April 2009

Trans Panic Defense Underway in Trial for Angie Zapata’s Murder

by Cara April 20, 2009

I have been very closely following the Twitter feed by JusticeforAngie, which is live-tweeting the trial of Allen Andrade for the murder of Angie Zapata.  The details of the case have been absolutely engrossing; they have also made me feel quite physically and emotionally ill, particularly on the day that opening arguments began, and the [...]

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Blogiversary

by Cara April 18, 2009

Today, April 18, 2009, is the two year anniversary of The Curvature. And coincidentally, the post after this one will also be my 1,000th post. Wow. Two years. One thousand posts. I’m not in a hugely philosophical or reflective mood, so I will simply say: that’s a lot of feminism, ranting and random Beatles stuff. [...]

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City Councilman Promoted Violent Anti-Immigrant Video Game

by Cara April 18, 2009

I just came across a post at Sociological Images about an outrageously racist flash video game called Border Patrol.  They note that in the game, “you try to keep three types of Mexicans from crossing the border: drug dealers, Mexican nationalists, and ‘breeders.’”  Video game site Kotaku — which thankfully also calls the video game [...]

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Making Changes: Categories

by Cara April 16, 2009

I wanted to draw your attention to a cataloging change that was made on the blog two days ago. It may seem quite minor to many, but is actually really important. First, I have added a category called “trans,” rather than just placing all trans-related posts under LGBTQ.  I have also separated out the category [...]

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Cis Supremacy, Feminism and Feministe

by Cara April 14, 2009

There is currently a boycott of Feministe being staged by Voz and some other trans women, and it is directly related to a post that I wrote, and my reactions to the comment thread. I have just posted an acknowledgement of the boycott and what happened, and a full apology. I thought that my readers [...]

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Just in case you were wondering . . .

by Cara April 14, 2009

What oh what does Cara, Feminist Beatles Fan Extraordinaire (wait, no one actually calls me that?), think about the murder trial and now conviction of Phil Spector, one-time producer to the Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison? She thinks he did it, and is both absolutely shocked and extremely fucking happy that his gun-waving, misogynistic [...]

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Acting Out For No Reason

by Cara April 13, 2009

Trigger Warning — this post includes the reproduction of “jokes” about sexual assault, and also a description of an actual experienced sexual assault. You may have seen recently on Shakesville a post which got much attention, called The Survivor Thread.  It was an excellent post which garnered 300+ comments from people sharing their experiences with [...]

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Light a Candle for Angie

by Cara April 11, 2009

Angie Zapata is a woman who was murdered in July 2008. I have written about her before. Her alleged murderer, Allen Andrade, is believed to have killed her because she was trans. The jury selection in the trial is set to begin on Tuesday, April 14th. The video above was made by Angie’s family and [...]

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In Which I Refuse to Put the “Sex Ed War” to Rest

by Cara April 10, 2009

A few weeks back, my friend KaeLyn sent me this article from Time called “How to Bring An End to the War Over Sex Ed,” and because I’m always behind on my emails, I just finally got around to reading it. Now, you all know that Time Magazine is not my friend.  But, this article [...]

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Missing the Point on Teen “Sexting” Cases

by Cara April 9, 2009

You’ve probably seen a lot of media coverage lately around the phenomenon of teenagers sending nude or otherwise sexual pictures of themselves to each other, and the fact that a lot of parents, and more notably law enforcement officials, are really freaking out about it. It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about an [...]

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