Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday April 20, 2008 Jill How is it Sunday already and I have gotten nothing done this entire week? Hopefully you were more productive than I was. Give us whatcha got.
Disability-related: – Trying to tease out some issues of privilege w/i disability. – You Don’t Have To Be Normal – Exploring body image I also have my belated response to “How to be a feminist boyfriend.” And (under “Words heretofore…”) a post on how we approach racism.
No self-promotion, but I thought I would note a major sports milestone for women today. Danica Patrick won the Indycar race in Japan today, making her the first women ever to win in any of the sports top circuits outside of drag racing(Indycar, F1, Nascar)
A response to a series of articles in The Republican-American about how single women having sex is destroying America.
1. I talked about SVH revamps and ask if there’re any romance novels with visible minority leads. 2. I also bragged about my dad. Second of a series of posts reflecting on how my dad brought me up unconsciously as a feminist. I’ll also be writing an article on “What I Learnt From Trashy Romance Novels” as well as “Why Stargate SG-1 is Feminist”.
I do a lot of work with non-profit Step Up Women’s Network, which works to strengthen comunity resources for women and girls; I’ve been a member over 2 years. They work with underserved teen girls in Los Angeles, Chicago, and NYC, providing college prep courses, mentors, health and wellness workshops, and electives that help the girls find their voices. They recently launched a fundraising initiative called You Are My Inspiration, inviting women to honor their inspiration (a woman who has made a difference in your life) through an online gift house, which allows you to earmark exactly how your donation to the organization is used. Donation options range from $25-$1000 and include a variety of acknowledgments of your inspiration (for instance, you story and a photo of your inspiration on the the website) and you can funnel your donation towards the teen programming of your choice: college scholarships, program equipement, developing new course curriculum, college tours. Please visit the site; if you like what you see I hope you’ll help spread the word about the program
Jha, I keep getting an error when I try to post a comment on your blog. Harlequin’s Kimani Press imprint features African-American story lines.
I wrote a follow-up article on “Angry at Fake White Feminists” on my joint blog Pregnant Drug-Dealing Prostitutes that I share with blogger, Davita Cuttita. “The Person you Protect” questions the Feminist’s neutrality towards coloured feminist issues as fence-sitting and talks of the privilege to ignore the important issues (even moral issues) as if to maintain friendships with certain parties. Privilege and ignorance reinforce one another and I try to address as if hauling the coffins of vampires into the sunlight. Please enjoy responsibly. XD
At http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/ I talked about discussing privileged with my boyfriend, experiencing racism that doesn’t directly affect you at work, and Sexism within the Playerbase in the World of Warcraft.
I reviewed Resident Evil: Extinction and gave my two cents on why it, and the whole RE movie trilogy, is feminist.
So much to blogwhore! Why Hillary Clinton can’t admit her Iraq vote was a mistake. How the practical applications of privilege make it really hard to give up. And movies, commercials and tv shows we’d like to see.
In honor of April 15th tax day, I did 2 posts this week related to taxes and a critique of the institutional support of normative gender and family, which was exciting because it actually related to my Master’s thesis research! I’d love any feedback! Thoughts on the Tyranny of Marriage at Tax Time and What’s Wrong with this Article? Marriage and Taxes, Part 2
C. I really like your WoW analyses–I forward them to my partner because he’s a WoW and general gamer, and he acknowledges some but not all the sexism and racism in the game, and since I don’t play, all I know is second-hand. Your first-hand knowledge and critique is teriffic!
This isn’t exactly a promotion, but I’m wondering if anyone knows of a Jewish presence in the feminist blogosphere – namely a blog that discusses sexism, racism, antisemitism, and the Palestinian occupation from a progressive Jewish point of view. If people don’t know of one (or even if they do), would anyone like to start one with me?
Lindabeth, I’d love for your boyfriend to leave a comment – anomynous or not – I’d love to hear a male perspective on the post.
I talked about abortion art in the context of freedom of choice, proposed a link between liking younger and submissive women to pedophilia, and then celebrated Blog for Fair Pay day with a post about the ERA.
