Yes, friends, once again it is time for me to write to you from a bus. A bus headed to exotic Boston! For I am speaking again, this time at Wellesley. I, uh… promise to post the speech for you, if you can’t make it? But anyway. If you are in Boston, and would like […]
Say, do you like fun? I know I don’t! That is why I am not at tonight’s fun event for ladies, the Roe on the Rocks benefit, starring the incomparable Sara Benincasa and oh, many and many a lovely band. HOWEVER. Let’s assume you’re a sad and lonely person who reads the Internet to get […]
Last week, on the floor of the Florida House, Representative Scott Randolph used a word that earned him a rebuke from GOP spokesperson, Katie Betta: “The Speaker has been clear about his expectations for conduct on the House for during debate. At one point during the debate, he mentioned to the entire House that members […]
It should be noted that Alan Hale owns a bar. Last week Alan Hale voted yes on Montana’s HB 544 , a bill that would require a doctor performing an abortion to “screen” the abortion seeker an hour beforehand to make certain they aren’t being “coerced” into having a legal medical procedure. Hale has also […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I just came across a study, which was released at the end of 2010 about a phenomenon that, I believe is pretty specific to Latin America: Women’s Police Stations (WPS). The first WPS opened in São Paulo, Brazil in 1985 and now similar ones can be found in 13 Latin American countries. The study, Women’s […]
[Note: This article has a trigger warning, for descriptions and discussion of suicide. Also, at the author’s request, comments on this post have been turned off.] A young woman goes to the mall, buys a gun, and shoots herself in the parking lot. There are a lot of potential responses to this story; we could […]
“Progress ahoy!” I exclaimed when I came across some Spanish speaking media reporting of The Manual for the Non-sexist Use of Language recently distributed to government offices across Mexico. The manual seeks to reduce comments that enforce gender stereotypes, as well as the default use of the masculine form in the Spanish language. This pervasive […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Friends: I have a lot of interests. Feminism, chili cheese fries, talking about feminism while eating chili cheese fries… the list goes on! However, one of my interests is “blogs about tattoos.” They always brighten my day a little. Mostly because I get to judge people, which is really my function in this life. You […]
Yesterday I went to GayBiGayGay, the annual queer rock festival at the end of South By Southwest. This was their first year in a new location, it was a beautiful day, and the ZiegenBock was reasonably priced – so reasonably priced that I spent most of the afternoon trying to take a nap. But before […]
I just woke up, so it will take me time to fight the 6 other people in this apartment for the one shower, but this is where I’m going to be all day.