Angry Black Woman: May 18th Is The Deadline For The May Erase Racism Festival<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Gimp Parade presents<\/em>: Blog Against Disabilism Day!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Taking Steps: How Cops Treat Transgendered People<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n She was brought in after me, stripped down to her long underwear, and as they were throwing her to the ground and removing her piercings, she tried to bring up the local statutes preventing discrimination against the transgendered, the right to self-identification, hell, the right to remain silent. As they had told me, they told her these were “TV rights,” and they knelt on her back and grabbed at her crotch and triumphantly announced that she was a he, and that he was a freak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not an easy post to read, but one we should all read anyway. A sure Koufax nominee. ((Why do I mention the “Koufax” thing, when doing so seems, frankly, a little crass and tacky? Because when it comes time to make Koufax nominations for 2007, my means of remembering the posts I liked that much is to search for uses of the word “Koufax” in my posts.))<\/p>\n Ambling Along the Aqueduct: How Political Narratives Shape How We Write Science Fiction<\/strong><\/a> Feminista: How John Gray Taught Me To Love Andrea Dworkin’s Work<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Op-Ed Pages Refuse To Publish Pro-Choice Editorial Cartoons<\/strong><\/a> The Nation: Things We Could Do If We Rescinded Bush’s Tax Cuts For The Richest 1%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sanders’ National Priorities Act makes his budgetary priorities crystal clear: providing primary and dental care to millions of Americans and health insurance for children; full funding for veterans health care; increasing access to affordable childcare and fully funding Head Start; lowering property taxes by federally covering 40 percent of special education costs for kids; providing 330,000 additional Pell Grants and doubling the maximum allowable amount; creating 200,000 jobs by investing in renewable energy, public transit, and high speed rail; creating 180,000 jobs by constructing, preserving, and rehabilitating at least 150,000 affordable housing rental units; reducing taxes for 10 million working families by expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit; and reducing the deficit by $30 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think this is the most spectacular (albeit grim) photo of a dead dandelion I’ve ever seen.<\/strong><\/a> The Debate Link: The Hate Crimes Law And Terrorism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Gimp Parade: The Hospital Broke State Law By Performing “Ashley Treatment” Without A Court Order<\/strong><\/a> Blog Of The Moment: The Dumbest Argument In The History Of Argumentation<\/strong><\/a> Amanda Reviews Great Comics<\/strong> Debitage: Why Environmentalists Aren’t Rushing To Buy Post-Global-Warming Beachfront Property<\/strong><\/a> DovBear: Why We Are Better Off Today, In Handy Tabular Format<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Masslibrulgirl: Signs you’ve taken too much sociology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Your Cousin Vito: What Superhero Comics Would Look Like In A Matriarchy<\/strong><\/a>. Feministe: Response to Garance’s Proposal To Raise The Consent Age For Participating In Porn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Ilycain: Ponies? I mean, what the fuck<\/em>. Ponies?<\/strong><\/a> Economist’s View: Why Republicans Are Skeptical About Global Warming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Obsidian Wings: Mitt Romney Thinks Science Fiction Novel Is Reality<\/strong><\/a> IrrationalPoint’s Soapbox: Five Things Wrong With The “People Fake Disabilities” Cliche<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Google Blogoscoped: Calculate Any Website’s He\/She Ratio<\/strong><\/a> The Times: Children’s Activity Levels May Be Determined By Genes, Not By Phys Ed Classes<\/strong><\/a> I’ve been randomly dipping into the archives of The Unapologetic Mexican<\/a>, and what I’ve been finding is spectacularly perceptive writing on race and on whiteness. For instance<\/a>:<\/p>\n It is not the color of your skin or eyes that will bother me. It is the lenses you may see through. So when I speak of “Whites” and “Non-whites” in this blog, let it be a given that while I do speak of blood (“melanin-lacking race” and “melanin-laden race”) I mostly refer to the lenses that are typically found on each type of person. And if you can take those off for a minute, I think you will see what I mean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n His discussion of lenses reminds me of Sandra Bem’s book The Lenses of Gender<\/em><\/a>, which was an essential book for my own developing feminist thinking way back when.