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| Calling all writers! | [26 Feb 2010|09:32am] |
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| [ mood | chipper! ] Hey all! I've had some great success posting on this forum before, so here goes:I'm co-editor for a pretty cool forum that largely addresses matters related to gender, sex, and sexuality, and we're looking for a few new writers. We're pretty open to content/mediums, so aspiring columnists, creative writers, podcasters, videobloggers, etc. - I encourage you to check it out and see if you might be a good fit!-blackroot/toughstuffBELOW THE BELT | |
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| Ambivalence About Motherhood is Criminal! | [12 Feb 2010|06:13am] |
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| Really? Seriously? This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard in my life. Prepare to be enraged. This case from Iowa is a spine-tingling example of the ways that feticide laws, ostensibly created to protect pregnant women and punish late-term abortion, can go awry. Police accused Christine Taylor, an Iowa mother of two, of trying to kill her fetus when she fell down the stairs. According to Ms. Taylor, she was crying and hyperventilating after a distressing conversation with her estranged huband, and fell down a flight of stairs. Although paramedics said she was fine, she went to the emergency room out of concern for her fetus. While there, she admitted to hospital personnel that she had not wanted to be pregnant and had considered adoption and abortion rather than raising a third child as a single mother.Read this slowly: she was arrested and jailed for being ambivalent about her pregnancy.**( The Rest of the ArticleCollapse )**From this post at Feministing | |
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| конкурс ещё продолжается! | [09 Dec 2009|10:56pm] |
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| конкурс плакатов, посвящённых проблеме домашнего насилия и насилия против женщин продолжается! у нас пока одна претендентка на победу (её плакат можно посмотреть здесь)мало того, что это хорошее, годное дело -- ваши работы потом могут напечатать как плакаты или открытки для распространения -- и помощи тем, кто в этой помощи нуждается. работы принимаются до 25 декабря, с тем, чтобы до нового года провести голосвание и определить тех, кто победит, и, соответственно, получит призы. зы.буду благодарна за пиар. | |
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| Calling all writers! | [19 Nov 2009|01:17pm] |
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| Hey all -- I've posted on this community some time before with great success, so I wanted to extend a quick invitation to any aspiring writers:I co-manage Below the Belt, a forum for commentary about gender, sexuality, identity, and beyond. We're looking for a couple new contributors, so if you think the site might be a good fit...please be in touch!Best,-ts | |
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| Calling all writers! | [31 Jul 2009|08:37am] |
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| Hey all!Members from this community have shown an interest before in this, so I thought I'd drop a line once more:I'm an editor for Below the Belt, a multi-faceted genderblog designed to provide a space for informed, critical commentary about gender, sex, sexuality, and the many other aspects of gender facing people around the world. We're looking for new writers of various kinds, and I urge you to check out the site and see if you think it would be a good fit.Cheers!- toughstuff | |
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| Plastic Speculums | [20 Mar 2009|11:27am] |
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I just read a post over at  howsexworks called "Just say no… to plastic speculums." The gist seems to be that doctors use plastic speculums because they're cheap, but that they can break and injure women, so we should refuse to allow them to be used. |
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| Женское движение FEMEN предупреждает: вторая волна секс-туризма не за горами! | [15 Feb 2009|11:28pm] |
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| Вторая волна секс-туризма этой весной в Украине - уже не миф, а реальность. Кризис пополняет ряды "самой древней профессии" студентками и девушками из малоимущих семей. Иностранные охотники за сексуальными утехами уже бронируют свои туры - для них все становится доступнее. Попытки активисток всеукраинского женского движения FEMEN обратить на эту проблему внимание еще прошлым летом, к сожалению, украинское правительство на действия не сподвигли - политические деятели предпочли отмалчиваться. Требования криминализации клиента, что есть нормальной практикой в таких Европейских странах как Швеция, Великобритания и Ирландия, не были удовлетворены. Ни острые статьи в зарубежной прессе, ни тревожные репортажи отечественных СМИ не смогли переубедить украинских политиков - молчание продолжается до сих пор. Что в прочем, и не удивительно. Но борьба не окончена! К сожалению, она будет с большими потерями - сказка об иностранном принце, который приедет на белом мерседесе и женится на бедной девушке, еще крепко сидит в головах наших дорогих украинок.Статья в газете Сегодня |
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| music for feminism | [11 Feb 2009|07:11pm] |
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hi! I moderated community  music_action (Music for Social and Civil Action, Freedom, Peace, Environment and Human Rights). Сan advise the music video, which reflects the ideas of feminism?music_action - this is a Russian-speaking community activists, but you can write in any language.View the video, which we collected - an cut:( Read more...Collapse ) |
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| high school level gender studies curricula/resources | [06 Feb 2009|12:29pm] |
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| Hi all,I'm working with a new alternative high school in New Orleans with creating a gender studies curriculum for them. I have a lot of readings and resources from my college courses, but none that would be appropriate for high school aged kids, especially ones with a relatively low literacy level. Does anyone know of any good resources for high-school level gender/women's studies readings/resources? | |
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| BECAUSE 2009 - April 17-19, 2009; Minneapolis, MN | [27 Dec 2008|10:35am] |
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| Bisexual Empowerment Conference: A Uniting, Supportive Experience 2009 will mark the 15th BECAUSE Conference. Join us and become part of history! BECAUSE Conference is the premier weekend event in the Midwest for bisexuals, queers, trans, bi-curious, questioning, and all others, regardless of identity. This conference is open to everyone! Register today and bring a friend! Date: April 17-19, 2009 Time: Friday - 6:30pm -- Registration begins 7:00pm -- Keynote Speaker Saturday - 8:30am -- Registration opens 9:00am - 5:00pm -- Workshops 7:00pm - midnight -- Entertainment/Social Sunday - noon -- Informal pay-as-you-go lunch gathering Location: Coffman Union University of Minnesota 300 Washington Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Keynote Speaker: Robyn Ochs, Author & Activist http://www.robynochs.com/ http://www.becauseconference.org/default.html | |
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| Know any queer rural zines? x-post (if this doesn't belong/breaks rules, sorry; tell me&I'll delete) | [20 Dec 2008|12:19am] |
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[ mood** |  hopeful ] Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but my friend Jenna (a.k.a.  trashcan_chica) needs some help:"does anyone know of any queer zines about living in rural areas or going to rural areas?any help/pointing in the right direction would be amazing. i went through the whole Queer Zine Archive and couldn't really find anything.thanks! jenna bp.s. i just got a wordpress site, sassyfrasscircus.com!"**Her (AIM) away message also says: **"is looking for zines about/by members of radical queer ANTI-URBAN communities, so if you know of any..."**So please comment if you can help at all; thanks. :]-Beth |
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