Today at the office I convinced a coworker to use his clout to write an email to massage an inter-office political situation I’m trying to alleviate (vague enough for you?), and he started the email by writing, “Dear X, the girls in XYZ department are concerned about…”
The “girls in XYZ department” happen to range a […]
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Especially when laid out so damned frankly.
Racialicious has a great post on the inanity of the new VH1 show Miss Rap Supreme, specifically on the pseudo-feminist goals of the show that fall short of actually making a feminist statement. On the episode featured in the post, the female rappers go up with a sixteen against Too Short, to whom I […]
The proper response to a call to end the erasure of women of color from the public sphere does not include silencing others, much less drowning out the voices of women of color who have a direct personal and professional stake in the discussion at hand with your righteous white feminist rage. At this […]
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 […]
How To Make It As A Woman In the Music Business
Published April 12th, 2008 in Feminism, Humor and Music. 1 CommentA monologue by Erykah Badu:
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Published April 9th, 2008 in Feminism, Film, Violence and War. 10 CommentsTuesday night HBO premiered the award-winning documentary “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” a harrowing look into the lives of rape victims who are the uncounted casualties of the Congolese civil war. Directed by Lisa F. Jackson, a celebrated documentarian who was herself the victim of a gang rape, the movie spans the […]
Seal Press is kind of disappointing. [Full disclosure: I was approached by Seal awhile back to write something for them, but my half-assed pseudo-proposal was inconsistent with what they were looking for and was therefore rejected.] On one hand they put out some of the better books I read when I first […]
This t-shirt is about rape, and it’s something I can safely say I would never wear.
Bean asks, “Does it really let women own their experiences to wear a t-shirt?” Um, no. Considering t-shirts are good vehicles for funny pictures and trite truisms, the last thing I want up for commentary from […]
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