Academic Feminists

Online Passion Party Invite!

2008-07-17T23:33:51Z

Hi. I'm posting an invite to my first online Passion Party. (Cut so as not to offend...Or something.) I'm not trying to spam.
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Hi everyone,
I hope your summer is off to a sizzlin' start. There's a lot going on
at Passion Parties!
Want to have a party but don't have the time? Want to attend a party but you
either don't want to host at home or don't know what it's all about?
Want to have a party but you're not in the DFW area? Well I am hosting my first online Passion Party! Enjoy the party from your own computer. The downside is that you won't get to taste, smell, or touch products, but if you like it, you can host a party if you're in the area. If you aren't, then I can find a Consultant
in your area to help you. I will have a drawing for a Mystery Hostess. This lucky
person will receive all of the hostess benefits as if she hosted the party in her
own home. She will receive any hostess gifts that are earned and any credits based
on orders. This includes an entry into the $1000 Visa card drawing that corporate
holds every month to use as you wish. If you win, I win! I will also have other
drawings for free products! And I don't just mean samples...There will be drawings
for both toys as well as products in the romanta-therapy line! Here are the details:
When: Sunday, July 20th at 3:00 PM central time. This way you don't have to sacrifice a Friday or Saturday night, but most Sunday obligations should be taken care of by mid-afternoon.
Where: We will use AIM's chat feature. (AOL Instant Messenger) Most people
have AIM, and if you don't, it's free and easy to install. Go to aim.com to get yours. My screenname is labradolphin so just email me with yours so that
you will be added. Please let me know if you're interested in coming or if
you have questions by emailing jamoran@earthlink.net. RSVP, and invite a friend! Must be present to win any drawings. Start creating your wishlist of products that you're interested in by visiting my web site.
http://jamoran.yourpassionconsultant.com
If you know you'd like to host your own party, order products, or become a Consultant, then please visit my site and contact me!
http://jamoran.yourpassionconsultant.com

feministthought @ 2008-06-16T13:04:00

2008-06-16T17:04:38Z

The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2008 GENIUS Survey in partnership with Ernst & Young. GenderPAC works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow and succeed.

The Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools (GENIUS), GenderPAC’s most recent effort to end discrimination and promote awareness, encourages colleges and universities to recognize the benefits of a GenderSAFE campus - supportive equitable and protective for all students. Choosing to participate in GENUIS sends a strong public statement that bullying or discriminating based on the race, sex or gender of a student, faculty, or staff member is not tolerated at your institution

Fill out the survey at: www.gpac.org/GENIUS2008survey, and make sure that we have data for as many schools as possible. Your voice will help us continue to work towards a safe and welcoming environment for every student

anybody know this study?

2008-06-03T20:20:22Z

So, I know I don't have much to go on, but hopefully you all can help me.

My bioethics professor was talking about this large study someone did roughly 10 years ago that surveyed college fraternity members and found that something like 76% would rape a woman if there were no legal consequences (don't quote me on that stat, it was off the top of his head). He can't remember the source of the study and I can't possibly read through every study done on the sexual attitudes of college men in the last decade (nor do i particularly want to)! I know it's a long shot, but does this ring a bell for anyone? I'm trying to find the published work and want to know if there have been any follow up studies in the last decade.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

CLPP Conference

2008-03-25T22:51:14Z

*From Abortion Rights to Social Justice:
Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom April 4-6, 2008*
*Hampshire** College***
*Amherst**, MA***

*/A project of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program/*

* Register online at http://clpp.hampshire.edu*

* Come to the FREE conference on April 4-6 2008 and be part of building
a unified movement for social justice!*

On April 4-6, 2008, campus and community activists will be gathering at
Hampshire College to unite for reproductive justice. We are expecting a
large turnout---last year there were over 1100 participants from the US
and abroad. We offer more than 40 workshops and trainings. Conference
speakers address reproductive freedom as it relates to a broad range of
social justice initiatives including economic justice, health care
reform, racial equality, freedom from violence, immigrant rights,
climate justice, and LGBTQ rights, just to name a few.

Over the weekend, you will deepen your understanding of issues you
already know about, make new connections, and unite with others who are
passionate about working for social justice.

For more information, check out our website at clpp.hampshire.edu or
contact us at (413) 559-6976 or clpp@hampshire.edu.

