tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86396392011-04-21T22:44:55.872-05:00A forum for political and social commentary marinated in a smart, irreverent, feminist glaze.stimulate thishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12971009666504686908noreply@blogger.comBlogger2231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8639639.post-44183499240374714402007-10-28T23:27:00.000-05:002007-10-28T23:40:09.047-05:00

hello my fiends,it's been a while, i know. and you should expect some pretty big changes in the next several months, but for now, you'll have to stick with this.i just wanted to let you all know a couple of things:1. having a job you love means making sacrifices.2. i'm leaving for Mexico City in two days (which means you betta watch out for some new words and photos coming your way). oh, and

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Key quotes include:"the Iraq""they should our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S."Oh to hell with it, The Assimilated Negro has kindly produced the transcript.via TAN.

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The women's movement lost another great presence a couple of days ago: Bina Srinivasan, a smart, tough, beautiful Indian woman with flaming red hair; fighter in the international women's movement and a vocal and ardent struggler involved in the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) dam movement. Bina was not only an NBA supporter but also a very senior women's rights activist. For many years she was

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alright, so the new "democratic" congress gave up.at least we got lipgloss.

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As if you couldn't tell, I've been a little M.I.A. from the blog world but I've been busting ass in the "real" world. It's unfortunate that life involves sacrifices and while in the past some of those have included sleep, boyfriends, or sheep's blood, the blog was the one to go this time. (Only for a little while though.)Watch out for future repurposing.

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Between 30,000 and 40,000 people took to the streets to mark the 4th Anniversary of the Iraq War. I'll never forget the beginning--my final spring break had just begun and I was screaming at the television in an overcrowded bar watching the bombs drop. From that moment on, I've joined thousands of others to protest this gross violation of governance any chance we got. But, like a lot of them,

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Well, a war in Iraq silly!Check out the whole chart via NYTimes. I would like to note, for the record, that I just read Nicholson Baker's short novel Checkpoint.

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In the spirit and celebration of women's work and lives (cause if we don't do it, who will?), I wish you all a very happy International Women's Day.

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Legislators in Cincinnati are pushing to pass a law that would require convicted sex offenders to put flourescent green license plates on their cars. The bi-partisan effort wouldn't target all sex offenders, though.The revised bill would focus on convicted sex offenders who used violence or preyed on minors and would exclude other offenses like public exposure or consensual sex between an adult

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Remember when we thought making all things red was going to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS? Ahhh....the days of yore. Seems like all the hype of the (Red) Campaign--Bono's little buying-based social service program--has cost more than it's paid off.The collective marketing outlay by Gap, Apple and Motorola for the Red campaign has been enormous, with some estimates as high as $100 million. ... So

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Apologies for the lack of posts. Will be leaving the good ole' US for several days so don't expect anything until Tuesday someday. Go somewhere else for fodder (but come back soon)!

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Cause it's Friday, I can't be bothered to think and I'd rather go to the mini mall.

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The Camel Book Drive is a totally rad book donation/distribution program in Kenya. Traveling by camel, the library journeys through Kenya's northeastern province setting up temporary shop under trees.It brings books to a semi-nomadic people who live with drought, famine and chonic poverty. The books are spread out on grass mats beneath an acacia tree, and the library patrons, often barefoot,

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A psychiatrist at the University of Virginia Health System has found that women tend to settle for unfulfilling and mediocre sex.“Whereas men, if they have trouble with sex, it’s a crisis. They run to the doctor and say ‘I need something for this.’ Women don’t do that. They just sort of stuff it down and push it further down on the [to do] list,” Clayton said.She attributes myriad reasons to the

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Blame it on the weather, but I've been a bit out of it. Here's a little roundup of some news that still might be news to you:-- Harvard gets a female President. And it only took 371 years!-- An illegally parked California cop stopped a motorist, whipped out his dick, and ejaculated on her. She pressed charges. He admitted to the act. She took him to court.Park's defense attorney claimed, “

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In the event that no one has read any of this elsewhere (I've been a bit bogged for the last two days), feminist bloggers Amanda Marcotte of pandagon.net and Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister have both resigned from the Edwards Campaign.What began as an exciting marriage of feminism and progressive Democratic politics--Presidential hopeful John Edwards hired Marcotte and McEwan to join his

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Hoohah!! One young niece can finally have some answers. Say it with me Florida: V - A - G - I - N - A.

