The Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival Edition 8 deadline has been EXTENDED! I will now be taking posts on Feminism & Love for the February blog carnival until February 22, and the carnival will be posted on February 27. So what… Read more ›
Recently, one of my former students came to me and asked for some book recommendations for over winter break because she had recently finished The Book Theif on my recommendation, and hadn’t been able to find anything that came close… Read more ›
This past weekend, despite a 104 degree heat index and running out of water at various rest stops, my mom and I walked 26.2 miles around Chicago and raised over $1800 each to fight breast cancer. (We didn’t make it… Read more ›
This is a guest post from Gwenn Liberty Seemel. Gwenn is named after the Liberty Bell, a cracked ding-dong with a venerable history. Gwenn is a working artist who has sold her soul to the genre of portraiture, and she is… Read more ›
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some guest posts on feminism and relationships – mostly because now all of my submissions are coming from people trying to advertise for free on my site. I miss your brilliant posts! So… Read more ›
No, this isn’t a post about feminism and relationships. I feel I’ve been absent from this blog for a while, even though I’ve been posting pretty regular guest posts and thoughts of my own. But I’ve missed writing, and in… Read more ›
I am privileged. Extremely privileged. And there seems no better way than planning a wedding to remind me of this. All. The. Time. I am a heterosexual, cis female so I can actually plan a wedding and get legally married… Read more ›
Yesterday, Emily from Gender Across Borders graciously allowed me to cross post her article about changing her name for my series about feminism and relationships. You all, gentle readers, were very nice in the comments over here. Emily wasn’t so… Read more ›
You know, I’ve been writing a lot about feminism and relationships on here lately. Maybe because I’m getting married in less than 3 months? I don’t know, just a guess… But whatever the reason, I think it’s a really important… Read more ›
It came to my attention during my blogging break, courtesy of Emily Heroy – Founder of the Gender Across Borders blog and fellow Equality 101 writer – and Liza Donnelly – Cartoonist Extraordinaire – (If you’re not at least following… Read more ›
This is just a sneak peek of my first post at Equality 101 after our break. To read the whole article, go here! I do not live in Arizona. In fact, I’ve never even been to Arizona. When I was… Read more ›
s.e. smith over at this ain’t livin’ posted an awesome post the other day about the difference between critiquing institutions and critiquing the individuals that are a part of those institutions. Here’s a brief part from the post: Yet, somehow,… Read more ›
Or: “Why I am Taking a Break.” Dear Feminist Bloggers 1, I think it’s time I take a break. I don’t know if this will end in a complete “break up,” if you will, but it will be a definite… Read more ›
Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both online and offline by Phil Ciciora Images from racial theme parties that are posted on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace not only elicit different reactions from different people based on… Read more ›
Don’t forget! There’s still time to donate to my Avon Walk for Breast Cancer AND to RSVP for the #chifems April Tweetup! The Impact of Twitter on Feminism: Its Facilitations & Limitations by Emily Heroy Feminism makes it way all… Read more ›
This is a cross post from Equality 101. I wrote a post the other day about Standard English Privilege that has garnered quite a bit of attention. The main argument of the post (I won’t bore you all with the… Read more ›
Why is it that so often on the internet I see people revert to the argument that so-and-so writer or commenter can’t spell or construct a grammatically correct argument and therefore the entire argument has no validity in this sphere?… Read more ›
See, blogging IS activism! It’s nice to see stories like these about activism on the internet. It gives bloggers validaion instead of allowing us to be pigeonholed into the all-bloggers-do-is-spew-information-about-their-personal-lives-on-the-internet stereotype. Related PostsSlaying Dragons Role/Reboot: You Can Clean the House and… Read more ›
Tim is going to read that title and laugh and then throw it in my face that I finally admitted it. But, really, I hate being wrong. And I hate it especially when that wrongness hurts someone else. There is… Read more ›
I’ve been bad about tweeting and blogging about good articles and blog posts to you all this year – particularly in the past month – and for that I apologize. Between trying to get Equality101.net off the ground, writing a… Read more ›