January 2011
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Reblogged: Who sexualises children?
fuckyeahgenderstudies writes:
I hear so much on the news, read so much in the paper and online, about how “our” little children are being exposed to so much SEX AND VIOLENCE and it’s RUINING THEM. Particularly so for “our” little girls. Scarcely does a day pass without someone somewhere commenting on how one or more of the following is actively harming the minds and/or bodies of today’s...
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The sorrows and joys of being a misfit
Warning: this post may be triggering.
Just before Christmas, I was approached by one of the magazines I freelance for to write an article on the Hermeler twins. If you’re not familiar with their story, Candice and Kristin are/were the 29-year-old Australian sisters who tried to take their lives on a Colorado gun range last year, shooting themselves simultaneously. Their attempt took Kristin’s...
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“You want a hero? Act like one. That’s the hero you should be looking for.”
– Sady Doyle
Exactly.
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Naomi Wolf and me, or why heroes are only for the...
When I was in high school, I used to keep a list of “heroes” in my homework planner. Most of them weren’t all that deep or “intellectual”: there was a TV comedian I thought was funny, a filmmaker who’d directed a movie I liked, an actress who’d interviewed particularly well in Rolling Stone. But for me, they stood as symbols of what I believed in and the...
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Naomi Wolf and me, or why heroes are only for the...
When I was in high school, I used to keep a list of “heroes” in my homework planner. Most of them weren’t all that deep or “intellectual”: there was a TV comedian I thought was funny, a filmmaker who’d directed a movie I liked, an actress who’d interviewed particularly well in Rolling Stone. But for me, they stood as symbols of what I believed in and the...
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Guest post: The trouble with being exceptional
This post by Kate (of Eat The Damn Cake fame), originally published on her blog Unschooled, came perfectly timed for me. I spent much of the final couple of weeks of 2010 feeling sorry for myself - not because my year had been in any way objectively bad, but because it hadn’t lived up the enormously high standards I set for myself. Because I wasn’t getting enough done. Because I felt...
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Guest post: The trouble with being exceptional
This post by Kate (of Eat The Damn Cake fame), originally published on her blog Unschooled, came perfectly timed for me. I spent much of the final couple of weeks of 2010 feeling sorry for myself - not because my year had been in any way objectively bad, but because it hadn’t lived up the enormously high standards I set for myself. Because I wasn’t getting enough done. Because I felt...
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Sex, social change and the "window of...
What if, instead of turning us into a bunch of Bacchanalian hedonists, the social changes of the last fifty years actually meant young people were having less sex?
Hear me out. Phoebe Maltz wrote an interesting post last year about “the window of opportunity”; that five-minute period of time in which one is considered neither “too young” to be in a serious relationship,...
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Sex, social change and the "window of opportunity"
What if, instead of turning us into a bunch of Bacchanalian hedonists, the social changes of the last fifty years actually meant young people were having less sex?
Hear me out. Phoebe Maltz wrote an interesting post last year about “the window of opportunity”; that five-minute period of time in which one is considered neither “too young” to be in a serious relationship,...
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Words of wisdom: some of my favourite beautiful...
One of the things I most wanted (nay, needed) to do on my winter vacation from all things work and blogging was to Step Away From The Computer. I tried to pack too much into the last month of 2010, and by the time Christmas rolled around, I was well past the point of diminishing returns.
I didn’t quite succeed in my aims (although I did stay away from my computer, if that counts for...
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Words of wisdom: some of my favourite beautiful...
One of the things I most wanted (nay, needed) to do on my winter vacation from all things work and blogging was to Step Away From The Computer. I tried to pack too much into the last month of 2010, and by the time Christmas rolled around, I was well past the point of diminishing returns.
I didn’t quite succeed in my aims (although I did stay away from my computer, if that counts for...
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Things I plan to do in 2011: no resolutions, just...
Finish the book (main goal, but admittedly not going all that well so far, given that I spent the first week of January mired in internet procrastination).
Kick the Coke Zero habit (two weeks and counting, thank you German flu!).
Leave more comments on other people’s blog posts.
Donate money to an independent arts or social justice project each month using great websites like Fundbreak...
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Things I plan to do in 2011: no resolutions, just...
Finish the book (main goal, but admittedly not going all that well so far, given that I spent the first week of January mired in internet procrastination).
Kick the Coke Zero habit (two weeks and counting, thank you German flu!).
Leave more comments on other people’s blog posts.
Donate money to an independent arts or social justice project each month using great websites like Fundbreak...
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“The problem with prestige (and the problem with money) is that even when...”
– the ch!cktionary: A fat envelope is not what it’s cracked up to be.