So we were cleaning the house in a fervor yesterday afternoon when the phone rang, and I was greeted by the Ass PAC that’s been calling everyday for weeks.
I was already irritable after the bank appointment, so I launched into the lady, asking her to take us off their calling list.
“Well, in all due respect [...]
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I was too frustrated to frame this argument better. Here’s another try.
Discouraged with my inability to squeeze dollars from nickels, I decided that I should just educate myself on the basics of money. It seemed simple enough. I stopped skimming the financial section of the newspaper, and began — for the first [...]
I don’t want to slog on Courtney, but this post really rubbed me the wrong way. It’s just so bourgeois. WASPy, almost. And it also reminds me of some of the issues I’m having with the feminist movement as it’s currently evolving, wherein the movers and shakers scoring the book deals and [...]
I like what TNC is getting at here:
The thing that I find so appealing about Obama on race is he spins the thing forward–he talks about it in a way that enrolls everyone in the sort of progressive agenda that will ultimately help black and brown people. It’s rhetoric, I know, but it’s important. The [...]
Lafayette threw it’s first OUToberfest celebrating the larger-than-you-think queer community here in this relatively rural area. These assholes showed up, but thankfully there were only two. AND they had some vocal adversaries who protested them in kind. In comparison, several hundred others showed up in support of the community’s first queer festival, [...]
Preparation is key:
The Feminism series on Wikipedia is way, way more expansive than the last time I checked. In addition, the Wikipedians are also putting together a Gender Studies portal.
Go, internetz.
On Writing, Atrocity and Privilege — Random, Redux
Published April 12th, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Environment, Feminism and Things We Can Do. 19 CommentsPart of my endless frustration with blogging, especially when I was at a more widely read blog like Feministe, is something that I still run into at my newer, smaller blog:
I Had a Bad Day Today: 15 comments in one day
200,000 Women Have Had A Really Fucking Bad Decade: 2 comments in two [...]
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