Guilt-tripping and the Art of Critique

I know: Just a couple days ago I said I couldn’t be bothered to blog. Well, that has changed, because I remembered something that bothers me  and that prevents a lot of people from listening to and considering feminist perspectives.
Let me illustrate this something with an anecdote.
Earlier this year, I went to see [...]

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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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Must-Read Link Round-Up

So, I finished my thesis, and I passed.  I am, for all intents and purposes, done with my masters program.  I still have presentations to design and lessons to plan and papers to grade, and I’m more than a little burned out from everything at the moment.  So, instead of a proper post, I will [...]

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Fall Semester

It’s been a long, long time since I last really blogged.  I apologize to my regular readers for my absence lately, but I want to thank everyone for sending their kind thoughts after my aunt passed away.  Needless to say, it’s been an interesting semester, both academically and personally, especially as my personal feminism is [...]

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“Feminist” dude tapes self sexually assaulting a female college student in his care

Kyle Payne, author of the blog The Road Less Traveled (ha, I wrote “roach” when I first typed “road” — Freudian slip), has pleaded guilty as the result of a plea bargain to felony attempted burglary in the second degree and two counts of invasion of privacy, a serious misdemeanor.  What actually happened was that, [...]

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