From Sexual Ambiguities Feminism For Freaks At its best, feminism offers an emancipatory potential from gendered oppression, inequality, and violence. At its worst, however, feminism can work to simply affirm the rights of middle-class, heterosexual, white women, and exclude the voices of already-marginalised groups such as women of colour, trans* women, sex workers and so […]
Author: Lisa
Make Yourself Happy
If you haven’t subscribed to make/shift magazine, you are truly letting a happy pill slip right through your fingers. Saddle up for the most respectable, exciting, and edgy feminist publication in print. Do yourself a favor while you enjoy the warming temps of Spring, grab your make/shift mag, a patch of grassy park, and daydream […]
Disrupting the Hypersexualized and Domestic Filipina Image
Congrats to the winners of the Wikipilipinas Filipinas Stories Contest! In efforts to change the sexualized and docile Filipina image online generated by dating sites that perpetuate a narrow understanding of who the modern Filpina is, Filipina Images in conjunction with Wikipilipinas (a one-stop collective of everything Filipino) ran a writing contest that explored the […]
LIVE BLOGGING from a POST-WAM World, We B(e)lo(ng): Womyn of Color and Online Feminism
It’s like my very own infomercial. I’m selling a priceless gem – the hope and creative energy that fills a room with history, respect, love, and vision. If you haven’t caught on by now, I’m really trying to organize my life right now – writing, deadlines, travels – and still get my posts up about […]
OH THE NEGLECT
So, the past two weeks have been full of blog neglect. I know that it’s been a while since St. Patty’s when we last posted, but I am up to my eyeballs in writing deadlines and we had 3 weekends with a killer schedule of flying to Ohio last weekend, hosting 4 friends this weekend, […]
LIVE BLOGGING FROM POST-WAM WORLD
I just dropped off Nadia at the airport and have so much to blog about this weekend, I’m jotting down my notes so I don’t forget everything. I’m going for a long walk right now with Adonis for some much needed exercise and quality time with beloved. The weekend was inspiring and energizing and thought-provoking. […]
LIVE Blogging from WAM: Say Thank You
It’s not easy hosting brilliant feminist thinkers in one apartment. Adonis and I welcomed BFP, Nadia, Lex, and Jess Hoffman from Make/Shift into our humble abode and are trying to keep up with everyone’s energy. This morning, we were cutting it a bit close as I drove like a mad womyn through the crowded streets […]
LIVE Blogging from WAM: The Truth Out About Feminism
Reflections at the beginning of WAM – my peminist (Pinay feminism) daydreaming. The truth is about feminism is the same truth about media: we trap ourselves when we soley focus on our individual liberation. Feminism is not a concept or an assumption I make because a few womyn say so. Feminism is the question, the […]
LIVE Blogging from the Women, Action, and the Media Conference
The conference actually begins Friday and it’s late, late Thursday night/Friday morning (1:30am!) and the fun has already begun. Nadia and BA are already here and we met up in Cambridge. We met up at the Marriot Hotel. After BA and I almost knocked out a mirrored closet in her room from hugging each other […]
Links for the Day
Here’s an update as to what I am reading these days…. Powerful and personal…. Charged Poetics Video Inspiration Politics of Baby-Wearing Presidential Thoughts On Loving Bint…