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Well that's what happens when you're anti-vagina.Caving from a complaint, a theatre in Florida putting on "The Vagina Monologues" changed their signage replacing "Vagina" with the much more acceptable "Hoohaa".Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida, received a complaint from a woman who'd seen the advertised title as she drove past with her niece. She said that it had made her niece ask her

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Lisa NoWHACK is definitely cocoa puffs, but the whole incident prompted a question that I apparently wasn't too crazy for thinking: can astronauts have sex in space?Slate's Explainer answers the critical question with skepticism:If astronauts have had space sex, it would have been very difficult. First off, there isn't much privacy up there. A regular shuttle is about as big as a 737, and the

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Wow. Cause there's nothing better going on, a giant corporation surveyed some women to figure out which they'd rather have: sex or clothes.Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.I'll

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So dope . . .Check her out.

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In striking contrast to one Washington school district, An Inconvenient Truth will be distributed for viewing to EVERY secondary school in England."Children are the key to changing society's long-term attitudes to the environment," Johnson said. "Not only are they passionate about saving the planet, but children also have a big influence over their own families' lifestyles and behavior."The DVD

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Via reddit.

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Thanks Captain Obvious.

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I really can't decide which company this commercial would better benefit, but I do hope that thing is clean. Don't forget to pick your chin up off the floor after watching!Via daddytypes.

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Judy Chicago's 1970s groundbreaking work The Dinner Party has found a new host in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party will share the space with dozens of feminist art pieces celebrating women's contribution to the contemporary art across the globe.The Sackler Center for Feminist Art will open to the public on March 23 and will be a space to

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Fellow Texan and radical journalist, Molly Ivins, died today at the age of 62. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, Ivins fought the disease publicly and not without her signature humor.“First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you,” she wrote. “I have been on blind dates better than that.”She made fun of everything from her home state of Texas to Dubya, with whom she

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Some dude made a poster that featured the cover of every book he'd ever read. How cool is that? He did it with help from friends, family, and old book reports. Oh, and Library Thing, an awesome way to catalogue your library online.Did I just out my nerd self?

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In light of the power shift in Congress and the scientific community's insistence on global warming, W. Bush has decided (remember, he is The Decider) to give himself more power over regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules

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Some pissed off parent in Washington has managed to get Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth pulled from classrooms."You will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming," he wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board.The computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he

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The evidence is clear.

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Thanks for hanging in there while I got a few hours of sleep and caught up with some friends. Be sure to check out the photos and videos from the Forum. Regular posting will resume Monday.

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The internet went down in the whole Kasarani complex two days ago (shortly after my post) and so yesterday I was unable to catch you all up on the happenings. There's so much that I want to say right now, but I'm sitting without my notes in yet another cyber cafe that keeps losing connection to the internet satellite. But who needs notes when you've got memory?I'll of course add much more once

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Haribu!! (hello in Swahili). Yesterday was a total sham in the press room. I was in the middle of this brilliant post about something or other when every light, monitor, and computer went kaput. The power had completely crashed and the collective "f*ck" from journalists could be heard from afar. I just had to leave the building.But today is a new day and I've brought the voltage converter so

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The beginning of the World Social Forum marks the convergence of approximately 200,000 social justice activists and access to wireless internet! While I'm still working on someone else's computer, I plan on posting photos and video tomorrow of all that I'm seeing and hearing. The taxi's are still proving to be an adventure in themselves, but each day I'm getting more and more excited about the

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. . . avoid taxis at all costs. And I mean that literally cause those fools be trying to take all of our money!! Every day it's a different cost to get to the same places to which I'm going every day. My new game is to just keep going lower on my up-front negotiations. For example:Day 1: From airport to our guesthouse, we ended up paying nearly 3000 shilling (approx. USD 40).Day 2 AM: From

