June 2011
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Guest post: We Will Not Go Quietly
This is a guest post by Mel Hughes and Kate Ravenscroft, editors of We Will Not Go Quietly: a zine for survivors of sexual assault.
We met at a group for survivors of sexual assault – an awkward start to any relationship and one hardly guaranteed to lead to longevity.
The most relieving element of a group like this – the removal of the need to ‘out’ yourself as a survivor of sexual...
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Mad Men: Meta-story of Women's Liberation or...
Cassandra writes: Question for a bright feminist - why do so many women get upset that I find mad men depressing? If I say it looks like patriarchy porn men say fair enough but lots of women get upset and say it’s a metastory of womens liberation. no doubt you get many random pop culture feminism questions but if you have a view on mad men I’d be fascinated to read it.
I like Mad...
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Is Bristol Palin’s new memoir the story of a rape... →
I spent much of last week in a haze of rather complicated freelance deadlines, sweet victories and friends visiting from abroad, but one thing I did wonder whenever I popped my head above the water to open my Google Reader was: why are none (well, almost none) of the American feminist bloggers I read talking about the Bristol Palin memoir?
Specifically, why wasn’t anyone calling out the...
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“Here’s a big difference between you and me. You wear make up and you dress in a...”
– Susan Sontag in Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan. (via somethingchanged)
Sadly not me, but I appreciate the sentiment.
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Gawker reports Mark Zuckerberg is engaged, which leads to a discussion of what’s wrong with Asian women, naturally. (Racialicious)
n+1 on interning as a gift:
[F]or an intern to distinguish herself, she must ingratiate without seeming ingratiating. The intern is to appreciate the opportunity to peek at the file folders into which she slides contracts and correspondence. She shouldn’t act...
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Mentoring week: Rethinking mentoring
Image: Ranier V
So, we’ve come to the end of mentoring week three weeks. We’ve talked about how to put together your mentoring dream team (based on your needs, rather than who your idols are), how gender, class and race shape our experience of mentoring, what sponsorship really looks like in a creative industry context, and why, sometimes, it’s worth forking out some cash to...
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Mentoring week (er, month): Why hiring a writing...
“Mentoring week” is well and truly over now, having stretched over not just a week but more than a fortnight, but there are still a couple of stories I’d like to tell you, so I’m going to continue through to the end of this week. Then I’ll return to your usual scheduled programming of feminist issues.
Today’s story is about coaching. Or specifically, as the title of this post suggests, how hiring...
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erin1710 asked: I'm interested in how one actually gets a mentor. Do you just say to someone 'hey, will you be my mentor?' or does it evolve more naturally than that? Can you bee in a mentor/mentee relationship without either of you realising it?
Also, I've been in a position before where it seems like someone would like to be my mentor but obviously never stated it overtly...
Also, I've been in a position before where it seems like someone would like to be my mentor but obviously never stated it overtly...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Ariel Levy’s essay on losing her virginity, twice. It is paragraph-for-paragraph brilliant:
After Josh broke my heart, my great regret was not that I had lost my virginity to him, but that I hadn’t. If I was going to be lovelorn, at least I would have liked the consolation of being able to brag that I’d had sex. (Guernica Magazine)
The mundane...
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Mentoring week: Mentoring and the media industry.
“I think you’ll find most regular freelancers have an editor who acts as a “sponsor” of sorts for their work.” So I wrote in an email to Musings reader Rose Russo back in March, when she astutely observed that much of my freelancing work over the years had been commissioned by one editor.
And today I’d like to talk to you about the editor who has played that...
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Thoughts following SlutWalk #oversharealert
A funny thing happened on my way to London’s SlutWalk on Saturday: I got scared. It was around about the time I exited the Tube station at Piccadilly. A sudden hit of adrenalin, and not the good kind.
I’m not sure what to blame it on. Being hit with the reality that while for me, SlutWalk was an act of solidarity with sexual assault survivors and every other woman who has ever...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Why Emma Watson Really Left Brown:
“Someone just said you were the chick in the Harry Potter movies,” the guy said. “Anyway, my mom is the Exchequer of Mauritania, but that’s not something that defines me. Have you ever read anything by the French social theorist and philosopher de Certeau?”
“No, I haven’t,” she said. “What does he write about?”
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Mentoring week: Do men and women mentor...
Or perhaps more to the point: do they get mentored differently?
The evidence suggests that they do. Specifically, that while women might the advice giving, information exchanging, mentor-mentoring I identified in my previous post in the series in spades, when it comes to the more advocacy oriented sponsor-mentoring, they don’t do so well. In fact, women are only half as likely as men are...
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Mentoring week: What is a mentor, anyway? (Plus,...
Previously: It’s mentoring week here at Musings of An Inappropriate Woman.
Broadly speaking, there are three types of mentors:
1. The Mentor-Mentor. Someone you like/admire who has knowledge or experience you currently don’t have but would like to have some day. You converse from time to time, share experiences, and when you’re in a bit of a bind you go to them with your...
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It's mentoring week here at Musings of an...
Mentoring is a feminist issue. A good mentor - and the right kind of mentoring relationship - can make achieving even the most lofty creative and professional goals easier and more managable. Without one, the road can seem foggy and unclear. And research shows that men and women tend to have noticably different experiences of the mentoring process.
It’s also a class issue. If your parents...
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Old friends... they keep you honest.
C: ... very Carrie Bradshaw.
Me: Argh, I hate Sex & The City! I hate the materialism.
C: What are you talking about? You loved Sex & The City! You named your column after it!
Me: Oh, that was Sarah's idea.
C: You even gave everyone in our group their own Sex & The City nicknames. It definitely wasn't me who started that conversation.
