We wrote an update to our post from December about the American Family Association's boycott of Campbell's Soup. Now they're targeting the Campbell's Labels for Education program, because supporting a program that provides school supplies and equipment to kids really means that you secretly support gay marriage, or something.

But that's actually not the most ridiculous protest of the week, thanks to the American Life League and their protest of Krispy Kreme's pro-abortion doughnuts.

Oh yeah, and major breaking news: Ann Coulter is offensive and doesn't know what she's talking about. Shocking turn of events.

Not writing so much, but thinking about feminist theology. I'm such a geek.

I wrote a post about the gas/oil crisis in Alaska and how families cannot afford enough gas to heat their houses and how the Gov. has had plenty of time to complain about Katie Couric but has not addressed this issue yet.
http://mzbitca.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/this-is-the-reason-sarah-palin-is-not-a-good-person/

Abortion, Femiicde and somewhere in between: A look at the drive to end a womans right to choose to stop femicide.

Will Smith, Whiteness and Racial Denial: The disconnect between having a black president and acknowledging the racism still in existence.

Racism in the places we deny: Looking at what happens when social justice movements fail to make race a critical part of their organizing efforts.

Go Ahead say the N word: Looking at the real reason white people want to use the N word.

I've been reading Lies My Teacher Told Me, so I wrote a bit about the kinds of "heroes" we do and don't see in history textbooks (inspired by this post).

I also have a quick post up about queerphobia in movies.

A poem I wrote awhile ago that I posted to my blog - http://ojibwaymigisibineshii.blogspot.com/2009/01/poem-nin-dibaamaye-nind-ajemigiwe.html

Check out this post at Dolly Speaks - Loving Your Body - http://dollyspeaks.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/loving-your-body

Women's Space - Gaza As Woman - http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2009/01/11/gaza-as-woman/

That's okay. I have been keeping busy by reading all the Weight Watchers ads on this site. Is it not possible to find a more appropriate advertiser?

I forgot to mention the WOC and Ally blog carnival. here is the link for the web page and here is the link for submissions.-9 Looking for any posts written by woc or about thee ways in which race interacts with the isms. Thanks so much.

The Supreme Court is to hear a case about a 13-year-old girl who was strip-searched by school officials, because they believed she was carrying Ibuprofen on her. She wasn't.

Words can't even begin to describe how fucked up this is.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/16/teen.strip.search/index.html

The Supreme Court is to hear a case about a 13-year-old girl who was strip-searched by school officials, because they believed she was carrying Ibuprofen on her. She wasn't.

Words can't even begin to describe how fucked up this is.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/16/teen.strip.search/index.html

Today, I heard about the Lingerie Ball. it's women playing "football" in, you guessed it, lingerie! How progressive!
http://www.lingeriebowl.com/

I've started my very own feminist blog. http://judithvictorious.blogspot.com/ My most recent essay is about how a travel writer described his trip to Iran, particularly the language he used to describe Iranian women.

They addressed this in a post on Jan 7th (you'll probably have to copy and paste this):

http://www.feministing.com/archives/013020.html

I remember that quite a while ago someone on the feministing team wrote that most of their ads are generated by (I think) Google or something, so it's not like they have vetted each ad individually. Sometimes crap sneaks in. If you send them an email when you see something fishy then they'll be aware of the problem more quickly.

I just read this article about the future of abstinence-only funding:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090119/ap_on_re_us/abstinence_education

It almost sounds like we could be in for some good news on this front.

Ibuprofen? I used that in grade 8. (Not prescription strength, I didn't know there were different strengths, just that it's cheaper than tylenol). I often had ibuprofen for period cramps. I can't believe that's gotten to the Supreme Court.

I blogged this week about gender-norms, and sexism in the film Marley & Me (among other things) as inspired by my obsessive reading of feministing! :)

http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/

This is what I've been reading.

This is what I've been writing in response to what I've been reading:

A reaction to the post on RH Reality check about a nurse that took out a woman's IUD without permission.

A reply turned post from A Womanist Musing post about abortion and femicide

And, a post based on living, not reading:

Two really funny stories involving my 4 year old. One also involves an IUD.

I've been reading "The Feminist Memoir Project", which my lovely husband bought for me for Christmas.

Um, btw, someone posted a link here on Feministing awhile ago to a website with drawings of a variety of vulvas. Does anyone have that link? (I just almost gave my computer a virus trying to find it).

We posted the first in an interview series with feminist bloggers. This month's interview is with Frau Sally Benz of Jump off the Bridge.

Please, please, please get rid of the Weight Watchers banner that tops this website every time I visit. This is disturbing and disgusting, particularly as it's part of WW's newest trick, co-opting the language of body acceptance to sell their body-hating snake oil.

I apologise for posting something that one does not read (rather views), but it's a gorgeous discussion on women who are fat and why the beauty industry/media omits them, makes them feel inferior and dichotomises them from normality. Plus it's by Dawn French, whom I love.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XBrgtZUBUQE

As well as the inevitable post on abortion donuts, I blogged about Rachel Maddow, Obama as a feminist icon (and THAT Ms magazine cover), gay characters in Star Trek and my weekly link round-up, A Week in Feminism.

I wrote about sexism in children's games, specifically Guess Who. Also last week I posted a link in the Community Forum responding to one of the websites that brought us "Anti Feminist Cheer" http://www.xanga.com/runnergirl1183

Girl with Pen turned my comments on her piece on resiliency and the recession into an actual post: http://girlwpen.com/?p=1453

and I followed up on my own blog with a letter from GEMS Founder Rachel Lloyd about a crisis call we took this week: http://www.whatsgoodforgirls.blogspot.com/

and I have been reading an amazing book called You or the Invention of Memory through a project by Lauren Cerand: http://newyouproject.wordpress.com/page/2/

Sharing Our Stories of Antisemitism

A thread exclusively "to tell stories about our experiences with antisemitism, not to analyze those experiences, but just to tell them and then let them speak for themselves."