Category Archives: Feminist Blogs Of Interest

Feminism, the Sciences and Blogs

The high rate of attrition of women in the legal profession is alarming and depressing; the amount of female energy and talent that gets stupidly wasted due to sexism in the sciences appears to be an even greater tragedy. Here … Continue reading

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Some Posts You Should Read at Women’s Space/The Margins

I don’t agree with everything she writes, and no doubt vice versa, but I don’t think there is anybody more committed to feminism blogging today than Heart. Here are four of her recent posts you should read: “Brittany Spears Crotch”: … Continue reading

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Some Thoughtful Words About Language

At Shakespeare’s Sister. And at By Neddie Jingo. And at Tom Watson. Update: See also Echidne of the Snakes, and Zuky and Reappropriate (thanks Ms. Jared!) and here is an excellent comment by “thebewilderness” from a thread at an earlier, … Continue reading

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A Round of Links For Everybody

“Not What I Would Call An Improvement,” at Stone Court “A Streetcar Named Bite Me” at Heavens to Mergatroyd “Where Gay Couples Are Coming Out” by Pam Spaulding at Pandagon “Subversive Gifts For Girls” at She’s Such A Geek “Seminal … Continue reading

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The Links Are On Me!

“Inclusion” at Dru Blood “Google, Rape and Search Data” at Feminish “University, Court and Slave” by Al Brophy at Blackprof “Feminists From Around the Bloc” at The F-Word “A Whole New World! The First Three Hours.” at Finslippy “The New … Continue reading

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Ich bin kein Berliner: She is Not a Jelly Doughnut

For post title context, watch this. She has done a remarkable series of videos about mental health issues. Via The Trouble With Spikol, where Liz Spikol writes: “I admire this woman for trying to talk about her experience, and for … Continue reading

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Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance

Of the Internet’s viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their … Continue reading

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Melissa Summers Was a Poll Worker Yesterday

Or as she characterized it: Today I volunteered at the kid’s school in the position of “Person Who Asks, “Are you here to vote?” And Then Points Toward The Stairs.” Here is an excerpt from her account: “Hi! Are you … Continue reading

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Dr. Crazy Surely Isn’t

Here is an excerpt from one of her posts at Reassigned Time: … When I decided to become a professor, I was under the naive impression that I’d be entering a world in which gender didn’t determine my identity quite … Continue reading

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Disagreement is Fine, But Hatred Isn’t

Amananta at Screaming Into The Void has a post up about the fact that she has been taking a lot of inappropriate abuse from other bloggers. Although she doesn’t say it directly, it sounds like some stress in her personal … Continue reading

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Another Links Post

“The Massacre Behind the Curtain” by Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon “The Color of Violence” by Samhita at Feministing “Memoirs of the Racially Insensitive” at Rice Daddies “Nancy Pelosi Has Girl Cooties” by Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon “Brutality, repression, and murder … Continue reading

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Sex Crimes: A blog devoted to the criminal laws regulating and punishing sex offenders

By Corey Rayburn Yung, it is accessible here.

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Links: Interesting Things To Read

“‘Science’ kits that teach stereotypes” at Adventures in Ethics and Science. “Worth a listen: Kenji Yoshino”Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights”” at Blackfeminism.org. “Reflections On BigLaw” at The Happy Feminist. “Katherine Arnoldi: Fighting For Teen Moms” at Feministing. … Continue reading

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Life of a Doctor Who Performed Abortions “Pre-Roe”

Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista has a post up about a research project she undertook about the life of William Jennings Bryan Henrie, a Pre-Roe abortion-performing doctor from Grove, Oklahoma. You can read about the series on the interviews she … Continue reading

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Carnival of the Feminists #25

Up at Philobiblon.

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Blog Law

I like reading nonlawyerly takes on the law, and I found a good one in the comments at Screaming Into The Void, where the header tagline currently reads “Scaring women-haters with my hairy legs since 1987.” Amananta, who blogs there, … Continue reading

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The “Northwestern Colloquy”

According to this site: The Northwestern Colloquy will be the first scholarly weblog to be operated by a major law review. It will feature legal commentary written in the form of blog posts. This new format will allow scholars to … Continue reading

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More Links

“What’s Gender Got to Do With it?: Carly Fiorina and Patricia Dunn” by Christine Hurt at The Conglomerate. Emma Coleman Jordan covered related territory in “Women CEOs and Corporate Gender Welfare” at the Georgetown Law Faculty Blog. “Women Just Can’t … Continue reading

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Feminists Can Too Be Funny

U.K. feminist blogger Witchy-woo wrote about a woman in England who was unable to obtain the “morning after” pill because her pharmacist declined to provide it, asserting that”it was against his religious beliefs.”Witchy-woo’s post is at her blog: Well I’ll … Continue reading

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Props and Thanks to Jim Chen

Jim Chen made my day, and I mean that sincerely, not at all in a Dirty Harryesque “Go ahead, make my day” kind of way (see also), quite the opposite. Read this post at MoneyLaw, and then read this one. … Continue reading

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“Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq’s women”

The Observer (via the U.K. Guardian Unlimited) reported yesterday: …Iraqis do not like to talk about it much, but there is an understanding of what is going on these days. If a young woman is abducted and murdered without a … Continue reading

