Posted in Capitalism, Environment, Feminism, Poverty, Race Relations, Violence Against Women on March 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I thought I’d post a paper I recently wrote about the link between environmental protection and population control, and how population control practices and policies are bad for women of colour. I wish I had had more space to really delve into things a bit further, but this was only a 6 page assignment.
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Posted in Environment, Feminism, Rape, Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | 38 Comments »
I’ve been taking a course this term on environmental justice. It’s been interesting for me, because I’m not very eco-savvy. Despite that my best friend is an environmental goddess. I’ve never been all that concerned about these matters, but it seems like the time is well afoot to be concerned, so yeah. Why not take [...]
Posted in Life of a Student on March 26, 2007 | 49 Comments »
some of you might remember me talking about applying to law school and writing the LSAT a few months ago. Well, it turns out that I kicked some LSAT ass (96th percentile, 168, thank you very much), and I’ve been invited to join the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in the fall. [...]
Posted in Race Relations on March 21, 2007 | 119 Comments »
I want to write about being a white racist today.
I could write about how awful racism is, and the horrors it has inflicted in the world. We know this. We know how all the wars since WWII have been fought in developing countries where the people are black and brown. We know about slavery, the [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Life of a Student, Political Prattling, Poverty on March 20, 2007 | 11 Comments »
in a couple weeks, I will be participating in a video conference with the head of the IMF. We’ve been asked to put together a list of questions for him to answer. I have a couple questions already, but I thought I would ask you:
What would YOU ask the head of the IMF if you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2007 | 50 Comments »
The Rules: Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!You WILL update your journal/bloggy thing/whatever with the answers to the questions.You will include this explanation and [...]
Posted in Feminism Friday, Gender on March 16, 2007 | 26 Comments »
A common claim in feminist theory is that sex and gender are different; that “sex” refers to biological characteristics like genitals and chromosomes, and “gender” refers to social roles and practices like masculinity and femininity. Continuing this distinction, the “sex” categories are referred to as “male” and “female” and the gender categories are referred to [...]
Posted in Feminism on March 15, 2007 | 24 Comments »
An example of male privilege: showing up at a feminist blog, a space of solidarity for those who support the idea that patriarchy oppressess women and that isn’t fair and want to see this end, not bothering to do any preliminary work to understand the theories and language that is used by the feminist movement, [...]
Posted in Feminism on March 14, 2007 | 24 Comments »
wow, what a week in comments! boy oh boy! all the criticism of feminism a girl can handle!
Well, the title of this post says it all. Let’s break it down, yes?
1. Feminists hate men. As Tigtog says over at Finally, a Feminism 101 blog,
“Feminists hate misogyny, not men. Kinda like that “hate the sin, not [...]
Posted in Feminism on March 13, 2007 | 30 Comments »
two of the common things I hear from people who are opposed to feminism are that feminists practice victim politics, and that we - and our friends and family, by extension, presumably due to our incessant whining - must be miserable. I got both of these today, in yet-to-be-approved comments.
so, are feminists just victims? don’t [...]
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