This week at the PP Aurora clinic blog, we’ll be dishing about the rise of birth control on campuses. Come and check it out and tell your story!
Yay! Shameless self-promotion! I keep a blog called The Mighty Pen where I post articles about creative writing and how to tackle certain problems of writing. While it’s in the early stages and I don’t think it’s come through so much yet, it is from the perspective of a woman in a field where men seem to carry more weight.
I have a blog called Karmic Reverberations that I’d like everyone to look at. It covers politics, environmentalism, and more.
Something that has been bugging me this week is the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. And one od my favourite topics: CCTV again.
I wrote a four-post feminist analysis of the movie Dolores Claiborne. Now I’m re-reading the book, and that’ll be next. 😉
My blog isn’t quite on the level with these…. today on the northern kentucky news blog I wrote about cougars, older women who are dating younger men. Maybe it will give you a laugh, though.
i don’t have a blog. used to for years and years, but recently shut it down to get married/find a new job. both of those have been accomplished, so i’m looking to get back into blogging. this time under at my own URL…up until now i’ve always been hosted by friends. so. could anyone give me the name of a solid hosting service that’s relatively cheap/want screw me with spotty service?
A while ago I wrote a post about all the little everyday things that come with living while female, which I called The Vagina Tax. It was just a list of the top of my head of all the shit that women have to deal with simply because we have a hole between our legs. I’m sure I left off a ton, so by all means, add to it in the comments. Also, one of my commenters took issue with what he called Ani DiFranco’s “bianary” definition of feminism, so I wrote a post on the definitions of feminism. I like bell hooks’ the best.
On Monday, I wrote about how the Strangling Ritual in the PS2 game Fatal Frame is an excellent parallel to the “sanctity” of virginity upheld by the patriarchy in the real world.
Presumably soon (maybe tommorrow) I’ll have my weekly parsha blogging up, but for now I link to a link I found on Feministing and also mention a good story I heard on the car radio this morning on TTBOOK: the aforementioned blogging at DAS Blog.
In an act of pure optimism, I wrote about the first 10 things I’d like to see done by a dem president and congress. Come add your own stuff to the list!
At Alas, I wrote about Rowling’s announcement of Dumbledore’s gayness, in the context of authorial choices and intentions, and whether ot not it’s a legitimate tactic for authors to refuse to idetify their characters; marginality in the text, and then claim it later. (I’m on “no.”) He’s gay and he’s Native American: Rowling and Scalzi Claim Marginal Identities for Characters after the Fact
On Pandagon, had a discussion here about why I disagreed with Marx & Engels’ prescription to cure the excesses of capitalism after an earlier poster wondered whether Marx was really crazy. Within the same discussion, also outlined the reasons why I felt Bill Gates’ philanthropy was really motivated by PR considerations due to the anti-trust litigation he has been undergoing. In another Pandagon discussion here, I mused whether part of the parental complaints about providing contraceptives in a Maine middle school could also be part of the increasing tendency among many middle and upper-class American parents to infantilize adolescents and young adults.
I wrote about wanting to speak up, experiences with sexism. In response to questions, I wrote about defining what exoticizing and objectifying mean. David, I think that wordpress.com allows you to buy server space to run a blog, in addition to their free blog services (which wouldn’t be under your own URL).
this isn’t self promotion, but I don’t know where else to put this Dumbledore is Gay. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h…nt/7053982.stm
Most recently I wrote about talking to doctors, but there’s also a post about cheerleading (ick) and loud girls. Plus my first foray into blog poetry, about which I am increasingly nervous in retrospect but since there’s a comment I won’t delete it.
I made some pretty good posts this week I think. One about Rape, one about Religious Diversity and one about Abortion. I’m new to this world so if you like socialist/pagan/radical/feminist/progressive analysis of things you might like me. 🙂
As We Are is looking for women who want to promote themselves in our column As She Is. A quick email to submissions@aswearemagazine.com to let us know you’re interested will get the ball rolling. But while I have your attention, did you check in this week? We have Joy Nash’s newest fat rant on the site, we asked the big question – Who Do You Love, and this week coming up is promising lots of goodies. Get on the email list so you don’t miss anything! http://www.aswearemagazine.com/component/option,com_performs/Itemid,101/ http://www.aswearemagazine.com
I wrote my take on the Guttmacher Institute study. On a lighter note: we have the Conservative Hunk Saturday serious.
