Feminism Friday – Solidarity

Somedays, it is difficult for me to sit quiet in class. Somedays, it is not. Sometimes that is because I simply don’t have anything to say, sometimes it is because I don’t know where to begin. Sometimes, it is because I can’t help but to speak up about something that has moved me, inspired me, [...]

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feminism 101

Lately, I’ve been finding some MAJOR misconceptions about feminism out there in my internet surfing. I’m talking, REALLY REALLY MAJOR. I know that “feminism” as a social movement is highly political, but I’ve been really surprised at some of what I’ve seen lying about in cyberspace about feminism and feminists. So, I’m going to post [...]

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playing with skin

WordPress has loaded up some new skins. I am going to try a couple new ones out for a couple of days. The last one I had was called Connections. This one is called PressRow. I kind of like the layout of this one, and the image in the header is kind of neat, with [...]

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Feminism Friday – Medicine and Women’s Bodies

(warning: I am in a rotten mood. I have a splitting headache that won’t go away. I got about 4 hours of sleep. I have been reading Andrea Dworkin. This might be a bit ranty.)
So, last week I went for a pap smear. I know, nobody wants to hear about this stuff. it’s private, it’s [...]

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Feminism Weekender – Nationalism

This summer, I read a piece that knocked my socks off. It is called “Writing Bodies on the Nation for the Globe,” by genius feminist writer Zillah Eisenstein (2000, Women, States, and Nationalism, S. Ranchod-Nilsson and M.A. Tetreault, eds.). This piece was so complex and challenging for me, as it presented a lot of ideas [...]

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exhausted

well, I finally finished the paper I was writing from the class I took last month. Whew! Am I ever glad to be done with that one. I had gotten to a point in researching it that I simply didn’t want to actually WRITE it. I knew what conclusions to draw. I knew the theoretical [...]

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broken-hearted

Many mornings, I listen to CBC (Canada’s national radio and television broadcasting network, government subsidized, excellent programming, non-partisan and unbiased news reporting etc.) – I like a show called The Current, which discusses, you guessed it, current events. Two mornings ago as I drove to work, I listened to the broadcast that has led to [...]

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on 9/11

Warning: This is not going to be a warm and fuzzy, tearjerking post about the tragic loss of life that happened 5 years ago today and how we all should remember it forever. Yes, innocent lives were lost. Yes it was a tragedy. No one is doubting that. That’s not at all my point today.
I [...]

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autumn means soup

so, many of you know that i love to cook. and bake too. since becoming vegetarian, I’ve been doing a lot more cooking so I can ensure I get all the nutrients I’m supposed to have each day. I love cookbooks for inspiration, but mostly, I make things up. I thought I’d start sharing some [...]

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sorry

I’m distracted and tired and cranky today. It was my first day back at school, and I don’t feel like writing anything. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not. My books – for 3 classes – cost me $250. My car just cost me $400. I’m not even all that interested in two of my three classes [...]

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