Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

52 thoughts on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday

1. OK – I’ll start. I wrote about sexism and racism in the movie Iron Man, and about feminism and dinosaurs.

2. My reaction to the CA Supreme court ruling.

   In summery: it’s good. But we shouldn’t stop pushing now. Now is the time to push harder.

3. On the irony of anti-sex work feminism.
   (Yes, I know it’s controversial. Argue away – just be respectful, k?)

4. I have been busy!

   I wrote a piece on all the times growing up I experienced unwanted sexual contact or advances, including both the times I was raped. (TRIGGER WARNING!!)

   Also, why calling feminists ugly is about trying to control them.

   I critiqued the latest “women are stupid” article in Cosmo: “How to Snoop on Your Man!”

   and…

   A story on some detained illegal immigrants and how racist and bull-headed the comments to the original story were.

5. I eulogized Nuala O’Faolain and reviewed Sula, by Toni Morrison.

6. I had a light week this week…

   I wrote about the DeAnza/”insufficient evidence” rape case and about the Obama/sweetie comments: part 1 and part 2.

7. For all you latent hockey fans—and I know there’s some—I’ve been criticizing Don Cherry’s awful fashion choices during the playoff season.

8. Some thoughts on Mildred Loving and what that court case says about gay marriage.

   A very short example of the overwhelming ignorance in my high school.

9. Wrote about why “experience” was the wrong choice for Hillary Clinton’s campaign theme.

   About monsters, and how we make our political opponents into them.

10. My son wore a skirt to school.

11. I’m still annoyed with the kid glove treatment John McCain is receiving from the Beltway press.

12. I wrote a review of the film “Flawless.”

    As well as some articles about the Washington University Commencement this past weekend.

13. I want to send some women of color to the Allied Media Conference in Detroit next month, and I bet you want to too!

14. I wrote about the DQ commercial and had a hell of a week dealing with weight discrimination and trolls…

15. I wrote about booze, babies and the intersection of politics, feminism, and public health policy here and here.

    And I threw away a travel mug and wrote about it. Really.

16. I blogged about the different political camps of Queer Liberationists versus Gay Assimilationists…

    http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/05/open-forum-queer-liberationist-or-gay.html

17. Hello!
    
    Preach the word, Sister Girlfriend., about the lack of women making and starring in movies.

    Courting the fictional chimpanzee vote, about the Curious George for Obama t-shirt.

    Musings from a black woman: Why I won’t watch Iron Man, about my problems with supporting a Robert Downey, Jr., movie.

    I smile less, and I’m getting more rude., about the CNN catcalling article by Anna Jane Grossman, and the incendiary comments that followed.

18. I did a wrap-up of the latest Australian federal budget from a femiist perspective.

    Budget Wrap-Up

19. This week, I’ve written about this week include:

    1. The great gospel singer, guitar virtuoso, and rock and roller avant la lettre, Sister Rosetta Tharpe:
    http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/weekend-diva–1.html

    2. The great 17th century woman artist, Artemisia Gentileschi:
    http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/the-good-old-da.html

    3. The egregious Phyllis Schlafly:
    http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/the-shame-of-wa.html

    and

    4. The egregious Camille Paglia:
    http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/awesome.html

20. http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item8798

    I wrote about gaming commercials and the difference in how they portray women between companies

    http://nolittlelolita.livejournal.com/#item8504

    and also why gamers are so quick to ignore accusations of sexism.

21. I just posted on the appalling story of a 7 year old child you got kicked out of school for being HIV positive. It is a disgrace

    http://saorla.blogspot.com/2008/05/ignorance-is-no-excuse.html

22. when asked what was the best compliment i have ever received, i had an unusual response.

23. I bitched at CNN for the headline “Hillary Clinton hears sermon on adultery,” loved on my Princess Leia and Smart Women Thirst For Knowledge coffee cups, wondered why a personal finance blog author wanted blond hair and cleavage, and plus the obligatory Sex and the City post.

24. I blog against homophobia.

25. hey nolittlelolita…do you have a way that non-livejournal users can comment? Or at least contact you? I noticed the “openID” option is off on your page 🙁

26. My blog’s been all about the sexist, homo- and trans-phobic undertones to consumer-alert articles on synthetic estrogens–the headlines are often about chemicals ‘feminizing’ effect on boys, while the fact that many of these chemicals cause breast cancer gets mentioned as an afterthought. I published Rebecca Hammond’s excellent essay about biphenol-a, which is used to make plastic baby bottles (it’s the chemical Nalgene just promised to give up), and I took apart a right-wing blogger for asserting that soy makes children gay.

27. This week I hosted the Third Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy

28. Lindabeth, I never noticed that. I’ll fix it now.

29. The only substantial (i.e., non-round or newsy) blogging I did was on the failure of the Labour government’s social policies. Not desperately interesting to most readers outside the UK, I would imagine.

30. *round-up

31. My experience at the gynecologist and how she tried to eschew my doubts giving “weight loss” as an answer, contradicting herself many times. I should have brought my fat bingo board.

