Happy Fourth of July, everyone! If you’re in Chicago, don’t stay outside for too long because it’s going to be a hot one. And if you’re anywhere, play it safe with those fireworks! Regular blogging will resume on Thursday. Or… Read more ›
Did you know that Small Strokes has a Facebook page? Now you can keep up with all of the latest gender-related lifestyle and education news from Small Strokes (and the stuff I publish elsewhere) on your Facebook timeline! Just go… Read more ›
This is just a friendly reminder to submit your posts to the Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival this week. The deadline is WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, so don’t delay! This month, we’re looking for posts on female friendships, but if you have… Read more ›
I love writing. I have opinions, and I think it’s important that I express them, especially because the number of women publishing op-eds in major news outlets is so dismally low. When I presented at the CWWN conference two summers… Read more ›
When I first started in the feminist blogging community back in 2009, there was an awesome feminist blog carnival that I would submit posts to each month. It was a great way to get my pieces read and to find… Read more ›
By now, most of you in the feminist blogging community have probably heard that Gender Across Borders is closing its doors. From the site: While we haven’t finished our global gender justice fight, due to several reasons, we can no… Read more ›
Hey all! Exciting news! I am officially a Causes Blogger at Care2.com! That’s right, yours truly will be blogging several times a week about women’s rights and education! My first post – about standardized testing and fostering a love of… Read more ›
I’ll never forget sitting in our hotel room in San Diego in July 2010. We had just moved in together, and we were taking a pre-wedding, post-move-in honeymoon for me to present at a conference and to visit my cousin… Read more ›
I applied for a bunch of freelance copywriting jobs last night because I started getting a little jittery about the house buying expenses (not that a couple hundred extra bucks per month is really going to make a dent in… Read more ›
I’m on Offbeat Bride today! Women keep their name for a variety of reasons. For some, it is a feminist decision that defies patriarchal norms that often come along with becoming a wife. For others, a name can reflect one’s… Read more ›
This week, I have been on overload. You may have guessed by my absence here. Seriously, though, I’ve been doing too much. The way I see it, I have four separate things going on in my life: Blogging and writing… Read more ›
I’m on Offbeat Home today, talking about our decision to wait on buying a house. It’s something I’ve mused about on here before, but this post is pretty good, if I do say so myself. 🙂 Our search began with… Read more ›
Today, I’m on the Ms. Magazine blog with my piece about teachers as trained professionals! Here’s a taste: My husband also chose a career in teaching. When people ask us what we do, I answer that I am a high… Read more ›
I’m on Feministe today with my article, “Feminist Friendly Marriages on Television… Or Not“: One year ago, I got married. As a heterosexual woman who has identified as a feminist for her entire life, the idea of marriage posed many… Read more ›
Check me out! I’m on Teaching Tolerance today with my article, “Personal Connections Empower Students”: I just started my sixth year teaching high school English. This year began with the same question as always: “How will I empower the young… Read more ›
Well, I said I was coming back, and then I posted nothing for a week. I promise you, readers, I AM coming back. With a vengeance. Just as soon as our Internet starts working again. Yes, in true Thanksgiving irony… Read more ›
… but you can’t take the blog out of the girl. After an hour of wandering around the apartment, checking Twitter and Google Reader and Tumblr and Facebook obsessively, whining about how bored I was, I looked at Tim and… Read more ›
I have been struck with the notion that I’m doing too much. Writing here, writing at GAB, doing admin tasks for GAB, trying to get articles published, trying to make some extra money so we can buy a house and take… Read more ›
Yea, so I haven’t been posting here so much this week. Why? Well, honestly, I haven’t really felt like it? I’m trying to compose an anniversary post about Tim and my anniversary – since that is what this whole blog… Read more ›
Check me out! (I’m going to brag a little. Feel free to pat me on the back in the comments. 😉 ) Today, I’m a featured blogger on BlogHer’s Love & Sex page. Here’s what they had to say about… Read more ›