Harpy Hall of Fame: Catharine Macaulay (...
Posted by sarah.of.a.lesser.god in Harpy Hall of Fame on 09 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Catharine Macaulay was born in 1731 as Catharine Sawbridge, the daughter of a wealthy English landowner. In a time and place that lacked any systematic education for women, Macaulay took it upon herself to learn history by reading the books in her father’s library; her position as a member of...
SARAHMC SMASH!...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 09 30th, 2009 | 13 Comments
Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee voted against a government-run public insurance option. Fuckers. Democrats Kent Conrad (ND) and Blanche Lincoln (AR) refused to support a public option, but they did vote to restore federal funding to a program that has been proven to not only be ineffective,...
I’ve Got Something in My Eye...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 09 29th, 2009 | 10 Comments
I’m not a romantic, but clicking through this gallery gave me a warm feeling on this chilly fall day. The lovely Lesley of Fatshionista created the Museum of Fat Love as a way to showcase happy fat people in relationships. Contrary to popular belief, fat people are not unlovable. You don’t...
Harpy Seminar (Now With Commenters!): Th...
Posted by BeckySharper in Harpy Seminar on 09 29th, 2009 | 28 Comments
Via PBS Hawaii.org
Welcome to Harpy Seminar, a regular feature we plan to have at regular intervals, unless we get too busy to have it at regular intervals, in which case it shall appear whenever we have time and inclination for it. Each Seminar begins with a question, which we discuss amongst ourselves,...
On the Subject of Roman Polanski...
Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 09 28th, 2009 | 22 Comments
Kate Harding has really said all that need be said.
But I’d like to give a shoutout to commenter “lululemming” on The Awl, who contributes this thought:
Here’s a poem I use to remember what constitutes actual rape. It works 100 per cent of the time.
Ugly and stranger/ Rape-rape that’s...
A book is hardly worth reading if no one...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 09 28th, 2009 | 16 Comments
Via Yves. (in Vietnam) @ Flickr.
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Banned Books Week is afoot! BBW is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment....
PSA: How You Can Fight the Man Today...
Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 09 26th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Some of you, I know, have migrated here from other feminist websites and/or Gawker media, and as a result, we think you are familiar with a personage we’ll call Mucker Tax, in the interests of keeping his hordes of internet fans from alighting on our fair shores via Google. Mucker Tax is basically...
Is No Sex Still Sex Positive?...
Via Liz_Kelly @ Flickr. In my most recent post for Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog, I actually switched from talking about sex to talking about…no sex. This was in response to a brilliant reader comment: Becky I’m interested to know if you’ve ever thought about abstinence from a sex positive...Further Adventures in Feminist Argument:...
Posted by Pilgrim Soul in Thoughts on 09 25th, 2009 | 11 Comments
I’m not trying to be annoying with these, I promise. But I am more or less freestyling on my dislike of certain arguments in an ongoing way lately, in Trader Joe’s, on the dancefloor*, while clipping my toenails. Seriously these are more or less windows into the brain of PilgrimSoul,...
OMFG I LOVE HILLARY SO FUCKING MUCH....
Posted by PhDork in Harpy Shout-out on 09 25th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Crush-worthy.*
A teeny extract:
There are people who say, well, women’s issues is an important issue, but it doesn’t rank up there with the Middle East or Iran’s nuclear threat or Afghanistan and Pakistan. I could not disagree more. I think women are key to our being able to resolve all of those...