    Bits and blobs of things that stole my attention and ate my homework. Links to websites, videos and articles of general interest. Most of them related to Arts.

    A cute e-mail I got from University of Aberdeen, while my own uni ignores and patronises its students. And some new-found love for Belle and Sebastian.

    The so-called Mo Movie Measure, and if the most recent film I’ve watched (Control, Anton Corbjin’s biopic about Ian Curtis) follows the rules.

    Productive week, eh?

32. This week I wrote about how I argued a woman at work refused to defend her fellow woman who had almost been raped, instead resorting to victim shaming.

33. My first shameless self-promotion: A post on health providers and their occasional wingnuttery/douchebaggery.

34. There’s a call for papers out from the Journal of Advertising on Advertising and Violence & Abuse which some of the more academically-oriented folk may be interested in.

35. The Femmobolshostroppo Carnival is on! A retrospective of 40 favourite feminist blog posts from 2007.

    Also, I discuss a photo of a policewomen breastfeeding orphaned babies in China in “Face of rescue: Women’s work“; and there’s this finding from the latest Medical Journal of Australia: “Journalwatch: Indigenous people with lung cancer receive less treatment, die sooner“.

36. Buy a Hillary Clinton nutcracker and witness the power of her stainless steel thighs!

    Mashed potatoes three ways.

    My marinara sauce odyssey (to be continued).

37. Hi there! This is Nancy Gruver, founder and CEO of New Moon, and I love being able to see what everyone’s been blogging about on this “Shamless Self-Promotion Sunday.” Thanks so much for hosting this, Jill!

    I host a blog called Girl Media Maven, for adults who care about girls and girls’ issues. Recently, I wrote about e-nudity and self-objectification, posted my WFMN interview about the Vanity Fair Miley Cyrus photo, and commented on the fact that advertisers are selling padded bras to 7 year olds.

    Thanks for reading and commenting! I’m off to check out all your wonderful posts.

38. @ habladora: I also wrote about racism in Iron Man! I’m glad that there are others who see the racism in the film too. 🙂

    http://modernmuslimwoman.com/2008/05/iron-man-culturally-sensitive-review.html

39. I wrote: Orson Scott Card is a misogynistic homophobic wanker on the feministsf blog, in reference to his screed (or do I mean scream?) against J. K. Rowling.

    And going back a bit further: The Midwich Miscarriages, about a 1950s novel by John Wyndham.

40. This wasn’t technically this week, but I’ve been wrapped up in finals and posting’s been spotty, so I’ll highlight the fact that I called out a transphobic Salon review of a movie about an intersex teen.

41. Well I just found this so I am really late. This last week I really focused on bodies that matter. I blogged about the case of a man who received a one day sentence for killing a prositute

    I also blogged about FGM and the rights of children.

    And finally a post about black male sexual entitlement in reference to a book entitled Don’t Blame It On Rio.

42. Still haven’t posted anything new since last week’s post about dealing with half-recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. I plan on getting something new up in the next couple of days.

43. Reacting to the NYT’s piece about love in Saudi Arabia.

    And looking at Muslim manga.

44. Hi there!

    I am late for Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday!! *LOL* Oh how I looove to promote ME, me, me!! *LOL*

    At my blog, there have been two interesting conversations of note at my blog, Black Women Blow The Trumpet dot Blogspot dot Com:

    “GINNY (a white woman) SPEAKS TO THE SISTAS ON GENDER SOLIDARITY”

    “BLACK WOMEN SPEAK ABOUT SEXUAL ETHICS”

    Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
    Lisa

45. Anyone else find IRON MAN a bit racist? (Or a lot?)

46. Found these two Gems: the first on what Clinton supporters need to do & the second on what Obama supporters need to not do

47. I graduated from college this weekend and thought I’d reflect a bit on the privilege.

    Also, now that I’m jobless and out of school, I have more time to update that blog (The Privilege Project) so I’m looking for blogs and blog posts about privilege, if anyone wants to help me find them and build onto this site. Any suggestions/comments/questions are welcome and greatly appreciated!

48. Danakitty– No time to write a long comment now, but that’s a neat project.

49. At The Hand Mirror The Ex-Expat has a post on Juno and how it is being mis-used in NZ to promote adoption (over abortion).

    Also Anjum writes about cross-cultural parenting, Anna McM asks for people to share their experiences of single-sex schooling, and I’ve written about the ridiculous number of functional pockets in baby boy’s clothing these days.

    Thanks for the opportunity to get these links out there 🙂

50. OK, late for it, and I’ve already posted, and it’s a completely juvenile post, but…

51. Thanks for posting the rules, Jill – I am a noob.

    This is a dissection of some of the blunders I perceived in the blog of one Nadine Dorries MP, after she initially came to my attention via what I thought were some rather bigoted comments on abortion.

    Her bid to have the abortion limit reduced was voted down. Oh sweet schadenfreude…

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