Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

This letter is via TransGriot (and a number of Tumblr folks), who also posts this explanatory note: The ‘womyn born womyn’ policy has been a contentious issue for decades between some elements the trans community and the feminists who created and sponsor the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. The 35th anniversary edition of Michfest will be taking [...]

I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]

Thank the deities it is not just me. I hated that book. Not even half the stuff that is in this article occurred to me, but I wrote last year about picking up Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from the library and the trouble I was having getting through it. I am a very fast reader [...]

I have a story to tell. It’s about the day I went across the street to the convenience store to get milk and walked right into a… well, I’m still not sure what to call it. Maybe you have a name for it. A gift, anyway, it was. When I came out of the store [...]

Well, maybe, I don’t know – but the study behind this London Sunday Times story wouldn’t support the conclusion. Craig Silverman at CJR has this somewhat odd story: Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of old friends and colleagues [...]

Okay, not really. So, I decided to start dipping my toes back into poliblogging – very reluctantly, which is why there is next to nothing on here to reflect that decision – and part of that is also beginning to visit some of the bigger white feminist sites again as, of course, for me as [...]

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)? My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always been [...]

A great answer to a stupid, and frequent, accusation. Teaspoons 101: I Am Not the Thought Police by Melissa McEwan [...]I am not the thought police. I am challenging you to think about things in a way in which you may have never thought about them before. The entire rest of the world, with its [...]

Liberals who find out they’ve spent years and millions underwriting conservative ideology. Forums | WholeFoodsMarket.com.

In the past few days I’ve read a few things, mostly related to Eric Boehlert’s new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press that, of course, brought back many memories of the primaries – and the massive, massive failure of most feminists and feminist and progressive sites in navigating [...]