Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday April 1, 2007 zuzu Give us your posts, and sell ’em! Tell us why we want to read your posts. Have at.
The feminist movement should have something to say about the Emmett Till case. I’m usually a lurker, but I just couldn’t take the silence on this situation any longer. Also, if you’re at all interested in cross stitch, needlepoint, or other needlework, please visit me at CraftGossip!
A classic recipe for leg of lamb (warning: not compatible with most vegetarian diets). If you haven’t seen this image, you really should. And if you’re not reading The Unapologetic Mexican, you’re really not getting nearly as much as you could out of this series of tubes. Sylvia, of the excellent blog The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum, is organizing a creative writing carnival. The theme is “The Beauty of the Crocus.” More information here. I wrote something about Malkin’s latest assualt on reality, which veers wildly from facile, complacent snark (complete with the obligatory Simpsons reference) to wide-eyed “this is what the Nazis did” hysteria. A tasterooni: I jest, but there is, of course, a darker side to all this. It’s just another round in the virulent and militantly irrational fear-mongering that has come to define the GOP and today’s wild and wacky “conservatives.” They preach nothing but perpetual and cancerous fear of an enemy so sinister and terrifying that he is at once both ubiquitous and invisible…People protest when bloggers and such note similarities between today’s right and old-tymey fascists, but what is one supposed to think when such an august personage in yon conservative movement proposes something like this, an army of would-be vigilantes prowling the streets, airplanes and elevators of the nation, driven on by lunatic visions of Islamic terrorists, possessed of their own “Beltway lobbyists,” imposing shari’a at the local swimming pool and “our national monuments”?
Y’know what? I’ve got an awesome ‘shared’ page from my feed reader at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06921563115071125572, if I do say so myself. A sample from it: Thinking Girl has a great post about defining ‘racism,’ Hugo responds wonderfully to the Rebelution modesty survey, and terrance at Republic of T. is brilliant at great length about the controversy over chocolate Jesus. As for shameless self-promotion, I really liked my post about Missouri governor Matt Blunt’s decision to shift cancer screening funding away from Planned Parenthood (a story I picked up here, ‘course), for which I did some actual research and stuff. This week I also begged the universe to give Joy Nash a television show.
my post about Missouri governor Matt Blunt’s decision to shift cancer screening funding away from Planned Parenthood (a story I picked up here, ‘course), for which I did some actual research and stuff. As opposed to what I’ve been mostly posting lately, not as opposed to y’all. Just to be clear, since that juxtaposition could maybe read differently.
Not fully fleshed out (hopefully finishing Female Masculinity will help), but here’s a post on not letting other people ruin identity labels for me.
You might get a kick out of this one: Cure For Parkinson’s Comes Too Late For John Paul II Guaranteed to offend Bill Donohue.
I’m based in Cambodia so the majority of my posts are about X in Cambodia. X is human rights, feminism, elections, health, education, politics, corruption or whatever comes to mind. I think it’s interesting to see the issues in one of the poorest developing countries in the world, a global feel if you will. There’s some shameless self promotion!
Hmm. My last comment will make more sense when the first one’s out of moderation [sorry, zuzu! – I’m not complaining at all; I just checked back and saw the confusingness of my second comment as a standalone is all]
I’ve written recently about infertility and the taint that those affected seem to still attract, particularly women. The comments thread has evolved into a more general discussion, covering fertility, infertility (including amongst men), decisions to have a child and the impact on career, and more. Thanks for the opportunity zuzu!
I wrote a post called The Radical Idea That Men Are Not Monsters, which talks about the rape threats that feminist bloggers get as a matter of course.
mk, I’m reading it for the second time right now, understanding more, and finding less of it helpful. Everything I’ve written lately has been rather personal, so I got nothing this week.
OMG, was Jane Austen, you know, like, hawt? Some brief snark about the NYT musings on Jane Austen’s looks. (Which somehow became secondary to her incredibly literary accomplishments in this article.
Hate is Not an Army Core Value, arguing that integrating gays and women into miiltary units is a leadership issue.
Controversial drag queen and pop princess Verka Serdyuchka went to Eurovision…. and Natalia rejoiced!!!
Great news out of Mexico City; the city legislature will likely vote to make abortion legal and FREE at city facilities in the early stages of pregnancy. And in criminal justice news, Maryland takes a big step toward restoring voting rights to people convicted of felonies once they have served their time.
Gloray gloray. Brits find a way to make Viagra out of heather & Vodka. Just what the world needs, more drunk horny guys.
Honestly, I’m not sure I have recent posts worth shamelessly promoting. But I’ll be shameless anyway, and give you two reflections on Doe vs. Bolton, as well as one on valuing marriage as an institution.
Hi guys. I’ve got a short post with before and after pics of April O’Neil. You know, the girl/woman from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She’s gotten a little creepy really. And if you like nature/wildlife pics, you can check out my post about Newfoundland.
Eesha Pandit interviewed a few of the dynamic leaders in the international reproductive justice movement at the CLPP “From Abortion Rights to Social Justice” conference. Watch the video from the first post in her “Dispatches from the Revolution” series at RH Reality Check. The first interview is with Monica Roa of Women’s Link Worldwide.
I tried a blog for a few days and figured out I didn’t have the time/self-discipline to post regularly, moderate comments, defend my posts, etc. If I still had a blog, I’d tell people I’m pregnant. With a wanted, but not perfectly timed (but could that ever happen?) pregnancy. It’s still very early so I’m only telling strangers on the Internet. So who wants me to go down to the Crisis Pregnancy Center with my digital recorder?
Don’t know if this is a dead thread or not, but I’d like everyone’s comment on my post about engagement. Also, I like my very first post: Why I am (Still) a Feminist.
Sorry to double post, but I didn’t have this one up ’til now. Here’s one I wrote about Amelia Earhart and new information coming to light based on the discovery of a journalist’s diary. It just fried me that the journalist wrote that Earhart was not replying to the Coast Guard Cutter he was on (awaiting her arrival) because she was viewed as being either “arrogant or incompetent.” Yep, not mechanical problems but damn woman-uppityness. Earhart
twf, as squeamish as I feel about asking you to exploit your pregnancy for, among other things, my amusement – yes, I for one would love it if you took your digital recorder to a crisis pregnancy center 😀
Sorry, I am a bit late on my shameless slef promotion. We just launched this site last week as a NW College Feminist blog (mainly WSU students are currently involved, but we have some ambition). Well the first post caused a stir involving a WSU Police scandal. Another professor is also upset about the narrow focus of the post. Looks like we did something right! We are also looking for contributors that would be willing to drop in every now and again and lend some insight. Currently, there are five on board.
This is my first attempt at shameless self-promotion (and 2 days late at that), so I’m not even gonna really say that my post is interesting, but I found this article in New York magazine about child prostitutes interesting. The article points out all that’s wrong with criminalizing 13-year olds for being hookers as if it’s their choice, but then ends with the former Manhattan ADA making sure to note that decriminalizing it would probably lead to a 13-year-old-sex-ring free for all and give him one less chance to moralize.