Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been R...
Posted by annajcook in Linkaround on 06 26th, 2012 | 7 Comments
brought to you by one crashed kitten
Last week in the midst of Boston’s first heat wave of 2012, Hanna and I adopted a kitten. For the kitten-lovers among you, there are photos and web videos available here and here.
In addition to kitten wrangling, here’s some of the web-based reading I’ve...
On Aging: A Commenter Roundtable...
Posted by BeckySharper in Reader Request on 06 25th, 2012 | 16 Comments
Gentle readers, none of us is getting any younger. It’s not exactly a sad truth—I don’t think my youth had all that much to recommend it besides higher energy levels and someone else paying the bills for the first 21 years—but it’s happening, and these days, as I enter my...
Poetry Saturdays: Marge Piercy...
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 06 23rd, 2012 | 2 Comments
Marge Piercy (born 1936) is an American novelist, poet, and social activist.
To Be Of Use
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing...
First Thoughts: David Blankenhorn’...
Cross-posted from the feminist librarian. Prominent anti-marriage-equality theorist David Blankenhorn (a key expert for the supporters of Prop 8 in California, author The Future of Marriage) has recently gone public with his decision to support same-sex marriage as a way to strengthen the institution...Thursday Night Trivia: Ten Things I Like...
Posted by annajcook in Thursday Night Trivia on 06 21st, 2012 | 6 Comments
our wedding bands, made by Tere Reyes @ Etsy
Tonight, Hanna and I are getting out (pre) wedding photos taken by a colleague of mine who does free-lance photography on the side. Hanna doesn’t want photographs taken at the wedding, since having her picture taken makes her uncomfortable, and I’m...
Booknotes: Big Sex, Little Death...
Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 06 19th, 2012 | No Comments
About a year after its debut, I finally got around to obtaining a copy of Susie Bright’s Big Sex, Little Death: A Memoir (Seal Press, 2011) from our local library network. Bright, for those of you unfamiliar with the name, is a sexuality educator, poet, and activist. She is perhaps most famous...
On ‘Graphic’ Pro-Life Campai...
Posted by Marie Anelle in Guest Post on 06 18th, 2012 | 6 Comments
This is a guest post written by David Ellert. You see…..we have an anti-choice caravan in our city and while I have been boiling with so much rage that I can’t really comment, here’s a good summary of the feelings!
Hey kids! Just a warning, this lil’ piece is going to be sooooooooo...
Poetry Saturdays: Joan Larkin...
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 06 16th, 2012 | No Comments
This poem, first published by feminist author Joan Larkin in 1975, seemed especially relevant this week. Read more about it on Ms. blog.
‘Vagina’ Sonnet
Is “vagina” suitable for use
in a sonnet? I don’t suppose so.
A famous poet told me, “Vagina’s ugly.”
Meaning, of course, the sound...
Dear Women: Your Vagina is Like Fight Cl...
Posted by BeckySharper in Language Matters on 06 14th, 2012 | 7 Comments
Replace with VAGINA.
And the first rule of Fight Club, as you all know, is we don’t talk about Fight Club. Michigan state rep Lisa Brown (D-obvs) discovered this the hard way when she referred to vaginas by name while discussing an abortion bill in the state’s House of Representatives.
From...
Wee Ones + Online Society: Discuss...
Posted by annajcook in Discussion Time on 06 14th, 2012 | 6 Comments
are children part of the (virtual) public commons? should they be?
There’s been some discussion recently about Facebook making it possible for people under the age of thirteen to open accounts and create personal profiles at the popular social networking site. Predictably, many people have Strong...
Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been R...
Posted by annajcook in Linkaround on 06 12th, 2012 | 1 Comment
brought to you by hands and coffee cups
Hey Harpies! Thanks for your patience while things have been slow around here. I had friends visiting weekend before last, and then several freelance writing projects that sucked up my time. So I had to take a week away from blogging. Hope y’all are doing...