I have been a vegetarian for 7 years. I gave up eating meat upon my graduation from high school (do the math 🙂 ) for two reasons, both health-related. First, my dad had a pretty bad heart attach toward the… Read more ›
There is so much great stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in the… Read more ›
Bio frau sally benz is a twenty-something blogger from New York City. On her blog, Jump off the Bridge, she writes about feminism, race and ethnicity, activism, politics, and just about everything else you can think of, all through a… Read more ›
I’m firing off this post quickly today because I’m seeing two growing trends that are troubling to me: 1) Bloggers becoming angry with their commenters People are entitled to their opinions. I am a firm believer of this. One of… Read more ›
I stumbled upon this article: “New Study Ponders the Effect of Professors’ Gender on Students’ Success in Science.” The article basically summarizes a study that found that women graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy that scored high on the math… Read more ›
I have said before that I try to write things on this blog that will make people proud of me, and the other day, I received one of the most amazing compliments I have ever received. One of my former… Read more ›
Over at my personal blog, the last time the previous post was posted, I received this comment from a good friend, Chels: “If a woman is married, she has obviously taken the necessary steps in order to be a suitable… Read more ›
There is so much great stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in the… Read more ›
In a previous post, I discussed girl politics as the relate to Coach Tim’s volleyball team. Today, I’d like to take that a little further and discuss woman politics. This sort of thing doesn’t always stop just because you grow… Read more ›
Learn to love the questions themselves. The spaces between the thoughts. The interval (AVA 171)* Every time I am asked who my female mentors are, (like the Twitterverse was yesterday by @ShelbyKnox) I always jump to women authors. Maybe this… Read more ›
This is a series of posts that first appeared over at my personal blog, and it was actually the response I received over there that made me think that keeping a feminist-leaning blog might be my calling. It also partially… Read more ›
Bio I am Laura Sundstrom, a 22-year-old college graduate. I grew up in East Grand Rapids, MI. This is a Christian, conservative community that my parents moved to so that I could have a good education. Growing up, especially during… Read more ›
There is so much great feminist stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in… Read more ›
In class the other night, I was talking to a few of my other women classmates and they were asking me a bit about my papers (good wife and literacy) for both classes, since both of them have to do… Read more ›
I love The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*. LOVE it. I first read it when I was a sophomore in high school, and loved it then. I picked it up again when I was a junior in college… Read more ›
Dear Men at the Gym, I know how to work out. Yes, my appearance might belie this fact: I’m small, have a bit of a baby face, I only look about 18-years-old at most (which I am reminded of every… Read more ›
While writing my paper about Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community, it occurred to me that I wasn’t sure what to do with the names of the wonderful women who provided answers to my interview questions. In most of the… Read more ›
Bio My name is Mary Lee Shalvoy and I am 49. I was born in New Jersey on July 1, 1960. I grew up in northern NJ, 10 miles due west of New York City and lived there, pretty much… Read more ›
Bio Liza Donnelly is a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. When she first began selling to The New Yorker, she was the youngest and one of only three cartoonists who were women. In 2005, she wrote Funny Ladies: The New… Read more ›
Bio I’m Rebecca Welzenbach, 24, currently of Ann Arbor Michigan. I graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a degree in English Literature in 2007 and just completed my Master’s of Science in Information with a focus on Archives and… Read more ›