Cross-posted around pro-choice communities

call for papers: Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities

2008-03-19T00:58:02Z

http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/

Call For Papers:
For a Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities
Edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

The recent publication of The Transgender Studies Reader (ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, New York: Routledge, 2006) marks a watershed in the development of trans studies. Arising in the early nineties in close relation to queer theory, trans studies is characterized by the coming-to-voice of trans people, long the theorized and researched objects of sexology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and even feminist theory.

Sandy Stone’s groundbreaking “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” sought the end of monolithic accounts of trans people (authored by non-trans) to reveal a multiplicity of trans narratives told by trans people themselves. By recognizing trans people as flesh and blood human beings with particular access to experiences of “transness” and transphobic oppression, as its starting point, trans studies opens up a way of theorizing “transgender”--for trans and non-trans people alike--that ideally resists, rather than reinforces, mechanisms of transphobia. This raises important questions in feminist theory and politics. How can feminist theory best understand transphobia and trans resistance? Where do feminist and trans politics meet? Where are the overlaps and gaps, the points of connection and disconnection?

Hypatia invites submissions to a special issue on transgender studies and feminism, which recognizes the emergence of trans studies.

We welcome articles that investigate the relations between feminism and transgender studies. Articles exploring the intersections of multiple oppressions are especially welcome, as are submissions that come from subject-positions outside the United States (and North America more generally). We seek a collection of papers that is international in scope.

We also welcome articles that focus on issues specific to trans studies, trans politics, and trans people. This includes (but is hardly limited to) the following: medical regulations of trans bodies; transphobic violence; transphobia in housing, employment, education, medical treatment, and the like; sexual violence against trans people; critiques and concerns about various views within trans studies or politics, tensions between queer theory and trans studies.

Submissions need not be limited to the discipline of philosophy; we encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Regardless of disciplinary orientation, all submissions need to be theoretically sophisticated. Submissions that show a sensitivity to the interrelations among theory, politics, and real impacts upon flesh and blood human beings are especially welcome.

Papers should be no more than 8000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by an abstract of no more than 75 words. Please provide a cover letter identifying your paper as a submission for the special issue “Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities.”

The deadline for submissions is 15 April, 2008. Papers should be submitted by electronic attachment in Word to Ann Garry at agarry@calstatela.edu. Submissions should follow Hypatia guidelines (see http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/). Please address all correspondence, questions and suggestions to Ann Garry or Talia Bettcher at tbettch@calstatela.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you.

feministthought @ 2007-12-31T15:15:00

2007-12-31T04:33:52Z

Lately I've been drooling over one professor from NYU's Slavic Studies program who has conducted some great research on gender and sexuality studies in the former USSR.

Queer CUNY VIII This Saturday!

2007-11-26T19:47:59Z

Queer CUNY VIII: The Twilight of Queerness?
Saturday, December 1st
Hunter College, West Lobby
10am-6pm

The conference will commence in the West Lobby of Hunter College (entrance on the SW corner of 68th and Lex).

To get a sneak peek of the scheduled panels, click
10am- Coffee, Breakfast and Introductions
Opening Remarks: Antonio Aquino, Queer Student Union, Hunter College

Taylor Black, Director, Queer CUNY VIII

Rupal Oza, Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, Hunter College

11am- Session 1

Panel A: Making Queer Media, Then and Now

For decades, queer media has spanned everything from riot grrrl record labels to campy 'zines. These mediums interact with mainstream media and capitalist business models in divergent ways, spawning different visions of the creative potential of avowedly queer media. This panel explores the range of possibilities and challenges that characterize queer publishing, music ventures, and independent youth media.

Moderator: Richard Goldstein, Hunter College.

Panelists: Gina Mamone, President and CEO of Riot Grrrl Ink, Alternative Capitalisms and Radical Queer Media.

Amanda Moscoso, Global Action Network, Cultural Criticism and Material Fashioned by Queer Youth of Color.

Les Simpson, Founder and Editor of My Comrade and creator of NYC DragSensation Linda Simpson, Revolutionary Gay Media.

Panel B: Visual Pleasure

Queer art can create opportunities for experiencing aesthetic pleasure, (dis)articulating sexuality-based identities, and creating new visual cultures across national borders. The power of queer visual culture is not grounded so much in the identity of the artist as in these multiplicitous creative possibilities. This panel will explore art's queerly generative power by examining mediums as diverse as transnational feminist art, voguing performances, and gender-variant porn.

Moderator: David Gerstner, College of Staten Island.

