Best Practice, Feminist Practice

This is a cross-post of a guest post for Ashley at Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks
The theme of this series, Teaching Feminism, is near and dear to my heart. I recently graduated with my master’s in English, and I spent much of last and this year researching feminist pedagogy to write my master’s thesis. In [...]

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Building Online Feminist Communities: How-To and What-Not-To

A few days ago, I decided to disable the forum I started last year (actually exactly one year ago this weekend — interesting timing) when the I Blame the Patriarchy forum disintegrated. It will be gone by the beginning of August.
Something Radfem Here was full of great stuff — incisive commentary, useful links, strong community. [...]

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Dr. Tiller’s Murder is an Act of Terrorism

As  Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation, asks us to do, I am proclaiming the murder of Dr. Tiller — a doctor who worked tirelessly to continue providing women reproductive choices despite numerous attempts on his life and work — a despicable act of domestic terrorism.  And as Bonnie Erbe explains, anti-choice [...]

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Tough Love’s Steve Ward on Victim Blaming

I watch VH1 sometimes, I admit it.  And this season, since my favorite contender got kicked off of Rock of Love Bus, I began watching Tough Love: 
Handsome, cocky and smart, Steven Ward is America’s maestro of love. His brutally honest approach to matchmaking is what has made him and his mother Joann Ward one of [...]

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Kyle Payne is back — and as big of a douche as ever

Ugh, he’s so sleazy.
Background: here, here, and here.
I’ll echo the many others who’ve already said it: Kyle Payne is a sexual predator (whether or not there’s a “pattern of abuse”), and he is not welcome in my feminist blogosphere (whether or not he is interested in being called a pro-/feminist blogger).  
And, for the record? [...]

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