Femmostroppo Reader, March 5 2012
Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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Sunday Poet: Sarah Jones
Image: not so long ago, Sarah Jones performed at the White House for Women’s History Month after receiving an invitation from First Lady Michelle Obama and here is a picture from that occasion. Sarah Jones is a Tony Award winning playwright and performer and a cultural shape-shifter. Jones is also a UN Goodwill Ambassador, as [...]
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
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I get very confused about being a feminazi sometimes
Do I have too much sex with men or am I a man-hater? (Thanks to Jane for the has-to-be-read-to-be-believed link, and this is cross-posted at blue milk).
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There is a difference between sexualising and sexuality
In short: sexualization is performance; it’s all about being desirable to others. Sexuality is understanding and connecting to your own desire. At the reading, Orenstein shared this passage from Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Let me be clear here: I object– strenuously– to the sexualization of girls but not necessarily to girls having sex. I expect [...]
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Quote OTD: Freedom, Rights and Accountability – the denialism of fools and knaves
It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say something & having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you say.
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Redheads For Orangutans – Jungle VIP Auction
A bunch of ginger celebrities have donated stuff for the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) to auction on E Bay from March 1st to 11th.
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Quicklinks: #socialmedia #erosion #storm #bust – oops here comes Jack Bauer
Seriously, I’ve been headdesking this one for a few hours now: the DHS monitors blogs, twitter and facebook for usage of the words “social media”?
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Femmostroppo Reader, Feb 29 2012
Forgive me readers, it has been >2wks since my last FR! Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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IWD Event: Dame Carol Kidu to give the 2012 Pamela Denoon lecture
For Hoydens within travelling distance of Canberra, this year’s Pamela Denoon lecture will be given on International Women’s Day (Thursday 8 March), at the ANU, on on “Sex, Women and the 21st Century in Papua New Guinea”.
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Being an Asexual Ally
Being an ally means talking to people about asexuality and accepting their identity as they describe it. It means asking questions only when you’re genuinely interested in hearing the answer. If your mindset is already fixed at “I don’t quite understand x, therefore asexuality cannot be valid,” then do everyone a favour and just walk away.
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