Panelists: Morty Diamond, Director of Trannyfags and Trans Entities, A Personal Look Into One Transman’s Journey Into Erotic Arts.

Jon Freeman, Tufts University, Dancing to Disidentify: Voguing, Queer of Color Critique, and Neoliberalism.

Eleanor Whitney, Co-Editor of riffRAG, Pushing Boundaries: Contemporary Queer Visual Culture Across Cultures and Mediums.

12:30pm-Lunch

Thomas Hunter Hall, 5th Floor

1:00pm- Session 2

Panel A: Queering Pedagogy

Moderator: Loren Krywanczyk

Panelists: Jes Battis, Trans/Scripts: Collecting the Work of Queer Grads.

Marty Fink, Queer Admin: Coming out Day and Other Pedagogical Surprises.

Loren Krywanczyk, Queering Pedagogy as a First-Year Public School Teacher.

Seth Clark Silberman, How To (And Why You Should) Teach Queer Theory.

Panel B: Real Live Freaks: Representing Deviance in Pop Culture

Popular representations of sexual deviance have created a vast and titillating taxonomy of purported perversion and degeneration. Some of these pop phenomena are powered by moral panic: witness the proliferation of attention to the gay male meth addict or the straight white sex offender. Others emerge from a liberal logic of genteel tolerance and curiosity, as seen in talk-show television or best-selling memoirs. The presentations below engage critically with this voyeuristic spread, offering fresh perspective on just who is targeted as queer and how.

Moderator: Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College

Panelists: Taylor Black, Hunter College, Perverted Justice: Shifting Landscapes of Control and the Contemporary War on Sex Predators

Kate Bovich, NYU, Devious Passing: An Experiment in How the Other Half Lives

Sassafras Lowrey, author of From GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly, Modern Freak Shows: Transgender Representations on Oprah 2003-2005.

Benjamin Persky, CUNY Graduate Center, The Quintessential Gay Drug: HIV/AIDS, Crystal Methamphetamine, and the Instant Bottom.

Workshop: Queer Networking in New York City

The aim of this workshop is to create a network of students, community organizers and people with similar interests, in order to build a strong, academic, queer community in New York City and the Tri-State area.

Moderators: Antonio Aquino, Queer Student Union, Hunter College.

Kristina Cooper, Lesbians Rising, Hunter College.

2:30pm- Session 3

Panel A: Intelligibility and Transgression

Queerness signifies both an aberration from and resistance to the norms of sex and gender. Often, this task of recasting social norms is seen as incompatible with strategies that work more intimately with normative political structures or identities. This panel will aim to examine and problematize this facile opposition, with presentations examining bisexual invisibility, monster ethics, sovereignty and ‘necropolitics,’ and the politicization of gay male subjectivities.

Moderator: E. Glasberg, Princeton University.

Panelists: James Arnett, CUNY Graduate Center, Zombie Politics: A Vision of Post-Queer Collectivity

Brent Calderwood, CUNY Graduate Center, Queer Liberation? No Thanks, We’ll Pass.

Jennifer Mitchell, CUNY Graduate Center, Oh Boy -- or Girl: Hypothetical Bisexuality.

Oli Stephano, Vassar College, Monster Ethics: Beyond No Future.

Panel B: Local Strategies, Global Resistance

Queer political tactics might be said to focus on the formation of novel alliances and the undoing of colonizing political logic and practices. Nevertheless, queer politics walks the line between replicating and displacing these totalizing schemas. What does this edge look like in both local and transnational political organizing? This panel will explore and critique movement building and "queer community" from a variety of perspectives.

Moderator: Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College.

Panelists: Emi Kane, NYU, Critiquing Queer Diaspora Theory.

Thea Quiray Tagle, GABRIELA and UC-San Diego, (Queer) Love in a Time of War, or why talk about queer Filipina/Americans when there are soldiers dying for our freedom?

Leigh Thompson, TransMasculine Community Network, Challenging Static Notions of an LGBT “Community.”

Julian Wolfe, Sylvia’s Place, Fitting At-Risk Queer Kids of Color into the Community.

Workshop: Alternatives to Marriage

A practical and inspired discussion about queer kinship, headed up by folks from the Alternatives to Marriage Project (AtMP), a national nonprofit organization advocating for equality and fairness for unmarried people, including people who are single, who choose not to marry, cannot marry, or live together before marriage.

