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CFP: “Transformative Works and Cultures”

From the FLP mailbox: Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is a Gold Open Access international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and … Continue reading

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Score Another One for the Difference Feminists: Having a Female Surgeon May Save Your Life

According to this NYT story, radiation treatment after a lumpectomy is considered a standard of quality cancer care and has been shown to reduce breast cancer recurrence and mortality. However, many women still don’t receive it. A study found that … Continue reading

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“Original Zins”

Read Historiann’s Little thoughts on biography and women’s history. Actually, you just read her blog from cover to cover, it’s great.

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“Spinster Sisters Claim UK Gay Partner Law Discriminates Against Them”

This blog has a post tag category for “Sisters In Other Nations” but usually it isn’t meant quite so literally. Via FemmeNoir: Two elderly sisters who live together say they could lose their family home because they are victims of … Continue reading

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I Love This Video.

Here. And this one too. –Ann Bartow

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Radio controlled male contraceptive developed

Try not to think of garage door openers. Via Froomkin, who no doubt will be thrilled about being credited for this.

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Can You Name Any Female Breakfast Cereal Mascots?

Steve at The Sneeze says there aren’t very many. Read his ruminations here, with the caveat that he’s more satirist than feminist.

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On Sexual Harassment, Students and Schools

Read “Restoring Effective Protections for Students Against Sexual Harassment in Schools:Moving Beyond the Gebser and Davis Standards,” by Fatima Goss Graves.

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The Hypocrisy of Fetishizing Sexual Hypocrisy

In a post salaciously entitled “Speaking of Teen Sex,” Duncan “Atrios” Black cackles and crows about a news story reporting: “A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs – Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them – … Continue reading

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Excellent Waste of Office Supplies

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Just Because You Are A Paranoid Feminist Doesn’t Mean The Sexists Aren’t Out To Get You, IQ Test Edition

From The G Bitch Spot: … I was recently telling someone online that when IQ tests were first introduced, women scored higher than men, so they had to change the questions to”prove”that men are smarter. The person asked for the … Continue reading

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“Headscarves”

From The Monkey Cage: In this study, subjects were randomly assigned to view a picture of a woman or a picture of this same woman wearing a headscarf in the style of some Islamic women. Here are the two pictures: … Continue reading

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Sarah Boxer, “Blogs”

At the New York Review of Books, because it’s a book as well as blog review. Among other highlights, she quotes Twisty Faster on blow jobs!

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“The Gay Utopia: A Symposium on Sex and the Future”

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Ahem.

Via Shakesville.

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Deborah Dickerson on Colbert

Watch a clip here at the Peeled Apple.

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Yet Another Negative Voting Experience in South Carolina

It’s Democratic Primary Day here, so I voted. Two polling places had been merged into one, and there were only three voting machines, so the line was long. And it was hot inside, for no good reason since it’s only … Continue reading

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NWLC Asking For Support re: Fair Pay Restoration Act

As you probably know, yesterday the Senate HELP Committee held a hearing on the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843), which would reverse the recent Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. that severely limits workers’ … Continue reading

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“Little Beauties: Ultimate Kiddie Queen Showdown”

Cripes: Move over Miss America! The Little Beauties are coming to town! They’re gorgeous, they’re talented, they’re six-years old and with the helping hand of eager moms, determined pageant coaches, fabulous spray tan artists and “flipper” (fake teeth) makers, not … Continue reading

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Larry Flynt and Dennis Kucinich

Huffpo essay about their relationship here.

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Just Because You Are A Paranoid Feminist Doesn’t Mean The Sexists Aren’t Out To Get You, Sciences Edition.

Fresh evidence here.

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Hah! Been there.

By which I mean, here. –Ann Bartow

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More Evidence That Christopher Fairman’s Thesis Was Correct

From The Consumerist: Fed up with a change in flight patterns that made them sleep in bed at night with earplugs, one Philly couple decided to paint “FUCK YOU FAA. NO FLY ZONE” and a symbol for “no planes” on … Continue reading

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Still More Humorless Feminism

This time it’s Zuska on: Undergraduate Men and Their Oh-So-Funny Rape Jokes

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Danielle Holley-Walker on NPR!

Feminist (and University of South Carolina) Law Prof Danielle Holley-Walker talks about her primary blog, SCBlackPress, and the upcoming SC Democratic Primary on the NPR program”News and Notes”hosted by Farai Chideya. You can listen to the broadcast here.

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“Race and Gender in Presidential Politics: A Debate Between Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris-Lacewell”

Video and transcript here, at Democracy, Now!

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BYU study about pornography and college students

I’m not entirely comfortable with the way it focuses on women, but here are two excerpts from this overview: … Researchers at Brigham Young University conducted the study with college students and their parents from six schools across the country. … Continue reading

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C.U.N.T.?

From TPMmuckraker: …That’s the stroke of genius from the man whom Tucker Carlson insists on calling “legendary Republican strategist Roger Stone” every time he appears on his show (twice this month). The Standard explains that Stone is “trying to tap … Continue reading

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Two New Carnivals

52nd Carnival of Feminists at Figure: Demystifying the Feminist Mystique. 10th Carnival of Radical Feminists at Femtique: a feminist critique of pop media.

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Margaret Cho Says: “Let She Who Is Without Period Stains Throw The First Tampon”

Here at the HuffPo.

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More Evidence That Joe Francis Is An Idiot

From here: Oklahoma winemakers Girls Gone Wine is suing Mantra Films in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the “Girls Gone Wild” producers. “The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has already said, ‘There’s no issue here. They can co-exist,’” said … Continue reading

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This Blog Cracks Me Up

The irony does not escape me. –Ann Bartow

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“Saudi Arabia to lift ban on women drivers”

Hey, it’s a start. Via Feministing.

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“An Open Letter from American Feminists”

From here: Columnists and opinion writers from The Weekly Standard to the Washington Post to Slate have recently accused American feminists of focusing obsessively on minor or even nonexistent injustices in the United States while ignoring atrocities against women in … Continue reading

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Oy.

This. Not for the squeamish.

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Something Funny From Sparkle*Matrix

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Upcoming Conference: “Working From the World Up: Equality’s Future”

March 14-15, 2008 University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI A New Legal Realism Conference – Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project Sponsored by: The University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, … Continue reading

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Upcoming Conference: “Feminist Theory & Economic Vulnerability”

Feminist Theory & Economic Vulnerability March 7-8, 2008 University of Colorado Law School For a schedule of speakers, click here. A registration forms will be available soon. This workshop, co-sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Colorado … Continue reading

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A Picture of A Disgusting Photographer

Can you spot him? Photo from a rather sexist celebrity site.  

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It’s the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Here’s what might happen if it is overturned: More state-by-state information here. See also blogs such as RH Reality Check and the Reproductive Rights Blog.

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Research Suggests Blogging Safer Than Skydiving

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In Front of the SC State House Dome, Underneath the Confederate Flag, Attending a Martin Luther King Day Rally, Noticing That the Only Woman Who Got To Speak Was Hillary Clinton

2008 King Day At The Dome. That’s where and how I spent the morning. Video excerpts here. Billed as “A Statewide March and Rally for Justice and Equity,” the substantive speaker program was as follows: “Welcome and Opening Remarks” by … Continue reading

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