If you’ll be in New York, or want a very good excuse to come to the City, check out the Brooklyn College for Worker Education sponsored conference on black women and radicalism. The registration fee is crazy, but I’m not convinced that one might not be able to tip in un-noticed—but you didn’t hear that [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 17, 2009
BBC Radio 4’s Call Yourself a (White, Middle Class) Feminist
Living in Britain’s like living in a time warp. A “Dr Who has returned to 1979″ time warp when it comes to gender. “Glamour models” thrive on page 3 of Murdoch’s The Sun, magazines like Nuts, Zoo, and Stuff feature women-as-commodity on their covers, and some men do actually still call women “birds.”
And it’s [...]
March 11, 2009
Civil Unions for All: A Nifty Idea
I’ve long felt that the state should not be in the marriage business, and while this isn’t a likely change, it was a relief to see a proposition in California that seeks to get the state out of the marriage business.
Perhaps my relief was connected to the recent Supreme Court hearing on Prop 8, which [...]