Moderators: Jennifer Gaboury, Hunter College.

Katie McDonough, Hunter College.

4:30pm-Keynote Address by Lisa Duggan

West Lobby

Lisa Duggan, Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, American Studies Program at NYU, is the author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity and Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy. She is also co-author with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture.

5:30pm-Reception

West Lobby

Please contact QueerCUNY@gmail.com with any questions.

Queer CUNY VIII

2007-11-06T21:43:22Z

Queer CUNY VIII
Hunter College, NYC
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Duggan
December 1st

Too much contemporary Queer/LGBT political activism and scholarship is bogged down by bitterly dichotomous academic disputes. The marriage/anti-marriage and relational/anti-relational debates, for instance, wildly miss a larger political and intellectual potential for queer studies to be a project that breaks apart and surpasses ideological binaries.

Queer CUNY VIII: The Twilight of Queerness? is a student conference that seeks to end reductionist political discourse. The organizers contend that the original possibilities of queer theory, while inspiring, have not been fully realized, and aim to provide more than just space in which to consider this quandary. Instead, the conference will encourage queer students, activists, teachers, community members, and others to imagine life and scholarship beyond the limits of ongoing dichotomy and division.
The organizers seek presenters who are working in relation to queer studies in terms that speak to a forum without national boundaries, that reimagine gender taxonomy and make significant attempts to reshape both the terms of queer scholarship and current political scenery.

Anyone who is interested in attending the conference and/or helping produce it should email Taylor at QueerCUNY@gmail.com.

Call for Submissions!!!

2007-10-15T14:16:54Z

I wanted to post this call for submissions if anyone is interested!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Sixth Annual Women’s Studies Student

Conference presents this year’s theme:

“Media Justice and Feminist Futures”

November 29-30, 2007

Campus Center Assembly Hall

University at Albany

This event will highlight the use of media for feminist social justice and critical studies of women and gender. We especially encourage analyses that intersect gender with sexuality, race, class, and (trans)nationality.

We invite college and university students and community activists to submit proposals for papers, film, music, art, live performance, and other creative and critical works.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

! Critiques of media representation

! Impact of new media and the digital revolution on feminisms (e.g. blogging,

YouTube, Second Life, etc.)

! Historical explorations of media

! Role of media in activism and social justice movements (past and present)

! Role of community media and independent media in an age of corporate control

! Access to media and technology, alternative low-tech forms, and issues of the

‘digital divide’

Please send 200-word abstracts describing your project to wstudent@albany.edu no later than Friday, October 19, 2007. Abstracts describing film and live performances should indicate the project’s running time (Image or digital files of media projects may also be submitted as e-mail attachments or through a URL if presented on the web).

www.albany.edu/wstudent_conference

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

2007-10-10T13:19:05Z

Hi! I am working on an art project about the book "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" by Judy Blume. If this book had an impact on you growing up, maybe you could fill out this quick survey? I know I would never have become a feminist without these books. Did they have a similar impact on you? If you have any questions or comments, or, if you would like a collection of excerpts to jog your memory, feel free to e-mail me at pocketsbuttons@gmail.com . thanks!

1. Your first name:
2. How old you were when you first read this book:
3. Do you remember any passages specifically?
4. Do you remember any of the places where you read this book?
5. Do you remember anything you learned from this book?
6. Please describe the front cover of the copy you read, if you can remember.
7. How does thinking about this book make you feel now that you're a little bit older?

Australian Feminists

2007-09-30T04:33:54Z

Hey all,

I'm compiling a list of all Australian Feminist bloggers for an Australian Feminist website. The underlying philosophy of the website will be Radical Feminism. For a good introduction to what Radical Feminism is and what we do go here. If you would like to be included on the blog roll as an Australian Feminist blogger please comment on this post and give the address of your blog (if your feminist blog is not your lj blog)

In sisterhood,

allecto

Young radical feminists (35 or younger)

2007-09-18T03:31:28Z

I'm going to compile an informal listing of radfems under 35 (born post-1970) because academia (or as Mary Daly would say: academentia) thinks or hopes us folk are going the way of the dinosaur.

So if you're a rad fem born 1970 or later, could I get a comment? Just give your username, or a nickname, or your real name. And if you know any authors, singers, activists, etc. who are radfem and under 35, could you give us their name. And maybe a little bio for both categories if you like, or a wee manifesto or whatnot. And do you/your rad fems you list identify as 2nd or 3rd wave?

