perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve been realising recently, in the wake of having gone mostly stealth as trans, just how much that experience tends to obscure the privileges one has in other quarters. When you’re trans, you’re always the one with the life that no one wants. Take that out of the equation, though, and the picture can be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2008
I’m no fan of Amanda Marcotte’s, and after her behaviour in response to concerns about her appropriation of brown voices, I would have said very little could surprise me in respect to digging herself deeper.
But this is unbelievable.
Each chapter in Marcotte’s new book, “It’s a Jungle Out There”, begins with a blatantly and obviously racist […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2008
The Australian blogosphere is an odd beast. As a feminist blogger, I often wind up reading more American blogs, and it seems as if on those, even in the mainstream, there is some passion for political change. It may be severely beholden to privilege of various sorts (DailyKos is the obvious example, though there are […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2008
It may surprise you, but women of colour, disabled women and queer women are in fact still women.
It’s a long thread, so I’ll quote her comments here:
Although thanks very much for illustrating so goddamned perfectly why this post is necessary. Because with nearly FOUR YEARS of archives in which I have done my fucking best […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
This means you, [X].
This mess has spread pretty widely through the blogosphere already, and I’m too tired and ill to write particularly eloquently tonight, but this needs to be said.
It’s a bit of an understatement that [X] doesn’t exactly have the best record on race issues. The sort of feminist issues that you’ll see covered […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008
I’m entering my last year of an undergraduate gender studies major at the moment, and as much as I love it, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with the way that it’s taught.
Women’s studies as a discipline is essentially dead in Australia - I don’t know of any university that still maintains an undergraduate department in it. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2008
There’s been two significant announcements from the new government today. In the first - disgusting, but unsurprising, Julia Gillard has revealed that the current, and much-criticised, school funding system will be kept for another four years. The current funding formulas are a disgrace. They don’t just fund private schools, but they’ve been giving them a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2008
*headdesk*
Jessica Valenti of Feministing has unveiled a new, revised, call for submissions for her anthology proposal, Yes Means Yes. As with her first project, Full Frontal Feminism, some of the ideas behind the anthology are pretty problematic, and she’s been called out on it - aptly - by more than a few folks - imfallingup, […]