Incidentally, C Even the merchandise around World of Warcraft is filled with amazing ‘jokes’ such as “Sapped Girls Can’t Say No” The accurate responses to this include: “…except of course, as soon as you touch them they Death Coil your ass and you run screaming like a little baby.” or maybe “…at least for ten seconds, which is longer than you can last anyway.” or maybe “… but everyone knows that hardcore WoW players prefer sheep.”
I got more personal than I usually do, talking about my own experiences with sexism in graduate school and how public schools make life hard for pregnant teens. It felt cathartic, perhaps I should link my personal experiences with my political views more in every post.
My armpit hair turns into LJ Drama, for fans of The Great To Shave or Not to Shave Debate: http://flopart.livejournal.com/195414.html
I blogged angrily about the ridiculous comments in Parliament that came on the eve of Australia finally updating our flimsy anti-rape laws. And some other, less angry things. 🙂
Between preparing for finals and being at an evolutionary biology conference sans internet, I didn’t blog much, but I talked a little about the Pope’s visit and the intellectual dishonesty of liberal catholics.
My blog is Fat Acceptance so fat haters needn’t bother! ; ) I have written about a guy who the media says is/was “too fat to go to jail” as well as about morgue workers whining about dead fat people. Also a bit of a change of topic to counselling and mental health services and a moronic letter from some so-called ‘experts’ that, among other things, blames fat people for global warming.
Comments on Abortion Man $5,000 reward in the case of Chioma Gray My perspective on the Supreme Court death penalty decision in which I quote Jill.
I don’t walk the walk nearly enough to merit the label “feminist” – but for those who do or aspire to do so, I have suggested 10 “to-do” items towards encouraging people to PROMOTE the Take Back the Blog 2008 event which is being run by Blue Gal the Great. It is intended as an online support of, and adjunct to, Take Back the Night events now being conducted on multiple continents. Thanks.
I blogged about the raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound near Eldorado, Texas this week. The post veers from Texas humor to a philosophical examination of the tension between the sovereign rights of the individual versus the state’s right/responsibility to protect the vulnerable from harm. With a few tie-ins to HBO’s Big Love along the way.
Riffing off MissLaura at DailyKos I’ve got a post shamelessly cataloguing why some people think there are no women political bloggers. (Feministe doesn’t count because sometimes people here blog about how laws affect women, children, and men, and that makes you *law* bloggers. So you don’t count. 🙂 Somewhat less shamelessly, while Googling around I found Catherine Morgan’s A List Of Over 275 Women Blogging On Politics. That’s pretty cool. Have a great week, figleaf
I hate these damn “safeguard your pills” commercials. Don’t see Expelled — watch an episode of NOVA that debunks intelligent design online for free instead. 420 blogging
Zak @ 6: Have no idea. My only guess is that your browser doesn’t allow for that weird script of LJ’s, but I could be wrong. Sometimes LJ also acts up.
I’m effectively brand new to the whole blogging thing, but Saturday night I wrote about something that happened to me at a party this weekend, so I’m coming out of the woodwork in the hopes of getting some advice/feedback. I know it’s not technically Sunday anymore. Sorry ’bout that.
Changing my normal username (and email) for this for anonymity’s sake… but a book on WoW in which I have a chapter, Digital Culture, Play and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader, comes out from MIT Press early next month. But it was shipped to the warehouse this week. 😀
The new Ministry of the Spanish government has a bunch of women in it, including a heavily pregnant woman as Defence Minister. The UK responds by closely examining their fashion choices. A douchehound tries to comment on a Hollaback Australia post with a long pompous screed on how “A Pub is a Sexualised Space”, therefore any women in a pub are gagging for it. A posh Anglican private school in Brisbane has upheld a rule banning boys from bringing their boyfriends to the school formal, and has been upbraiding the boys for being overly “political” and inadequately genteel in their protests.
I wrote my last exam this week which means I have completed my Psych degree while working full time as a computer geek!