<\/p>\n And, more recently<\/a>, on the subject of internalized racism (among other things) (in a post that I’m going to try to remember to nominate for a Koufax award):<\/p>\n But I didn’t even let myself think in honest terms anymore. I sublimated the White Supremacist notions that my New Legal Father constantly oozed into other shapes of less-obvious thought. After ten years of his influence (as well as mainstream “universal” (White\u00ae) culture), instead of thinking facial hair brings out the Mexican in me<\/em> (even tho many have said so verbatim) I just thought facial hair looks ugly<\/strong> on me.<\/em> Because in that strain of White\u00ae thought, Mexican=Ugly. And so I avoided facial hair (especially a mustache) at all costs. Instead of thinking taking Spanish in High School will tie me more to my Mexicanness<\/em> I just thought that French would be more “interesting.” (Also interesting that they were conquerors, for a while, of Mexico). Instead of thinking The sun makes me so dark I stand out as not-White\u2122,<\/em> I thought to myself as I reached into my late 20s The sun will age my skin, I should start avoiding it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n What reading that post reminded me of is American Born Chinese<\/em><\/a>, a comic book by Gene Yang. Yang’s comic is one of the best treatments of struggling with internalized racism and the desire to match the “default person” I’ve ever read.<\/p>\n Feministing: The Effects Of High Heels<\/strong> Wife Beating And Fundamentalist Islam Debated On TV<\/strong><\/a> Junk Food Science: Risk Factors And Anxiety-Mongering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Washington Post: Female Bloggers Face Sexual Threats<\/strong><\/a> Sara Speaking: Thinking About Race, Cultural Consciousness, and Eating With Chopsticks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n YouTube: Batman and Spiderman Discuss Spiderman 3<\/strong><\/a> Ilyka on Spiderman 3<\/strong><\/a> Here’s an open thread for discussing what you’d like, including links to your own stuff if you feel like putting those up. This is kind of an odd one, because I started it weeks ago, then got tired of working … Continue reading
\nAs well as being notable because it’s smart and interesting, this post is written by our own co-moderator Mandolin, on a group feminist sci-fi writers’ blog.<\/p>\n
\nThanks to Bean for the tip!<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: DCist<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nSee Blue’s post for the details, and also for a response from Ashley’s parents.<\/p>\n
\nAnd it’s a really sexist argument, too!<\/p>\n
\nCheck out Amanda’s reviews of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home <\/em><\/a>and Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber Baby.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
\nEvery time I think there’s a limit on how dumb denialist arguments are, some denialist out there outdoes the previous record.<\/p>\n
\nCurtsy: Charles.<\/p>\n
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\nAll in the service of dissing France. As Hilzoy points out, the weird thing is that no one at the Washington Post<\/em> thought to question Romney’s beliefs that French marriages legally end after seven years.<\/p>\n
\nThe “Alas, a Blog” he\/she ratio is 54%\/46%. CNN’s is 77%\/23%.<\/p>\n
\nThanks to “Alas” reader Original Lee for the tip!<\/p>\n
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\nThis clip collection of bits from TV talk shows in (I think) various languages is both horrifying (one male taking head pretty much advocates men raping their wives) and inspiring (the women standing up to these fundamentalist fools). Also check out this video at My Private Cashbah<\/a>, about if women should appear on TV (the woman in the debate kicks serious ass).<\/p>\n
\nAs Original Lee said to me in her email, “Gee, the MSM is paying attention now. Just a flash in the pan that won’t fix anything, I think.”<\/p>\n
\nWho, me, geeky?<\/p>\n
\n“Oh, how I wish I could unsee this movie.”<\/p>\n
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