I wonder why the feminist bloggers that I read are not writing more about Britney Spears. I am working on a much larger paper about body politics and Britney but this is just my short blog posting about it.
I’m still recovering from my mastectomy – yes, even though I’m a month out. It seems with every surgery (6 in the past 14 months) it takes me just a little bit longer to feel normal. So this post is part me bitching about how tired I am, commenting on the recent articles about breast cancer in Time, and while pink! pink! pink! breast cancer awareness month drives me a little out of my mind, I’m a little surprised by the lack of comment on it in many feminist and lesbian publications.
I give you Smithsonian Magazine’s The Last Word, which contains some words of wisdom, and my advice on life in general.
I have a piece on the enduring housing problems in the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, and the political obstacles to federal funding for affordable, equitable housing solutions. I link to some tangential topics around the feminist blogosphere in an effort to keep us all aware of the crises in the Gulf Coast.
I wrote about the interview with Cardinal John Francis of Chicago, dog whistles in that interview, why I no longer attend the Catholic Church and the dangers of allowing Rome to have influence on our legislators.
I couldn’t resist blogging about Dumbledore’s outing, of course, but before that I’d also put up a pretty decent one on the meaning of diversity.
More ranting about Cosmo by me – I just can’t leave the subject alone! I posted about the UNIFEM Stand up against women’s poverty’s day last week but the sign up time is past. Nice eCard still on the website though about poverty and gender equality.
I love shameless self-promotion Sundays! Okay… this one’s a doozy. In Canada, an ‘unenlightened’ political candidate/writer writes a whole editorial on why it’s not that important to have women involved in politics. Oh, and apparently he dislikes man-hating feminists. Antigone Magazine takes him on! http://antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/2007/10/ndp-candidate-makes-sexist-remarks.html Oh, yeah and then we launch our inaugural program ‘The In Need of Enlightenment’ Awards, with our first award going to him! http://antigonemagazine.blogspot.com/2007/10/antigone-magazine-awards-in-need-of.html
Shameless self-promotion. I redid my website and updated the pro-blog. I have three short stories coming out in the next 10 days. http://www.angelsparrow.com/blog.html
Here’s a hard question: do you care about the planet and the future generations that wish to exist on it? If so, have a look at this surprising acknowledgement from the mainstream media. Really, follow the link and then the links from there. I’m really conflicted about how to promote this sort of thing. I’m not some crazy Chicken Little, more like a tired academic who’s been looking at some pretty realistic and depressing data, following the understanding of most scientists, and wondering if enough people will choose to look into the matter in time. There is just one Earth and it currently has 6.6 billion people on it. That’s a lot. But 2050 best estimates are that the number will increase to 9 billion by then and lots more of them, particularly in India and China, will be approaching US standards of consumption. I’m trying not to say that “any idiot can see that Earth can not support 9 billion people at the consumption rate of the average US citizen.” But there. I’ve said it. Watch the documentary at the link above.
i randomly babbled about feminism and being a single mother…nothing profound, just some musings on the topic…i am new at this and can use the support… and this fairy tale sent to me by a friend, that i couldn’t resist posting… mahalo!
Something I found a while ago: Study finds that drink spikers do it for ‘fun’ and it ‘get women in the mood’.
I mused on an aspect of Michelle Malkin’s attack on the Frost family that hadn’t gotten much attention. I alerted everybody to a fabulous play-anywhere math game that a friend invented for her daughters, and which my four-year-old daughter loves. And I quoted liberally from another friend’s inspired rant about right-wing reaction to the “Dumbledore is gay” story.
Thought some of you out there might appreciate the comic image juxtaposition I found in Disney, Blender, and the Objectification Continuum. Good grief!
I ran a contest on my “blog” on okCupid. I’d gotten an offensive message and for some reason decided to reply to it explaining why it was offensive. When I got a reply to /that/, I left it unopened, made up a list of predictions, and had people guess the how terrible the reply would be. Not serious at all, but pretty funny.