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That's the title of three day conference, also known as The Feminist Dialogues (FD), I'm participating in prior to the start of the World Social Forum (opening ceremonies tomorrow). The FD brings together feminist activists and scholars from all over the world to share strategies and visions for a future feminist movement. Many of the conversations--ranging from militarism, neolieralism, space

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any of ya'll ever tried to find an internet connection in Kenya?I arrived safely last night (with my colleague), but what a trip it was to land from the plane, hop in a taxi, get lost on the way to your lodging only to find out that Mrs. Tozzi (with whom you were to be staying) does not recall you calling to book a room for eight nights. So you and the taxi driver scheme in a mini-mart parking

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. . . hopefully I'll be back again. :)JFK to Amsterdam: 6:10p - 7:45aAmsterdam to Nairobi: 10:20a - 8:20pTotal flight time: 23 hoursAwesome.

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For the first time ever, more U.S. women are living without a husband rather than with one.In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.Coupled with the fact that in 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including

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Surfing is huge in Australia, a country surrounded by water. For young Australian-Muslim girls who wear the veil water sports or lifeguarding has never really been an option. Until now. The "burkini" (bikini + burqa) is a wet-suit hijab basically.The full-length lycra suit with hijab head-covering is not too figure hugging to embarrass, but is tight enough to allow its wearer to swim freely.

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I don't really know what to think of the new product and ad angle of Playtex Sport:". . . a high performance tampon with sport level protection. . . . and a no-slip grip."Aside from the reality that I've never felt the need to add any more grip protection to my tampons, I'm just a bit weary of a high-performance tampon. What does that even mean?!? To think, I've been recklessly sporting around

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"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)"He was not God.And yet, behold the legacy of one man trying to do good.I would hope that we shall once again begin to build beloved community not looking for a leader but determined to respect and activate the leadership capacities whithin each one of us. And as we, millions of leaders of our own

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Nairobi forecast: warm and muggy. I could have just gone to Houston for that.

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Judging from this video, the biggest danger I face in Nairobi is crossing the street. Check out the pedestrian cajones at this intersection!

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Rather than packing for my trip (two days left!) to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, I figured I should do a little redecorating. I hope you like the new look and enjoy the bunches of posts that will be coming your way as I run amok at what is sure to be a frenzy of activist mayhem.It's gonna be awesome and I'm going to do my best to share it all with you. There will be photos and videos and

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Mexicans are about to change the U.S. economy (legally):Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos.We gotta start calling that shit like it is, like it was, like how it should be: Texico.

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Check out this doll that actually tries to be lifelike and educational. Unlike other shoe-less freaks.The maker of the doll started the project back in 2001 as a way to teach her daughter about the body.Each 16-inch cloth adult Amamanta doll has genitals and pubic hair, and the mother doll features breasts that can be snapped onto the baby doll's mouth to help reinforce the importance of

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Are those gay Evangelical Christians? Reading together? Or secretly wishing they could re-enact the journey with the "three wise men" so prominently displayed on their living room coffee table? Even Jesus cannot save people from bad decorating.

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In case you still thought beauty pageants were safe: Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza of Puerto Rico fainted shortly after being crowned Miss Universe.Tottering on high, spiky heels, the 5-foot-nine, 18-year-old beauty collapsed in the arms of pageant assistants. She was rushed off the Shrine Auditorium stage while the conference organizer called for help.Well, I guess it's better than being murdered by

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Cause if we don't stay the course, what have we proven?That we're total dumbshits. Thanks Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for just calling it like it is,The war in Iraq has been a mistake. I say, a grotesque mistake.

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. . . and I'm not just talking about Bush flying to Iraq to cover for the Guantanamo suicides or the fact that over 2,500 soldiers have died in Iraq (not to mention all the civilian casualties).I'm crazy busy and apologize for the sporadic posting (which you all have clearly gotten used to by now).Thanks for the love and patience.

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And the fucking apocolypse nears.But he still loves gays. Because let's be honest: they make the government lots of money.

