So as some of you may have noticed, I've been slightly MIA from the blog lately in terms of longer, and more frequent posts. That's because I've been in the last weeks of writing a new book (!) and have been too busy pulling my hair out and wearing out my keyboard to give Feministing all the love and care it deserves.
I'll be back in the swing of things in about a week, when the book goes to the copy editor. (Upon which I'll have a big ole drink and sit down and blog and blog and blog until you're sick of me!)
In the meantime, here's what I've been reading and thinking about - I'll let you do the snarky/smart commentary for me in comments...
A woman in NYC uses street art to speak out about rape.
Gloria Steinem and Suheir Hammad have a conversation in NY Magazine.
Anti-trans students at Manchester University panic over one set of unisex toilets.
Pandagon has an ad about Palin and hunting wolves that made me cry. And I'm scared of wolves!
Cara, on Feministe and The Curvature bring us South Dakota Live Action Camp.
There's a controversy brewing on a super popular group wedding blog, Weddingbee, because the proprietor sold the site to eHarmony - the dating site with ties to Focus on the Family and a discriminatory policy which refuses to match same sex couples. Several of the site's queer bloggers have quit in protest.
On a lighter note, Sarah Haskins is on Twitter!
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Pleh... if that dual-gender bathroom was called a "family bathroom", you can bet no one would be whining about it. Those complaining would want more of them.
Ha, I just tabbed over to Feministing after reading the exhaustive comments over at Weddingbee (and adding my own two cents).
I've been reading Weddingbee since January, when I got engaged, and found it to be a great community that was firmly in between the heteronormative and cookie cutter style wedding websites like the Knot and the more-creative-than-thou attitudes on some of the non-traditional bridal boards. Of course in many ways it reaffirms portions of the wedding industrial complex, and there's one blogger on there who has serious body image issues that make me cringe every time she posts a picture of herself, but I loved the diversity of the women who blogged on the site, and as someone who's doing lots of craft projects for her own wedding I got lots of inspiration with none of the attitude of other sites. However, selling the site to eHarmony is not something I can support so like a few of the bloggers and many readers, I'm leaving the site myself in favor of reading individual wedding blogs again.
What I do appreciate about the posts about the sale is for the most part everyone is being very polite in sharing their views. There's some heat showing up in there (and really, how do you stay completely neutral and calm when discussing deeply held beliefs?), but no trolling/flaming, and for that I'm thankful.
To be fair, relabeling the bathrooms "toilets" and toilets with urinals" while maintaining the GIANT boy/girl logos is a *terrible* idea. It's at the very least an inelegant solution... They couldv'e just removed the gendered logos and labeled them "bathroom".
In times like these, it's the lighter side we need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFo1bte4nc
Fundamentals, they're hard to keep track of.
Like houses.
dk
I wish they had given the email address of the NY street artist; I would love to be able to tell her how amazing I think she is.
Why are you afraid of wolves?
One of the main standards I use when judging character is the compassion and respect a person shows animals who are voiceless and powerless. Palin fails my test. I always fail to understand how people who claim to be Christian can exploit and show so little respect to what they believe are God's creations.