July 2010
44 posts
Post-Gazette: Suit charges Upper St. Clair... →
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rosietint:
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amandaw:
Trigger warning.
So basically:
High school girl goes to teacher, tells teacher that high school boy raped her. Teacher goes to principal with concerns, offers to escort girl to her transportation home instead of leaving her on school grounds unattended. Principal has a different idea: use this girl as “bait” to try to catch teenagers “having...
Racial disparities in organ donation →
There’s a lot of evidence that rather than heading towards a post-racial society, racial gaps in the US are actually widening - in wealth, in test scores, and in organ donation. And recent studies have shown that white supremacy extends to whose life is and is not extended by organ donation (80% of which are kidney donations).
Disability Carnival #68 →
Welcome to July’s edition of the Disability Carnival! The theme this month is “evidence”…
Thanks to the folks at Temple University’s Disability Studies (particularly Penny Richards) for letting me host this round. The next carnival will be hosted at brilliantmindbrokenbody and the theme is “distance”. Thanks for stopping by, folks!
Teenage girls and internalized sexism →
Hatred and fear of women in my once and future positions is a function of (what else?) the kyriarchy. I heard so much bullshit about women and teenaged girls as a teenaged girl that I started to believe it, and hate myself, and think I deserved this abuse. And then when I grew up and got stronger and stopped hating myself, I still believed that I’d deserved what I’d felt because I was a...
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I had a friend over to my place last night, and I encouraged her occasional blogging (she’s a good writer, updates a couple blogs about once every two months). She kept talking about wanting to be a famous blogger, a paid blogger, etc etc etc, and I just…don’t get it. Fame is never a reason to write. Fame will likely not come from writing, and it’s certainly not going to be...
Recently, I hate loading the front page of my blog to look up or reference things. It gives me the heartbeats like when I log in to check my bank account.
Not a good sign. Hope it’s just that Monday-after-vacation thing.
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Vaseline Issues "Skin-Whitening" App for Facebook →
luxuryproblem:
and in blatantly racist products today….
Vaseline has introduced a skin-lightening Facebook application designed to allow users to lighten their skin color in the profile pictures displayed on the social network site.
(Credit: Vaseline)
The company has chosen Bollywood star Shahid Kapur to promote the application as well as its other skin-lightening creams for men. In the...
TelevIsm: Police Women of Memphis depicts trans... →
There’s not a whole lot I have to say about Police Women of Memphis as a show in general. I think that glorifying a very problematic justice system as this show seems to do is probably not fantastic. But, I like that it depicts ladies in positions of authority, being competent. It’s also cool that many of these women are of color. And one of the cops on the show is named “Virginia Awkward”,...
Deeply Problematic | The burka ban, and... →
This law is not about intrinsic respect for women. It’s not about liberating women. It’s not about creating a country that sees women as full, independent human beings. This law is about limiting women’s religious expression. It’s about disrespecting what women want to wear. It’s about disregarding how full, independent human beings wish to express themselves, their marginalized ...
“and every conversation/discussion that starts with “so-and-so who is Muslim says...”
– A Peek Into My Chaos: oh for cripes…
whole thing kicks ass, go read it
bluebears:
thisbodysfabric:
greengrey:
In my experience, men don’t seem very concerned about my body hair. It’s always other women doing the policing.
I dated one guy who was completely disgusted at the thought of female body hair, and whined accordingly. But for the most part, it’s people who won’t be all up in my hairy-bits who complain and try to tell me what to do.
I have never dated...
Deeply Problematic | Announcing: Disability... →
Deeply Problematic is hosting the next Disability Carnival! The theme this month is evidence. Evidence can refer to having to prove one’s disability - to school, to friends, to writers, to society at large. It can refer to the expectation that people with disabilities must prove that ableism exists. Evident and non-evident is a way to describe how disabilities appear to able-privileged...
Deeply Problematic | Wendy Garland dies after... →
Content warning.
Wendy Garland’s death is evidence of the danger in assuming that related caretakers have their family member’s best interest in mind. Able-privileged caretakers, particularly those who are kin to the person they care for, are given latitude where it’s not deserved. Their “sacrifices” earn them the benefit of the doubt, and someone else’s disability becomes their “burden”....
Sigh, today.
Not a great day. One of my favorite writers died. It’s raining. I haven’t been able to get writing done. We have to give away the kittens we’ve been fostering - and since the no-kill shelter we have been waiting to give them to is full, we have to give them to the local SPCA in the height of kitten season.
At least our landlord is not pissed that we’ve been keeping the...
“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than...”
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stfusexists:
While she denies saying it and the ultra-conservatives in Kansas say she didn’t say it, it is generally accepted Kay O’Connor did actually say she did not support women’s right to vote. She stated it in 2001, and it made its rounds again in 2005/2006 when she ran for Secretary of State. I do recall reading an article then with her saying if men took care of their wives, women...
