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 ›
Sociology
Hearing Women’s Voices: Digital Communities and Feminist Ethics
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”
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 ›
Yes and No
This post has been hanging around as a draft since February, because I wasn’t quite happy with it. Lindsay’s recent post (and my response), on how misusing “moderate” to describe faith positions which don’t preach intolerance imputes that the intolerant… Read More ›
Knowing Your Market
Today’s Guest Poster “Little Jim” is a masked IT professional and blogger While the outside perception is that it is still a male domain (and indeed some segments of the industry are very much like a post office), within the… Read More ›
Heffernan: Non-incubators are non-people
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 ›
Feminism – an ethic or a subculture?
This post is text yanked from the previous post, because the beginning and the end of the post were just a really, really bad match, and I think the feminist material deserved its own post. So if you’ve already read… Read More ›
“Moderate” language
Image Credit: Karen Wehrstein, Gliese 581c, uploaded by Phil Plait The picture has nothing to do with the subject of the post, it’s just v. cool (follow the link). Lindsay Bernstein, of Majikthise, has a post up talking of the… Read More ›
Take Back the Blog
Take Back the Blog was a blogswarm aimed at encouraging discussion of the rights of women to full participation in online discussions. Check out the collection of posts at Crablaw’s place. Lauredhel put up a belated post addressing the way… Read More ›
Because “fun ‘n’ edgy” and “pornification of slavery” are so easily confused.
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.
Hoyden About Town 