This is not meant to belittle older radfems in any wany, shape, or form. They're more than welcome to comment too, but please state you're older than 35, so i don't count you as a "young" rad fem.

Also, please post this other rad fem/feminist communities, blogs, etc. Let's get this thang going!

X-POSTED LIKE I'M DRINKING JUICE

Feminist artist buys, marries precise replica of self as a sex doll

2007-08-04T18:02:12Z

Found this article on boingboing.net and thought I'd share it with the rest of you ... if nothing else, it's stirring up quite a reaction. The comments aren't that interesting yet, but I'm sure someone here could change that.

Cheers!

Women and Steampunk

2007-07-31T20:15:53Z

X-posted to steamfashion

     I'm writing an article on steampunk for a feminist magazine, and would like to ask everyone (including the men) in this community who is interested in/involved with steampunk for feedback whenever/if ever they have the time.

     My questions are as follows:

1) What attracts you to the steampunk subculture, if you will? Is it the aesthetic, the functionality, the sense of community?

2) What do you like to contribute, and why?

3) Would you consider steampunk particularly woman-friendly and why or why not?

4) Do you think that the women gravitate to the aesthetic aspects of steampunk (e.g. fashion) more than other aspects? Why or why not?

     I might have more questions later, if no one minds.

     Please note: it'll be much easier for me to make sense of people's responses if they number them similarly; however, if you're not comfortable with a question, feel free to skip it (e.g. answer 1, 2, and 4; just number them appropriately).

     Thanks again!

Feminist Jokes

2007-06-18T20:28:26Z

I've always been a proponent of maligned and oppressed groups who twist the terminology and mechanisms of their oppression into tools for their own use. What follows is a modest example of a pro-Dumb Blond joke:

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This blond woman sits down next to a philosophy professor on an airplane, and the professor strikes up a conversation with her. He eventually gets her to agree to play a trivia game with him by offering her 10-to-1 odds.

"If you ask me a question I can't answer, I'll give you fifty dollars. If I ask you a question that you can't answer, you only have to give me five."

So the blond agrees and the professor asks the first question: "How far is the Earth from the nearest star?"

She doesn't say anything at all and just hands him five dollars, so the professor gives her a smug grin and waits for her question.

"What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?" she asks. The professor thinks for a long time, but finally gives her fifty dollars without complaining. She pockets the money and remains silent.

"Wait a minute! What was the answer to your question?" he asks.

Without saying anything, the blond woman hands him another five dollars.

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Thoughts? Criticisms? Other jokes?

Opponents of Ariel Levy

2007-06-05T11:44:46Z

Dear all,

I am writing a paper in which I compare the 80s debate between the sex-positive and the MacDworkinite view on porn with the current debate on sexual image culture. I have to find out which positions there are taken in the current debate.

One position is of course Ariel Levy's, who says that raunch culture is not liberating for women because it is just conformism to the old stereotypes. She says that raunch culture still treats women merely as body objects and that it does not give them room to explore their subjective sexual feelings.

I am now looking for some article or paper which attacks her view. I was thinking of CAKE (http://www2.cakenyc.com/), but I really need a more academic answer on Levy. I guess such an article would explore the agency of women who take part in raunch culture or something like that.

Has anyone ideas? Thank you on forehand!

(X-posted in reading feminism and womens_studies)

Motherhood -- text advice needed

2007-05-02T16:16:21Z

Hi, all! I'm putting together a reading list that focuses on motherhood -- specifically, the "dark side" (as my advisor calls it) of motherhood. I want to examine mothers in literature who commit acts of violence or cruelty toward their children out of love. Also, I'm interested in literature about women who have abortions.

Here's what I have in mind so far:

Novels/Poems:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Mother"
Lucille Clifton, "The Lost Baby Poem"
Anne Sexton, "The Abortion"

Criticism:

Julia Kristeva --??
Adrienne Rich – Of Woman Born
Alice Walker – In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
Kristen Luker – Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality
Carol Gilligan – In a Different Voice

Any recommendations on other texts would be greatly appreciated.

Heralds of Galactu-er, Feminism

2007-03-15T08:07:20Z

I'm currently writing a paper on the theme of adversity faced by strong female characters, especially protagonists and those who fit the "ballbuster" archetype in various media (by both men and women).

