I'm a New Yorker relocated to Minnesota so this was my first Thanksgiving without any family. *tear* Thankfully, my partner relocated with me and yesterday we shared a happy, healthy, holiday meal (minus the turkey or cranberry sauce). Today, it's back to work for me.

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Well, when I went to bed last night I literally believed that I would be unable to eat for a good week...but when I woke up this morning, I was sufficiently impressed with the human body's willingness & capability to persevere. Hooray bodies!

Hope your Thanksgiving was great and you ate lots of amazing food!

Now, for some shameless self-promotion, I started up my second blog recently, called Doing Feminism. I wrote a post recently about why I am a male feminist that may or may not be worth checking out. Cheers!

My Thanksgiving was great. We went to my parents' house and brought a friend. I brought the veggie "turkey" and made a vegan green bean casserole (don't be fooled, it was not healthy at all) and we played a somewhat heated game of cards.

I wish my great grandma were still alive, and I wish my brother could have made it but he lives far away.

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I make scarves and hats and whatnot. I'm so broke this season and my cat needs her teeth cleaned. :)

Peace

Uncle Pat made hot buttered rum. It was a good Thanksgiving.

Heatherinspring - I'm planning on relocating to Minnesota next August and have been looking at non-profits. I'm familiar with New Moon magazine and just wanted to say it's GREAT!

I'm Canadian, so I've already had a month to digest my Thanksgiving dinner....but I can shamelessly self-promote! My blog is a (hopefully) humourous take on being a volunteer patient escort at an abortion clinic: http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/

I had a very nice Thanksgiving : )

My Aunt and her friend came over and we sat and talked for hours and also enjoyed some great food!

I played with my cats and posted a few articles on ThinkGirl.Net : )

On a feminist note, maybe my dad will get in on the cooking next year as opposed to just the eating : D

bubblewrapgenie--Yay! When you get to Minnesota, we can be friends! :) BEST friends if you bring your Uncle Pat's buttered rum recipe!

Thanks for the lovely compliment on New Moon. It's definitely the best job, ever. IMO, anyway!

My Thanksgiving sucked. I was sick and had my period, but my boyfriend wasn't convinced I was too sick to go out until I started throwing up. Luckily, he took the baby to his families Thanksgiving dinner alone so I could get a break. I'm sad I missed all the good food though, especially pumpkin pie. My boyfriend tried though, he brought me home some chocolate cake, ham, mashed potatoes and corn. I don't really have a blog to shamelessly promote, because I actually write on 2 different ones right now.

Oo oo! I have some shameless self promotion!

http://rantingraving.wordpress.com/

I have a wee blog... It is just me... ranting about somethings and raving about others. :) Some feminist stuff but mostly food, music,internet oddities, and humour.

I'm a canuck too so I had pizza for dinner yesterday. :)

I was also sick yesterday (and remain so today). My boyfriend had his daughter for Thanksgiving, so we did the whole big turkey and dressing deal (minus candied sweet potatoes, which made me sad). It was good because I didn't have to cook, but it sucked because Thanksgiving is one of the few days of the year I *like* to cook.

we are doing our big thanksgiving meal today, since my boyfriend and our roommates can all be here today, not yesterday. we are also having several sailors and airmen and marines from work over who didn't have anywhere to go this year. since i absolutely LOVE cooking, especially for a big crowd, as do all the guys in the house, we are putting on a pretty impressive spread. three turkeys and lots of sides.

my name link will take you to one of the places where i like to randomly babble about such things. thanks!

I have TWO shameless promotions!

First, please check out my dear friend Becca's Queer and Feminist Cross-Stitching. Great holiday present! She also does special requests.

Second, please consider me if you have any need for a freelance copy editor. I specialize in academic writing but can also do any other writing (fiction or non-fiction). Discount if you mention Feministing! (link to my developing website here.)

No Thanksgiving here in the UK, so just using the opportunity as a long-time lurker to say 'hi'. Love this blog.

I had a fabo Thanksgiving! Most of the food was prepped the day before, so it wasn't much work for anyone on the day itself. Family was great, food was great, watched the Macy's Parade (I'm corny, I know), and had a friend for company who's as good as family. Awesome!

As for shameless self-promotion - I design for and run a customizable fashion/art/gifts shop, and I try to include several feminist products. (Most of the feminist ones are under the fairy tales, phrases, and current events categories). Want to add more with that theme, but it's a start. :)

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I cooked literally all day for my two mommies and their mom and my husband, who showed them all how to play Wii Sports. Watching them together pretty much made me fall in love with my husband all over again, so I didn't bristle too much when my mother insinuated she would disown me if me the husband and I ever split.

