Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi of PatriarchalDISORDER You are growing up in a house with no mirrors. That’s right, no mirrors. But wait a sec, it’s not just your house! As you venture out into the world, you discover there are no mirrors anywhere. You can’t see what you look like and must rely [...]
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Is Having a Baby Bad for Your Health?
Most American women might presume that the dangers of maternal mortality are a concern and problem only in developing nations. They’re wrong. A March 2010 report put out by Amnesty International entitled, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA, highlights eye-opening findings. The data is based on research carried out during 2008 [...]
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
A number of years ago, I had a part-time gig at an elementary school where I taught afterschool classes in art and film classics. One warm June day, it was decided that the kids could spend thirty minutes in the playground. As I watched a scene that was a combination of raw energy and mayhem, [...]
Responding to Military Sexual Trauma – Still A Long Way to Go
Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman. This article is dated May 30, 2010. May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day. The issue is starting to get more traction in terms of visibility, Congressional hearings, and acknowledgement from agencies that span a full range of alphabet soup. On Thursday, May 20th, a morning hearing [...]
Sharing the Joy of Resistance Through Radio
by Fran Luck; posted with permission from On The Issues Magazine. Political feminism barely exists in corporate mainstream media. Shows like “Oprah” and “Tyra” – boasting female audiences in the tens of millions – owe their existence to space opened up by the feminist movement, but rarely, if ever, acknowledge that such a movement has [...]
A Feminist’s U-Turn: A Torrid Tale of Disappointment and Discovery
by Megan Carpentier; posted with permission from On The Issues Magazine. When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, I’m not sure they really knew what they were going to get. They probably pictured me playing baseball (I turned to ballet) and taking calculus (I chose [...]
NY Times Journalist and Author Judith Warner to Talk About Kids “With Issues” on Fem.0 Radio
Mark your calendars for the latest Fem2.0 radio show with Judith Warner on May 18. Hosted by Lindsay Reed Maines of Rock and Roll Mama, we’ll be discussing parenting, medicating your children and Warner’s latest book. We’ve Got Issues: A Conversation with NY Times Journalist and Author Judith Warner Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 1:00 PM [...]
A week of important news for women
The future of feminism needs to be acknowledged — Chloe at Feministing writes in "Young women are the future of feminism:" Closely connected to the feeling that young women aren’t grateful, it seems, is the feeling that young women today are so entitled. They’re ambitious and they speak their minds and sometimes it feels like [...]
A Week of Important News for Women
What women discuss during the “Women’s History Month:" The democracy of leadership in the feminist organizations is an issue? Veronica Arreola writes in Viva la Feminista: Today’s Women’s History Tidbit: 1932: Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic* A few weeks ago I was honored to share time and space with [...]
My Mother Was No Saint
Cross-posted with permission from patriarchal disorder and dated from March 16. It’s St. Patty’s Day tomorrow, my mother’s birthday, and I’m feeling it. Today, while paying bills, which my mother carried out so much more efficiently than I ever have, I used my solar calculator to figure out that, if she were alive today, she [...]