By Courtney • 14 years ago

Happy Birthday Miriam!

The baby among us is turning the big 2-5 today. I thought I’d record a little rap in honor of the occasion. At the retreat this week, Miriam was anointed with the name “THE business” because of her amazing financial and organizational prowess (she’s been leading us all out of the unorganized darkness with her love of lists, transparency, calculations, and knowledge). So here you go Miriam, for better or worse:

The full (yes, I admit it, amazing) lyrics after the jump. Beat is by RJD2.

The baby among us is turning the big 2-5 today. I thought I’d record a little rap in honor of the occasion. At the retreat this week, Miriam was anointed with the name “THE business” because of ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

Ethnicity and Gender in the Coverage of Sotomayor

Embedded video from CNN Video
It’s been interesting to catch up to the Sotomayor coverage this morning. I really like this clip from CNN, which features Erica Gonzalez, the opinion page editor for El Diario/la Prensa, the third largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country. She actually manages to position Sotomayor’s accomplishments in the history of Hispanic people contributing to this country in diverse ways. (It’s incredibly difficult to say such complex, historicized statements on our soundbite news shows.) It also has “man on the street” interviews with folks talking about how her roots are inspiring, and of course the requisite America Dream talk from the pundits.
My personal feeling is that the American Dream stuff always ...

Embedded video from CNN Video
It’s been interesting to catch up to the Sotomayor coverage this morning. I really like this clip from CNN, which features Erica Gonzalez, the opinion page editor for El ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

Thank You Thursday: Omega Institute

We’re all back to our busy lives after a great few days of retreating up at the Omega Institute’s Service Week (an opportunity for nonprofits and community organizations to get away and have much-needed respite and retreat). A more comprehensive update will come soon, but we just wanted to express our gratitude to Omega for the chance to pause and catch up to ourselves (we all work so hard to keep content fresh and frequent that we rarely get a moment to really think big picture and long term).
We saw bunnies and what we initially thought were beavers, and then decided were hedgehogs, but I now think must have been woodchucks (pictured here…can you tell there aren’t too many ...

We’re all back to our busy lives after a great few days of retreating up at the Omega Institute’s Service Week (an opportunity for nonprofits and community organizations to get away and have much-needed respite and retreat). ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

Help Us with Raffle Items for the Party!

We’re having a big pow-wow about our five year anniversary fund raising blow out. It’s so exciting–great DJs, amazing live bands, and gift bags for the first 50 people who show up and–we’re hoping–really cool raffle prizes. First and foremost, don’t forget to buy your ticket asap and tell all of your friends. The ticket price will go up day of.
We are looking for people who own businesses, provide services etc. that would like to raise their profile among our readers by donating items/services for the raffle. Do you:

manage a clothing store or design your own clothing label? run a yoga studio? have a friend or family member who works somewhere that might want to donate awesome gadgets, gift ...

We’re having a big pow-wow about our five year anniversary fund raising blow out. It’s so exciting–great DJs, amazing live bands, and gift bags for the first 50 people who show up and–we’re hoping–really cool raffle prizes. ...
By Jessica • 14 years ago

Another poll!

Thanks to everyone for being patient while we’re away retreat-ing and figuring out how to make Feministing better! If you wouldn’t mind sharing a little bit of info, it would help us a lot…

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By Miriam • 14 years ago

Breaking News: California Supreme Court upholds Prop 8 decision

Via Bilerico.
This is a really huge blow to the fight in California for same sex marriage. One positive note, according to Bilerico, the marriages that already took place will be upheld.
Bilerico has a great round-up of responses here, but here’s one snippet response from the LA Gay and Lesbian Center.

Today, our Supreme Court sent a mixed and troubling message. While upholding the legal marriages of the 18,000 same-sex couples who married in California, the ruling establishes that all Californians are NOT entitled to equal protection of the law. This is a sad day for our state and a setback for the cause of freedom and fairness.
But it’s also important to keep this in perspective. Every noble ...

Via Bilerico.
This is a really huge blow to the fight in California for same sex marriage. One positive note, according to Bilerico, the marriages that already took place will be upheld.
Bilerico has a great ...
By Ann • 14 years ago

Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court


Today Obama announced his pick to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor. Conservatives are already calling her a “judicial activist.”

Conservatives argue Sotomayor has a “hard-left record” and believes that judges should consider experiences of women and minorities in their decision-making.

Sounds pretty awesome to me. Although the road to confirmation is likely to be rocky, I hope Sotomayor is indeed confirmed. I was also heartened to see that all of the names on Obama’s short-list were women. Yes, Sotomayor’s record and experience should be first and foremost when we discuss her as a possible justice, but her identity is not insignificant. I’m looking forward to returning to an era of two women on the court ...


Today Obama announced his pick to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor. Conservatives are already calling her a “judicial activist.”

Conservatives argue Sotomayor has a “hard-left record” and believes that judges should ...

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