Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday July 27, 2008 Jill I remembered to do it this week! Applaud me. Now self-promote.
a piece i wrote a few months ago called “dope girls” as a response to the murders of two women in indianapolis: http://coloredgurl.blogspot.com/2008/02/dope-girls.html
A post from last month called Meditations on Violence. It’s been on my mind lately, and I’d like to share it, maybe even get feedback.
delurking …. Feministe readers in NYCers, here’s my shameless niece promotion and cupcake alert: head on over to my niece’s newly opened place Sweet Revenge at 62 Carmine Street where you can get wonderful cupcakes and other goodies. Sweet Revenge website here Sweet Revenge Review here
Ooooh I’m a two-minute walk away from Carmine Street right now. I will definitely have to hit up Sweet Revenge this afternoon for a cupcake break. Andi, if I see your niece, I’ll tell her you sent me 🙂
woot woot! I had an awful week and could barely put sentences together, so all I’ve got for you is my confusion about why people use ma, mami, papi, etc. to pick people up. It grosses me out and I’d really like to understand why people use this. Please enlighten me. Also, one of my posts from a little while back was on the Carnival of Feminists, YAY!
Great Jill! And I think — not that I’m a proud aunt or anything — that if you do meet my niece, you’ll find her even more appealing than the gooey stuff. 🙂
The passive pussy is about the way we construct female sexuality as passive and male sexuality as active, and the effect that this has on women. I have a review of CNN Black in America Women and Men Finally Abortion women will find a way discusses women in India turning to online pharmacies to purchase drugs to induce abortions and the health risk that this entails.
My very first blog post! I do an overview of the problems in gaming and why they exist at Smart Like Me. http://smartlikeme.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/guest-post-a-feminist-gamer-looks-at-gender-issues-in-the-gaming-industry/
1. An Apache boy is denied entrance into kindergarten in Texas – ’cause of his long hair 2. My site gets rated NC-17 when I add the word ‘abortion’ to the front page 3. My co-blogger’s post on Viagra’s effects on women turns into a bizarre debate on the efficacy of anti-depressants. Also, it was my first week writing for Feminocracy, and I’m asking for good feminist characters from children’s lit – no body seems to have any ideas!
Ummm… let me try my linking again:Feminist Underground gets an NC-17 rating for the word abortion… there, that should work. Sorry about the shoddy html skills.
I wrote a breakdown of why the gender of male critics is relevant in assessing their rebuttals of feminist concerns about marriage. http://www.pushback.org/2008/07/25/why-jesses-gender-matters-in-the-marriage-debate/ And at my own blog, I wrote about a recent book in which an educated, white male seeks to prove the American dream is still alive, if people would just have the same positive attitude he has. See the problem? http://popperspective.wordpress.com/
I’ve been a busy blogger this week! First i wrote about several things that i or other feminists have been criticized and called “antifeminist” for in “i’m a feminist, and…” Next, i started a dialogue with a commenter who asked whether it’s possible to be a “passive feminist” and finally, i jumped right into the “the clothes don’t make the feminist” debate, tying in beauty privilege.
Wrote about the Stanford Prison experiment and Police TAsering incidents http://zakstar.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/the-stanford-prison-experiment-and-police-tasering-incidents/ Am I the only one whose Feminist Daily News feed included pro-life propaganda this week? http://zakstar.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/feminist-daily-news-hacked/ Just for fun: Somedays I’m reminded why I like animals better than people http://zakstar.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vod-cross-species-friendship/
I wrote a nerdy blog post at Feministing Community about legal implications of overturning Roe v. Wade: A Few Thoughts on Roe
I wrote this piece yesterday about pronoun use: http://shihtzustaff.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/pronoun-use/ On Friday I wrote this piece about a local mayor who received a conditional sentence and an 8 pm curfew for a year after being convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend and her new partner. He had also stalked her previously. oh, and he refuses to step down as mayor. This is the same city where the woman missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were killed: http://shihtzustaff.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/shame-on-our-justice-system/ And if anyone is interested I did a piece some time ago about the Missing Women’s Trial: http://shihtzustaff.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/missing-women-trial/ I look forward to going through the comments and reading all the good stuff linked there!
