Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Feministing Five: Rachel Griffin and Josh Phillips
Tweet Josh Phillips and Rachel Griffin make one heck of a team. The pair met at Central Michigan University, where they were both members of Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates, CMU’s sexual assault education and prevention group. Today, they’re taking the mission of that group off campus and all over the country. Dr. Griffin is an [...]
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What We Missed.
TweetA review of Still Here, a book of photography of Katrina 4 years later. Obama’s abstinence FAIL from Amplify. Women activists in Iran are not buying Ahmadinejad’s nomination of the first female Cabinet ministers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Tami’s must-read take on the NYT article about black women and hair. What if black women [...]
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Friday Feminist Flashback: Ladies First
TweetQueen Latifah – New Music – More Music Videos Who said there is no feminism in hiphop? Via Ta-Nehisi Coates. Tweet
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News media sucks at reporting on violent attacks on transgender individuals in Washington, D.C.
TweetIt has been a frightening week to be trans in Washington, D.C. Miriam linked previously to RMJ’s excellent critique of Metro Weekly’s coverage of an attack on a transgender woman by a gay man. I was particularly struck by Ray Young’s approach to solidarity between gay and trans folks. His statement that, “I let her [...]
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Ask Professor Foxy: Am I Betraying My Gender Identity By Enjoying Sex? And What About SRS?