This Sunday I am shamelessly self-promoting my translations of poetry on the Xyre. There’s an aphoristic poem about war, a particularly sensual section from the Song of Solomon, and my personal favourite, a love poem in the mediaeval Iberian-Arabic tradition. Feedback is appreciated. Enjoy!
My thoughts on the phrase “you’re selling yourself!” and how can we make sex work MORE illegal? Part 4 in a criticism series I’m doing of a “traditional” man’s blog. And further thoughts on division within movements.
Sometimes I’m not sure whether or not I’m a feminist because I believe women should make intelligent decisions and not act like martyrs.
I’ve got a new blog I just started. Topics that I plan on addressing definitely include politics, media, academia, and other blogs. Topics I may address if I feel the urge include sports, food, and anything else that tickles my fancy. http://physioprof.wordpress.com/ As far as academic issues relating directly to biomedical research goes, I will continue to post my thoughts in that area as a co-blogger at DrugMonkey. http://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/ Thanks for this opportunity to shamelessly shill my new blog. Feministe was one of the first blogs I started to read regularly, and it is an inspiration to me.
I’d like to draw attention to a report I wrote about my brief foray into buying online sex services. Be warned, this is not for the faint-hearted. “It is a brutally honest meditation on [his] desires and the politics of this particular form of adult entertainment.” (the quote comes from Phil BC’s link to the post): Internet Webcam Sex Shows. I still feel some guilt over my choices, so I hope that my account and conclusions are helpful to others. Also, a completely shameless plug for the UK “National Fetish Day” (which has now gone international, with participants in “USA, Canada, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia!”). If your preferred sexual expression is in any way a deviation from the standardised heteronormative, penis-in-vagina, (missionary-position) “ideal” – wear purple on 21st January! (Link leads to my repost of the write-up by one of the instigators of this event).
In case you didn’t know, Spiderman’s marriage to Mary Jane has been, um, retroactively disappeared, or something, and Comicsworld is in an UPROAR: Why doth the fanboy rage? And yesterday, thought I was gonna see John McCain and instead, saw his flunkies, Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott. I’d say I was cheated! Odds and Sods – primary edition And finally, for people who only want to see photographs of disaster, here is the destruction of my neighborhood, brought to you by Walmart. Walmart trashes my neighborhood, a photographic essay And how was everyone else’s week?
Dreams for Women Check out a cool feminist art project that Antigone Magazine is organizing that YOU can contribute to! Think Post Secret meets feminist decoupage with grrl zine influences created by women and men of all ages.
I suggested that maybe it’s time that the Summernats car festival lose government funding, after yet another around of drunken mass-sexual harassment this year. I questioned why, if my (progressive) government wanted to appoint the first female judge to our Supreme Court, they chose an controversial, underqualified right-wing bureaucrat.
The weekly trials and tribulations of this substitute teacher are as follows: A list of books I have read while working, and the arguments that broke out in my last kindergarten classroom.
As warm-up to watching AVP2 I watched the entire Alien quadrilogy plus AVP this weekend, and a thought occured to me concerning the female characters in the four Alien movies. This prompted a monster post – pun intended – on my journal.
I posted recently about how gendered stereotypes affect relationships between men and women. The post is more personal and emotional than analytical, but I believe it’s worth thinking about.
In my reopened-under-Drupal blog, I opened up a small can of whoop-ass on Chris Matthews. In retrospect, I could have done better (and others definitely did do better) at kicking this overpaid punk.
I linked to and added my thoughts on several videos from The National Queer Arts Festival’s TransForming Community. I also looked at some transphobia and cissexism in the queer community before reposting an older rant on cissexist and ciscentric language.
I’m just a baby blogger…. started about a year and a half ago but didn’t really start blogging actively until this year. Love the creative outlet and I hope that I can keep people interested. 🙂 http://rantingraving.wordpress.com/
i talked about my fears of trying to enter the civilian workforce… and want to know why no one cares the mitt romney was “all choked up“…
On my blog I do a weekly post with quick capsule reviews of the movies I saw. (I see a lot of movies). This week there was a lot of the so-called torture porn. I am dubious that it really represents the downfall of society. (Please note: I include the image of that gross billboard for Captivity that got taken down.)
I spent most of the week doing news and blog round ups on the situation in Kenya. So I’m going to shamelessly promote mostly, not myself, but Kenya Pundit, a woman whose business coverage on Kenya I’ve enjoyed for some time, and who now is opening up her site to diaries from a variety of ordinary Kenyans about the post-election crisis. Also, Ushadi.com is a site where ordinary Kenyans can make reports of post-election incidents, by web, email, or SMS. To add a little bit of self-promotion, here’s my latest Kenya round up.