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Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

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Promote yourself. (Or somebody else.)

Netiquette reminders:

  • 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)), Content Notes are not needed if your post title is already descriptive of problematic content.
  • 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.

20 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

  2. I wrote about how the act of paying attention to people and their particularities can be transformative: In which THE INTERNET. RUINS. NOTHING!
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    I looked back over my many years of seeking treatment for mental health issues — and grappled with how often that quest has yielded disappointment: Alice Gives Career Advice for the Mental Health Care Professional
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    Our creative impulses need to be given outlet, if we ourselves are to flourish: If something inside you sings . . .

  3. CN: mental illness, bias

    I had a little bout of symptoms last week so I put together a list of suggestions on how to support a friend living with mental illness.

    We now have published 29 Q&A’s with LGBTQ folks in ten Western Pennsylvania counties. The project continues and I’ll be traveling to some of the outlying counties this fall to generate more responses. Note that we did set aside some of our original focus to put attention on QTPOC in honor of Roots Pride and Pittsburgh Black Pride. But that’s the beauty of a blog project – it can evolve.

  8. I’ve published three pieces addressing ways in which sexual violence surveys are misrepresented in the media:

    This piece on how distrust of women’s subjectivity facilitates scepticism of sexual violence surveys: http://www.writinginwater.com/?p=184

    This piece on the National Review’s ‘debunking’ of the recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey: http://www.writinginwater.com/?p=195

    And this piece on the claim promoted by the AEI that campus reporting rates don’t match official estimates of sexual violence prevalence: http://www.writinginwater.com/?p=240

    🙂

  9. Hello friends! This week on Kiss My Wonder Woman we talked about…

    The inherent sexism of Boondock Saints and the problem with problematic faves
    How Dog with a Blog is either the nadir of children’s television or secret dadaist propaganda
    Whether or not authorial intent matters on Welcome to Night Vale
    Easy A, slut-shaming, virgin-shaming, and sexual politics
    The inherent awesomeness of Daredevil‘s Claire Temple

    Tune in next week for a look at revisionist history with Sons of Liberty, the glorious hair and cool badassness of Delphine Cormier, and more!

    1. I’m a little confused- your whole post seemed to enthusiastically support the same ideas the meme did (women can victimize men, sex with people who are too drunk to consent is rape). The original poster was certainly sexist, but you seem to agree with the meme. Am I misreading?

  13. Three of my articles have appeared in the recent labor issue of Broad Magazine, http://issuu.com/broadmagazine/docs/broad_issue_81_in_labor_june_2015 :

    p. 15: All About Wonder Woman: Women and Stakhanovism
    p. 65: The Moving Goalposts of Discrimination
    p. 75: Woman as the Opiate of Man

    TW: sexual violence, discussions of racism

    Also, some (long-delayed) thoughts about the dress Rihanna wore, in her tribute to Josephine Baker last year. As it happens, Baker was far more than a dancer in a barely-there skirt. What could have started a meaningful conversation about self-definition, and the multifaceted nature of human identity, was, instead, co-opted by a discussion of whether Rihanna is a slut: http://www.dominiquemillette.com/bakerday.html

  15. The Still Not Asking For It Project (launched on Indiegogo) is raising rape culture awareness with controversial and graphic t-shirts featuring breasts and the words “STILL NOT ASKING FOR IT” proceeds go to their nonprofit partners working to end sexual violence. SUPPORT THE CAUSE: http://igg.me/at/stillnotaskingforit

    1. If someone says, “I’m not a feminist,” don’t attack them. Ask them why. This is an opportunity for both of you to learn. Yes, many people still misunderstand feminism. Yes, many people are afraid to call themselves feminist. But many other people have completely legitimate reasons to shy away from the word. Women of color might prefer to identify as womanists. Men might prefer to be feminist allies, rather than co-opt the feminist label for themselves.

      Yessssssss thank you. So much better than 90% of what I see on this subject.

  17. Trigger Warning: rape culture, PUA content, general misogyny.

    This isn’t my usual kind of “self-promotion”, meaning it’s not a blog entry. But it’s a video uploaded to YouTube of a rally I was at this past weekend.

    Roosh V was coming to Toronto this weekend to talk to a small number of his loyal followers. As many of you may know, Roosh V is one of the most vile of the PUA crowd. He thinks rape should be made legal on private property, among other atrocious ideas. A petition had been circulating for a few weeks before the event, to try bar him from entering the country. It had signatures and support from a lot of people, including Toronto mayor John Tory.

    Of course, a closet Roosh V supporter, calling himself a tourist shows up and starts harrassing the demonstrators and the media. Here’s a link to the YouTube video At one point, the “tourist” tells a female reporter “get out of my space, woman!” and I yell at him to shut up and not call her woman. To which he replies “Don’t go all white knight on me, man!” I tell him I’m no one’s white knight and ask him why he’s here, as do the reporters and others. (Note: I’m the one in the black cap and Tshirt, holding the camouflage patterned bag.)

    The rally was great and featured several speakers, including NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo. There are other news videos from the media coverage which are also available for viewing.

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