I feel like it may be too soon to survey the damage in the feminist blogosphere, but I’m ready to look [read] and the way bloggers move on [post other topics], quiet themselves [no posting], take a break, or reflect. Things are quiet after the storm. I think we just experienced our own hurricane, one […]
Author: Lisa
Open Stage
So, unless another blogobomb goes off for feminists, I am hoping to move along in my blog. By “move along,” my intentions are to go back to a more healthy level of blogging in terms of both writing and reading. During the past several weeks, I have been more in tune with a comment thread […]
Apparently, Feminists Need Acting Coaches
I work with a lot of theater performance students and they never cease to amaze me with their stories. Through their dance lessons, movement classes, and technique workshops, they moan and agonize over auditions, call backs, and rejection. I’m a good 6-7 years older than most of them and I’m often the one mentoring, guiding, […]
How Much Do I LOVE This Comment?
Just received this one from the popular Anon: Anonymous said…Be sure to thank Jill at Feministe for deletingall the links to your blog from her comments section. She’s protecting you fromthe really bad racists whom only she can handle. You owe her a debt ofgratitude. Now, let me be clear about a few things: 1) […]
Accepting Kyriarchy, Not Apologies
In my last post, I actually used the word patriarchy. [spit] Ok, now I feel better. Let me introduce what I really mean when I talk oppression: kyriarchy. Kyr-whhaaaa? A few years ago, I studied under a radical feminist theologian Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza who does pretty amazing pioneering week in feminist theology. (Let me say […]
Burning Questions
Because I have random thoughts that shoot out of me, I am just going to keep one thread of questions that I update as the questions come. How in the HELL does a “feminist” press claim “not thinking” when publishing a book about politics and include vulgar images of racism? Why do people think […]
Another Goodbye
Blackamazon bids adieu with her trademark: a self-feeding fire. Go over to Sylvia’s. BA- Contigo, -S
It Was Never About One Thing, You Realize
There are a few things I rarely do on my blog. First, I rarely link to large blogs or mainstream sites. Second, I rarely name anyone on my blog. I think I’m about to depart from that. At least for this post. It was never about one incident, or one blogger, or one site, or […]
A Question of Feminism or a "Movement?"
Most of the following is based from a long phone call with BFP who asked the heaviest of questions, “Is There a Movement?” For a long time, I have quoted warrior Helen Zia who said, “There is not a women’s movement, capital W, capital M. There are women’s movements, plural.” In an interview with Ms. […]
Spring Time
Don’t you just adore spring? Aside from my wheezing lungs from springtime allergens and the increased number of tourists in the city, I tell you, there is nothing like spring. Today, the Boston Marathon cancelled all classes around the city and Nick and watched about 25,000 folks run their fannies off. We were at the […]