Hey folks. So I posted this link on the facebook a while ago after I saw it on Feministing: I think it provides a great overview about trans and genderqueer identities (it’s not perfect). Our language doesn’t provide much room for gender flexibility, as you might have noticed. It’s a little awkward, if not, impossible [...]
Posts Tagged ‘identity’
Talking Trans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, cultural shame, gender, identity, intersexuality, pronouns, sex, trans issues on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Defending Femininity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged femininity, gender roles, identity on October 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Can anyone recommend me an essay/book/text/video/whatever that makes a clear, analytical, impassioned, awesome defense of femininity? I just found this neat book in the LGBTQI center at my school that’s called Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Gender Studies. It has this interesting format where it poses questions, then presents a YES side [...]
Negotiating Identities
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender, gender roles, identity on October 3, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been feeling a lot of tension lately between my feminist identity and my gender identity. They both began developing around the same time. I started realizing that I what I thought was right for me deviated from the mainstream. A lot of people have been offended by my sadness for feminists who shave their [...]
Emma Goldman strikes again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anarcha-feminism, emma goldman, expectations, gender roles, identity, makeup, patriarchy, personal, power, second wave, sexualization, shaving, third wave on August 3, 2009 | 7 Comments »
[Woman] can give suffrage or the ballot no new quality, nor can she receive anything from it that will enhance her own quality. Her development, her freedom, her independence must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right of anyone [...]
How to Be a Good Girlfriend?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged femininity, identity, media, relationships, romance, sexism on June 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This shit is nothing new. I’ve seen this all over the place, all the time. But since I learned feminism, I’ve avoided clicking on these ridiculous links. But I wanted to revisit the brainwashing of women, so I took a look at this slideshow. There’s nothing much to be said about this, like I said, [...]
That’s Rape! Now Where’s the Rapist?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged identity, power, rape on June 15, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The more I think about rape, the more I feel that it exists in a wider spectrum than is currently acknowledged. I recently got the news that a girl I know was raped by the guy she was seeing at the time. There were drugs involved. She wasn’t passed out and she didn’t say no, [...]
I’m Glad I’m a Girl!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender, gender roles, identity, indoctrination on May 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sarah showed me this: Click on meeeee
Vagina Horriblogues
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eve ensler, feminism, identity, imperialism, motherhood, patriarchy, pornography, power, racism, rape, sexism, sexualization, Speciesism, V Day, Vagina Monologues, violence on February 14, 2009 | 11 Comments »
So I just watched, for the first time, Mount Holyoke College’s production of The Vagina Monologues last night. (Find script here) I was expecting to feel encouraged and heartened by the play. But throughout the whole damn thing, I wanted to get up and leave. It was just awful. I hate this play. I’m feeling [...]
patriarchy is everywhere
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural shame, identity, patriarchy, power, relationships, sex, sexualization on February 3, 2009 | 24 Comments »
In this post, you will find: some incendiary thoughts to promote discussion. i do believe in these ideas, but i’m open to changing my opinions if compelling arguments are offered. and a bunch of personal revelations. for me, it is about time to come out with it! Patriarchy is everywhere. Example follows in #2. Men [...]
