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Open thread: On first periods

My monthly menstrual musings may have misled many of my much-beloved readers. I was not always as forthright as I am now — to put it mildly — and my willingness to talk about menstruation here, and elsewhere online and other feminist-dominated spaces1, doesn’t mean I don’t (or rather, didn’t when it was applicable) buy [...]

“I am a feedback… investment banker?” On language, kyriarchy, and problematic metaphors

I was replying to a question from the inimitable Kelly Diels on “Why do you blog?“, and wrote the following (feel free to read the whole thing — it amuses me — but the part relevant to the rest of this post is at the end, highlighted in bold):

I started blogging because I kept thinking [...]

Commenting problems?

I’ve heard from a couple people that when they tried to comment on my latest post it failed to go through, which, among other things, makes me wonder for how many that’s been true from whom I HAVEN’T heard. Although obviously some comments at least are still getting through, and my spam queue certainly hasn’t [...]

Ignore the woman behind the curtain!

I really thought I would be able to get more content up before the site switch, but I’ve been so taken up by working on the new blog design that I haven’t had time to, y’know, blog.

So here’s how it’s going to happen: some time in the next couple days, I’m going to shut down [...]

A Carnival to read and a Primer to name

Over at Mothers for Women’s Lib, the Second Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up. There are some great articles up, including the call for submissions for the Feminist Parenting Primer by yours truly.

Some featured posts:

Stephanie Rosado presents Motherhood = Feminism = Activism posted at Mothering in the Margins.

Scott presents On Gendered Interests in Children [...]

100th post, and a call to de-lurk

So, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but I have this slight streak of perfectionism, combined with a crazy voice mental illness that likes to pick up and run with any slight hesitations or doubts that I might have, thereby leaving me paralyzed and unable to do so much as “any” much less “good [...]

At what point does Google Reader break?

Right now I have over 500 unread posts in my Google Reader. I haven’t read almost any blog posts in weeks, because I’m intimidated by the backlog.

And I just added two blogs.

What is wrong with me? (Don’t answer that.)

And how do I say, “No, I can’t subscribe to Hoyden About Town and Transgriot [...]

Makeup spam? Really?

Most of you probably missed it, but for about half an hour yesterday, Raising My Boychick was the dubiously-proud owner of a couple pieces of comment spam for “semi-permanent make up”. I had several thoughts rapidly go through my mind when I saw it:

1) Drat, I was hoping for some real comments. (That’s [...]

Quick update, having nothing to do with feminism

My fabulous mom gifted us with a lovely new/refurbished laptop, on which I have spent the last 3+ hours working on resume creation for The Man (and there’s still 34%/1.5hours’ charge remaining! woohoo!). So, no longer looking for a laptop but still looking for a techie job in the Portland area. Y’know, [...]

This just in: Great Britain’s new Poet Laureate

Blogging from my car, because I just heard on the radio: GB’s new Poet Laureate is the first woman to be offered the post in the 400 years of its existance. And she’s feminist. And a mother. And bisexual. Someone pinch me and tell mr I’m dreaming, or the radio was garbled — or better [...]

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