2010 April Archive | Feministing

What We Missed

Florida Democrats are shutting down the House in an attempt to temporarily block an abortion bill similar to Oklahoma’s most recent legislation that would require women seeking abortion to undergo ultrasounds.
Rumor has it that Dan Choi, one of the leading LGBT activists in the movement to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, is going to shake things up at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University today. His speech is being livestreamed here at 6pm.
How ’bout that: New study says that people who support punitive criminal justice policy also tend to hold racist beliefs.
National Institute for Reproductive Health’s Mary Alice Carr has an op-ed at CNN.com about Oklahoma’s new law ...

By Anna • 13 years ago

Immigration is most definitely a feminist issue

Feministing and others have been covering the news this past week of Arizona officially putting racism on the books. If you haven’t heard, new legislation was passed that allows racial profiling of what authorities consider “illegal immigrants” (aka brown folks). It is not a good time for immigrants and their families right now. (Seems like Saturday’s May Day rallies comes at just the right time – Action Alert after the jump!)
What surprised me the most, however, was people’s response to this. Many commenters on Feministing asked (and have asked before) why immigration is a feminist issue. Feminism is strictly gender, right? Equal pay, glass ceiling, abortion and all that?
Well, no, ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

A Feministing congratulations

I wanted to take a second to properly congratulate (properly as in, on Feministing) my dear sister and fellow co-founder and editor Jessica on some very exciting news: She’s having a baby!
This not only is a ridiculously happy time for me because I’ll get to be an auntie, but really exciting for all of us at Feministing. We know Jessica and Andrew will be amazing parents to what I like to call one bad-ass blogger baby, and we couldn’t be more thrilled for them. The kicker? Of course two political bloggers would have a baby due on election day. No joke.
So a big congrats to Jessica and Andrew on the incredible news! Leave well wishes ...

By Courtney • 13 years ago

The Heroine Meme

My friend Debbie Siegel started a meme (as she says, so 2008) about modern day heroines. In short, she asked us bloggers to ask ourselves:

Who are the women in your life who exemplify the traits of a modern heroine, and why?

So here’s just a few of my answers to get you rolling, either in comments or on your own blogs (links please!). Thanks for the inspiration D:
Elizabeth Lesser, because she has found a way of truly being herself in public–a unique mix of being spiritual without being airy, introverted without being standoffish, and funny without trying too hard.
My mom, because she has created communities everywhere she goes.
Maya Dusenbery, because her ...

My friend Debbie Siegel started a meme (as she says, so 2008) about modern day heroines. In short, she asked us bloggers to ask ourselves:

Who are the women in your life who exemplify the ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Rom Com Review: The Back-up Plan

The Back-up Plan, starring Jennifer Lopez and some dude with killer blue eyes who you’ve never heard of, is about Zoe, a woman in her mid-thirties – I’m assuming, because her age is never specified – who, finding herself without a significant other and determined not to miss her chance to have a baby, decides to be artificially inseminated and raise the child alone. However, mere moments after said insemination takes place, she meets a gorgeous man who runs a goat cheese farm (seriously, cheese? Why didn’t they just make him a chocolatier? Or a purveyor of fine [insert other thing all women supposedly love]?). Stan, the cheese farmer, and Zoe, the former internet start-up employee who now owns a ...

By Vanessa • 13 years ago

Thank You Thursdays: The National Network of Abortion Funds

Strike the Patriarchy 4-EVA
Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) for putting together an amazing Bowl-a-thon for Abortion Access this Monday in NYC. There were tons of incredible teams bowling for reproductive rights and justice and our team, Strike the Patriarchy!, had an awesome time. And thanks to your support, we ended up close to $1,200 for the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAF) and HAVEN coalition. So this is a thanks to you too!
On night of the games, as Courtney predicted, Lori was a secretly amazing bowler with I-don’t-know-how-many strikes (it’s all in the wrist!) and Chloe indeed had ...

By Samhita • 13 years ago

Unmarried black women: “We’re here, we’re fierce, get used to it.”

A guest post from Dani McClain, a writer living in Oakland. She is on the campaigns team at ColorOfChange.org.

Aside from a few online clips, I didn’t watch last week’s ABC Nightline special titled “Why Can’t a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?” But I’ve been following enough of the recent media frenzy around straight, unmarried black women to make an educated guess about the analysis and diagnosis that emerged from the show. The takeaways were likely as follows:

Professional black women aren’t getting married because we’re unlovable, inflexible and have an inflated sense of ourselves and the lives we deserve. Our character flaws are compounded by the fact that black men are too busy chasing white women ...

A guest post from Dani McClain, a writer living in Oakland. She is on the campaigns team at ColorOfChange.org.

Aside from a few online clips, I didn’t watch last week’s ABC Nightline special titled “Why Can’t ...

By Jessica • 13 years ago

What We Missed

From INCITE! Blog: Confronting Citizenship in Sexual Assault
Racialicious on how confronting racism can help self-esteem.
Amanda Hess on ending prison rape.
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