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The San Francisco Chronicle is publishing a series of investigative reports about sex trafficking

Part One is here. Below is an excerpt: Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited … Continue reading

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“Mother Superior”

Over at Jurisdynamics, Jim Chen has a post entitled “Mother Superior” that is part of his series on “Genesis for the rest of us.”   Here is an excerpt: The sexually hierarchical nature of Genesis’ second creation story has long-term … Continue reading

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Judicial Bypass Resources

This post is copied from the wonderful Reproductive Rights Blog in an effort to circulate it as widely as possible, but that blog deserves all the credit for collecting and initially publishing this information, which after a bit of spot … Continue reading

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Carnival Against Sexual Violence 8

Up at abyss2hope. As usual Marcella Chester did a lot of hard work on this, and it is well worth checking out.

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The Anti-Boobie-Thon

Read the post entitled “I Got Yer Boobython Right Here” at I Blame the Patriarchy so all this makes sense. Like Twisty Faster, if no one sends me photos of their breasts between now and midnight Tuesday, I’ll donate some … Continue reading

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Not Funny, Redux

The Happy Feminist, a practicing attorney, posted a story about a work-related experience she had that involved a “joke” that few feminists would find amusing. Below is an excerpt: Back in 1999, when I was a 27 year old prosecutor, … Continue reading

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Links

“Should you stay with a man who buys sex?” at Feministing. “Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls” at Human Rights Watch (via Feministing). “Safia Ama Jan, RIP” at Echidne of the Snakes. “John … Continue reading

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Blog for women’s rights in Pakistan

According to this BBC article: “Pakistan rape victim Mukhtar Mai has been in the international spotlight as a result of her campaign to seek justice for herself and other women in Pakistan. She has been writing a blog for the … Continue reading

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“Frida Kahlo: A Guerrilla Girl”

Great interview with one of the the “Guerilla Girls” by Celina De Leon at Feministing. Here is an excerpt from a wonderfully long and detailed piece: How did the Guerrilla Girls come to be? In 1985, the Museum of Modern … Continue reading

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What’s In A Name?

Shark-Fu, a.k.a. Pamela, will tell you.

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Mental Illness

Watch this video. And this video too. Then, read this blog.

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The “Title IX Blog”

Feminist law profs Erin Buzuvis and Sudha Setty have launched the     Title IX Blog! It is “an interdisciplinary resource for news, legal developments, commentaries, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of … Continue reading

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Nancy Rapoport on the AALS FAR and FRC

Nancy Rapoport is blogging at MoneyLaw, and her first blogservations there focus on the AALS FAR and FRC. See her posts: Things that faculty appointments committees should know (if they don’t already) and Why the Faculty Recruitment Conference is like … Continue reading

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“Abortion Clinic Days”

The blog “Abortion Clinic Days” isn’t updated frequently, but the writing is really compelling and provocative, so check it out if you can.

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Emma Coleman Jordan on “Women CEO’s and Corporate Gender Warfare”

At the Georgetown Law Faculty Blog, Emma Coleman Jordan has an important post up. Below is an excerpt: … Today, the Hewlett Packard Corporation finds itself embroiled in a bitter dispute surrounding the firing of one board member and the … Continue reading

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“Our Bodies, Our Blog”

Via e-mail: “I’m writing to introduce a new blog launched by Our Bodies Ourselves. ““Our Bodies, Our Blog,”www.ourbodiesourblog.org, a daily update featuring news and analysis on issues affecting women’s health and lives, is written by Christine Cupaiuolo, whom you may … Continue reading

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“Guidelines for avoiding actively irritating women who are discussing feminist concerns”

These are contained in “An Uncongenial Post” by Tia at Unfogged: 1) Understand that if lots of women say something is important, it is. Your opinion, as a man, about the extent and nature of the problem is not valuable … Continue reading

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Sex and the Empowerful Woman

Two recent posts by Twisty Faster at “I Blame the Patriarchy” provide fairly compelling, if not jump-startling, reading for the summer-stupified academic brain: Sports, Corsetry, and the Empowerful Woman and Sex. Here’s an excerpt from Sex: Radical feminists are not … Continue reading

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Feminism, Essentialism and Blogging

Heart from Women’s Space/The Margins posted some thoughts about differences and feminism at Genderberg well worth excerpting here: Does anybody see the way blogs and blogrolls seem to break down along color lines? Lesbian/het lines? Western/Third World-Global South lines? It’s … Continue reading

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“Mixed Media Watch”

“Mixed Media Watch is a blog that monitors representations of mixed people, couples, families and transracial adoptees in film, television, radio and print media.” Via Feministing, which helpfully provides some background.

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The Feminist Side of Caitlin Flanagan

I have two things in common with many feminists: (1) I’ve been appalled at what Caitlin Flanagan  said about working moms in To Hell with All That; and (2) I haven’t actually read her book. I did see Flanagan on … Continue reading

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Recommended Blog: The Dees Diversion

Diane at The Dees Diversion (previously known as DED Space) just celebrated the fourth anniversary of her blog! Here is an excerpt from a post she wrote on that topic: Today marks four years that The Dees Diversion has been … Continue reading

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