I made turkey; homemade cranberry sauce; way too much stuffing; mashed red potatoes with pecorino romano, shallots, and arugula; green beans with lemon-hazelnut butter; and a bourbon-pecan pie with bourbon and chocolate drizzle and vanilla ice cream.

I poured boiling water all over myself in the middle of prep, and was already having the heaviest day of my period, but it was still pretty much the best day of the year. I can't wait until next year.

How kind of you for asking! I had a lovely Thanksgiving. Before the shameless self-promotion, let me just say that Feministing helps keep me sane. Just knowing there are like-minded folk out there is so meaningful.

Commencing promotion:
I run Women's Sports Blog, which is a feminist, queer-friendly take on the world of women and sport, and women and sports broadcasting. It's frustrating, but also a lot of laughs. http://womenssportsblog.com

My thanksgivings get worse every year since I've moved to L.A. The first two years I had some friend's house to go to but I was mostly among strangers and someone else's family, but this year my friend had to work at the hospital on the holiday so I was all by myself. I ended up eating dinner alone and watching the USC/Arizona game:(

For those wondering why, it's hard to fly home for both thanksgiving and Christmas and I can only afford one. Being lower middle class sucks. :P

Hey! I jsut wanted to stop by and say Hey! and I was just poking around on the internet one day and stumbled upon Feministing.com and may I say it was the best discoverie of the year! I shared it with all my friends, and even talked to my Women's Studies teachers about it. We love you! Thank you so much for all you do!

Just want to say thanks for such a great blog. Great mix of humor, insight and outrage. I had a great thanksgiving, spending it with my son and two of my best girlfriends and their families (and the new boyfriend who mentioned that his teenaged daughter was "proud" of her dad for not being afraid to date a smart woman -- that made my day!).

My shameless plug - http://www.womensdish.com a blog that dishes up the dirt and humor for professional women.

Spent Turkey Day with my Rosie Riviter grandmother. She doesn't do much steelwork anymore, but she is still awesome.

Thanks for the chance to self-promote. Come visit us!

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I'm Canadian, so my Thanksgiving dinner is very much in the past (but I remember it fondly)! Hope everyone else had a good one, though!

Thanks for the opportunity to self-promote! Mine's something of an art project:

365waystolove.blogspot.com

I went to dinner with my family: my College proffessor Aunt, Holocaust survivor grandmother and my cousin's girlfriend, who puts on non-profit productions for cancer awareness.

I'm with you guys on sleeping off the food hangover.

I don't know if I'm allowed to do this (seeing as I don't run a feminist blog), but I'll throw the link to mine in.

http://www.ironsportmma.blogspot.com/

I, too, am Canadian and enjoyed my Thanksgiving last month, but I will take this opportunity to promote my blog, www.canadianincognito.wordpress.com. Posts about being a new mum, media critiques, funny musings, etc..

Hey...this is a podcast that my friend Jaye and I started not too long ago. Check the myspace page for the link. Also:

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This will be my last non-Thanksgiving, at least for a while; I move to the USA in a couple of months. I guess I'll find out what the heck all these food comas are about next year!

No self-promotion from me, but my friend has recently started a REALLY good blog that is getting no love at all. It's about feminism, anti-racism (from an Australian Born Chinese angle), mental health, religion and art - it's at http://learnalilgivinanlovin.blogspot.com/

It was good Thanksgiving. Good times with the family and relatives. Since I am Ojibway Native American we always have good discussions around what Thanksgiving is really about and what it has done in this country. Mainly we celebrate each other and enjoy spending the day together!

It was a good Thanksgiving. Quiet time with friends and family.

:-)

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Thanksgiving was good, with family, excellent food, and wine + card-playing.

But. I've got a creeping feeling of hopelessness when it comes to my activism and political values. Misogynist images and advertisements abound, attacks on our reproductive rights continue and just seem to keep on coming, I have a creeping cynicism about the political process even though we've had the most interesting primary campaign in years...

What if an activist community like Feministing wrote a long list of things we're thankful for? It would sure help me to stay energized to hear that other people are hopeful and see progress. Anyone care to share something they're thankful for that feminist values and activism have helped to accomplish?

I'll start. I am thankful that a woman finally has a real shot at being elected president, even though I can't stand her.

I discovered Taslima Nasreen's website:
http://taslimanasrin.com/index2.html
A brave brave person like her deserves more than support

This year I made my first pie and my first cobbler.

