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I reviewed Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/100913041011/listen-up-philip-2014 and selected some weekend links: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/100991463126/the-weekend-5
This week I finally got my hands on The Collective Tarot – a radical deck of cards I’ve been after for a long time. Exciting! Here are my latest posts… Meeting The Collective Tarot Manatees and how amazing they are A roundup of truly beautiful writing by women Thanks as always for the opportunity to share – I look forward to seeing what everyone else posts! Beth x littleredtarot.com
Four female characters from TV and film that would make badass costumes. At least for me. Guest blog post exploring Halloween and gender conformity in early 20th Century Pittsburgh – with news clippings. Fascinating. My birthday was earlier this week. For kicks, I googled a “lost” childhood friend whom I haven’t seen in 35 years. And I found her. She lives just a few miles from our childhood neighborhood. Wow.
We’re a little over a week away from the mid-term elections, which tend to have low voter turnout. I wrote about some of what’s at stake on November 4th, from tackling mass incarceration to opening the door to more draconian anti-abortion laws.
Rachel shared her story about how the legal battles over birth control access affected her personally as a college student in the 1960s, and how those battles still rage on today. Some themes have been recurring over and over again for the past century — arguments over the right to have sex without fear of pregnancy, the right to female bodily autonomy, the right to access appropriate health care without government intervention. Sound familiar? All other material at the blog this week was election coverage, though you might be interested in this interview with a school board candidate who talks about her district’s trans-inclusive anti-discrimination policy, which she says was the first in the nation.
People Are Nicer When You’re Gender-Conforming. Cashiers and waiters meet my eyes; guys slap my back and call me brother; children don’t gawk at me in the street. 7 Questions For Transgender Spiritual Seekers. Each of these queries points towards possibilities in trans experience, lenses this life has offered me.
Over at delagar, I post about my latest short story publication (yay me!) which went live at Strange Horizons this week: read about it here, at Dream Cakes. There’s also a link to a podcast, so you can listen if you like!
I wrote about how a naked party helped heal some of my body image issues: http://transfinitelove.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-getting-naked-with-30-people.html?m=1
Busy couple weeks on my blog. I share some thoughts on how women are required to be men in “I am a man,” getting only halfway through before I revert to geeking out about Doctor Who, which I also did in the posts “Kill the moon?” and “Goodness had nothing to do with it.” Also I blogged about being a panelist at Seattle’s Geek Girl con–I was invited by Washington Lawyers for the Arts to contribute to a discussion of fanfiction, copyright, and the law.
This past week or so (probably longer) on Kiss My Wonder Woman: GeekGirlCon – Interviews in Artist’s Alley, Part 1 and Part 2 Agents of SHIELD has leveled up the awesome in season 2 Gone Girl subverts the ‘Woman in Peril’ genre The Book of Life is the charming, diverse, lady-friendly kids’ movie we’ve been waiting for Marvel and DC are in a diversity arms race, and everyone is winning Tune in this week for looks at Constantine, Jane the Virgin, The Raven Boys, and more!
I have a short story in a new erotic horror anthology that released this week: Hungry Hearts November is almost upon us and that means NaNoWriMo. So, my thoughts, and what I have written over the years. Inkstained Succubus has new anthology calls out.
This past week, I wrote about nail-polish and make-up daddies and (briefly) on distorted senses of masculinity and femininity. It was a fun write-up!
This was a slow week for me, writing-wise, but here’s a collection of various feminist Halloween costume ideas, along with links to posts on Halloween costumes and gender binaries, sexualization, and sterotypes.
Thank you for this opportunity! the traffic to my blog noticeably increased 🙂 This week I have been wondering about the nature of the institution of marriage and its effect on a woman’s career : Is it possible to have your own kind of marriage? I regret abandoning my career when I got married. I also chronicled the difficulties of rejoining the labour market after a housewife career break: In which I realise that any job is better than no job is it ever a good career move to take a minimum wage job the checkout is the best motivator one week at the deli counter is worth one year of counselling reluctantly applying for the dream job Finally I touched on simple ways I am using to get to know myself better : How choosing clothes taught me who I am To round it all off, I wrote about the illusion of the happy life on a farm Thank you for this opportunity to link!
A 7 page comic featuring my character LUCY, who gets a new temp job. http://brokeinnowheresville.tumblr.com/post/99617179985/comics-feminist-comics-workinghttp://spiralnotebookcomics.blogspot.com/
If you’re curious/passionate/puzzled about all the street harassment talk which has been happening lately, do check out my blog post on everything it is not: http://endwolfwhistle.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/streetharassmentisnot/ Let me know if you have similar blogs or writings too!