February 2011
5 posts
“One of the pleasantest things those of us who write or paint do is to have the...”
– Gertrude Stein, Paris France (1940)
“Wall Street Bankers Take in Record $135 Billion in Compensation
The Wall...”
– http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/3/headlines#13
October 2010
2 posts
May 2010
1 post
"Girls Night Out" is not for me
Here’s my letter to ODA about today’s event Girls Night Out
I am bummed that ODA is promoting an event that reinforces traditional gender roles and stereotypes. While it is true that some women love to shop and wear pink, it is also true that women were once confined to this identity in our not-so-distant past and not all of us are nostalgic for that time. I was troubled to see...
April 2010
1 post
“I asked Beardsley about Venus and its commitment to feminism....”
– http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/venus-magazine-amy-schroeder-sarah-beardsley/Content?oid=1570058&storyPage=2
March 2010
2 posts
“There should be billboards; ads in magazines; ads on buses, subways, trains;...”
– bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody
“Excluding vehicles, single black women have a median wealth of $100 and Hispanic...”
– http://jezebel.com/5492099/women-of-color-and-wealth—looking-at-the-wealth-gap-part-2
February 2010
17 posts
“Afghanistan’s “most famous woman” has voiced deep scepticism...”
– http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/joya-condemns-ridiculous-military-strategy-1899547.html
“And how would you define its moral?
It is a contemporary family tale; it is...”
– Swiss director Ursula Meier, from an interview about her feature-length film, Home
“For me feminism is both a consciousness that women suffer discrimination at...”
– Ziba Mir-Hosseini
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sikand090210.html
“I’ll tell you what pisses me off more than almost anything: when people say, ‘As...”
– -Val McDermid
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/10/feminists-love-mutilated-women.html#ixzz0fOP74Suv
““Authors must be free to write and publishers to publish. But critics must...”
– Sexist violence sickens crime critic
Leading novelist (Jessica Man) says graphic depictions of sadistic misogyny have become so extreme she refuses to review some new fiction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/25/jessica-mann-crime-novels-anti-women
“I am happy to be alive here in Olympia which is still a thriving punk scene...”
– -Tobi Vail, History Lesson Pt 3/Punk Rock Changed My Life/ Tales of a 40 Year Old Punk Rocker
Nuts fanzine #4, quoted here
February 4, 1919 Editorial by Anna Louise Strong
Union Record February 4, 1919 Editorial by Anna Louise Strong
ON THURSDAY AT 10 A.M. There will be many cheering and there will be some who fear. Both of these emotions are useful, but not too much of either. We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead - NO ONE KNOWS WHERE! We do not need hysteria. We need the iron march of...
Anna Louise Strong
The Politics of Gender in the Writings of Anna Louise Strong By Rebecca B. Jackson
“Out of the conflicts that raged around the Union Record, loneliness and confusion grew for me. As once I had clung to the hollow form of independence while eastern monopoly took control of my child welfare exhibits, so now I clung to the outworn form of comradeship, though the old comrades called each...
Feb 6: Remember The Seattle General Strike, 1919 →
January 2010
3 posts
“People say we can no longer write about our colleagues. Obviously it becomes...”
– Jean Luc Godard talking about being a film critic and a film-maker in Godard on Godard
“The problem with bad (read: typical) Hollywood movies is not that they’re...”
– -Richard Hell
http://www.richardhell.com/moviecolumn2004.html
December 2009
9 posts
Personal Best of 2009
-practice space jams (even though I’m not in a band really) -new pedals & old guitars (loop station & cry baby + reverb + distortion) -all ages shows in public spaces (not private residences) -not hanging out in bars so much (but I do miss my friends) -family dinners/saturday breakfast at ben moore’s -punks at the Y (elliptical olympics!) -saturday nights at OFS, especially...
“By getting caught up in a debate over plastic surgery, feminists are losing this...”
– Feminism’s Face-Lift
“For D. Boon and the band to be in people’s mind still, especially young...”
– Minutemen Documentary Due : Rolling Stone
“Watt prefers to think of punk as a state of mind rather than a genre of music....”
– CANOE — JAM! Music - Artists - Watt, Mike: Watt the heck?
“I don’t want to get caught up in sentimentalism and nostalgia shit, to be...”
– -Mike Watt
Music: Sea Chantey-Town (Tucson Weekly . 11-24-97)
“Books are like my one and only joy.” What?! Lead singer of a band that...”
– John Lydon: ‘I’m not a leader, bully or dictator’ - Profiles, People - The Independent
“If Bush had said these things the world would be filled with violent...”
– Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations:
Conservative praise for Nobel speech - - POLITICO.com
November 2009
6 posts
“At the end of the ’90s, I got excited when I realized that young girls no...”
– Swagger Like Us: Thoughts on Women in Music, 2000-09 - Monitor Mix Blog : NPR
“While some female performers may experience sexual objectification as...”
– Britney Spears, Meet Beth Ditto (Please) - Monitor Mix Blog : NPR
“The primary reason there have been so few “great women ______” is...”
– Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
“Women authors left off list of the year’s top 10 books Female writers won...”
– Women authors left off list of the year’s top 10 books - News, Books - The Independent
“Responding to the allegations in the media that the attack was based on his...”
– U.S.: “War Comes Home” with Ft. Hood Shootings - IPS ipsnews.net
“If you are an American male, there is coded somewhere in your DNA the desire to...”
– Say ‘I Do’ to Rock - NYTimes.com
October 2009
2 posts
“From the point of view of women today, America’s friends and...”
– Remember the Women?
“When the Feminist Majority argues that withdrawing American forces from...”
– Remember the Women?
September 2009
6 posts
“The level of consciousness of feminism, let alone political commitment to it...”
– Going to places that scare me: Personal reflections on challenging male supremacy | www.xyonline.net
Lost youth: turning young girls into sex symbols |... →
But the motivation is also commercial. Cosmetics and fashion designers are finding ways to capture loyal consumers almost from day one. On the flip side, emphasising girlishness as desirable facilitates the multibillion-dollar sales of anti-aging cosmetics, creams and plastic surgery. Finally, there’s the underground economy of little girls’ sexuality: child sex trafficking and...