Please use this thread to post whatever you’d like, including links to your own stuff. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of good reading out there:<\/p>\n
Wampum: Final Voting for 2005 Koufax Awards<\/strong><\/a> Salon: The Battle To Ban Birth Control<\/strong><\/a> Persephone’s Box: Inside Every Polite Woman is a Valerie Solanas Screaming to Get Out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A Womb Of Her Own: In Which Melissa Is Shocked By Racism In Midwifery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Definition: Trans Issues Are Women’s Issues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The insistence that transwomen are not “real”\u009d women, is, at its heart, fueled by the idea that biology equals destiny: the idea that one’s body parts define that person completely, that there is no individual room for change or variation, that a woman is only as good as her ability to give birth (therefore, as good as her uterus), or to serve as a sex object (therefore, as good as her vagina, as good as her breasts), or as a caretaker, a mother, a housewife, a passive decoration (therefore, as good as her ability to conform to “acceptable”\u009d gender roles).<\/p>\n And that, no matter how you disguise it or dress it up, no matter what excuses you might give about male privilege or socialization or experience in a transwoman’s history, is not feminism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Peek: Quick! Vote While The Black People Are Gone!<\/strong><\/a> Big Gay Blog: Blogger Strong-Armed By Ex-Gay Group<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Well if you haven’t yet heard, the ex-gay group Exodus International has served Mr. Watt, and at least one other blogger, with a cease and desist order for creating a parody of a billboard ad Exodus sponsored in Orlando, Florida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Life, Law, Gender: Life In Hell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Transgender women are more likely to end up in prison than virtually anyone else. The oft-quoted statistic about African American men … that one in four has a history of incarceration … is dwarfed by the available stats on people who are male-to-female, or MTF. A San Francisco Department of Public Health survey conducted in 1997 found that almost two thirds of MTF respondents had been incarcerated. (Curtsy: Jay Sennett.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Marginal Notations: feminism and authenticity, a.k.a. “i’m more of a feminist than you are”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n ASCENT Blog: About that maverick congressman who proposed to censure Bush. No, not Fiengold; Conyers<\/strong><\/a> Woman of Color Blog: a conflation of desperation with enjoyment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n No recreational facilities exist, and they prohibit residents from holding meetings or informal social gatherings in the community. As a result, leisure time for males is largely spent drinking alcohol. They prohibit news letters, bulletin boards or other forms of communication as is the installation of cable television services. Many residents we spoke with expressed concern with the level of social control in the community, a worker explained to us that they threatened them with losing their job and sending them back to their country if they were seen talking to outside agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tennessee Guerrilla Women: 400 Disabled Protesters Take Over Downtown Nashville<\/strong><\/a> A Quote From A “Pro-Life” Philosopher: Remember, abortion is all about father’s rights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Both man and woman are parents, and the woman carries the child. Yet surely to be a parent, a generator of the fetus, a procreator, is to have a closer relationship to the fetus than merely to contain the child physically. And we can raise the question, again, of whether in fact such a husband is allowed to live out his pro-life convictions in our society. It is not even clear that the husband is “free not to have an abortion”, as the bumper sticker alleges, if his wife wants to have one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bloodless Coup: On Those Anti-Globalization Protesters Arrested in 2002<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Long story short, the police arrested a number of people (the article says “about 30”) who were guilty of (wait for it…) looking like they were going to break the law. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Giant Lego Aircraft Carrier<\/strong><\/a> New Statesmen: Was It Worse Under Saddam?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n On 8 March, International Women’s Day, Yanar Mohammed, leader of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, announced that more than 2,000 women have been kidnapped since the fall of the regime.<\/p>\n Many women live isolated lives, their social contact limited to conversations over the telephone. Those who continue going to work, particularly in the Shia south, can find themselves harassed by Islamic militias. “Morality police” in Basra are likely to stop them as they enter schools and government buildings, checking they are wearing the hijab. This Taliban-style enforcement continues despite guarantees under the new constitution that women should be free to choose how they dress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ilyka Damen: “Shut Up, Sit Down and Scale Back” Is Not Feminism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I said I wasn’t going to attempt to define an “official feminist position” on any issue, and I am not.