Maya’s taking a well deserved vacation, so we’re turning to you to crowd source your favorite feminist blogging from the past 7 days. What have been reading/writing this week?
Meanwhile, I hope you’re getting those entries ready for our contributor contest, So You Think You Can Blog!
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Closetpuritan guest authored at my blog — Hating Gym: Guest Blogging Edition — “Gym class for me neither encouraged me to be active during the class itself, nor outside of class. I am fairly active as an adult in spite of, not because of, my gym class experience.”
Can’t Have Everything — On realizing that some of the online spaces I frequent, in an attempt to be more open, have stopped being safe spaces for me.
Things That Are Awesome About Southern Arizona — Because I get tired of hearing only negative things about Arizona.
I’ve been reading the blood of mystery and thinking grim, cold thoughts. Still, it’s nice that we have a system of succession that involves peaceful transfer of power from own administration to another rather than military coups.
In addition to my usual blogging this week, I started a new project on Tumblr called: Sexism! As Seen on Facebook (www.facebooksexism.tumblr.com). If you want to learn more about it, you can here: http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/08/announcing-sexism-as-seen-on-facebook.html
Please follow it on Tumblr, submit, and share! I also wrote about:
The wrong idea of equality…
http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/08/the-wrong-idea-of-equality.html
Breaking Bad, power, and abuse…
http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/08/breaking-bad-power-and-abuse.html
and how we teach kids fatphobia…
http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2012/08/teaching-kids-fat-phobia.html
*Trigger Warning* When asked if he would support abortion in the case of rape, anti-choice Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin says women who are “legitimately raped” rarely get pregnant.
What’s more shocking – conservative women who