Thanks to my addiction to Pushing Daises I'm heavily into it now.

I made Pear pie w/Gruyere cheese crust (the "mood enhancing" pie that Chuck bakes for her Aunts)and it was a success!

As was the Apple and Pear cobbler with cheddar topping...which I later topped with more Gruyere, cause I'm in love with it and will marry it someday.

My Thanksgiving was great! Here's how it started: How I spent my Thanksgiving plane ride home:

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving or non-Thanksgiving was a joy!

I always look forward to going home for Thanksgiving, as it's a great opportunity to spend quality time with other friends who no longer live in our hometown. Thanksgiving-eve is like the biggest party night of the year, and this year was a lot of fun.

It's also nice to see family, but I sort of dread it as some of my relatives are quite racist, and it puts me in a weird spot. Having been away from my hometown for a number of years, surrounded by fellow liberals (and atheists), it's always a bit shocking.
I pride myself on my willingness to stand up to racist/sexist remarks, but I fear I utterly failed this time.

On Thanksgiving day my parents, maternal grandparents and I went to my aunt and uncle's house (he is my mom's bro). My aunt also had her mom, her siblings, and one of her brothers' girlfriend at the house. The brother's girlfriend is black (I think they're probably late 30's). The two families didn't mingle much but whatever.
Anyway, yesterday my grandma came to my parents' house to have lunch with me and my mom. Afterwards we were sitting in the living room chatting (while I also read a magazine). My grandma started gossiping about my aunt's younger sister, how her baby daddy is a no-good loser (which he very well may be), how her daughter is confused because of her mother's stupid life decisions, yada yada yada.
Grandma lamented that "the world is so screwed up these days," and expressed disgust that so many white girls "go with blacks." Then she mentioned my aunt's brother - something to the effect of, "And how about M?! Dating that black woman!"
As far as I know the girlfriend is perfectly nice and they have a fine relationship, but to my grandmother, the very fact that a white person and a black person are dating is troubling.
I started getting really nervous and shifty and wanted badly to say something, but I didn't. I tried tuning her out; at one point she even used the word "nigger," though I'm not sure in what context. I wanted to cry. But I couldn't believe I was hearing that word said in earnest, by my grandmother!
She said it was a shame that so many babies are being born to interracial couples: "Now there's all these mixed babies running around!" After a little while she laughed and said, "I'm sure Sarah thinks I'm crazy..." and I responded that yes, I did, and we're ALL mixed anyhow so what does it matter? She agreed and changed the subject. I didn't even want to hug/kiss her when she left. Then I beat myself up for the rest of the day (and still am!) for not protesting when I KNOW I should have. I keep thinking of things I should have said yesterday. The fact that we're all mixed is not even the POINT! The point is, why is being "mixed" a bad thing?
Ugh, I just feel sick to my stomach about this and like a coward for not voicing my own opinion.

Anyway, I'm super embarassed about this and just wanted to share, I guess.

Okay, shameless blog promotion.

My reinvented blog is on the assembly line:
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Check it out.

Oh SarahMC, don't beat yourself up too much. Holidays and families are the hardest time, and my anti-racism and feminism often run headlong into my indoctrinated and legitimate respect for my elders. Your grandmother knows you don't agree with her, and you might be able to chat some other time about it- but engaging in a fight with family can be useless and exhausting. Forgive yourself.

Back on the blog for me after taking Friday-Sunday off.

http://aikenareaprogressive.blogspot.com

Sarah: sometimes, we all have to go through that, whether it be with family, customers, older people, etc. Don't feel guilty. It's not fair.
Clearly, your family knows how you feel anyway. "I'm sure Sarah thinks I'm crazy..." :D
P.S. I love your posts. You're one of the names I look for if I'm sifting through a sea of comments on a large posts. You rooock!

Thanks, Nerdalert. :) I like your posts as well.
Not to beat a dead horse, but the fact that my grandma would make those comments (and use the N word!!) in my presence DESPITE the fact that she knows I'm not a racist is what's really upsetting. And the fact that I didn't stand up to her probably makes her feel righteous.

We ate well and didn't get into any heated political discussions that involved fistfights this year. Disappointing! But, I found, the family Republicans are a pretty discouraged lot these days. They can't even bring themselves to protest when I mutter terms like "the worst presidency in the history of this country." So, yes, it was pleasant.

Here's the site for the blog my sister and I are doing: http://geezersisters.wordpress.com/. We call ourselves the Fabulous Geezersisters.