April 2008

Oops

by Cara April 29, 2008

Uh, so I set up wordpress to post this for my yesterday . . . and it totally didn’t. I will be gone all day — and I do mean all day – for Equality and Justice Day in Albany. It’s the lobbying day for LGBT issues and I’m excited to be a part of [...]

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Feminist News and Links

by Cara April 28, 2008

I’ve been pretty busy, lately. Here’s some stuff I won’t get the time to blog about in depth: With regards to the Seal Press boycott, many have asked “but what are feminist authors to do?” Prof Black Woman answers that question with a list of kick-ass feminist and multicultural printing presses. Lauredhel goes after one [...]

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Oh No They Didn’t

by Cara April 27, 2008

You know that stupid Ben Stein movie Expelled, that argues in favor of “intelligent design” and chastises the sane for not allowing religious bullshit to be taught in science classes? Apparently, they used the John Lennon song Imagine in the film . . . without permission. Yoko Ono, one of my all-time favorite feminists, isn’t [...]

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Faulty Feminist Introspection

by Cara April 26, 2008

Will someone tell me what the fuck this shit is? A study has concluded that men often “misinterpret” women’s subtle messages during a sexual encounter when the message means “stop”. But my WTF is not towards the study, which is nonetheless very interesting to talk about — my outrage is at the blog post from [...]

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A Crazy 24 Hours

by Cara April 25, 2008

I’ve been waiting to weigh in on the latest of the Amanda Marcotte controversies: the images in the book. I’m not going to rehash it all here; if you don’t know what I’m talking about, click the link because Holly explains it all. I haven’t read the book or even seen it in person. So, [...]

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Why We Need to Stop the Democratic Infighting

by Cara April 24, 2008

Because John McCain is a misogynist nutbag. As are his fellow Republicans. Yesterday, Republican Senators successfully filibustered — that’s right, not just voted against but fucking filibustered — a bill that would provide those who have been the victims of discriminatory pay with more legal recourse. In other words, they filibustered a civil rights bill. [...]

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It’s a Small Feminist World

by Cara April 23, 2008

It’s an ironic one, too. I will admit that I have not been following the Seal Press debacle extremely closely. I paid attention for the first week, and not a whole lot of new stuff seemed to happen after that. And though they’re definitely related, the BFP/Amanda “thing” came up and it kind of dropped [...]

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Headline That Will Make Your Head Explode

by Cara April 22, 2008

Victim ‘had sex with her captor willingly’ And this is where we have a conversation about how exceedingly few fucking people in the world actually understand what rape is — and about how cops are some of the worst rape-deniers. Here is the back story. I’d say more, but pieces of my head seem to [...]

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Is it August yet?

by Cara April 22, 2008

The Pennsylvania Democratic primary is today. I could be slightly more enthused. In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve more or less dropped out of campaign coverage. The answer is simple: things have gotten ugly. And with apologies to Clinton supporters, I don’t understand why she is still in it (yeah, I know: “to win it”).

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Teaching Rape

by Cara April 21, 2008

Trigger Warning Via abyss2hope comes this disturbing and nauseating story about a wedding disc jokey who has been arrested for allegedly sharing an instructional video on how to sexually abuse children. A New York disc jockey has been accused of sharing an instructional video showing how to sexually abuse children. The case was referred to [...]

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