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Called to the principal’s office
Last week I awoke to a phone call from my daughter’s day school administrator. “Did you know that your daughter has a rash?” she said in the same curt, accusatory tone she uses at all times (or at least every time I have spoken with her). It’s 8 am and I had elected to sleep […]
The Feminist Bill of Rights
July 16, 2012
Over on The Sin City Siren, I wrote out a Feminist Bill of Rights (loosely based on the actual Bill of Rights) in honor of Independence Day. Please, to enjoy… If the First Amendment guarantees us the freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, and to petition our government, then surely the Feminist First Amendment guarantees the […]
Let’s go bowling!
April 14, 2012
The Sin City Sirens bowling team for the National Network of Abortion Funds bowl-a-thon will be playing Sunday (April 15) at 1pm at the South Point Bowling alley! Sign up for the team here! Don’t have time to sign up online? Just show up with a donation and join in the fun! The important thing […]
This International Women’s Day, let’s connect and inspire girls!
March 8, 2012
Happy International Women’s Day! What, you didn’t know it was International Women’s Day? Wait, you did know that March is Women’s History Month, right? Okay, okay. Maybe International Women’s Day is not at the top of your annual holiday calendar. But there’s good reason to be thinking about this 101-year-old tradition. So what is IWD? […]
Throwing like a girl: 40 years of Title IX
February 1, 2012
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Title IX, today is National Women and Girls in Sports Day. Wow… 40 years. And what a legacy! While it’s true that Title IX is best known for the legal requirement that academic spending benefit girls and boys equally — which has most notably opened the door to […]
Why unemployment insurance is a women’s issue
December 8, 2011
Today the HERVotes Coalition is hosting a blog carnival (follow posts from across the country on twitter via the #HERVotes hashtag) about women and the economy, and in particular unemployment insurance. I know, I know. Unemployment insurance. Glamorous stuff. But that’s just the thing. Unemployment insurance, like so many aspects of the down economy — […]
Domestic Goddess
December 5, 2011
So, I’ve been ruminating on the domestic sphere ever since I read my Fem2.0 colleague Maggie Arden’s piece about the intersection of the domesticity craze — think Etsy, Stitch-n-Bitch circles, and subversive cupcakes — and feminism. In truth, I didn’t really want to write about this stuff, because it feels like deja vu all over […]
Memo to Facebook: Rape is no joke
November 4, 2011
It’s not rape if you yell surprise. Riding your girl softly, Cause you don’t want her to wake up. Kicking sluts in the vagina because it’s funny watching your foot disappear. 1.5 million ‘likes’ and I’ll rape my Mom! What’s 10 inches and gets girls to have sex with me? My knife. These are a […]
Do you celebrate your period?
November 3, 2011
Earlier tonight I was in a room filled with women who were all talking about one thing: menstruation. Sounds like every guy’s worst nightmare, right? Well actually, it was by turns funny, insightful, inspiring, and frustrating. And no men were hurt in the process. See? We come in peace. Or rather, we menstruate in peace. […]
What’s not to love?
October 19, 2011
Today is Love Your Body Day, an event designed to remind us about the power of negative energy and imagery that is all around us. There are a lot of ways that this comes to pass, from sexist marketing campaigns (like the ones I write about in the Tired Marketing FAIL series) to self-esteem crushing […]
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