Littoral Mermaid posts a link to Why I Hate Fun, a blog whose every post is full of honest brilliance. I particularly liked How do class and race affect different women’s approaches to sex work?:

…these “sex worker activists” seem to feel that their struggle to be allowed to be sex workers because they should […]

Filed under: Blogroll, blogging, feminism as politics, links by Amy's Brain Today

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 […]

Filed under: Blogroll, albuquerque, links, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

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 […]

Filed under: Blogroll, links, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

Stuff White People Like
especially
recycling
and
knowing what’s best for poor people

Filed under: Blogroll, blogging, satire, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today

From What Tami Said:
Where were these “all women must vote for the woman” folks when Carol Moseley Braun was running for president? I know why I didn’t support her–because other candidates more closely aligned with my take on the issues. But where were the feminists who say issues don’t matter? Where were the women who […]

Filed under: Blogroll, racism, white privilege, words from women by Amy's Brain Today

WRT to white people recognizing white privilege, dealing with challenges, and calling each other on it so people of color don’t have to:
Theriomorph on who determines ‘our most important ideas’?

Because extremely privileged white women are not only ignoring, but actively insulting and exploiting women less privileged than they are, whether via appallingly badly made […]

Filed under: Blogroll, feminism as politics, racism, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today

Allecto’s got some great things up at Gorgon Poisons lately, especially:
Open Letter from Nicaraguan Feminists
The work of Vednita Carter

Filed under: Blogroll, feminism as politics, racism by Amy's Brain Today

The Fury, Australian Radical Feminism

Filed under: Blogroll, activism/organizing, feminism as politics, lesbian feminism by Amy's Brain Today

Starfish
miss Andrea’s
I’ll have something original up in a couple days, probably.

Filed under: Blogroll, blogging by Amy's Brain Today

My Perspective, by justicewalks

Filed under: Blogroll, links by Amy's Brain Today