Cross-posted at The Radical Housewife. Hi there!  My name is Shannon, and I am a feminist housewife. This is me in my kitchen.  Behind my arm is –NO JOKE–a loaf of homemade gluten-free bread.  I am a housewife, and a damn good one! Do you like my apron?  it’s from the  HOTDISH Militia , a group that fundraises for [...]

Cross-posted at The Radical Housewife. Hi there!  My name is Shannon, and I am a feminist housewife.   This is me in my kitchen.  Behind my arm is –NO JOKE–a loaf of homemade gluten-free bread.  I am a housewife, and a damn good one! Do you like my apron?  it’s from the  HOTDISH Militia , a group that fundraises [...]

Originally posted at Minnesota Feminists Speak Out! the blog of Minnesota NOW. ***Trigger warning for sexual assault, victim blaming*** Barbara Kruger  created this famous poster for a women’s rights march on Washington in 1989.  That the message remains chillingly relevant is a testament both to Kruger’s talent and to the continuous, relentless attacks on women’s bodily autonomy….and just when you [...]

Originally published on The Radical Housewife.   So Hilary Rosen Ann Romney  blah blah blah .  You didn’t get comment from me on the matter because  last week was the buildup to the 2012 Minnesota NOW conference, which involved a great deal of work…..for which I was not paid. At the conference I was approached by a political campaign [...]

Originally posted on The Radical Housewife . You want a trigger warning?  You got one. Surf away if you don’t want to read the word “rape,” think about  the act  rape, or get a taste of my wrath directed at pearl-clutchers of convenience who gleefully report about rape all day long in the name of news, but are shocked, SHOCKED [...]

Originally posted on The Radical Housewife. One year ago, Skirt! magazine published an essay of mine entitled  “Love in the Time of Contraception.”   In the piece, I laid bare (pun intended) many sordid details from my love life to make the point that there is no sexual blunder more embarrassing than ignorance….and that includes having to ask your boyfriend [...]

Originally posted at The Radical Housewife. In 1963, Betty Friedan dropped a bomb on American culture called  The Feminine Mystique, a book that diagnosed untold millions of women with “the problem that has no name.”  The book kicked off the Second Wave of feminism, but if you’re a regular reader here you already know that. What I want to [...]