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Bristol Palin and the Amazing Bitch Slap of Elitism
2011-01-22 06:24:00 By now I’m sure you’ve all seen, or at least heard about Bristol Palin’s most recent PSA for the completely unrealistic, abstinence-pushing Candies Foundation. Most who are bringing this PSA up for discussion agree that warning teenagers of the very real consequences of [unprotected] sex is great. It’s also important to remember that any time ... More About: Amazing , Bitch
A Media and Entertainment Blog You Should be Reading (and Not Only Because
2011-01-22 06:24:00 If you follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook then you’ve probably already heard about my latest endeavor and if you haven’t, then keep reading! Renee of the super awesome Womanist Musings and I have started a blog together. Women’s Eye on Media is a blog where Renee and I look ... More About: Entertainment , Reading , Blog
Call for Submissions ? ?Dear Sister? Upcoming Anthology for Survivors of Se
2011-01-22 06:24:00 I saw the following call for submission posted on Womanist Musings last week and almost immediately after coming across it, asked Renee for permission to re-post it here. The subject matter is most definitely very close to my heart. As a survivor of sexual violence, I really wish I had something like this at my ... More About: Call
Mississippi?s Message to the World: We Will Erase Young People Who Do Not C
2011-01-22 06:24:00 A few months ago, Constance McMillen, a young woman from Mississippi , made international headlines after her school forbade her from attending her prom because she wanted to wear a tuxedo and go with her girlfriend. Rather than letting this young woman attend her prom–something that she was entitled to do as a graduating student of ... More About: People , World , Young , Message
Holly Writes Sex and Sexuality (at Fascinations!): BDSM and Safe Words
2011-01-22 06:24:00 A few months ago, after that whole EdenFantasys fiasco went down and several people, including myself, were banned from the site, I hooked up with the superbly awesome Shanna Katz who is the Online Media Specialist for Fascinations. Shortly after, I began reviewing kick ass sex toys for Fascinations and while in discussions about that, ... More About: Holly , Words , Sexuality
The Mosque (Sorta Kinda) Near Ground Zero and Muslim Panic
2011-01-22 06:24:00 I had intended to write about this back in August, when practically every few minutes a new report or news story would be spreading like wildfire around Twitter and Facebook, claiming that the “Ground Zero mosque” would be the ultimate sign of disrespect to the people who lost their lives there, that it would be ... More About: Muslim , Mosque , Kinda
Meet Vincent, Our New Addition
2011-01-22 06:24:00 A little over two weeks ago we took in the most adorable, lovable, rambunctious, hilarious kitten I have ever come into contact with. Simply, he is irresistible and so cute I can barely stand it. We named him Vincent and he was eight weeks old when he first came to live with us, making him ... More About: Meet
Happy Coming Out Day, Everyone!
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Yesterday was Coming Out Day. I had started this post yesterday in order to properly commemorate the day, but the post never did get finished and I ended up being way too tired to get more than a little over 200 words written and then absolutely, positively needed to sleep. So, please forgive me for ... More About: Happy
Tech Crunch Breaks, then Later Pulls Story of Tech Writer?s Sexual Assault
2011-01-22 06:24:00 A friend of mine, Mark Carras of RockMyMonkey.com, sent me a message last night alerting me to a story that Tech Crunch had published about Google technical writer Noirin Shirley taking to her personal blog to speak out about sexual assault she endured at the hand of Twitter engineer Florian Leibert, at a post-conference party ... More About: Story , Assault , Sexual , Writer
Today is the 12th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Every year on November 20th since 1999, people around the world remember the trans people who have had their lives taken from them because of transphobic violence; because of hatred, prejudice and ignorance. Today is that day–the 12th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance . The Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 after the ...
Salvation Army Refuses to Distribute Harry Potter and Twilight Toys and Oth
2011-01-22 06:24:00 The Salvation Army and their bell ringers and big red kettles have been out in front of popular stores and malls since immediately after Thanksgiving, as they are every year, collecting funds that are assumed to go to people in need during the holiday season. Additionally, they have also been collecting toys at malls, schools, ... More About: Toys , Harry Potter , Potter
Steve Martin?s Song About the Lack of Atheist Songs
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Last night, Amanda Marcotte tweeted a link to a pretty fantastic video of Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers performing an original song, ‘Atheist s Don’t Have No Song s .’ I retweeted the link, posted the video on my Facebook, but also wanted to post it here because I think the majority of the people who ...
The Kids Are All Right ? A Summer Movie I?m Excited About for all the Right
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Summer movies. Every year we are greeted with essentially the same rundown of events. We see the titles of upcoming movies grabbing headlines from every media outlet around, including blogs, newspapers, magazines and 30-second teaser trailers that pop up on television, blogs, Facebook and other social media sites. We’re told that if we are not ... More About: Movie , Kids , Summer , The Kids
Don?t Bring Your Sex Positivity to Your Blog ? If You Want a Few Bucks for
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Menstrual Poetry, as you see it now, has been active since December 12th, 2007. Before then, it served primarily as a collective of random, angsty teenage poetry that I had accumulated over the years and wanted to stick somewhere because hey, all the cool kids were doing it. Menstrual Poetry started out as yet another ... More About: Blog , Bucks
Awesome Giveaway Alert: Win a Copy of My Little Red Book
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Last year I had the opportunity to review a really great book–My Little Red Book , an anthology of short stories, essays and recollections of women’s first periods from women of all ages, from all over the world. Being the body-loving, over-sharer that I am by nature, I could not get enough of the stories in ... More About: Awesome , Alert
Buy Eco Sex Toys and Babeland Will Donate 20% to Grist During April
2011-01-22 06:24:00 The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is just around the corner on April 22nd and to celebrate, Babeland is running an awesome eco-fundraiser to benefit the non-profit environmental news site, Grist, an award-winning online magazine that has been referred to as “The Daily Show of the environment” by Newsweek. So what makes a sex toy ... More About: Toys , Donate
Book Review: Foxy by Pam Grier
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Pam Grier is known for a lot of things. She is known as a truly gifted, hard-working, dedicated and passionate actor. She is known for being at the forefront of the blaxploitation scene, for her role as Coffy, Foxy Brown and for Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, a role, it turns out, that Tarantino wrote specifically ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
Tim James: Your Racist, Bigoted, Republican Nominee for Alabama Governor
2011-01-22 06:24:00 A few days ago I saw someone post a video from Tim James, the Republican nominee for Governor of Alabama . After watching it, I wasn’t necessarily surprised since it was a public service announcement from someone openly Republican, but it still made me ridiculously angry; so angry that I left a pretty long comment on ...
