October 2008
2 posts
Writing on College
…is my latest project, read more here:
http://oh-college.tumblr.com/
Love / New Job / New Place
…. have mostly been taking up my time. BUT - I’ll be back soon!
August 2008
11 posts
Shit. →
I guess it really only matters what you look like EVEN if you just won olympic gold.
Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell - TIME →
read it!
Dear World, it's me, a girl →
out of control amazing
Thanks Reaganonmics! / So much Sarcasm →
National Briefing - Science and Health - Abortion... →
snazzified:
FYI.
Thanks Shana!
Hot Mess, Spanish Style →
I was sure the US was gonna do this first. Damn - I mean, I’m so speechless right now. Racism, damn. Plus the racism in the article. I just can’t. Wow.
Bodies on the Olympic Stage
I am obsessed, OBSESSED with the Olympics. I love sports. What I’m not in love with is the commentary which has a couple of problematic themes:
1. Racism.
I’ve heard alot of bullshit about certain countries having athletes having certain “natural” talents. These comments are insidious and as the announcers naturalize racial and ethnic traits (not to mention homogenize...
Check me out on feministing! →
I'm tied for the best
It makes me so sad that women buy into the myths about their intelligence. I’m really less concerned about what the new york times publishes about girls and math
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/education/25math.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=girls%20math&st=cse&oref=slogin)
and more concerned with the lived experience that leads women to write things like this:
really, we’ve...
Oh wait! →
Good thing comprehensive sexual health education is available every where so we can actively work to combat the spread of HIV / AIDS. Oh wait - that’s not the case at all.
Good thing studies to cure HIV / AIDS are well funded…Oh wait - that’s not the case either.
Good thing that as long as the subaltern and poor people are the ones getting HIV / AIDS few folk will continue to...
I knew this was coming
As soon as Barack Obama publically acknowledges his ownership of blackness (the now famous dollar comment), the media flips a shit. It fine and insightful when he comments on race, but the fact that HE IS BLACK is something they are horrified to hear him say. Here’s some charming highlights:
Charles Hurt from the Post writes:
“Obama emerged victorious from the snowy-white fields of...
June 2008
2 posts
New Outreach to Blacks as Border Patrol Grows -... →
let’s be honest, well all know the government is going to hire mexicans to build the wall and then pay them shit. ha! propoganda doesn’t work on me bitches!
May 2008
8 posts
“Cynthia Ruccia, 55, a sales director for Mary Kay cosmetics in Columbus, Ohio,...”
– Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton’s Hopes Dim - New York Times yeah lady, i’m sure John McCain will all of sudden care about women. I believe this is the definition of shooting thyself in the foot.
AZ legislature might ruin everything →
this is a major affront to democratic principles…
There is no womanhood of color...
Or so the woman quoted in this article thinks: “http://www.kentucky.com/254/story/401379.html” She says: “In Menifee County, race matters more than gender,” Ross said. “People are more inclined to vote for a woman than a black person.” A woman is necessarily white (this is pretty much just how NOW - the National Organization for Women acts). How welcoming and inclusive…
Olympic Gag Order - washingtonpost.com →
Dear IOC, are you kidding me? I believe your edict directly contradicts the Universal Declaration on Human Rights? Who are you? China?
Vegetarian myths, debunked. - By Taylor Clark -... →
exactly what i was trying to say…
anti-choice movement = ridiculous →
really, this is the most ape-shit ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard.
“A sonorous white preacher spouting venom just doesn’t have the telegenic zing of...”
– Frank Rich http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?em&ex=1210046400&en=1ab063165842695f&ei=5087%0A
Sexual Harrasment is cool at Yale →
yet another reason to leave…
April 2008
32 posts
“TRUTH IN ADVERTISING Dress how you want to be treated. If you show respect for...”
– Ashton Kutcher, PhD - Being a sexist pig
At the risk of making you uncomfortable...
