What we can do

A couple of people respon­ded to my last post (either on the post or else­where) with direct ques­tions about how we can stop these things from occur­ring or with expres­sions of helplessness.I’ve decided my best response is to make a new post here for max­imum...

Ugliest face of fundamentalism

This makes me cry.13-year-old girl stoned to death because she was raped. That makes her a dirty adulterer, of course. The three men who raped her? Not even charged. Still walk­ing free.Oh, yeah, post-fem­in­ist world my bloody arse.

Reclaim the night

I feel some­what remiss in not having pro­moted the Reclaim the Night march here. I keep for­get­ting most of you don’t work at a Uni­ver­sity across which posters are plastered pro­mot­ing such worthy events.Nonetheless. the awe­some nihilla  made it...

Freaking awesome journalism

For anyone who’s inter­ested in women and the media (and you all know that’s one of *my* Mas­ter­mind spe­cial topics), check out this ter­rific piece from Salon on how women news­casters in the US have covered this election.