From Sexual Ambiguitites:
Blog Against Disablism Day -- a post about how one's ablism can show up in one's relationship.
From Gender Goggles:
Reclamation and Re-Imagining Words -- on terms like "chivalry" and "honour", what they mean in our culture and whether or not they can be reclaimed and made to mean something new.
Think Before You Pink - on "shopping for the cure" and questions to ask before contibuting to BC research/treatment in this way.
Gender identity, sex, sexual orientation ... I really don't get the difference here. From T-Vox, part of the Trans 101 entry.
From Feministing:
Gender Roles/Heteronormativity: Sea Creature Edition - How gender stereotypes get reinforced. Woah.
AND
The Privilege of Living Your Principles. Pretty much exactly what it says. Go read. :-)
From We Are The Third Wave:
Patriarchal Catch-22 -- On feminist choices and motherhood.
AND
Porn and Feminism: The Story of Annabel Chong -- On sex-negativity among sex-possitive feminists[1].
From Jezebel:
Helen Benedict On Sexual Assault In The Military (And How To Stop It).
From The Feminist Agenda:
I Don't Get It -- A post about the whole Miss California thing regarding Conservative Christianity, beauty pagents, and notions of "morality".
From Yes Means Yes:
No Win Situation - On Patriarchy, virginity, and the double-bind. (Relates nicely to "I Don't Get It", above).
AND
Killing the Messenger -- On Angie Zapata's murderer and the messages we teach ourselves as a culture.
Related Link (from Pam's House Blend):
We were so often afraid of being discovered as LGBT ourselves that we called others names, and/or became physically violent to out LGBT individuals because we were afraid that if we were seen as not being bullies against out LGBT individuals and gender variant people, we would be discovered as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender ourselves.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] And then there's my reaction to Annabel's best-selling porno. "Wow. That must have been a lot of work. I hope she took a long bath and a spa day afterwords."
Blog Against Disablism Day -- a post about how one's ablism can show up in one's relationship.
From Gender Goggles:
Reclamation and Re-Imagining Words -- on terms like "chivalry" and "honour", what they mean in our culture and whether or not they can be reclaimed and made to mean something new.
Think Before You Pink - on "shopping for the cure" and questions to ask before contibuting to BC research/treatment in this way.
Gender identity, sex, sexual orientation ... I really don't get the difference here. From T-Vox, part of the Trans 101 entry.
From Feministing:
Gender Roles/Heteronormativity: Sea Creature Edition - How gender stereotypes get reinforced. Woah.
AND
The Privilege of Living Your Principles. Pretty much exactly what it says. Go read. :-)
From We Are The Third Wave:
Patriarchal Catch-22 -- On feminist choices and motherhood.
AND
Porn and Feminism: The Story of Annabel Chong -- On sex-negativity among sex-possitive feminists[1].
From Jezebel:
Helen Benedict On Sexual Assault In The Military (And How To Stop It).
From The Feminist Agenda:
I Don't Get It -- A post about the whole Miss California thing regarding Conservative Christianity, beauty pagents, and notions of "morality".
From Yes Means Yes:
No Win Situation - On Patriarchy, virginity, and the double-bind. (Relates nicely to "I Don't Get It", above).
AND
Killing the Messenger -- On Angie Zapata's murderer and the messages we teach ourselves as a culture.
Related Link (from Pam's House Blend):
We were so often afraid of being discovered as LGBT ourselves that we called others names, and/or became physically violent to out LGBT individuals because we were afraid that if we were seen as not being bullies against out LGBT individuals and gender variant people, we would be discovered as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender ourselves.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] And then there's my reaction to Annabel's best-selling porno. "Wow. That must have been a lot of work. I hope she took a long bath and a spa day afterwords."