all aboard my folly
hands shaking, stomach churns
it never gets easier
jackhammer knuckles
paper-bag lungs
caution tape mouth
no one has to wonder
where they stand
with me
unsustainable
tiptoeing around the bush
or beating on eggshells
brashness is a vice
I’m unrepentant
I refuse
to be seen and not heard.
Category > feminism
folly
cis privilege
There are virtually no spaces, even on the Internet, where transpeople’s voices are centered.
The recent brouhaha at Pam’s House Blendis only one example of this phenomenon.
It frustrates me, and fucken’ pisses me off, that any discussion of trans-issues rapidly devolves into calls for transpeople to justify their existence.
Understanding one’s own privilege is difficult. Being [...]
about fucking time.
Last Friday was a good day. I felt confident, energized, and playful.
Also, beautiful.
I know that the amount of bodily scrutiny and criticism I am subjected to to is trivial, compared to women of size. Nevertheless, the pressure to conform to the beauty standards is very real. I’m fucking tired [...]
caterpillars
Negative definitions are problematic, because they reify binaries; things should be defined by what they are, rather than by what they are not. Nevertheless, it’s pretty clear that I am not one of those people who divides their to-do list into projects and action items. Actually, I don’t have a to-do list. [...]
harsh realizations
-It’s 4:51 AM and I can’t sleep. Corporate douchenozzlery is keeping me up at night, why? Ugh.
-I have to go to work in approximately two hours and display some kind of enthusiasm for indoctrinating two new hires into my company culture. The thought of it is making me a bit ill.
-For working women, there is [...]
the starter marriage
I was reading Marie Claire and I stumbled across this article, The Starter Husband.
I wasn’t terribly surprised at the somewhat sexist tone of the article. The premise of the article, however, isn’t entirely cringeworthy. In summary, the article explains that it’s common for women to end their first marriages rather quickly, and there is [...]
Colorado ENDA
I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I just learned about my state’s ENDA, seeing as how I’m a student of Gender and Media studies, and I work in human resources for a fairly progressive organization, and I’m queer.
You can read more about Colorado’s Employment Non-Discrimination Act here.
In short, this law prohibits discrimination in [...]
anti-acrimony intervention
As much as I dislike spouting “token feminist” ideals at people I care about, I couldn’t resist making the Anti-Acrimony Intervention appeal to a friend recently. (If only I had a cupcake for every time I have participated in that conversation, or some variation thereof…I wish Feminist Brownie Points could somehow result in actual [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
