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• Feminism Friday snarkfest: “See what you made us do?”

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-31 • ( 20 )

  A Christian white male junior college student launches into a tirade about feminism, in a stomach-churning expansion of the “Now see what you made me do?” principle. “What about a pole dancer mother?” Highlights and translations: … but the point… Read More ›

• Another invisible mother

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-31 • ( 14 )

  In “Motherless birthing, and the one-way street of obstetric ‘choice’ “, I talked about a news story in which the hero was the person “delivering” the baby on a plane, and the mother was invisible. Well, here’s another one. [image… Read More ›

• “The sensible maiden will, like the wise virgin, fill her lamp with oil before the bridegroom cometh.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-28 • ( 8 )

  Here’s my original post introducing the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment. Thanks for all your chapter requests! I offered you a glimpse of Chapter One: here’s the whole thing, for your edification, chortleification, and irritation. The one thing that… Read More ›

• 100%. I repeat, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! Can’t you read? ………. oh. wait.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-28 • ( 6 )

  I’ve blogged on the “partnership” between the International Breastmilk Project and for-profit human-milk-mining pharmaceutical company Prolacta before. To catch up: Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership Milking it in California and… Read More ›

• “Strange emotions set the young heart throbbing and mayhap seeking for a mate.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-27 • ( 23 )

  More on Vitalogy later; for now, I thought I’d introduce you to the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, which I’ll feature more excerpts from as time goes on. (Note the new tag – “old books”). The Ladies’ Handbook was published… Read More ›

• Monday Magic

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-27 • ( 1 )

  Today’s magic shot – dappled tree shadows during a solar eclipse. The tiny spaces between the leaves of a tree create a multiplicity of camera obscura images on the ground. This photos was taken by Nils van der Burg in… Read More ›

• Now there’s only love in the dark

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-26 • ( 3 )

  “. . . and on the night of December 11th, the moon was long into the night as though all bloody, and after, it was darkened. Also, on the night of December 16th, the heavens were seen to be as… Read More ›

• Race, class, disability, sex; sex, disability, race, class; class, sex, disability, race; getting off the roundabout and meeting in the middle, dizzy as all get-out, but trying to find which way is up

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-26 • ( 5 )

  So. The big ones. Sex, race, disability, class. (Add your own: sexual orientation should be in there, heteronormativity and how that functions, trans issues, religion or lack thereof, lots more.) But I’m on my choice of Big Four today. And… Read More ›

• Weekend Wibble: Fragments of IM

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-25 • ( 7 )

  [following a conversation about soccer teams, in which it was established that Arsenal is the only team for which is it unacceptable to barrack] lauredhel: I watch other TV crap lauredhel: (though rather more deprecated TVcrap than sports, interestingly) tigtog:… Read More ›

• Saturday Stuff.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-25 • ( 2 )

  What I’m reading: Canada’s Chronicle Herald reports that Jenny Dionne paid a cover charge at her regular bar the Dome, had one drink, then nipped out for a smoke. She was refused re-entry under the “No Fat Chicks” rule. Trendwatching.com… Read More ›