Archive for June, 2008
Last weekend, I tabled for NARAL at the Capital Hill Peoples’ Fair. I don’t mean tabled as in, “stopped considering,” I mean tabled as in, “sat at a table and talked to strangers about reproductive rights.”
Come November, Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether the state constitution should be amended to define “personhood” [...]
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Tags: keep your laws off my body
“odes to your Sweet Ass”
Some of you may recall my rant about the two men that asked me out at the library a couple of months ago.
After I turned him down, one of them gave me a packet of poems he wrote, which I promptly set aside and forgot about. I came across them recently, and read them, [...]
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Tags: blair made me do it
cougars and the “one dick rule”
“Cougar” seems to be one of the more popular Buzzwords Of The Now. Its increased prevalence presents an opportunity for the savvy pop culture consumer to engage in feminist critique of gendered language construction.
A “cougar” is an “older” (30+) woman who, well, “preys” on younger males in the sexual sense. (I’ll dispense with [...]
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Tags: feminism, queer, sexuality