I tackle Glenn Beck and Bill Donahue. The two discussed the middle school birth control issue and, as you can imagine, there were some doozy quotes… A teaser– Donahue equates birth control with SEWING a condom on infant male penises. No shit.
donna darko, Yes to answer to your patronizingly toned question. Personally, I feel I lean more toward a mix of market capitalism and socialism so that there is a social safety net available for all citizens without the cumbersome inefficiencies a centrally planned economy and a large problematic bureaucratic ruling class that comes with it may bring. Interestingly enough, Canada and many other countries have some form of market capitalism and socialism mix at work. Incidentally, my remarks on the pandagon site was to answer one specific commenter who implicitly asked through his comment whether Marx actually had a good point. Since I studied many variants of Marxist ideology in a series of Chinese politics and an advanced Marxist theory courses, I decided to answer him. It was the least I could do to challenge the tendency of some progressive left-leaning Americans’ to overromanticize Marx, Lenin, and Mao without having actually experienced or knowing someone who living under societies whose leaders attempted to put their theories into practice. There were more than a fair number of such students at my undergraduate institution. Ironically, all of them were from upper-class or upper-middle class families. This was one reason why some working-class and international classmates at my school commonly used the term “Gucci Marxist/Maoist” to describe them.
Are there any actual Marxists living today? I know two people but I only learned of them within the last two months. Marxism was updated in the 50s and 60s by the Frankfurt School. Habermas is one of the Frankfurt boys still living. You might want to check them out.
Donna Darko, There were quite a few among classmates at my alma mater throughout the 1990’s…including unapologetic Maoists who did their best accentuate Mao’s positives while completely denouncing any criticisms of his negative policies such as the 100 Flowers Campaign, The Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. It was amusing and sad at the same time to have to explain that I had relatives who suffered through such events…and that even the current CCP government has conceded those were not great times. Interestingly enough, if you were a radical Marxist or Maoist, you would feel far more at home at my school than if you were a political centrist, much less a conservative. It was probably a reason why few conservatives would even bother to apply there. Moreover, some of my Profs are Marxists…though they are willing to concede that most of the attempted implementations were botched and underscored some of the weaknesses within Marx and Engels’ theory. It still disturbs me that many of the baby-boomer aged faculty admitted they looked upon Mao’s Cultural Revolution as a manifestation of great liberation when it actually caused horrific suffering for millions of Chinese people…illustrating to me how naive and sheltered many of them were in their upper/upper-middle class American lives. IMHO, Marx and Engels theories can serve as one effective tool in analyzing social power relationships and dynamics. I do not think, however, that those theories can be effective as a blueprint for running a society free from potential tyranny precisely because their idea of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” does not have an effective check against the creation of another self-interested ruling elite or the unlimited powers they wield.
They’re call themselves Marxists? Plain Marxists? uh. Oberlin is full of trust fund types who wouldn’t know about the realities of the Cultural Revolution.
They’re call themselves Marxists? Plain Marxists? Those Marxist classmates had no problems openly admitting to being Marxists. I believe the far left-leaning political orientation of the campus had a lot to do with not only making it “safe” to openly proclaim such political beliefs, but added a “chic” cool appeal to the person who did so. My Marxist Profs also had no problems admitting themselves to being Marxists. From my experiences, the Profs were quite reasonable and actually had more respect for me because I was willing to openly disagree and present contrarian arguments. It was the mostly avowed Marxist/Maoist classmates, unfortunately, who were not as tolerant of anyone who challenges their ideological orthodoxy. Fortunately, there was some sanctuary among the international Asian and working class classmates who also felt these upper/upper-middle class Americans (including AAs) were behaving in a ridiculous manner. At most other campuses I’ve visited, this was not as evident. Even at reputedly liberal ones like Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis, and NYU, openly disclosing that you were a Marxist would ,at best, invite patronizing dismissal from most students. At worse, it had the potential to prompt harassment from the campus Conservatives. This reaction is not much different than the few brave, but foolish souls at Oberlin who openly proclaim themselves to be Conservative Republicans, fans of corporate globalization, or even openly religious.