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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 ...1 day ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...2 weeks ago -
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 ...2 weeks ago -
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 ...3 weeks ago -
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 ...3 weeks ago -
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 ...4 weeks ago -
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, ...4 weeks ago -
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