I wrote a post on Punkassblog about my research on pro-life organizations. Sorry about all the navigating-away links. http://punkassblog.com/2008/07/27/pro-life-organizations/
I wrote about Mona Charen’s comments to her son on sluts and reading Cosmo and my post on Viagra verses birth control has been really popular.
I embedded a Nu Shooz video from back in the day. http://varkentine.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-immortal-words-of-nu-shooz.html Also that same animal video, to which I won’t link since Zak beat me to it. Made a prediction about the new Joss Whedon series. http://varkentine.blogspot.com/2008/07/theyre-gonna-stop-saturday-night-so-you.html
Had a go at Mamma Mia – rants and raves about it: http://fantasyecho.livejournal.com/159591.html And today, just some thoughts about straight privilege while celebrating Pride Week here in Halifax: http://fantasyecho.livejournal.com/160862.html
Read my take on the I Blame the Patriarchy “fun-feminists” controversy, by way of The Newlywed Game: http://popfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/07/feminist-crisis-calmed-by-newlywed-game.html
Most of the good stuff this week has been from my co-bloggers: takahe83 has a great post on the barriers to success for women in the sciences, and another on gender imbalance and population control in China. And…I posted a cute picture.
I put most of my energy into blogging on Obama’s Berlin visit, since I had nearly a front-row spot for it. Earlier in the week, I indulged in some hand-wringing over an issue closer to my usual home base – the woefully unjust application of parental notification laws in Ohio (not that the laws are smart or just to begin with). Thanks for providing this soapbox, Jill!
On the classism in representing the face of the “gas crisis” as the middle class having to cancel summer vacations. And do check out No Little Lolita’s great guest post on my blog!
I have three entries! “You’re so articulate. Where did you learn that?”, about CNN’s Black in America. Thrusting racism upon babies who just got here. about the allegedly one-in-a-million twins who were recently born in Berlin. Black in America and The Goal, about how the CNN special relates to a novel mainly popular in business school circles.
I blogged my first mammogram (and wrote a post on the pros and cons of screening mammography before 50). But the real must-read was not mine: Zuska blogged her D&C
Everyone is always so insightful, but I’m not! Oh well. I just couldn’t answer Bill O’Reilly’s very important question, “Do I have to buy you dinner before you use the birth control?” I also propose some pro-choice legislation to counter South Dakota’s abortion law requiring “informed consent,” which is code for “tell her lies, and maybe she’ll change her mind.” And since I can’t post hyperlinks anymore and don’t know the html code: http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/07/important-question-bill-oreilly.html http://afunnyfeminist.blogspot.com/2008/07/pro-lie-legislation-thats-not-typo.html
another round of The Guy’s Zombie Survival Tip Tuesday. I saw Mama Mia! and loved it. And more on Othering.
I wrote about the stereotypes there are for girls my age at thirteen, and the pressure to dress a certain way not only from their classmates, but their parents/role models. http://ironjawedangst.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/just-a-comment-for-the-sterotypes-out-there/
I’ve had a busy week… I’m spreading the word about a benefit happening in CO in honor of Angie Zapata, and a call for submissions to a new collection of survivor stories. I’m also talking about beauty privilege and the othering of not conventionally beautiful women by, of all people, feminists, yikes, as well as transphobia from one radical feminist in the latest edition of the Radical Feminist Carnival.
The Hand Mirror has been busting with stuff about bodies and beauty this week, in particular: Womanomics: a case study by the ex-expat (which created much controversy) The anti-chick by Anna McM Busting out of ‘The Beauty Myth’ by the ex-expat, responding to the criticism of her earlier post. And other stuff we’ve written about includes harvesting girls’ eggs and Condolezza Rice’s visit to NZ.
It’s been a slow week… just a bit about artist Lalla Essaydi and the Paycheck Fairness Act (contact your representatives!).
Carnival of Feminists is up! http://diaryofafreakmagnet.blogspot.com/2008/07/bigger-fuller-bouncier-ginger-hosts.html
i wrote about broke-ass fat-ass bra shopping at retail stores. awful selection, awful prices, awful employees..
Last week, I posted ten rules for concert etiquette, a link to The Great Desecration on Phyrangula, and another Friday Random Ten.
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