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. . . sexually assualt?On Tuesday, that question was posed to a slew of Chinese radio listeners. In an internet survey, a popular Hong Kong radio station asked its listeners to choose an actress they would most like to sexually assault.Luckily, this egregious and highly threatening gimmick didn't go unchallenged for long:The Commercial Radio poll drew widespread criticism last week, with teachers

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An Italian priest tired of gazing at young women's navels, has issued a ban on bare midriffs in church."God knew what your navel looked like even before you were born, so there is no need to expose it in church," commands a sign at the entrance to the church in Cinisello Balsamo.Frankly, I think he should be happy that young people are still going to church. ...Father Felice says he resorted to

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Sort of. To respect the dead, the local council in Queensland, Australia wants to establish an "exclusion zone" that prohibits brothels from operating within 200 metres of cemeteries. "It's totally inappropriate. There's a place for brothels and a place for cemeteries and we don't believe the two mix," he said.I couldn't agree more.

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A recent study in the Journal of Preventive Medicine found that people living in poor communities are more likely to be obese than people living in wealthier neighborhoods. People residing in poor neighborhoods who shopped in even poorer neighborhoods were more overweight than those who shopped in grocery stores in wealthier areas, found a recent study published in the American Journal of

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Despite the rumors, (and lived experience) my former home state is good for something! After 19 rounds, Katharine Close, a 13 year old from New Jersey, correctly spelled "ursprache" to become the 2006 Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee Winner. This is the first time in seven years that a female has won the bee. And you know I was right there re-living all of my bee memories . . . .

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Even I couldn't make this appalling stuff up: In leiu of a ten-year prison sentence, a (female) judge in Lincoln, Nebraska issued ten-years probation to a 5'1" child molester because she doesn't think he'd survive prison.Well, perhaps that's the point. While I'll be the first to advocate for prisoner's rights and a complete overhaul of the prison-industrial complex, this fucker is disturbed and

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All those years of downing alcohol have paid off. A study of 7,000 older US women found that those who drink a moderate amount of alcohol have slightly higher levels of mental function than non-drinkers.You might be saying, "But Anique, they stress moderate you libacious slut." And I, with indignant vindication, offer this:. . . women who reported drinking up to two or three drinks per day

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Because "a ban just makes children curious":Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage. The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday . . . *cue doom music*Toddlers

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In a rare moment of comprehensive health policy, the FDA is slated to approve a vaccine that blocks most viruses that cause cervical cancer. The drug protects against the two types of human papillomavirus, or HPV, which scientists believe is responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases. It also protects against two other viruses that cause 90 percent of genital warts. All four viruses are

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Usually I wouldn't give bad writing/reportage this kind of play, but this is too great to pass up. Laura Berman, a couples therapist in Chicago and frequent contributor to the Chicago Sun-Times, warns us of a frightening epidemic:We get offered a seat or have a door politely opened for us and -- watch out! -- we say no thank you, I am as strong and capable as you are. Though as women we don't

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The first episode of the PBS Frontline special on AIDS airs Tuesday, May 30 (today) and will continue Wednesday. Don't miss what should be a critical examination of the thirty year pandemic.Newsweek (I know, I know) recently issued an AIDS special issue that has a lot of information as well.

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Oh babies, the time has finally come: MisFortune500 is here. That little organization that employs me is behind this mega-rad web resource and I hope that you use it, abuse it (no pun intended), and pass it along for others to enjoy. Check out the site to find profiles of MisFortune 500 companies, news stories from around the world, policy information related to corporate accountability, trade,

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63% of Americans aged 18-24 cannot identify Iraq or Afghanistan on a map.Perhaps it's time to divert government funding from defense and global dominance to EDUCATION REFORM. Get a map, people.

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. . . and hell freezes over. she declared [her feminism] confidently on a Mother's Day morning political show citing her efforts to promote women's education and rights in the Middle East.While her pronouncement invokes apocolyptic visions, it does beg the more serious question of whether or not someone can call themselves feminist and be against reproductive freedom. In a response, Nora

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The senate met today and agreed to make English the national language. Oh wait, let's go with "unifying language" (we wouldn't want to make the wrong impression what with all the fences and the neighbors and what not).This is what they do instead of fixing the hundreds of crises currently plaguing this god-forsaken nation. This country's government is completely incompetent.

