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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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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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WAM

by Cara March 26, 2009

I’m in Boston, for WAM.  The day of travelling has been much too long for a simple 1 hour plane trip from Buffalo to Boston, but . . . there you go. I don’t have any intentions to live-blog the conference.  In fact, I’m taking a break from blogging over this weekend, and will do [...]

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Required Reading

by Cara March 18, 2009

This post by Lisa at My Ecdysis, No Person is “Born to Rape” — about Josef Frizl, rape culture, how rape is regularly framed as inevitable and uncontrollable, which rapes are deemed “real” rapes, and so many other things — is so damn good that I’ve just shared it on every single social media site [...]

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Yes Means Yes LiveChat at Feministe

by Cara February 20, 2009

I will be participating in a livechat today at Feministe at 3PM EST to discuss the anthology about sexual violence called Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. The chat will be moderated by Feministe blogger Rachel, and also feature YMY contributors Toni Amato, Hanne Blank, Heather Corrina, and [...]

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On Feminism and Being Constructive

by Cara February 2, 2009

The other day, on my post about T-Shirt Hell closing, I got this comment from someone going by the name of James (a different James from the one who was published and later banned on the thread). Maybe if women spent more time being constructive than worrying about being offended, they’d accomplish something outside the [...]

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Reminder: Yes Means Yes Live Chat at Feministing

by Cara February 2, 2009

Just a quick reminder that at 3PM EST today, I’ll be live-chatting with Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez about Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape.  All you have to do to participate or read along is head over to Feministing at that time.  I [...]

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Yes Means Yes Live Chat

by Cara January 31, 2009

On Monday February 2, I will be participating in a live-chat on Feministing with Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, the editors of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape.  Also participating are Feministing bloggers and fellow Yes Means Yes contributors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Miriam Perez. Did I never officially [...]

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NY Times Article Got Story on DIY Abortions Wrong

by Cara January 23, 2009

The other week, I blogged about this NY Times article on Dominican women in New York City inducing abortion themselves with misoprostol. Well, it turns out that the NY Times go several key facts very wrong. AlterNet has the story. (emphasis mine) So what did the study find? Far less misoprostol use than expected, it [...]

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