Amber said this the other day over at her blog:
Mainstream movies will never challenge gender roles, even when they pretend to challenge gender roles. Movies like Mr. Mom that simply switch the sexes of the people doing gendered labor actually do more to reaffirm sexist stereotypes than to challenge them. Truly, there is nothing about […]
So here’s the email my boss just sent out in preparation for the “holiday” weekend:
We could sure use any extra any of you could put in over this long weekend. Let’s try to get caught up somewhat, m’kay?
I’ll be away; so-and-so will be covering for me, and you can reach her at xxx-xxx-xxxx.
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It has recently come to my attention that I am powerful. So powerful, in fact, that I can impose rules, and uniforms. I was unaware I had this power, but I am seriously gratified to know it! I may be the first 400-pound bearded lesbian empress in the history of humanity!
So no […]
A bunch of years ago, I was made aware of a personality trait I’ve since realized a lot of women share. I began teaching at a business college and I received my first in-classroom evaluation. The comments of my supervisor were, if not enthusiastic, certainly strongly positive. The only remark that could […]
Hello, dear readers! I have been away for a few days of seriously necessary self-indulgence and socializing. I headed up to the land to spend a day or two with Kya and meet her long-time friends visiting from Colorado, and I have returned with a clear head, restored perspective, renewed sense of humor, […]
Three years ago today this woman became a box of ash.
Three years ago today I became 34 years old.
For three years I have been trying to write something about her that’s worthy of her. Because she hated tripe and drivel and catchphrases and for some reason that’s what grief inspires. At least in […]
Golly how I love it when other people agree with me. This is a quote from John Stoltenberg’s talk at the Dworkin Conference, which is posted over at another radical feminist:
Andrea was so strong that even when women were being shits to her, she was in solidarity with people called women. That was harder […]
I’ve been thinking over the past couple days about the blogroll and my concerns about it, and why I care so much about who’s on it, and who I want on it, and who I don’t, and why, and here is what I’ve come up with.
In the last 30 years, feminism has become a very […]
So here’s what I accomplished this morning in cabling class with the fabulous Nan.
This is Elsebeth Lavold’s* lattice repeat sampler. It’s obviously not finished but ultimately the cables will continue and keep crossing over each other and intertwining. It’s really cool looking. (Those purple things are markers which remind me that the […]
I’m back from a weekend at the land, where we had a work party to build a shade porch onto Kya’s house. If I can get hold of some of the photos that were taken, I’ll be blogging about women building, which was very exciting and fun–picture me running a circular saw off a […]
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