August 2010
40 posts
Doubts, Change, and the Cherry on Top →
One year ago today (well, yesterday by the time this hits the internets), Tim proposed to me.
Do you know what he said to me with that ring in his hand, on his knee? He said: “Will…
Guest Post: The Dating Adventures of an... →
You might remember Not Guilty from her previous post about online dating as a feminist. She had designed an experiment in which she decided to sign up for an online dating site and…
Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed... →
rosietint:
Sales of the third edition of the vast tome have fallen due to the increasing popularity of online alternatives, according to its publisher.
A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition of the OED – known as OED3 – for the past 21 years.
The dictionary’s owner, Oxford University Press (OUP), said the impact of the internet means OED3 will probably...
Guest Post: A Porch Swings Between Two Cultures →
Over the past few weeks, Safa – the author of the following guest post – and I have written back and forth quite a bit and have found that we are quite kindred spirits. Her wedding is…
For my friends in LP
Me: I used to work at LP high school.
Student in the back of the room: *groans*
Me: What was that about?
Student: My whole family went to LP. I'm the first one to break the cycle.
Me: Oh yea? Do they bleed red and green?
Student: *groans even louder*
Guest Post: Dear Dad: Thank you for making me a... →
Today’s guest post literally moved me to tears. I was sitting, waiting for the train after the last Chicago Feminist Tweetup when I first read it, and it was so powerful and honest, I…
BlogHer Voice of the Week! →
I’ve been so busy with school starting and last-minute wedding details (only 46 more days!!!) that I haven’t been able to even think about blogging or responding to the many…
Do Me A Favor →
Thank a teacher today. As teachers are busy setting up classrooms and welcoming students into their room, making safe spaces for ideas and conversation and learning, teacher bashing…
How to create a Google Calendar with Assignment... →
As promised, educators! Here is my video tutorial. Enjoy!
Guest Post: On being an artist and a feminist →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships, but is also about the author’s relationship with feminism! It’s a feminist guest post double-whammy, if you will!…
For my students... →
This made ms cry a little this morning. So good.
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops,...”
– Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
(thanks, viv) (via frothyparadise)
Educators: I am in the process of creating a Google calendar with lessons and assignments (as attachments) so my students can go online, see what they missed, download the assignment, and turn it in.
Would you all be interested in a tutorial on this if I put one together? (It would be a video tutorial)
Guest Post: How important is feminism to... →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
Guest Post: Absence makes the heart grow…more... →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
How does one get sponsors for one’s blog? Do you have to seek them out? Or do they come to you? Anyone have some rules/etiquette on this?
Why Feminism and Relationships? →
Some people here and there have been arguing recently that there are more important things that we feminists could be writing about than issues pertaining to relationships. People are…
Newcomer lands starring role in U.S. remake of... →
rosietint:
That newcomer would be Rooney Mara. Interesting, even though I don’t think the movie(s) need to be remade at all.
This is What a Feminist Couple Looks Like →
Speaking of feminism and relationships…
This is what a feminist couple looks like!
Complete with his and hers wedding-style aprons, courtesy of Tim’s sister, Elly, also…
Today, I went in to school for the first time since I left for summer break. I usually go in a lot earlier in the summer (school starts Monday) but this summer has just gotten away from me.
So Tim helped me move everything in, I unpacked everything, and we moved my desk and computer and the students’ desks. I was all inspired to come home and start planning stuff for the first days of...
Guest Post: The 1960s radical separatist feminist... →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
Make our schools safe for all →
hellolmc:
projectqueer:
For some young people, going to school is tantamount to a daily dose of torture. In too many cases, harassment, taunting and abuse are allowed to go on unabated in our nation’s schools.
We have repeatedly seen the tragic consequences of this pervasive problem: young people are left emotionally damaged, physically hurt, or feel they have no other option than to take...
Guest Post: Girl Power →
Today’s guest post is more about the author’s relationship with feminism, rather than feminism and relationships. Did you know I accepted posts about personal experiences with…
Guest Post: Waiting for the Engagement →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
Ask away! I'm done writing for the day! →
#chifems tweetup 3! TOMORROW! →
Minor Meltdowns →
Hey there, readers! Sorry I haven’t posted for a few days. I’ve actually been dealing with a lot of wedding stuff that I’m just trying to get done before school starts on Monday, and…
“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”
– Jack Kerouac (via napoleoncomplex) (via uneviolenteenvie) (via iwantmybearsuit) (via cosmicbrownie) (via fuckyeahthebeatgeneration)
A Reflection On My Choices →
OK, so I just said I was extremely privileged in my relationship/marriage/wedding-planning. Why, then, did I decide to get married, since I do feel very strongly about marriage…
“You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD...”
– Tom Waits (via nedison) (via alliterated) (via unfetteredandunbound)
Nomming CDs.
(via loliesmith)
(via moreapologies) (via rosietint)
Crisis of Commitment →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
The 5 Year Itch →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
Prop 8 Coverage on LGBTQ Blogs
rosietint:
ryking:
AMERICAblog celebrates the news and requests your signature on a petition asking the President to support marriage equality.
Pam’s House Blend has PDF copies of the decision as well as reactions from the Human Rights Campaign.
Marc Solomon at the Bilerico Project wants you to “pick out a line or two from today’s opinion that inspires you, and share it along with why...
Privilege and Weddings and Marriage →
I am privileged. Extremely privileged. And there seems no better way than planning a wedding to remind me of this. All. The. Time.
I am a heterosexual, cis female so I can actually…
The Dating Adventures of a Unapologetic Feminist →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
Why I Don’t Hold Hands In Public →
This is a guest post in a series on feminism and relationships. If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, see the guidelines here and submit your post to …
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2010/07/segregated-... →
via Womanist Musings: “Since education funding is based in property taxes, students that are receiving public education in poor areas are attending schools that are often ill equipped to give them the skills to succeed on a global stage. Even if they beat the odds and manage to graduate and get accepted into a college or university, many of them find that they were not taught the skills...
Seriously. This again? →
Could people please stop telling other people that “Just because someone says they’re a feminist doesn’t mean they are one! Look at Sarah Palin!” or “People who say they’re feminists…
