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An Appalling Display of Bigotry from the New Yorker 15 Jul 2008 | 10:11 am
Dear New Yorker Assholes, Your cover of the New Yorker this week featuring Michelle and Barack Obama dressed up as "terrorists" is atrocious, sexist, racist, uninformed, and unbelievably offensive. I...
Open Letter to Queer Alllies 6 Jul 2008 | 01:06 pm
So it was Pride here in St Louis last weekend. I had a great time of course, but i was really struck this year by the rampant consumerism and air of assimilation about the place. I've always felt like...
Why is Deodorant Gendered? 16 Jun 2008 | 08:36 am
Why? Why is deodorant gendered? I've been buying that idiotic Secret for years and it sucks ass. It gets all over your clothes, it's expensive, only comes in "ladylike" quantities and doesn't work all...
Oh Happy Day! 8 Jun 2008 | 10:32 am
The Straight Person's Guide To Gay Etiquette, the hilarious self-explanatorily titled article, is now back online after a too long hiatus! hooray! bring author-god The Plaid Adder the best bagels and ...
More Thoughts & Critisism of Little Brother (contains SPOILERS) 27 May 2008 | 10:53 am
okay. so this book rocked pretty hard. if i could write a blurb for the back of the book it would say "cory doctorow: i didn't finish your book because i was too pumped up and freaked out to keep read...
Oppose the DSMV Committee Members on Gender Identity Disorder 27 May 2008 | 09:57 am
Here's the link to the petition again. In case you need convincing, or know someone that does, here's a letter I wrote to get people to pay attention: Hi Guys, I don't for the most part send out mas...
Happiness as a Feminist/Radical Activist 27 May 2008 | 09:00 am
This is a modified post from my personal blog. A few weeks ago my boss said something about how our workplace had always been a place for people who had their eyes open politically and then made a jok...
Little Brother Review (Cory Doctorow) 27 May 2008 | 08:55 am
i stayed up all last night reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Everyone should read this book. i mean EVERYONE. You can get it online (legally, from the author) if you can't get ahold of the actu...
There's a Reason "Paternalism" Refers to Children 23 Mar 2008 | 12:45 pm
It baffles me that feminists and activists don't focus more on children and education. Third wave feminism seems fairly infatuated with teens and youth culture (which is all very nice), but I don't se...
Vaginas? Really? (Eve Ensler, I'm Talking to You!) 23 Mar 2008 | 09:52 am
So. Why all this fascination with reducing women to vaginas, America? *sigh* I suppose that since there's SO MUCH of that reduction going on, I ought to be a bit more specific of what kind I mean. Let...
