{"id":3426,"date":"2007-05-27T06:11:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/27\/just-a-couple-of-links\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T06:11:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T13:31:22","slug":"just-a-couple-of-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Just a couple of links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Pip has a blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/greatexpectations-pip.blogspot.com\/\">Great Expectations<\/a>.  She&#8217;s only got a couple of posts up but she&#8217;s asking some really interesting questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are there white middle-class butches? If so, where are they? I found Judith\/Jack Halberstam\u2019s book, Female Masculinities, particularly disappointing in this regard. It seems that J\/J identifies as butch (??). But although she shows how butch history has been ignored by middle-class feminism, she doesn\u2019t admit that being an academic means that working-class butch history doesn\u2019t simply belong to her. She doesn\u2019t use this opportunity to share her own experience of butchness, and instead uses the (often extremely personal) stories of others to illustrate this story. It\u2019s this kind of behaviour that allows white middle class men\/women\/butches to claim a rich history and identity, while hiding our privilege over others of the same gender (just like white women using pictures of black mothers to symbolise the fertility or spirituality of all women).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should go and check out her blog, leave some comments and encourage her to write more.<\/p>\n<p>*******<\/p>\n<p>Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/superbabymama.blogspot.com\/\">Super Babymama<\/a> who has been writing an excellent series of posts on the reality of life on food stamps.  As a feminist I believe the right to have (and be able to raise) a child is as important as the right not to have a child.  In both New Zealand and America that right is severely curtailed.  Super Babymama explains exactly how little food you&#8217;re allowed if you&#8217;re raising children by yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Pip has a blog called Great Expectations. She&#8217;s only got a couple of posts up but she&#8217;s asking some really interesting questions: Are there white middle-class butches? If so, where are they? I found Judith\/Jack Halberstam\u2019s book, Female &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,31,50,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-link-farms","category-transsexual-and-transgender-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}