quick hit: "Veil of Ignorance" and randomness
I just caught a post by abby jean @ FWD/Forward, "The Veil of Ignorance", which has just introduced me to something that is probably highly relevant to my interests; John Rawls' A Theory of Justice....
View Articlesetting limits: white anti-racism
I am a white girl in Canada. I was raised "colour-blind" and with the sort of definition of "diversity" that went along the lines of, "Some people are funny colours, like brown and yellow and green and...
View Articleto be wrong
My life is awash in Privilege Denying Dudes lately (more background on PDD here). Well, some of them are regulars, but a couple of new ones have driven home the point on how very much the same all...
View Articlebleeding through my underwear: identity, ability, menstruation, and me
[WARNING: I'm going to be graphic. Blood, feces, and vomit await.] I got my first period when I was twelve, or thereabouts. I left school during my afternoon music class with a tummy ache and realized...
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Sharing time! Everybody get in circle and hold hands. TW for self-esteem issues and some body issues. When I was about 13, I sat in a fast food restaurant with my mother and told her, with complete...
View Articlewhere are we going: progressive and adaptive change
I said in a previous post that my "ideal" vision of a socially-just world is one with an equiprobable distribution of life events and circumstances, so that, rather than systematic discrimination and...
View Articlethings wot I am reading - May 6th edition
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. I really almost want to feel for this guy, but I don't. His unquestioned assumption is that the only route to a higher learning is through a traditional institution,...
View ArticleCompanion to Clarisse's Thorn's "I know I can fight rape culture" thread.
--- TW: Everything about this post and the content of the links shared touches on sexual assault, including very personal descriptions of people's assaults and their emotional and physical experiences....
View ArticleToday's Peeve: Unnecessary Applications of "Cis"
First, a primer on "cis" and why it is a useful concept to have around. D'Glenn @ Dreamwidth does an excellent job of laying it out in Semantics, Gender, and 'Cis', the abbreviated version being that...
View ArticleYet Another Peeve: "Anecdata"
Yeah, "mildly agitated" is a state of being for me. You might guess based on the title alone that the source of my irritation with anecdotes as data is that, of course, anecdotes are not data! Data...
View Articleno words for Norway
I have no words for Norway in the aftermath of yesterday's terrible event, only feelings. I am scared for my family in Oslo, even though I already know they are safe. I am scared for my sister's and my...
View ArticleExistential Horse-Pucky, Rachel Naomi Remen, and Other Tips on Not Being An...
There's a post on Feministe right now about the rage-inducing treatment and social education of a young black woman, with an almost-as-rage-inducing derail going on in the comment thread that I keep...
View ArticleSocial Well-being: Flavia is a genius.
Flavia @ Tiger Beatdown just put up an amazing post on substituting "social justice" with "social well-being", as a concept with a less limited history (almost no history at all, actually!) and a...
View ArticleInextricable, but not Inexplicable: White Culture, Racism, and Cultural...
There's been a lot of discussion this year around racist and appropriative Hallowe'en costumes, in no small part due to an anti-racist ad campaign by Ohio University's Students Teaching About Racism in...
View Articlebecause I feel like I should be saying something, which actually means that I...
I keep meaning to write something thoughtful and insightful about the discussion about justice, accountability, and forgiveness that's happening rather painfully in and around Feministe right now,...
View ArticleLibra Tampons believe that "real" women menstruate
Trigger Warning: The following post discusses, describes, and links to a transphobic ad and the content may be very upsetting to some readers. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I just caught wind of a horrible ad...
View ArticleLibra Tampons Update: Ad Pulled, Questions Linger
First off, the ad has been pulled. There was a lot of uproar, a lot of push-back, a lot of transphobic and cissexist commentary (and a lot of excellent critical commentary!), and while I'm glad the ad...
View Articletips for privileged people getting involved in social justice spaces
This one is going out to all those frustrating commenters I put up with/watched other people put up with in the blogosphere this week (and every other week, back and back and back). The ones with the...
View ArticleDownton Abbey: the problems of nostalgia
Here is an attempt at doing a quick review of the British TV series Downton Abbey. Which is not called, as I (like many) first thought, Downtown Abbey. Having seen only rave reviews but not the show...
View Articleon being an ally: rolling with the unexpected
Here is a lesson I was reminded of this week: people aren't required to be offended on their own behalf. Specifically, this is something that comes up when you think or expect that someone who is a...
View ArticleJekyll: the Romance of the Abuser
Okay, it's pretty late to be reviewing a miniseries that aired in 2007, but, screw it, I re-watched it this week and kind of saw it in a brand new way. This BBC series, written by Steven Moffat (who is...
View Articlea series of apparently radical propositions about trans people
Good fucking god, there is a lot of hate in the universe. I'm just going to try to tip the scales a little bit here and put some love back out there, with some apparently RADICAL propositions*: TRANS...
View ArticleToday's Peeve: White Whine/First World Problems
"That is such a first world problem". "I know, I know, white whine." It's hard to keep track, but I think I started noticing these phrases maybe a little over a year ago, maybe longer. On the Internet...
View Articlequick hit: "India’s improbable champion for affordable feminine hygiene"
This fantastic article showed up the Globe & Mail today: In 1998, Mr. Muruganantham was newly married and one day he noticed his wife, Shanthi, skulking out of the room carrying rags and newspaper....
View Article#IdleNoMore
I'm not doing so well at keeping up with my blog right now, but this is too important to let this space sit idle! There's something very important happening in Canada right now. Earlier in November,...
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