Soon, I’ll see her soon. In the meantime she’s living in a chest of drawers. Not really. She just likes some peace, sometimes.
It’s the Racism, Stupid
I’m with Keith Olbermann on this one, and with Jen Moseley of Feministing. I’m absolutely flabbergasted by the racist insinuations Ferraro has made.
Snowing
godDAMN it’s snowing again.
Bad Shoes
In a moment of weakness a few weeks ago, I found a pair of black loafers at a Goodwill for $4. (I also found a pair of Banana Republic wool trousers for $6, but that’s another story.)
I am notoriously cheap. I couldn’t resist.
But my feet, apparently, are princesses. I wore those shoes today and practically crippled myself. They were very comfortable when I put them on but had almost no arch support. So by the time I was walking home I was nearly lame with the pain in my feet and legs, like I’d developed gout & lumbago simultaneously.
My Danskos are helping ameliorate the situation, but someone remind me: never again. I buy good shoes for a reason, because the cost of cheap ones is not worth the cost to my body (old lady that I am).
Gender Studies 101
For your amusement, or edification, I’ve been putting together a list of terms & concepts students of my Intro to Gender Studies class are required to know – for exams & that sort of thing. I thought some of you might want to ‘check in’ to see how many you could define or explain (extra points if you can name the author/article we were teaching the concepts with!): Continue reading “Gender Studies 101”
Queer + Catholic (Like Me)
It looks like I’ll be one of a few readers reading our pieces that will appear in the Queer + Catholic
Encore!
It looks like Betty & I will be doing an encore performance here at Lawrence University before I/we leave at the end of term. It’ll be on Sunday, 3/16, at 3:30 PM, probably again in Science 102. Hope you can make it if you missed us last time.
Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself
I was going to write a column about why, as a feminist, I’d rather be voting for Barack Obama and why, precisely, I’d rather not vote for Hillary Clinton, but one of my students beat me to it.
As smart as she is, however, Hillary is a seriously repugnant actress. Anyone who has sat through a community theater rendition of Shakespeare might know how I feel when I watch Hillary on TV. You are literally crawling out of your skin by the time intermission rolls around. Hillary is like Lady Macbeth and Ophelia rolled into one, and that, my friends, is a very unfortunate combination of ambition, madness, victimization, and desperation.
Do read the whole of the article, since it expresses so much of what feminists who don’t like Clinton don’t like about her.
Aunt Nelly’s Macaroni
Today’s Word of the Day is —
macaroni /n
1: pasta made from semolina and shaped in the form of slender tubes. *2: an affected young man : fop
* “He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.” – Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray
Now there’s one I’d never heard before. I’m just wondering how you make it a plural… “Oh, those macaronis can’t even act straight.” Perhaps.
International Women’s Day 2008
Today is International Women’s Day. Find an event near you or watch some cool clips by and about women.
It’s a good day to maybe make a donation to a group that provides services to women, or to read something written by a woman, or view some art by one.