Archive > September 2008

hormonal contraception, abortion, what’s the difference?

Senator Clinton and Cecile Richards (the president of Planned Parenthood wrote an op ed piece for the New York Times about a new proposed policy for Health and Human Services.
In a nutshell, this rule would allow any agency that receives federal funding for health care to refuse to provide any treatment they object to. [...]

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the fallacy of fuck-me feminism

Now that I can actually stand to peruse it, I decided my thesis needs a home on the internet. Enjoy, or failing that, run the other way cringing in horror at the inaccessibility of academic feminist theory.
Slut or virgin, whore or Madonna, pervert or prude: most contemporary representations of female sexuality have embodied this [...]

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Nan Desu Kan 2008


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tengo la fuega / meta-semantics lite

meta-semantics lite, part I
Titling this blog spurred the Social Injustice Hamster in my head to hop on her wheel for a bit. (If you imagined that all these purty pictures would quash my desire to embark upon patriarchally-fueled rants, you were a bit remiss.)
Although the grammatically acceptable form of fire is [...]

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Immigrant rights march

It looks like a profound statement about America until you look closer and realize that this man is sending a text message.

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