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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“Single-Sex Education”: I do not think this phrase means what you think it means

Remember how, a year ago, I wrote this big long rant about teachers in my state using “single-sex” or “sex-segregated” education when they really meant “gender-based” education?  If so, great, I’m back on it.  If not, here’s that post.
Basically, my main contention was that single-sex education and gender-based education are NOT THE SAME THING.  Just because [...]

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Concert Condescension

So I went to see a Foo Fighters concert last night.  Yes, I admit to being a giant fucking Foos fan.  I realize it’s not the coolest thing in the world to be a Foos fan, but I fell in love with The Colour and the Shape (yes, I also see the superfluousness of the extra [...]

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I don’t exist, according to the P

I’m pissed off.
I’m fucking furious.
For the last week or so, leaving the house has led me to learn that I apparently don’t exist.
I went to the liquor store with my partner on Sunday (because our state recently got rid of the blue law prohibiting alcohol sales on Sunday) to pick up a couple bottles of [...]

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On apologizing and politeness

One of the underlying themes of this blog and of my personal philosophy of feminism can be summed up with “fuck politeness.” (I have a blogger friend who uses this as her screen and blog name — I believe this arose from our shared hatred of Sam DeBrito. She’s an excellent writer — [...]

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