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NPFP Guest Post: I didn’t have the words

Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...]

NPFP Guest Post: It’s Never Simple

“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 [...]

International Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009

November 20 is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance:

The Transgender Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. It raises public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, an action that current media doesn’t perform. Day of Remembrance publicly mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might otherwise be forgotten. Through the vigil, [...]

Toddlers are triggering

Raising toddlers is hard.

This is not a radical statement, nor should it contain information new to anyone who has had toddlers, met toddlers, read about toddlers, knows the word toddlers… Point is, it is a well-known and thoroughly-accepted truism.

But why?

I’m not trying to challenge the truth of it: while I think many mainstream-Western parenting practices [...]

Raising a not-rapist

This post is dedicated to Ruth Moss, who put up two posts both of which prompted and contributed to this one.

In her most recent (because, of course, I never quite managed to finish my response to the older), she poses the question:
…surely in that Glorious Utopian Future gender won’t matter at all anyway? Why would [...]

More thoughts on the mommy wars

A thought I didn’t quite articulate but alluded to in my last post:

There is a moderately sizable movement that purports to be “anti mommy wars”, of which Dawn’s post (and especially the comment thread, last I checked) is a very good example. This side takes the position that since the mommy wars are supposed to [...]

We’re not done yet

There’s a note taped to the wall above the light switch in the women’s bathroom at my school that reads:
Due to safety concerns, the women’s bathroom light must stay on during open hours.

Feminism can never be an irrelevant philosophy while signs like this are still needed.

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