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Genderfork: Beauty in Ambiguity

Genderfork is one of my new favorite online discoveries. It’s a collection of photos, quotes, videos and other snippets from folks talking about gender and ambiguity. Their about us reads:

Genderfork is a supportive community for the expression of identities across the gender spectrum. Our primary space, Genderfork.com, is a blog that offers images, thoughts, identities, and conversations from gender variant people and their extended communities.

The photo series above is one of many cool things submitted by users to the site every day. I love scrolling through the feed, getting glimpses of gender-bending folks. More about how the site works is here, but it’s been going for three years now and has ...

Trying New Things via Genderfork

Genderfork is one of my new favorite online discoveries. It’s a collection of photos, quotes, videos and other snippets from folks talking about gender and ambiguity. Their about us ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Five: Twanna A. Hines

Twanna A. Hines is a feminist sex, dating and relationships writer living in New York City. She started out as a sociologist, and soon found that her interest in human interaction took a rather intimate turn. When she moved to New York in 2005, she started Funky Brown Chick, where she blogs about sex, love and life here in the city. Think of her as Carrie Bradshaw, minus the shoe addiction, plus some heavy duty feminism.

Twanna, who has lived all over the world, from Illinois to Amsterdam, says that for her, the most important part of blogging about sex is “to be able to talk freely about sexuality and give other people the space to do that.” As someone ...

By Jessica • 13 years ago

Why we need to hold racist law student Stephanie Grace accountable

If you don’t know Stephanie Grace’s name already, you will soon. The third-year Harvard law student is making waves in the blogosphere after a racist email she sent went viral. Grace apparently made some racist comments at a group dinner and later sent an email to, ahem, clarify her position. It’s not good. (You can find the full email here)

I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. I could also obviously be convinced that by controlling for the right variables, we would see that they are, in fact, as intelligent as white people under the same circumstances. The fact is, some things ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Five: Lolita Buckner Inniss

Lolita Buckner Inniss is a Professor at Cleveland State University Law School, where she teaches classes on law in film and literature and on intersectionality and the law. Buckner Inniss was born and raised in Los Angeles and studied at Princeton, UCLA and York University. She has taught all over the country and specializes in the study of comparative racism. She is a mother of three and lives in Cleveland.
That’s a pretty impressive as is. But Buckner also blogs at Ain’t I A Feminist Legal Scholar Too?, where she writes about everything from Black Disney Princesses to what it means when white people use the phrase “baby mama.” On this latter subject, she writes:

We ...

By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Quick Hit: Commenting about race

Anna over at Jezebel has a fantastic post about how to participate in comment discussions about race. She offers ten tips, and I think they’re spot on.

1. Remember that it’s not about you personally. Discussions of race often revolve around systems that have developed throughout history – not what one individual has chosen to do or experienced. A post on, say, black Barbies and the fact that certain populations have not seen/are not seeing their realities represented in popular culture is not the place to complain or point out that you were sad as a child because there were no red-headed Barbies. Wait for a post on red-headed Barbies.

The whole post is a must read. Check it out here.

Anna over at Jezebel has a fantastic post about how to participate in comment discussions about race. She offers ten tips, and I think they’re spot on.

1. Remember that it’s not about you personally. Discussions of race ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Lena Chen

Lena Chen is a freelance writer and blogger who is in her final months of college at Harvard, where she is majoring in Sociology and minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies. In 2006, Chen started the blog Sex and the Ivy, where she blogged about sex and relationships. In 2007, when she was 20 years old, photos of Chen naked that had been taken privately were leaked online and were soon making the rounds in the blogosphere, in an attack that some have called a form of sexual harassment or assault. In the years since, Chen has stepped back from blogging extensively about her own sex life, but continues to blog about sex, feminism, gender ...

Lena Chen is a freelance writer and blogger who is in her final months of college at Harvard, where she is majoring in Sociology and minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies. In 2006, Chen ...

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

Blog Watch: Abortion Gang

This is awesome. A group of kick-ass folks in the reproductive justice movement have created a new blog, Abortion Gang, and I think it looks incredible. More info:

We are unapologetic activists for reproductive justice.
We are Jewish, Christian, atheist, Muslim, Wiccan, secular. We are mixed race, African-American, Latina, White, bi-racial. We are completing a graduate degree, we didn’t finish high school. We have had abortions, children, miscarriages. We have IUDs and we use rhythm beads. We work in reproductive health and we twitter about being #prochoice. We call ourselves feminists, womanists, womyn, wimmin, grrls, women. We are cis gender, we are trans women, we’re gender queer. We have sex with anything that moves, we are abstinent, we are ...

This is awesome. A group of kick-ass folks in the reproductive justice movement have created a new blog, Abortion Gang, and I think it looks incredible. More info:

We are unapologetic activists for reproductive justice.
We ...

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Sinclair Sexsmith

Sinclair Sexmith is a sex blogger who writes the Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top. She’s been blogging about sex and gender for several years now, and at Sugarbutch she blogs about everything from getting past old heartbreaks to sex with her current girlfriend to her own evolving masculine identity. When I asked her about how she manages writing for a public audience about such private things, she said, “the sex is actually easier to write about than the emotional complications.” When I asked if she adheres to any ground rules for she discloses about her sex life, she said “there are no hard and fast rules,” at which ...