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• Google and the He/She Ratio

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-05 • ( 17 )

  I’ve been tinkering with The He/ She Ratio on Google Blogoscoped. A site’s he/ she ratio is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”, then searching for the number containing “she”, and then… Read More ›

• Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-04 • ( 41 )

  This is my first personal post about being sick. A “coming-out”, to some of my online friends. And a whole lot of elaboration, for those who know I’m sick, but don’t know the details. It’s taken me ages to write,… Read More ›

• Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-03 • ( 1 )

  A group of feminist bloggers are writing at the new Scholar & Feminist Online blog “Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance”. Pam Spaulding, Amanda Marcotte, Echidne, Samhita, Jill, Morgaine Swann, Melissa McEwan, and Jessica Valenti have teamed up to meta-blog about… Read More ›

• Hearing Women’s Voices: Digital Communities and Feminist Ethics

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-03 • ( 4 )

  Here’s a paper I wrote recently, Hearing Women’s Voices: Digital Communities and Feminist Ethics. [Edit: now available in HTML format here.] The intro: Introduction: Community and Ideas of “Space” “Online community” is a highly contested concept. Are text interactions “authentic”?… Read More ›

• Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-02 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.” Breastfeeding… Read More ›

• Heffernan: Non-incubators are non-people

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-01 • ( 6 )

  From today’s Australian comes this story: Liberal[1] Senator and colossal asshat Bill Heffernan says he stands by comments that Labor Deputy Leader Julia Gillard is not qualified to lead the country because she is deliberately “barren”. […] “If you’re a… Read More ›

• Because “fun ‘n’ edgy” and “pornification of slavery” are so easily confused.

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-29 • ( 23 )

  Hot on the heels of the murdered-gaunt-women-are-sexxxay spread from Top Model comes this “fashion spread”. Racist and sexist objectification all rolled into one odious airbrushed slavery-porn package. See it and froth.

• Passive Aggression: Foregrounding the Object

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-29 • ( 88 )

  I’m a day late, but here I am Taking Back the Blog. Today’s rant: the passive voice. When it comes to reports of men abusing and oppressing women, the passive voice prevails. Women are discriminated against Women are paid less… Read More ›

• Kate Harding on inhabiting her own body

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-28 • ( 4 )

  Kate Harding has a wonderful post, “Happy Yogaversary to Me“, on reclaiming her self as an embodied subject: Like just about all girls in this culture, I was always taught that my body was primarily something for other people to… Read More ›

• Thursday soapblogging

  By lauredhel on 2007-04-26 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been making some soap. It’s like magic, cold process soapmaking. Take one jug of super-concentrated lye solution, about the most corrosive, dangerous chemical ordinary people can buy, though in some areas it’s becoming scarce as part of the War… Read More ›