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The U.S. military are constantly hatching new ways to lure recruits. Most recently they've taken to putting pro-military recruitment messages on paper bags that were distributed to bodegas all over Brooklyn. The Friends of William Blake--an NYC activist-artist collective--decided to print their own bags for counter-recruitment.

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A new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--a federal government program, mind you--on women's health suggests that all women capable of conceiving children should consider themselves pre-pregnant. . . . regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon. The recommendations aim to "increase public awareness of the importance of preconception health" and

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Hard at work flipping through this week's issue of New York, I catch a creepy article proclaiming that "The Today Sponge is tomorrow's birth control." Wasn't that the same sponge that Elaine was hording stockpiles of on Seinfield?!? Who uses the sponge? What's the deal with that?!?Em and Lo, who pen weekly sex advice on their website, pronounce the spongeworthiness of it all:. . . we can

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Feminist bitch extraordinaire (and I mean that in the BEST way possible), Jessica Valenti, gets interviewed by Gothamist. The executive editor of Feministing.com, this girl is clever, irrereverent, and a super mouth (and brain) for the movement.

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While conscious consumerism may be an oxymoron for some, I would gladly spend my cash on this top. A way to simultaneously bring attention to the atrocity of domestic violence and challenge what is likely one of the most fucked up names given to an article of clothing. If dropping cash isn't your politics, you can easily DIY this clever and necessary message onto any old tank top ya got.

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Naomi Schaefer Riley has some sound advice for all you females out there: You should use a little common sense before you go out and get yourself raped. She concedes that it's probably not your fault that you're so stupid and loose--"feminism may be partly to blame." Yes, it's that evil, evil feminism with their evil feminist purveyors spreading their filth (and your legs) all over this

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18 grannies gathered in a courtroom yesterday to take the stand in their own defense. On trial for obstucting the entrance to an Army recruiting office near Times Square in New York, Grannies for Peace are hoping for much more than a place to rest.To the prosecution, this is a case of disorderly conduct. To the defendants, it is a test of the constitutional right to free speech, and the morality

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Because we all are victims of terrorism--U.S. terrorism.

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Must read article by Jack Hitt in NYTimes Sunday Magazine:What happens when you completely criminalize abortion? Over the last eight years, El Salvador has found out.Without the tireless efforts of pro-choice advocates, this could be an eerie forshadowing of future U.S. policy.

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The recent immigration marches--of which I'm a supporter--have gotten a lot of media coverage including front page aerial photos of the various marches. While I'm all for the media covering this issue in such a frontal way, the photos and coverage begs the question of why some political demonstrations get this kind of play while others (and often larger) don't.Let me be more clear:April 9 Dallas

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I think Condi is resorting to some pretty high-brow mating techniques to attract more of Jack Straw's attention. Perhaps someone needs to sign this bitch up for eharmony.

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Big surprise: Bush is the leaker!Not so big surprise: U.S. won't be part of the new UN Human Rights Council. Why? Well aside from the fact that the U.S. doesn't have the best human rights record, they say they don't want to join and will think about membership for next year. It's more likely that they didn't want to go through the inevitable rejection process given they were the sole

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Having received a rather personal--and by personal, I mean my boss was mailed a formal letter--invite to a town-hall meeting hosted by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), I feel obliged to attend. However, my inclination to occupy my usually carefully guarded lunch hour with an hour and a half of politicalese and bad Q&A was prompted not by flattery, but rather annoyance. You see, the meeting

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www.april29.org

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While I've always known our numbers were high, it's reassuring to see more and more Texans coming out of the backwoods closet. Despite beliefs held by some narrow-mided folks (ahem, East Coasters), intelligent, socially progressive Texans DO exist and in that proverbial Texas way, they exist BIG!Please meet Ms. Cecile Richards, daughter of former Texas governer Ann Richards and the new president

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As part of a campaign to commemerate International Women's day, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and partners in South Africa are traveling by bus to spread the message of non-violence to women and raise awareness of new laws and measures that will help women escape domestic and civil violence."Another aim will be to collect petitions calling on both parliament and

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Numbers often help us put it perspective: 1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women. A baby girl born in the UK is likely to live to 81 - but if she is born in Swaziland, she is likely to die at 39. 70% of the 1.2 billion people living in poverty are women and children. 21% of the world's managers are female. 62% of unpaid family workers are female. 9% of

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Black.White.--the show that takes two families, one white, one black, and swaps their skin color to see what happens--premiered last night on FX. And while shows like this present the possibility of challenging our ideas about controversial topics and subsequently expanding our understandings of the complexity of social issues such as race, Black. White. is very unlikely to add significantly to

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Happy International Women's Day!