My genres of choice: literature and the typically male-dominated science fiction genre and comic book medium. I plan to cite such sources as James Tiptree Jr. and Y The Last Man as well as Bitch magazine. The authors I plan to cite are Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison and Dorothy Allison.

Can anyone suggest a few good feminist comics/science fiction, anyway?

Kristeva and the abject

2007-03-02T13:15:22Z

Hello all. My name is Liz and I live in Northern Ireland. I am currently writing on a chapter in my dissertation that I'm convinced could benefit with some elaboration of Kristeva's notion of the 'abject'. I am VERY new to Kristeva and reasonably new to French feminism and psychoanalytic criticism so am working like a dog to get my head around the density of her thought. If there is anyone out there who is similarly struggling or has mastered the beast and would like to discuss it with me, I'd be much obliged.

Cheers, Liz

Suheir Hammad (Zaatar Diva) in San Francisco!

2007-02-28T09:32:51Z

I don't know if anyone here knows her work; if they don't, they can go to this web site to read some of her poetry.

Spoken Truths: Words from a Zaatar Diva

8pm-9:30pm

Join us for an evening of poetry with Arab-American

poet, Suheir Hammad, from HBO's critically acclaimed

"Russel simmons Presents Def Poetry"

$15 at the door ($10 for students with ID), includes

after party. All ages welcome (21+ at the bar)

Spoken Truths After Party

10pm-2am

Come to the reading and stay for the party for free!

Or, come for the after party and celebrate with even

more spoken word artists and sonic poetry with DJ

Ahmed. For more information, contact The Arab

Cultural & Community Center at (415) 664 2200.

$10 at the door (after party only), 18+ (21+ at the bar)

Daily Happy Hour Special (4pm-8pm): 50¢ Fruit Infused Vodka Shots!

feministthought @ 2007-02-12T15:51:00

2007-02-12T20:53:08Z

No, I don't know where you can purchase this.... do any of you?!

Op/ed piece: "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It"

2007-02-10T07:01:21Z

A terrible op/ed piece titled "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight It" was recently published in The Recorder -- the student-run newspaper at Central Connecticut State University. The author, John Petroski, contends that this particular article is intended to be taken as a satire, and that rape-survivors and others among the student body who are out-raged do not "get" his level of humor. The Recorder does not have a link to this article; however, Feministe (found here: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/02/09/rape-only-hurts-if-you-fight-it/ -- sorry for the unpretty link) does have the full-legnth article as well as links to several of John's other misogynist and homophobic diatribes. The pdf of the paper can be found here: http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/currentissue.pdf. Petroski's "satirical" piece is on page seven.

I am so offended by this. I wanted to share it with this community so that those who are also offended can share their displeasure with the editors at The Recorder.

feministthought @ 2007-01-24T10:22:00

2007-01-24T15:23:02Z

Yesterday, my roommate came into my room to see if I wanted to watch the State of the Union with them, to which I replied, "Hell No." Personally, I consider myself to be politically engaged and informed--but this mockery of a president has turned my apathy to the administration to bitter denial of its substantiality. My roommates are also political followers; in fact, one is going to DC for a protest this weekend. I digress.

What are your opinions on Barack Obama--the black, Democratic, hopeful for the presidency? I went to his site this morning and watched a clip of him speak; this wasn't the first I'd seen, and--it must be said--he is a fantastic orator. I read his stance on many of the core issues and I stopped. My innate fear was that his political views were too good to be true; that if he became president, we'd see a 180. Was this due to my pessimism regarding politicians? Or was it substantiated? Why do I have this innate fear of trusting our nation’s leaders?

Then the obvious hit. For the past two presidential terms we've been lied to; we've been reassured, told to live in fear, and then reassured twenty times over. (Which way is up, really?)

What are your thoughts on the presidential hopefuls? (Including Hillary Clinton--someone I don't have much of an opinion on just yet. I especially want to hear the feminist opinion of her.)
Do you even have any? I hope our generation hasn't given up and taken a back burner at a time when our vote and voice is as important as ever.

x-posted

So -this- is what LJ has been doing instead of improving their service!

2007-01-10T05:00:13Z

Does it bother anyone else that brad, the founder of LJ, thinks it's great fun to objectify women by eating sushi off of bound and gagged naked women with a group of his male chauvenist buddies?

It's nice to know he's putting our LJ membership dues to good use. Christ.

x-posted to all concerned

To make ya laugh ...

2006-12-30T03:43:35Z

You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a feminist.

Which movie was this quote from?