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Do you know a fierce queer?

Nominate a Fierce Queer by Monday, October 18, 2010.

October 25 – 29, 2010 is LGBTQ Youth Awareness Week and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition is collecting nominations of young LGBTQ people from across the country who are creating and being the change they wish to see in the world!

In light of the recent media stories about LGBTQ youth suicides and bullying, NYAC wants to show all the rays of hope for our movement that come in the form of LGBTQ youth – Fierce Queers.

A Fierce Queer is a young lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, transgender, genderqueer, gender variant, AG, asexual, and/or two-spirit person who is or has been working to make their own ...

Nominate a Fierce Queer by Monday, October 18, 2010.

October 25 – 29, 2010 is LGBTQ Youth Awareness Week and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition is collecting nominations of young LGBTQ people from across the country ...

By Rose • 13 years ago

A few notes on Samhita’s bad-ass Social Forum panel

The Social Forum is soon coming to an end, but I can’t leave without posting something about Samhita’s panel on “Using New Media to Win Racial and Gender Justice.” Also on the panel was Jorge Rivas from Colorlines, a fab tech-spert and all-round charming guy who advocates for racial justice. Together, they schooled a crowd of over 60 on the nitty gritty of leveraging social media to advance their causes. And anyone who has ever attended the forum knows that this is a huge turnout when you consider the large number of panels that are going on in each time slot. But it’s also a great turnout when one considers all the drama that went on that morning.

Odds were ...

By Rose • 13 years ago

Dad Camp: A New Era of Male Accountability

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A new reality show on dadhood is sure to spark some conversation this Father’s Day. Although America is only 3 episodes into the new TV series “Dad Camp,” I can’t help but feel somewhat smitten. I think it is the beginning of a meaningful era of male accountability in reality TV and it is an important twist on the cadre of pregnancy shows that have multiplied over the past few years. While there are some potential drawbacks, the main clincher of the show is that it promotes responsible fatherhood while simultaneously empowering mothers.
In case you haven’t heard of it, here is the breakdown: 6 pregnant women and their ain’t-shit baby fathers head ...

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A new reality show on dadhood is sure to spark some conversation this Father’s Day. Although America is only 3 episodes into the new TV series “Dad Camp,” I can’t ...

By Courtney • 13 years ago

Guest Post: What It Means to be Seventeen

by Krystie Yandoli, not 17 but way closer to it than anyone else in the Feministing crew
Jamie Keiles is the much talked about 18-year-old high school senior who started the Seventeen Magazine Project. She started blogging as a means of documenting her attempt at spending one month “living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine.”
Jamie claims that she doesn’t frequent the teen magazine genre, but prom season prompted her to glance over a few glossies. That’s what sparked her initial project idea, “I was surprised by, bluntly, how stupid most of these magazines were. I wondered if anybody my age actually followed these tips, and what happened if someone actually did follow all of these tips.” ...

By Courtney • 13 years ago

Police brutality in Seattle

A Seattle-area police officer was caught on camera in an altercation with two teen girls. Apparently the offense was jay walking. Warning: the video is disturbing.

It makes me sick.
It makes me sick that we live in a world where police officers apparently aren’t trained, and/or aren’t selected with enough rigor, to know how to handle something as routine and nonviolent as a jay walking incident without ending up in a shit show like this. Police officers are paid with our tax money to, in a better world, both protect and empower us to feel safe in our own public spaces. This is the opposite of that in all ways. How the hell did things escalate like this? Why didn’t ...

A Seattle-area police officer was caught on camera in an altercation with two teen girls. Apparently the offense was jay walking. Warning: the video is disturbing.

It makes me sick.
It makes me sick that we live in ...

By Samhita • 13 years ago

Feminism and Masturbation

Andrea Plaid has a piece up at Bitch on feminism and masturbation with a series of quotes from feminists (including myself) about what feminists aren’t talking about when it comes to feminism.

Twanna Hines–
I fucking love masturbation. Solo sex is absolutely a political issue because taking control of your own pleasure is liberating. Too often, when we talk about restricting women’s pleasure, the topic turns to female genital cutting in other countries. However, our homegrown variety of no-whacking, abstinence-only education can be equally repressive. I want more of us– women and men–to dialogue about access to healthy information about all forms of sex.
Tami Winfrey Harris–
From a black woman’s perspective, I’m not sure ...

Andrea Plaid has a piece up at Bitch on feminism and masturbation with a series of quotes from feminists (including myself) about what feminists aren’t talking about when it comes to feminism.

Twanna ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Calling for a shift in discourse on young motherhood

Veronica Bayetti Flores from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health has a great article about young motherhood in the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Newsletter.
An excerpt:

…The current discourse surrounding young motherhood is both stigmatizing and insensitive, and presents young motherhood as a problem in itself as opposed to the real problems that often surround it, such as poverty and lack of access. Though many young women who become young mothers do not plan their pregnancies, many other young mothers do plan their pregnancies, and these decisions must be both respected and supported. Women of all ages become mothers for many reasons, and it is not the business of the state or anyone else to attempt to ...

Veronica Bayetti Flores from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health has a great article about young motherhood in the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Newsletter.
An excerpt:

…The current discourse surrounding young motherhood is both ...

By Jos Truitt • 13 years ago

There is no justice for Aiyana

This is a guest post by Adrienne Maree Brown. It was originally published at The Luscious Satyagraha.
There is a protest at 1pm today at Wayne State Law School to demand Eric Holder launch a federal probe into this situation.
there is no justice. not for aiyana stanley jones.
there is punishment, and perhaps accountability. someone to point towards, many people, a trail of blame, stories, mistakes and tears.
but there is no justice.
i’m just home from a vigil for aiyana. i don’t like to go to these things because they make me feel too raw and hopeless. my partner, however, knew that we had to go and make sure aiyana’s story was told. so here it is: ...