http://feministblogs.org independent alternatives to the malestream media Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I guess attention, action and support are finite in Black community. No groundswell of support for these young Black lesbians. Heaven forbid we support Black lesbians.Free the Newark (Black) Lesbian 4if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits ... http://darkdaughta.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-newark-4ill-leave-this-post-up-for.html Hi,After I sent out the tea party invitations, I started making contact with some blogging wimmin I want to continue engaging with on the regular. The only problem is that my blogger layout page is malfunctioning. I'm going to be communicating with them about doing a fix for this. In ... http://darkdaughta.blogspot.com/2009/03/updating-my-sidebar-linkslinks.html Paul Hindemeth Sonata For Viola and Piano Op. 11 No. 4 Ori Kam, violist [Tatiana Goncherova pianist (?) ] . For my mother, a violist, on mother’s day. posted by Anthony McCarthy http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#8899748432010581450 First up, a few Mothers Day links: An index of the best and worst places in the world to be a mother. Mothers in prison celebrate the holiday. Juarez mothers demand justice for their daughters. The former vice mayor of San Jose discusses her experiences with gender discrimination in politics. Thomas on why food is ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Feministing/~3/288236145/009173.html This is the illustration accompanying the Willamette Week’s endorsement of Obama: The editors are careful to note that Obama “is not divine.” But he does walk on water and is accompanied everywhere by white horses and cascading rose petals. http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/?p=918 Cops are here to protect you from anonymous 13 year old shoplifters by slamming them down to the ground, choking them, punching them, handcuffing them, and torturing them with 50,000-volt electric shocks. Here’s the latest from Niagara Falls, New York: This is what happened to 13-year-old Dominic Gualttieri after ... http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/05/11/cops_are/ Silly Site o' the DayTyping from Mom's today, where we gave her the Mother's Day present of her very own version of Chuzzle which she can play offline. Her system was so antiquated she needed a version of ActiveX that's like three versions less than the current one, which ... http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2008/05/silly-site-o-day-typing-from-moms-today.html "I have personally contracted with Dean’s milk company and we are putting Obama’s picture on a carton of milk."-- Terry McBrayer,Kentucky Superdelegate Referring to Obama's months long absence in the state of Kentucky, McBrayer was speaking at a "raucous reception" for Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Kentucky Democratic Party fundraiser. ... http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-missing-in-kentucky-west-virginia.html I’m reading this article about career tracking young teenagers in the public schools for the third time this morning and can’t tell how I feel about it. My initial feeling is uneasy, it sounds too much like what they did in Britain to reinforce class rankings at the behest ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#3411111700636200244 What did you write about this week? Leave a link and a short description in the comments. And happy Mother’s Day! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.feministe.us%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F11%2Fshameless-self-promotion-sunday-53%2F'; addthis_title = 'Shameless+Self-Promotion+Sunday'; addthis_pub = ''; http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/05/11/shameless-self-promotion-sunday-53/ If you don't get the most votes you will not have to worry about "selling out", you will be out.I'm a gay, socialist, leveler who believes, roughly, in the Quaker idea that each person has a spark of the divine in them and that they have inherent, absolute rights which ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#7333654884651968742 Asking two highschool teachers I know about one of those tertiary level issues I mentioned yesterday, I got a crash course in their reality. Most of the basic assumptions I brought to my questioning were wildly optimistic. Instead of the 185 days I assumed as their opportunity for ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#4256782072411529993 (Via Google News.) Another woman in northern Ohio has come forward about an unnecessary and sexually humiliating strip search by the Stark County sheriff’s office. She is the sixth woman who has come forward about the Stark County sheriff’s office in the past four months. Like four other women, she came ... http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/05/10/rapists_in/ Interesting juxtaposition over at Men For HillaryReferring to yet another race baiting article about Hillary written by a BObot, Mark writes:I will tell you who should be ashamed of himself -- Mr. Herbert, for being willing to ignore the many statements of Senator Obama which were not only similar to ... http://www.greenconsciousness.org/weblog/2008/05/race-cards.html Here are some views from the blogosphere on what is going on in Lebanon: Razan blogs: I just came back from the funeral wake of my neighbor’s son. He was 16 and he and his friend were shot this morning in my street. His family owns a bakery and a cafe in ... http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/crisis-in-lebanon/ Backwater Blues With photos and art from New Orleans, it's good to remember.posted by Anthony McCarthy http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#1965191656332722129 Wil Wheaton has a post on his blog entitled “Hillary Clinton: the psycho ex-girlfriend of the democratic party,” and there’s really nothing more you need than the title to understand what the post is about. I’ve seen altogether too much of this from Obama supporters; not just sexism, but also bitter ... http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/a-quick-annoyed-note-to-my-fellow-obama-supporters-regarding-sexist-jokes-and-other-forms-of-clinton-derision/ Let’s review. Cops in America are heavily armed and trained to be bullies. They routinely force their way into situations where they are hardly needed or wanted; they deliberately escalate confrontations in order to get control of the situation through superior belligerence; they routinely hurt people, use force first and ask ... http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/05/10/cops_are/ Poor things. They're so unsure about their desires, they have to specify that they're singing about "girls" when they write about their love affairs and desires. How sad. How uncertain they come across sounding.if what you're reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, ... http://darkdaughta.blogspot.com/2008/05/compulsory-heterosexualityenforced.html There is nothing idealistic about insisting on ideals that have no chance of becoming reality right now and refusing to compromise. There is no good in ignoring death, disease, hunger, ignorance and pollution while holding out for something purer in some glorious, remote future. The ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#4062694201090949048 I have $1000 to donate to charity. I’d like to split it among 3 or 4 charities. Could people please make suggestions? Obviously, charities that relate to this blog’s themes (anti-racism, feminism, disability rights, cartooning, etc) are of special interest to me, but that’s not a hard and fast rule. http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/1000-to-donate-suggestions-please/ Update: Congressman Cohen has apologized. Scroll down to see the apology.Congressman Steve Cohen, Tennessee's liberal Congressman (we have one), has joined the rest of the good old boys with his snide and deadly sexist comment about the nation's first ever major female presidential candidate.Never mind that millions of women and ... http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/05/hillary-sexism-watch-et-tu-steve-cohen.html There are fifty (50) states and 1 district, Washington D.C. The 50 states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New ... http://www.greenconsciousness.org/weblog/2008/05/how-many-states-are-there-in-us.html This morning I’m listening for a second time to a podcast I’d downloaded weeks ago, and hadn’t gotten around to playing the first time around until just yesterday. This is the broadcast for the habitually brilliant This American Life’s episode #354, “Mistakes Were Made,” which originally aired on April 18th ... http://victoriamarinelli.com/main/2008/05/10/mistakes-were-made/ The first step is to admit that you’re in a rathole.It is generally understood that a politician needs to sell themselves to the voters in order to win an election and, so, be a real instead of a failed politician. And they do sell themselves, they have no ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#5591739041987991585 Judy Norsigian is co-founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and co-author of the ground breaking Our Bodies, Ourselves published in 1970. Since its publication, women's groups around the world have developed cultural adaptations of, or other publications inspired by, Our Bodies, Ourselves. Most recently, women's groups in Albania, ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Feministing/~3/287482806/009172.html The word ‘Haka’ caught my eye. It’s not one that I’m used to reading on American blogs. It was a headline on Reclusive Leftist Hilary vs the Haka. I clicked on the link, although I assumed she didn’t meant what I would mean if I used the word. ... http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/haka/ via HillBuzzMothers Day Hillary Clinton Chelsea Clinton Democratic Primary News Gender Politics West Virginia Kentucky Oregon A Woman President http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/05/chelsea-happy-mothers-day-hillary-video.html Silly Site o' the DayHeading out shortly to a family bar-mitzvah, and then to Mom's for Mother's Day weekend. We're taking the laptop but, in case we can't get a wifi connection there, I may as well give you a Silly Site now. What if the real world ... http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2008/05/silly-site-o-day-heading-out-shortly-to.html The state of affairs on the leftist blogs have led to my having a crisis of faith in their usefulness for the left. The level of sexist and racist language in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, the numbers of people declaring that they will never vote for the ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#2262170049102917757 She keeps going and going and going.... But at this point, does she's sounding like Bush does when he talks about Iraq. She's lost her grasp. Either that, or she's actually fighting a bloody fight for control of the Democratic Party, election be damned. I can't see her continuous attacks on ... http://mediagirl.org/media-girl/sniper-fire-nomination-chances-hillary-clintons-grasp-reality The country, the world needs the Democrats to win the election in November. I’ve been concentrating too much for too long on what we shouldn’t be doing, getting dragged into tertiary level and lower fights that some influential but marginal elites will try to drag us into. Those fights ... http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html#1868501157279257715 Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)Let's see if rotating this photo worked:Datsa has fallen in love again with the closet in the computer room. http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2008/05/friday-cat-blogging-kevin-drum-lets-see.html Silly Site o' the DayAs it's Friday (see above), how about checking out the Cat Diaries? Very charming stuff, via Meg at Cute Overload who needs the hits like I need several holes in my cranium. http://elayneriggs.blogspot.com/2008/05/silly-site-o-day-as-its-friday-see.html This ad is bad enough due to the disturbing, creepy and regressive gendered messages, and lots of people are talking about that. To be clear, I don’t see myself supporting the idea that having men buy things for you is some kind of grand life achievement (one to be ... http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/05/09/a-sundae-never-looked-so-gross/