<\/p>\n But I am going to tell you what I think of Cathy Young, IWF, iFeminism, and former Bangles lead singer Christina Hoff Sommers: I think they’re more convincing as misogynist apologists than as feminists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Pandagon: Bush admin decides that being queer is a security risk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Creative Destruction: The Wisdom of Jonah Goldberg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I have found a number of bloggers out there who are really good at presenting their own point of view, while also being intellectually honest about the views of people who disagree with them. There are also a lot of bloggers (of all stripes) who seem to be victims of the Moral\/Intellectual Fallacy: the idea that anyone who holds Wrong Views must do so because of personal evil or personal stupidity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bloodless Coup: New Survey Shows That Students Think Liberal Professors Are Fair Graders<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Professors who students think are liberal are generally rated more favorably by students on whether students are encouraged to present their own viewpoints, whether grading is fair, whether the learning environment is comfortable, and whether they care about the success of students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mind the Gap!: White Privilege Blogging<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Reuters: Women’s Rights In Syria<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Though such cases are greatly underreported, Da’ad Mousa, a prominent Damascus lawyer and women’s rights advocate, said that more than 100 cases of so-called “honour killings” were reported in Syrian newspapers between 2000 and 2003. The majority of the men involved, who killed a female relative suspected of an illicit sexual affair in the belief that the liaison tarnished the family’s “honour”, went unpunished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Vegankid: Gender Is Required<\/strong><\/a> Brownfemipower: Getting Priorities Straight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Right now, i think that many of us have no choice but to position ourselves (that is PROTECT ourselves) in a way that is mean or offensive to white folks. when i know for a fact that most of the white parents in my neighborhood look at my little chicano\/a kids and see *trouble maker* *Drop out* *teenage pregnancy* *poor* *uneducated*, I really don’t feel much like working on trusting white folks much–cuz i’m not going to let my kids be fucked up by *their* shitty beliefs. i’m not going to work to dispell their beliefs about my kids, i’m going to talk to my kids and give them the power, education, self assurance and self love to realize that those folks are fucked up individuals. That way my kids deal with racists on *their* terms, not the other way around. (Curtsy: Egotistical Whining<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Indymedia: Iranian Police Attack International Women’s Day Demonstrators<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Blac(k)ademic: Fuck the L-Word<\/strong><\/a> The Bloviator: Background Information About Wafa Sultan<\/strong><\/a> NOW Breaks With Democrats, Endorses Alan Sandals For Senate<\/strong><\/a> TMPCafe: Credit Reporters Give Special Privileges to V.I.P.s<\/strong><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Did you know, for example, that while you need to sweat out your credit report,the credit bureaus keep a special “V.I.P.” list of prominent citizens whose reports are specially tidied up so they look cleaner than they really are? If the big boys never experience the harassment or increased costs of a credit ding, then they are a lot less likely to insist on more legal oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Political Animal: One Way Having A Woman On The Supreme Court Matters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Lawyers, Guns and Money: Should Children Have The Right To Vote?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Pandagon: IWF Rejects Amanda’s Submission To Their College Essay Contest<\/strong><\/a> A month later, my roommate approached me in one of her usual panics. “Amanda, I’m pregnant again!” she said. I guess she’d taken my lectures about the evils of the birth control pill a little too closely to heart. She explained to me that she had the cash, but she still needed a ride to the clinic. She swore up and down that this was only her 5th abortion, but I had learned not to believe anything she said after she kept swiping Sudafed out of my purse to keep her dorm room methamphetamine lab in operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reappropriate: Anti-Fat Bigotry on “The Apprentice”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please use this thread to post whatever you’d like, including links to your own stuff. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of good reading out there: Wampum: Final Voting for 2005 Koufax Awards “Alas” didn’t make it to the final round (sob! wail!), … Continue reading
\n“Alas” didn’t make it to the final round (sob! wail!<\/em>), but many great bloggers did. Go vote!<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: Blackfeminism.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHow hurricane Katrina will help the GOP grab more elections.<\/p>\n
\nWhy does it take a white maverick to get progressives’ attention?<\/p>\n
\nWhoo-hoo! They’re protesting cuts in Medicaid.<\/p>\n
\nWow. Curtsy: The Argument Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThis cracked me up.<\/p>\n
\nJust when you thought TV can’t get any more racist or offensive…. Blackamazon <\/a>concurs with Blac(k)ademic’s view of The L Word<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nThis powerful video of Wafi Sultan<\/a> speaking out for women’s rights and against terrorist violence has been getting tons of links and email rounds (the video is very entertaining, but if you prefer there’s a text transcript here<\/a>). (Note that the link is to Memri, a group that has been accused of anti-Arab racism.) On the one hand, it’s thrilling to see a woman speaking out on Al-Jazeera against misogyny and violence; but on the other hand, I can’t help but be suspicious of a video that plays so fully into a Western triumphalism narrative. For a fuller background on Ms. Sultan – containing both negative and positive – be sure to read the Bloviator’s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe Democrats, in contrast, are endorsing anti-choice candidate Bob Casey.<\/p>\n
\nGee, I wonder why? Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n