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• Dear Imprudence: Getting It Right

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  After our inaugural Dear Imprudence column, in which I called out some bad advice, I thought it might be nice to go to the other side of the spectrum, and check out some good advice offered up in an advice column. After all, advice columnists do get it right now and then. As it turns out, Miss Conduct was here to ...
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• Blegging: links for FF101 FAQ on Intersectionality

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  I’m finally back in an FAQ-writing headspace, and one on Intersectionality is long overdue. I have a few links, but I could do with more! Please feed the FAQ. Similar Posts: Ask the Hoydenizens: How to respond to the bootstrappers? by Lauredhel I Write Letters by Lauredhel Feminist Carnival time! Put ...
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• James Cameron’s Avatar: Watch Some -isms This December!

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Amanda Hess over at The Sexist drew my attention to James Cameron’s Avatar by asking me if we were going to be covering it at FWD. I initially thought she was talking about The Last Airbender, based on the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which has been attracting a great deal of ire for ...
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• Disability 101: What is Able-Bodied or Abled Privilege?

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  What is able-bodied or abled privilege? The term able-bodied/abled privilege refers to the numerous benefits—-some hidden, many not—-that many societies and cultures accord to able-bodied and/or abled people. Despite many folks’ paying lip service to notions of equality for PWDs, the chronically ill, people ...
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• Christina Hoff Sommers & “The Failures of Modern Feminism”

  
  Sex and the Ivy — Authority: 405
  As The Crimson reported today, “conservative feminist” Christina Hoff Sommers gave a talk on the failures of modern feminism last night. I found the discussion extremely disappointing, in part because it became abundantly clear early on that Sommers has a very limited understanding of feminist history and ...
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• Transgender Day of Remembrance

  
  Kate Harding's Shapely Prose — Authority: 534
  Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to remember transgender victims of violence. Here’s a list of the people we’re remembering in 2009. Please take a moment to read their names and stories — what is known of them — and think about these people, mostly young women, who suffered often exceptionally ...
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• Jordan’s Principle

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  This post was originally published in July 2009 as part of International Blog Against Racism Week One of the things that we talk about here, on occasion, is how lucky we are that Don is a white man with a disability living in Canada. Things become more complicated in my post-racial utopia of a country when ...
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• Your Chilling Fact For The Day

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Originally published July 2009 The PALS also indicates that Canadian women, 15 year of age and older, experience a higher prevalence of disability at 15.2 percent, than Canadian men at 13.4 percent. In 2006, 19.5 percent of Ontario adult women reported having a disability compared with 16.6 percent of men ...
  2 weeks ago

• on intersectionalities of oppression

  
  Crossing the Highway — Authority: 117
  i’ve removed feministing.com from my blogroll because the bullshit and privilege that they’ve displayed over the last few months, with regard to disabilities issues has just made me sick. there are way to many blogs to link to right now, but quixotess has a pretty good write up of what happened and why i no longer ...
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• Guest Post: Sex and Scoliosis

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  This is a Guest Post by Atlasien. It was originally published here . I’m a multiracial Asian-American woman, Southerner, third-culture kid and mommyblogger. I’ve been living in the Atlanta area for more than a decade now. I mainly blog about race and foster care adoption. My husband and I have a 7-year-old son ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recommended Reading for November 13

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Mental Health and Promiscuity However, even in this environment there is one area that has always troubled me and that revolves around the concept of promiscuity as diagnositic criteria. My first and biggest problem with this is that I have NEVER heard this brought up as a symptom of mental illness when discussing ...
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• Getting Through College with a Mental Disability

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  We’ve been talking a lot about how university faculty and staff individually respond to students with disabilities , as well as attitudes from universities as a whole towards identifying students with potential mental health problems. I’ve noticed a lot of stories in the comments on those posts about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• On the Map: Meet a Bunch of White Guys... or Oprah

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 141
  Youve got eight more days to bid in The 6th Annual Chevy Chase Green School Auction , a fundraiser for Jayni Chases beloved MGR Foundation GREEN Community Schools initiative that aims to "transform school buildings into centers for green development" by "spread[ing] environmental literacy and awareness." While the ...
  2 weeks ago

• 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival!

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 528
  Apologies for the lack of DUFC logo – for some reason, I stick in the image and link, hit “update” – and WordPress disappears the whole thing! Welcome to the 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! (And apologies for the delay.) This Carnival has an optional caring theme, thanks to Australian Carers’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Disability and Asexuality

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Kaz is a German woman in her twenties, currently doing a maths PhD in the UK. She is on the autistic spectrum, stutters, and has been dealing with clinical depression on and off since her teens; she considers all of these disabilities. She is also aromantic -tending-towards- homoromantic asexual and identifies as ...
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• Invisible Illness and Disability Bingo 1.0

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Author’s note: This is a revised version of a bingo card that I made some time ago. While I don’t feel like I should be required to justify the lowermost right square, there was some confusion and pretty ooky pushback when I posted version 1 on my own blog. I’ll explain that square anyway, for CMA purposes: I ...
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• Read On!: "The First (Black) Lady"

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 506
  States Parties shall take all appropriate measures:a. to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quotations

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  Being discriminated against or exploited because one is female may be painful and dehumanizing, but it may not necessarily be as painful, dehumanizing, or threatening as being without food or shelter, as starvation, as being deathly ill but unable to obtain medical care. - bell hooks, Feminist Theory From Margin to ...
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• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  [x-posted from FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities ] As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader reproductive justice framework that must be scrutinised, ...
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• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 664
  As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader reproductive justice framework that must be scrutinised, critiqued and repaired so that all women have access to ...
  4 weeks ago

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