Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
- Blaming women some more, just using big words this time
- From the OMFG Files
- Black People Don’t Have Culture Unless They Fuck It Up
- Bonding: just some slurry in bunny ears
- Feminism & Disability
- 1 million WHAT?
- something new
– and big ups to this: rape is not a “misdeed”.
– OMFG
– Jesse takes on not-racism and the ubiquitous one Friend who proves how peachy-keen and not-racist everything really is
– Pavlov’s Cat on the continuing story of just how much “team bonding” depends on shared transgressions
– continuing problems with ableism and insulting language
– enviroFAIL
– beautiful post about first loves, infatuation and unrequited love
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
A bit of self-promotion from me, just because I know there was a lot of interest in the first post in my series, The duty of fiction writers to tell the truth.
The final post is now up, and it’s here: http://jotamar.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-duty-of-fiction-writers-to-tell-the-truth-part-iv/
Jo Tamar’s last blog post..The duty of fiction writers to tell the truth: Part IV
@ Jo Tamar:
Thanks for the heads-up, Jo. It’s well worth reading.
Thank you for linking my post.
I don’t think I’m going to get a response to my email to Feministing, though. *sigh*
Hey, I’ve never commented before, but I just found out that Bettina “wives should just say yes” Arndt is doing a panel at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on “Men, Women and Sex” on Sunday afternoon. I don’t know if audience members will be allowed to ask questions, but it looked like something that might interest a few people here. I myself can’t go, alas, but I’d love it if some feminists turned up and asked her some hard questions. The details are here