By Chally on 7 December, 2010
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple of Julie Ellis novels I’ve read, but this one just tipped the charming/not happening scale a bit far. It has a really strong heroine in Vicky, who escapes the Russian pogroms to build a new [...]
Posted in books, feminism, gender, media and pop culture, race, relationships, representations, sexuality | Tagged book review, disability in fiction, disabled women, fiction, problematic attitudes, reviews, sex, wheelchair users, women
By s.e. smith on 17 November, 2010
When I tell people I write for a feminist site focusing on a disability issues, one of the most common responses I get is confusion. ‘What does disability,’ people ask me, ‘have to do with feminism?’ I’ve written before, very topically, about why disability is a feminist issue, and I’d hope that a lot of [...]
Posted in 101, class issues, feminism, gender | Tagged disparities, gendering, health access
By s.e. smith on 14 November, 2010
Body hair has come up on Dear Imprudence before, so I thought this recent Ask Amy column might be relevant to the interests of some readers, in addition to being an example of an advice column that does not actually suck! A reader wrote in to ask: Dear Amy: I am a girl in my [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence, feminism | Tagged Amy Dickinson, Ask Amy, body hair, sports, women's sports
By Annaham on 14 October, 2010
I am one of those people who often cannot ask for help. At times, I am so afraid of seeming weak, or whiny, or overly-sensitive, or dependent on other people that I tend to either ignore my own needs until I start flailing around at the last minute in order to not get overwhelmed, or [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, gender, social attitudes | Tagged daily life, disability is a feminist issue, effortless perfection, fibromyalgia, gender, help, medical care, perfectionism, personal, personal stories, rethinking social norms, social attitudes, stereotypes, unexpected obstacles
By Guest on 27 September, 2010
This is a guest post from Thetroubleis, a knitting, writing, dog training, queer uppity negress who enjoys writing about race, madness, disability, adoption and the intersections of the aforementioned subjects. She is a big geek who spends good deal of time raging against fandom and canon underrepresented of marginalized people and squeeing about new episodes. [...]
Posted in feminism, gender, guest post, i'm right here, identity, introspective, normality, othering, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, feminism, neuroatypical, neurobigotry, normalcy, public spaces, social treatment
By s.e. smith on 11 September, 2010
Conversations about body image come up often in feminist communities, and unfortunately, many of those conversations are predicated on the dual ideas that all people should love their bodies and that lovable bodies are healthy ones. This can be seen in the language used by campaigns designed to get people thinking about body image; I [...]
Posted in 101, bodies, feminism, identity, invisibility, social attitudes | Tagged body image
By lauredhel on 24 August, 2010
[X-posted at Hoyden About Town] So I’m sitting watching the evening news, and on comes a chap telling us women and girls that we oughtta go and get more Pap smears. Then on comes a woman to talk about how Pap screening rates are going down in young women, and to speculate about possible causes [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, medical practice
By s.e. smith on 19 August, 2010
There’s a sign on the wall of a local clinic which says, according to my paraphrasing memory: You have the right to decide if you want to have children or not, and to determine their number, timing, and spacing. The clinic provides reproductive health services to low income members of the community, and plays an [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, feminism, reproductive justice | Tagged children with disabilities, involuntary sterilisation, parents with disabilities, reproductive rights
By s.e. smith on 4 August, 2010
I have been on a bit of a West Wing extravaganza over the last few weeks, and there’s all kinds of interesting stuff going on in this show that I suspect I will be writing about as I move through my epic DVD set. One of my all time favourite things about the show is [...]
Posted in creative work, feminism, media and pop culture, representations | Tagged Deaf, Deaf characters, Joey Lucas, The West Wing
By s.e. smith on 1 August, 2010
A reader wrote in to Emily Yoffe at Dear Prudence this week with the following: My 7-year-old daughter is smart, pretty, and fun. Her father is of Hispanic descent, and he’s gorgeous, but he has a lot of thick, black body hair—including a “unibrow,” which he’s plucked since he was a teenager. Our daughter has [...]
Posted in bodies, Dear Imprudence, feminism | Tagged body image, Dear Prudence, Emily Yoffe, self esteem
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