Sydette Harry at Global Comment: Grizzlies, Ducks and Waterfowl – Palin & feminist gatekeeping Palin and her political team’s ability to identify and commiserate personally with women is a skill professional “feminist” organizations and writers alike have abandoned (if they ever possessed it) in recent years to a nebulousness that focuses on branding and confrontational …
Tag Archives: feminism
Tiptoeing Rowboats
Jess Inglis at the Boston Phoenix: Holy war And so it came to pass, Roman Catholics, Mormons, and evangelical Protestants have banded together to battle, well, the rest of us — the heathens, the godless liberals, the Hitchens-reading progressives. Amanda Hess at The Sexist: Feminism For Bitches Believe it or not, even women who make …
Commissioned Squid
Tasha Fierce at Red Vinyl Shoes: Out of the (Gene) Pool: Disability and Biological Children That’s really what it boils down to: you’re imperfect, so your responsibility is to do the world a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool. Alice Xin Liu at Danwei: Haruki Murakami’s Chinese translators on emulating style I think …
Swelling Gourds
Aqueertheory at Below the Belt: Bluffin’ with our Muffin? – Lady Gaga and the Queer Revolution Amidst all this fawning, critical voices have barely been heard. This is why I would like to pose a series of questions about Ms. Gaga that will hopefully move the discussion somewhere beyond the realms of sycophancy. Thad Williamson …
Crispy Fences
Jessica Yee at mcclung’s: Call for submissions for book: Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism – Feminist education now: youth, activism, and intersectionality I’m really interested in talking about the intersectionality of feminist education and breaking down the barriers of what constitutes “education”, where that might be, and according to whom. Matt McAllester at …
Steep Chairs
Zuska at Thus Spake Zuska: Why Are You So Angry? (via Viv at Hoyden About Town) Calling what he’s seeing “passion” has two effects: it dismisses the arguments being made as non-logical, non-intellectual, and it downgrades the seething anger many of us are carrying around from dealing with douchey d00ds all our lives to just …
Itchy Lions
Anna at FWD/Forward: An Open Letter to Ms Magazine Blog I’m tired of smiling while feminist organisations treat people with disabilities like they’re afterthoughts and problems to be solved. Jeff Woods at Nashville Scene: Homeless People Are Flood’s Forgotten Victims “What happened to them? Where did they go? All their tents and their encampments are …
Familial Spots
I want to lead by reminding everyone that Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 is coming up on 1 May! This is the day where all around the world, disabled and non-disabled people will blog about their experiences, observations and thoughts about disability discrimination. Head over to comments to sign up if you’re participating, and be …
Glee: The Power of Madonna
This week’s episode of Glee has gotten a lot of hype because it was the eagerly awaited Madonna episode, and it was also The Feminist Episode, with Madonna being used as the vehicle for feminist empowerment and awakening! Cue swelling music! Now, I like Madonna. Do not get me wrong. I don’t quite think of …
Abstemious Corporations
tinywarrior at Cate: Fag I wanted to tell him about the time into which he was born, how so many people loved him, how so many people saw him as the sign of a good and hopeful future they might not live to see. M.T. Anderson: On the Intelligence of Teens I have to admit …