Today’s guest post literally moved me to tears. I was sitting, waiting for the train after the last Chicago Feminist Tweetup when I first read it, and it was so powerful and honest, I just had to share it with you here. It’s about relationships and feminism, but in a different way – which I [...]
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Tag Archives: Activism
I Advocate Feminism
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 these ladies on Twitter or reading their work, you should be. Now!) that maybe saying [...]
“Activism” Can Ruin Lives
I want to spend a little time today talking about online activism and the difference between, say, what the feminist blogging community is doing and what I will call "Facebook activism." While I believe wholeheartedly in the possibilities of blogging as a form of activism (and that belief is even stronger after researching and writing [...]
“When there’s nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.”
When I used to blog in college (mostly personal stuff that probably had no business being on the internet, and found very few readers because no one cared), I'd frequently start off with a title from a song that maybe five people would recognize that was only vaguely related to my post. Here, I've started [...]
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project out in New York is one of my all-time favorite plays. And seeing as I was the drama director at my old school, that’s saying quite a lot; I read A LOT of plays in my time there, but Laramie is one that definitely [...]
Teaching Feminism: Everyday Activism Part 2
Cross-posted with Gender Across Borders I wrote a post a little while ago about teaching everyday activism to my sophomores. I was so energized at the end of this two-day lesson – totally jazzed that they had caught on to the concept of activism so well that they had started talking about what they could [...]
Teaching Feminism: Everyday Activism
It has come to my attention that my so many people either don’t know what “activism” is (“It’s like we need to be active to be healthy?”) or that it is for “other people” (“Angelina Jolie is an activist, right?”). For some, it is a dirty word (“Those animal rights activists throw blood on people!”). [...]
Literature Review: Feminist Activism
This continues a series of posts that, all together, comprise my literature review for my Master’s thesis research. You can view all of the posts by clicking here. What follows is a brief section about feminist activism and literacy. Enjoy! Feminism has not only produced many varying definitions, but also many varying forms of activism. [...]
Are We Excluding People?
This is just a thought at the moment, but aren’t we, as feminist bloggers, excluding not only those who don’t speak English, but those who can’t access technology? An interesting conversation took place a while back in a grad class, and I didn’t blog about it then because, frankly, this blog wasn’t started yet, so [...]