…I was raped when I was 17. People look at me with pity when I say this, and then try to change the subject. I totally understand that response. But really - it’s not my fault, and sometimes I want to scream it from the tallest mountain in the world so I can let it go and give it back to the world. But that makes everyone else uncomfortable. This is why (analytically) I become...
In Bell Case, Black New Yorkers See Nuances That... →
as usual the times is trippin…
I Love my Mom!
Mom: Guess what I bought on accident?
Me: What's that?
Mom: A Blackberry!
Me: You can NOT buy a blackberry on accident
Mom: Well I did, I can do the impossible, and so you can you Adrienne!
“Mr. Clinton was widely criticized by black leaders after he equated the eventual...”
– Bill - really, Obama pulled the race card on you? By calling you a white man with power? Oh shit wait that was ME that said that just now!
The Politics of Convenience →
oh, so now McCain cares about Katrina…and all it took was a presidential election…
Senate votes against equal pay... →
are you serious…??!?!??!
Skyrocketing rice prices has Sam's Club limiting... →
sounds like rationing to me…
Catherine Pugh Story →
Cousins can be amazing!
#62 Knowing what’s best for poor people « Stuff... →
genius…
Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream →
word.
The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are... →
Written by a MoHo - I love us!
Convo Continued
snazzified: fifthwavefeminism: I’m glad Shana wrote this. Betty Friedan said that women could never be equal to men without escaping their biology. I agree that naturalness is a social constructed reality, but,I’m not sure I agree withthe idea that somehow I have to escape from my womanlines, whatever I might understand that to be. I actually don’t take birth control at all because the idea...
Feminism is bad for the environment →
Cahill can save the environment by keeping his book out of print, otherwise (uh-oh) it’s be authors killing the world to advance thier liberal, feminist cause!
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect →
Me: I just can't be in this miserable place
Joe: Let me take you away, close your eyes
Me: I do not have any desire to visually project my escape from this awful place
Joe: Could I interest you in a plane ticket?
Me: Duh - where are we going?
Joe: It begins with an E...
Me: Everywhere?
Joe: Maybe we can go there after we go to EASTER ISLAND!
What is "natural" when it comes to periods?
snazzified: So this weekend, Adrienne and I somehow got on the topic of skipping periods on COCs, or combined oral contraceptives as well as the pills now on the market that allow for a woman to have fewer periods in a year. She seemed to find this “unnatural” but I do skip periods (by skipping the placebos) and don’t think it’s “unnatural” at all. It got me thinking about what we consider...
Europe does a nice job, read all about it! →
“I may die alone, but I will return and I will be millions”
– Túpaj Katari. Food for thought - what do we leave behind?
BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Woman driver makes racing... →
I mean, I’m not into NASCAR, but I’m into women making history!
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve -... →
Tancredo is a dumbass.
Really China? Bad fucking job →
I tried to think holistically about the China / Olympics / Human Rights Violations Situation. It’s bullshit to say that the Olympics aren’t political. That much international cooperation is political, it’s political when the Koreas march under the same flag, it’s political when the us strips black runners of their medals for asserting their equality. It’s political,...
“If a woman is anti-choice she cannot be a feminist because that means a woman...”
– duh, but thanks bell hooks for putting it simply and eloquently :)
A Global Problem: Union leaders and members are... →
enjoyment? feminism? together?
Jouissance and Feminist Discourse: Should ‘enjoymeant’ be a part of feminist politics? What are ‘feminist’ politics? For bell hooks, feminist politics should problematize sexist actions and ideology and aim to eliminate such actions and ideological patterns (hooks 1). hooks also discusses the problematic ways in which the media and patriarchal system portray feminism. Feminists are often...
Eat it!
I am considering a small experiment. I’m a graduate student at Yale University. There is so much wealth and so much irresponsibility here that it’s nothing short of remarkable. I wonder how much food Yale produces that is wasted. People at Yale do not appreciate food as a resource - instead it is used as a marketing tool. Come to this talk because there will be food…....