyWomen The Layered Danish Pastry Called Borgen Sex, Violence and Girls in Pink Dresses: Thoughts on Prom Horror Flicks Rape as Narrative Device on American Horror Story