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Blogging Against Disablism Day: Ableism and Abuse

by Cara May 1, 2010

Trigger Warning for graphic descriptions of neglect and abuse against people with disabilities. Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day, which takes place on May 1st of every year. At this blog, I tend to write an awful lot about different forms of violence and abuse against women. I’ve talked in the past about various ways [...]

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Blogiversary: The Curvature Turns 3

by Cara April 18, 2010

Today, April 18th, is the third anniversary of this here blog. And with it comes a full blog redesign! Lord knows that it was well past being due. For the brand spanking new logo, I’m enormously indebted to Marcus R. Gregory. He created the banner, was incredibly lovely and patient with me through the process, [...]

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Rape: the sinister blame game

by Cara February 16, 2010

A new UK study shows that most people still blame rape victims at least some of the time — and women are even more likely to victim-blame than men. I offer my analysis on these findings in my first ever piece for the Guardian. A new survey by the Havens service for rape victims shows [...]

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One Million

by Cara January 8, 2010

I’m proud and honored to announce that this past Sunday, January 3rd, The Curvature hit its 1,000,000th visitor since its humble beginnings two and a half years ago. So, I wanted to take this moment to thank all of the readers, commenters, people who send in tips, and especially all of the other feminist-type bloggers [...]

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Discussion on Rape Culture on Womanist Musings Blogtalk Radio Podcast

by Cara October 10, 2009

Tomorrow, Sunday, October 11 at 8pm EST, I’ll be on the Womanist Musings Blogtalk Radio show. Melissa McEwan from Shakesville and I will be discussing rape culture, as well as the Roman Polanski case, with Renee Martin and her podcast co-host Monica Roberts from Transgriot. I’m not quite entirely sure at the moment what I’ll [...]

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The Deal With Disability

by Cara September 25, 2009

Via Womanist Musings, I’ve come across a great blog called The Deal With Disability. The blog is written by Eva, a woman with cerebral palsy, and chronicles her experiences with how people treat her — from ignoring her, to being over-bearing and patronizing, or treating her like a child. Sometimes she writes about the experience; [...]

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Help SAFER Win $10,000

by Cara September 3, 2009

During the 24-hour Blogathon just over a month ago, I think that I made my deep respect and support for Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) quite clear. And so I just wanted to give them a shout out now — they have a chance at winning $10,000 for the organization, and just two or [...]

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REMINDER: Send in Those Blogathon Donations to SAFER

by Cara August 6, 2009

Everyone who pledged to donate to SAFER as a part of my Blogathon efforts should have received an email from the Blogathon organizers reminding them to fulfill their pledge. But I know that emails have a way of sitting in my inbox for awhile, and that I often need an extra reminder to get things [...]

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50 Books for Problematic Times

by Cara August 3, 2009

About a month ago, Newsweek released a list of “50 Books For Our Times” — 50 books that open a window to the modern world in which we live. RMJ at Deeply Problematic reviewed this list, and noticed that, apparently, the modern world is remarkably white, male and straight. The writers on this list were, [...]

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Birthday

by Cara July 31, 2009

VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip For The Beatles: Rock Band fans. How my husband got this video, let alone on my birthday, I do not know. But he did, and it is. ETA: There are three more The Beatles: Rock Band videos up at VH1. Check them [...]

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