perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2008
We have now lost two of the most brilliant fucking voices of women of colour in the blogosphere in the space of two weeks. First, it was Brownfemipower. Now, it’s Blackamazon.
I can’t say I blame her. She’s had to put up with far more shit than anyone should have to for getting up and expressing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2008
The Australian blogosphere is an odd beast. As a feminist blogger, I often wind up reading more American blogs, and it seems as if on those, even in the mainstream, there is some passion for political change. It may be severely beholden to privilege of various sorts (DailyKos is the obvious example, though there are […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
Last night brought the best news so far of the Rudd government: the appointment of Quentin Bryce as our first woman Governor-General, the first woman in history to fill that role. I couldn’t be more thrilled.
We’ve had two awful, conservative male Governor-Generals in a row: no one could really get worse than archbishop Peter Hollingworth, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2008
It may surprise you, but women of colour, disabled women and queer women are in fact still women.
It’s a long thread, so I’ll quote her comments here:
Although thanks very much for illustrating so goddamned perfectly why this post is necessary. Because with nearly FOUR YEARS of archives in which I have done my fucking best […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Finally, tonight, I need to rant. I have the course from utter hell this semester, and it just keeps getting worse and worse with every passing week. It’s the ultimate in ignorant, entitled white middle-class feminism mixed with quite a bit of plain there-are-no-words crazy, and after a string of “OH NO YOU DID NOT […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
This means you, [X].
This mess has spread pretty widely through the blogosphere already, and I’m too tired and ill to write particularly eloquently tonight, but this needs to be said.
It’s a bit of an understatement that [X] doesn’t exactly have the best record on race issues. The sort of feminist issues that you’ll see covered […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2008
I griped earlier in the week about the coverage of the Obama campaign by a few white feminist big bloggers, but this well and truly tops that. Short version: anti-choice activist makes a call to the vice president of development and marketing Planned Parenthood of Idaho suggesting that he wanted the donation used to abort […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2008
I haven’t really said much about the primary battle in the US thusfar, but I’ve been pretty disappointed in the approach of some of the feminist “big bloggers” in the last few days, as demonstrated in this thread at Feministe.
All of this concerns Obama’s “periodically down” comment about Clinton. Was it sexist? Probably. A conscious […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2008
I don’t generally read Australia’s left liberal big blog, Larvatus Prodeo, but I was curious about one of the posts linked in today’s Missing Link - and boy, what a doozy. This effort from Paul Norton reads like a combination of garden variety misogyny, existentialism and some sort of acid trip.
Norton sets out to ponder […]