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Hey kids, sorry about the absence, but I've been busy over at the UN. And I'm happy to report that all of our hard work is paying off at this year's Commission on the Status of Women. Our press conference and Open Letter to the Secretary General have garnered incredible media coverage and have a outlets and the UN are picking up women's frustration with gender inequity in all levels of

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Because information lessens our dependency and increases our power, please read this post by a fellow blogger. Written in light of the recent South Dakota abortion ban, one woman feels its time to call on tactics similar to the Jane Collective of the 1960s--a national collective of women who learned how to perform abortions and subsequently decreased the necessity of dangerous and deadly

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While South Dakota restricts all abortions, Colorado and New York are moving to make EC available over the counter.A committee in the Colorado House has voted in favor of a bill giving pharmacists the authority to dispense emergency contraception, and New York Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer (D) announced his support for pharmacy access in New York.We live in such a

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If some Ohio senators have their way, Republicans could be barred from adopting. In an email sent to colleagues, State Senator Robert Hagan (D) announced his intentions to,"introduce legislation in the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents."Hagan made the announcement as a challenge to a recently introduced

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"When Women Pursue Justice" (2005)Pardon me for being a little late with this one, but given the atrocious news of the day, I figured we needed a little pick us up. On the corner of Greene and Norstrand in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a colorful, large mural titled "When Women Pursue Justice" pays tribute to women and women's history. The mural was produced and painted by an all-female team of

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South Dakota has become the first state (and surely not the last) to ban almost every type of abortion procedure available to women. The law makes abortion a felony with no exceptions for rape, incest or health of the mother.Let the bloodshed begin . . . .

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The 50th session of the CSW is the culprit behind what will surely be some sporadic posting. My paying gig requires my services (how annoying) and for the next two and a half weeks, my life will be taken over by UN meetings, NGO meetings, and things called linkage caucuses. It might get dirty and that's all you need to know. Rest assured I'll fill you in on all three tittilating details of the

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Remember that time you started dating that dude only to find out he was married? Or what about that other guy that ended up having a fetish list longer than your Powells wishlist? Of course, nothing tops the dude who served time in a French prison. . . .Wouldn't it have been nice to have a dating research tool that trumped Google? Well, imagine no more, because the dating dieties have created

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Wow! Here's some shocking logic from a recent study on women in business:The key to getting more women on corporate boards is getting more women on board-nominating committees, according to a study released Thursday on diversity in corporate governance.You know, I give them a hard time, but I wouldn't doubt that this seemingly obvious information isn't that clear to a lot of folks. So, kudos to

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Check out the UN report that debuted today which called for the closure of the U.S. Guantanamo torture camp. Written by five human rights experts and based on interviews with Guantanamo detainees, the UN report clearly outlines the grim, frightening, and illegal nature of the U.S. prison. The report ultimately recommends the swift and complete closure of the prison, which currently holds

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Members of Australian Parliament have effectively removed the ban on RU486, ensuring the first possibility of country-wide access to the pill that puts reproductive control back in the hands of women. As always, women in parliament were critical to this political and personal victory:The bill was sponsored by a cross-party group of female senators made up of Australian Democrats leader Lyn

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Great interview with socio-linguist and fellow feminist, Deborah Tannen, on her new book, You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation. Tannen, a fairly famous linguist whose research focuses on the importance of understanding language in everyday conversation, has done groundbreaking work on gender relations and language and is now adding the mother-daughter convo

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There's a frightening article in the NYTimes business section that makes the argument that plastic surgery can help your career. "You get something done, you get the promotion."This may sound crazy, but it's backed by scientific and labor-market research.A paper published last year by researchers from Harvard and from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., concluded that there was a "sizable

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