…Because part of living a full life is getting drunk in bars, and when you’re drunk, the fresh night air and the silence of the streets is the best fucking thing. Walking home drunk is not an unfortunate expediency, carelessness or irresponsible behavior. It’s a pleasurable experience. It’s a liberating experience. And women should beContinue reading “Quote of the freaking decade”
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Mature, reasonable response to offended Sheila Jeffreys fans
Take THAT, graduate programs everywhere! See how viciously and unceremoniously I excluded Bloom from sisterhood with me? Now, of course, Bloom and I both agree on poststructuralism, but we run into a big, big problem when it comes to both J.K. Rowling & Doris Lessing, which is what the decision to keep him in theContinue reading “Mature, reasonable response to offended Sheila Jeffreys fans”
Late-Term Abortion, Honour Crime…
Please read this powerful account on a late-term abortion from a guest-blogger at bastad.logic. Also, check out my review of Rana Husseini’s Murder in the Name of Honour on Feministe. OK, since all of that was really intense, here’s something to bring a semblance of balance to the Force: (It gets funnier and funnier asContinue reading “Late-Term Abortion, Honour Crime…”
I was going to numb myself with Eurovision
But Eurovision is not particularly numbing this year. It’s fun and glossy and ridiculous (Ukraine’s Loboda was particularly entertaining just now, I thought) and the technological aspects of the production look neat. This is a terrific little confection. Cheers to Moskva 2009.
Mad is as mad does
This discussion about madness & the Icarus Project on Feministe ended up getting shut down because people ended up talking past each other and there was a lot of anger and feelings ended up hurt. With all due respect – as I said over there before the comments were closed – how the hell doContinue reading “Mad is as mad does”
Natalia A. 