Neo-Nazi Hate Group Dubs Cinco de Mayo ?Report An Illegal Day?
2011-01-22 06:24:00 I have not addressed Arizona’s discriminatory, Nazi -like immigration policy head-on, but I had mentioned it within another post on the general discriminatory mindset of Alabama Republican Governor nominee, Tim James. According to Arizona’s SB 1070, law enforcement officials in Arizona now have the right to demand documentation from any person they personally suspect may be ... More About: Hate , Report , Cinco de Mayo
Church Councils Women with Porn Addiction, Concludes Women?s Sexuality is S
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Crystal Renaud is the group leader of Victory Over Porn Addiction , a support group and workshop for women who are addicted to porn. The group forms at Westside Family Church , an evangelical megachurch in Westside, Kansas. Renaud was inspired to start this support group, as well as the website, Dirty Girls Ministries, by her own ... More About: Women , Sexuality
Is it My ?Feminist Duty? to Mention Mother?s Day?
2011-01-22 06:24:00 So, yesterday was Mother ’s Day. For the past three years I have written on Menstrual Poetry and for those three years, I have written about Mother’s Day and how this one day, for me, brings about anxiety, panic attacks and an overwhelming sense of loss. It’s no big secret that I am a survivor of ...
Edenfantasys?s unethical technology is a self-referential black hole
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Link credit: Juliettia Note: This post is republished with permission from maymay from Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed. Anyone who is concerned, offended and/or appalled by the unethical linking practices done by EdenFantasys and their defense and smoke and mirrors response about the situation are urged to excerpt, tweet, and cross-post it with proper attribution. ... More About: Technology , Black , Unethical
EdenFantasys: The Crumbling of a Community
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Image Credit: Aag Blog A few days ago I re-published maymay’s article from Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed, Edenfantasys?s unethical technology is a self-referential black hole. The article not only uncovered, but also proved without a shadow of a doubt the unethical linking technology used by popular sex toy shop and community, EdenFantasys. But this ... More About: Community
Sarah Palin is Not a Feminist, Revisited
2011-01-22 06:24:00 I thought we covered this already; in fact, I know that many covered this during the 2008 presidential election, as well as after, but mostly during election time. But since this has come up yet again, I guess it’s time to give everyone a little refresher. So, for the record, Sarah Palin is not a ...
Hell Yeah, Feminist Porn! Seven Minutes in Heaven 2: Tender Hearted
2011-01-22 06:24:00 Warning: This post is all about porn. Please do not proceed reading if you are under the age of 18 (or 21 in your respective locale) or if you are not completely comfortable or become triggered when seeing, reading about and/or discussing porn and other stuff sexually explicit in content. I am by no means ... More About: Heaven , Hell
Disney is Robbing Your Daughters
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The princess mentality has become nothing less than a rite of passage for many young girls today and at the front of the line for whom to blame, is Disney . Disney’s international (and internationally accepted) multi-billion dollar Disney Princess brand has been around for many generations of young girls. I remember my childhood ... More About: Daughters
Prop 8 Decision Day
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The California Supreme Court has recently announced that it will release its decision on the fate of Prop osition 8–Whether it will uphold the Constitution and recognize equal protection under the law, or uphold discrimination by taking away fundamental civil rights from a minority–at 1pm on Tuesday, May 26. At 1pm on Saturday, May 30, ... More About: Decision
Victory for Reproductive Rights in Nepal
2009-06-02 22:13:00 The Supreme Court of Nepal recently ruled in favor of expanding abortion access throughout the country for all women in need of reproductive health services. The legislation requires that the government create a fund that will cover the costs of abortion services for low income women in the country who could not otherwise afford ... More About: Victory , Rights
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
2009-06-02 22:13:00 While I am not at all excited about the beginning of summer (I hate loathe despise hot, sweaty, absolutely disgusting weather that makes it hard to breathe and makes you feel like you woke up in the largest oven in the world,) I do happen to enjoy long weekends (now that I work for a ... More About: Weekend , Happy , Memorial Day , Memorial
Laundry, the Woman?s Drug of Choice
More articles from this author:2009-06-02 22:13:00 Notice how there are never men in any commercials or advertisements for laundry; or in that case any household chores? Well that’s because women love doing household chores, but our favorite is most definitely laundry! It’s the woman’s drug of choice; we just can’t help ourselves! Related Posts August 10, 2008 — Target Women: Happy ... More About: Laundry , Woman , Choice , Drug 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
