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I reviewed the wonderful masculinity-in-crisis film ‘Force Majeure:’ http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/107604001886/force-majeure-2014 chose my top 10 films of 2014: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/107616335436/the-10-best-films-of-2014 and picked some weekend links: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/107784584141/the-weekend-5
I wrote about Cosby and the rape joke he told at a recent show–and how glad I’ll be when rape culture is no longer a thing I have to write about. Also, a short piece about the challenge of proper diagnosis for mental health issues.
I wrote about the next generation of Gardasil — the HPV vaccine. It will protect against seven cancer-causing strains of human papillomavirus, whereas the current version protects against two. The vast majority of cervical and anal cancers can be prevented (genital warts, too).
I wrote about how having a baby was NOT the most amazing! Best! Hardest! Thing! Ever! (And it was my first post since 2012 so I am extra excited about it.) http://theroundearthsimaginedcorners.blogspot.com/2015/01/having-child-is-neither-hardest-nor.html?m=1
I wrote about the art of blogging An update on the Lives and Deaths of Crystal Jackson and Britney Cosby, 2 gay women of color murdered in Texas last year. A bit of cheeky fun – 2016 will mark the 25th anniversary of my internship with Rick Santorum
My reporting this week at RH Reality Check: –Kansas legislators are likely to debate legislation that could effectively ban abortion as early as three weeks’ gestation –The Missouri General Assembly began the 2015 legislative session with a focus on state laws and policies related to the killing of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown, and the subsequent police crackdown last year in Ferguson. –The percentage of Americans without health insurance has decreased dramatically since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate –The woman who accused Florida State University (FSU) quarterback Jameis Winston of raping her filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the university’s trustees. –A Tennessee lawmaker has filed a bill that would require physicians to provide women seeking an abortion with misleading state-mandated information.
Friday marked my first anniversary of blogging. I wrote about why I am an activist and how that informs why I blog, and shared my most popular posts of the year.
Recently at Bitch Flicks… Call For Writers: Black Families Life, Death, and Cinema in ‘Benny Loves Killing’ New Comedy Web-Series ‘Black Feminist Blogger’ Gibson’s Gonna Be OK: The Comfort of Hypercompetent Heroes Doing The Extraordinary in ‘Two Days, One Night’ ‘Regarding Susan Sontag’: An Intimate but Incomplete Portrait of an Icon “Smurfette Syndrome”: The Incredible True Story of How Women Created Modern Comedy Without Being Funny The Superficial Yet Satisfying Feminism of ‘Agent Carter’ ‘Selma’ Backlash: Is It a Gender Issue? ‘Selma’ Is Now
We have a narrative of “choice” in the U.S. that obscures the lack of real options for mothers in the workforce: Women who frame their personal current situation as a deliberate choice are much less likely to recognize the discrimination and barriers to equality that the statistics demonstrated than women who don’t.
I wrote something that attempts to answer what gender and gender identity really is, and how patriarchy functions: http://anti-imperialism.com/2014/12/20/the-eroticisation-of-gender/