March 31st, 2008

Of course I took the Book Quiz

You’re To Kill a Mockingbird!
by Harper Lee
Perceived as a revolutionary and groundbreaking person, you have changed the minds of many people. While questioning the authority around you, you’ve also taken a significant amount of flack. But you’ve had the admirable guts to persevere. There’s a weird guy in the neighborhood using dubious means to protect […]

March 25th, 2008

¡que lástima!

“Women think that very masculine men aren’t a good choice, according to study”

March 24th, 2008

On fat, fantasy, reality, my mother and me

Sister blogger justicewalks wrote a post about being born into the ‘wrong’ body. Her description of her wish to be taller reminded me of an incredibly detailed fantasy I had as a pre-teen or young teenager. Often at night as I was waiting to fall asleep, I’d imagine that a fairy offered […]

March 22nd, 2008

Anti-prostitution online activism needed

From Melissa Farley:
Please pass this on asap to feminists who are web activists against sexual violence. Friday March 21, Diane Sawyer did an excellent job in a 2-hour 20/20 special on prostitution in the US. She laid bare the emotional damage that prostitution causes.
As of noon on Saturday, the pro-pimp lobby is flocking […]

March 21st, 2008

Somethings good to read

What seems to me a balanced post on the Obama speech, by marjorie here in Albuquerque. She mentions two things that stood out for me in skimming the first couple paragraphs of the speech: no mention of the genocide of native people by Europeans on this continent, and multiple descents into the kind […]

Poor Jean!

craigslist: neverending source of hilarity!

March 17th, 2008

The last post I will write on this subject.

Just for the record, the definitive post on transgenderism and radical feminism was written some time ago, and it is Amananta on Radical feminism and the Transgendered, or, how to write a post that will infuriate everyone.
This one isn’t too bad either.
Why is this my last post on such a contested subject, you might ask? […]

March 6th, 2008

Sexism in antitrafficking media

Littoral Mermaid has a post up about the poster for the movie “Holly.” (Glad to see LM is blogging again, by the way!)
I noticed similar dynamics in the official summary of the antitrafficking film “Trade”:

Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by […]

March 3rd, 2008

Native Feminism Without Apology!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2008
Statement of University of Michigan Students and Faculty in Support of Andrea Smith’s Tenure Case
CONTACT: TenureForAndreaSmith@gmail.com
On February 22nd, 2008, University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) issued a negative tenure recommendation for Assistant Professor Andrea Lee Smith. Jointly appointed in the Program in American Culture and […]

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