13 hours ago by femspotter

But when I started to think about some of the other things I do – like shaving my legs, plucking my eyebrows, squeezing into control top pantyhose and wearing breast minimizers, I realized that I don’t do these things because I worry about men finding me beautiful. Ironically, I do the most painful ...

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2 days ago by olga

Retroactive jerkiness note the second: in retrospect, I think that comparing disability studies and trans studies was not ok of me at all, and didn’t clarify the point I was trying to in any way. Which is namely we often recognize these things as separate, even though there is a big umbrella there. ...

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2 days ago by Deane Galbraith

Auckland’s St Matthew in the City reprints Tom Scott’s cartoon about the recent invitation for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church, issued by the self-proclaimed ‘Pope’ of the universal Church:

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2 days ago by olga

Last night’s class was TOTALLY awesome. There’s only one thing I would change, in retrospect – we didn’t take time at the beginning to acknowledge how personal and potentially triggering issues of embodiment may be, and reassure the class that this was a safe space for discussing those issues. We sh ...

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5 days ago by olga

So, I have been thinking a lot, largely because of an unrelated comment that Missy made, about my discussion board post two weeks ago. Recap for y’all: I talked about not getting negative prejudice based on gender on a personal level because of my upbringing. Also, I identify as a lady. Whee. This i ...

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9 days ago by nmccoy1

Discourse surrounding feminism, feminist theory, and even Women and Gender Studies departments has grown increasingly skeptical. Questioning the need for feminism in this “post-feminist” world and citing the high attendance of women in universities, American society seems fixated on closing the door ...

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9 days ago by olga

depaul folk: go here to log in to Project Muse; if you search for the title, it comes right up. “Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color” Mariana Ortega The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that p ...

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10 days ago by olga

ok, for peeps who wanted to see me actually posting publicly somewhere about feminism and not about Buffy (as if those categories were mutually exclusive!), this is the place. Right now I am allowing comments; if that gets annoying, I will turn them off. If you like a post, feel free to leave some t ...

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10 days ago by femspotter

Why do some men hate women, in the U.S. and abroad? Why do they want to beat us into submission? Why do they want to kill us in heinous ways? Why don't they want us to be happy with powerful, singular identities and exciting, fulfilling sex lives? Why won't they let us take control of our reproducti ...

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10 days ago by Hugo Schwyzer

The discussion below this post has grown heated, with the topic of debate being less the original post itself and more feminist epistemology and what is sometimes called “standpoint theory.” SamSeaborn quotes Elizabeth Andersen, who writes: Feminist standpoint theory claims an epistemic privilege ov ...

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