On this day of remembrance of women lost to violence, here is Carolyn Egan, a woman I am proud to call friend and comrade, accepting the the Constance E. Hamilton Award on the Status of Women.
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Dead Wild Roses: Boom! – Rights of Women – Justice Ginsburg
Filed under: Ethics, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Responsibility, Rights of Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice and Hero of the Day Special Edition: Malala Yousafzai
I have done a few ‘Hero of the Day’ posts and I have a few more on the ways. The recipients have done great work spreading important information, rallying against injustice, educating us masses, and have been generally awesome. But today’s hero is special. On top of those usual achievements, she’s done it all while […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: “Female Characters Are Still Sidelined, Stereotyped, and Sexualized in Popular Entertainment Content”
If you think popular media is still chauvinist or even misogynist, but you didn’t know about the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, you should look into them. I found out about their latest research study, Gender Roles & Occupations: A Look at Character Attributes and Job-Related Aspirations in Film and Television, and was not […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote (paragraph?) of the Day – Dee Graham on “Societal Stockhome Syndrome”
” In Loving to Survive she makes an analogy between femininity and the behaviour of hostages om situations of captivity and threat that has been named Stockholm syndrome. She explains that the idea of Stockholm syndrome comes from a hostage situation in Stockholm in which it because clear that hostages, instead of reacting with […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Frumpy, Lesbian Man-Haters? – Defining Feminism
It is interesting to watch the mainstream media wrestle with feminism and the backlash from the perceived violations of cultural norms. The Guardian blogged a piece called Why is ‘feminism’ such a tough badge to wear?‘ Then the Blogsphere reacted and some thoughtful writing took place and was captured by Slendermeans and thus appeared […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: No, Taylor Swift. No.
[Here is what some of us have been wanting to say about Taylor Swift, but didn’t because A. Lynn did it first, and perhaps best, reposted her with her kind permission. Thanks to Jarrah Hodge for pointing us to this piece of brilliance! Enjoy! – seb] I’ve been mentally composing this blog for forever and […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Abortion Quote of the Week – Dianne
Reading though threads on abortion always raises my blood pressure, but it is worth it for gems like this: Dianne: “Either it is okay to abort, or it is okay to rape” Occasionally I shock people by saying that all anti-choice men are, on some level, rapists. Many never complete the act of rape personally*, […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Project Unspoken – Part Two
Project Unbreakable is well worth your eyeball time. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Project Unbreakable
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: ‘This is a Catholic Country’: Birth, Death and Abortion in Ireland
Savita Halappanavar is dead. She joins millions of women who die every year from complications with their pregnancies. What makes her case particularly tragic is that it that she was refused a medical procedure that may have saved her life. Why? Because the procedure was an abortion and she had the misfortune of being […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Susan Brownmiller – On Pornography.
Still reading Against Our Will, but found this quote on the internets – ”I wonder if the ACLU’s position (on pornography) might change if, come tomorrow morning, the bookstores and movie theaters lining Forty-second Street in New York City were devoted not to the humiliation of women by rape and torture, as they currently […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Against Our Will – Susan Brownmiller – Quote of the Day
“Against Our Will” is an important book, I suggest that everyone read it as soon as possible. “A world without rapists would be a world in which women moved freely without fear of men. That some men rape provides a sufficient threat to keep all women in a constant state of intimidation, forever conscious of […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Project Unbreakable – Pictures that say too much.
*TW for sexual violence. Project Unbreakable is about the survivors of sexual assault. It is a photoblog of survivors holding up signs with messages about their experiences and feelings. Powerful stuff. Abuse is epidemic in our societies, not thinking about it does not make it go away. Please link to and propagate Project Unbreakable’s message. […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We are post-feminsim, post-patriarchy and post-racism…honest.
Trigger warning for Language, Homophobia and Racism and violence in general. This is by no means a scientific finding. This isn’t even a good sample, but lets background that for bit and look at what is going on in the video. How many times do you hear the word “Bitch” or “Fag” or even more […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: More advice on how to be a decent human being.
Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Bitch, Feminism, Helpful Hints
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: GOP and Rape – Devaluing Women Since the 90′s
If you are a woman how do you vote Republican with stuff like this going on in the party? Just sayn’. Found this on The Dancing Professor, go there for a fantastic read/rant as well. Filed under: Politics Tagged: American Politics, Feminism, Rape, Republican War on Women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Have a Happy Patriarchal Halloween
That whole male-gaze/female objectification thing is soooooo out to lunch. Go to the Tumblr to see the rest. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Halloween, Male Gaze, Objectification of women, Sexist Costumes
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: The Persistence of Misogyny
It has been fashionable for as long as I can remember for bitter males, along with a few reactionary female allies, to claim that the feminist movement not only succeeded in eliminating the traditional gender power structure, but inverted it. Women, they complain, are now on top, occupying the positions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dear Anti-Feminists…
Brilliant repost straight from DAMMIT JANET! – One internetz for those folks over there, stat! “If you are an anti-feminist woman and you vote — even for candidates who’d stop that nonsense in a nanosecond — you didn’t build that. If you are an anti-feminist woman and you
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