tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215962912012-01-09T22:21:57.482-08:00Smithiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471431383788160051noreply@blogger.comBlogger1961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-47588143775492245592010-03-02T06:36:00.001-08:002010-03-02T06:36:46.849-08:00

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-75600041305402443892010-02-23T02:45:00.000-08:002010-02-23T02:47:27.725-08:00

We received some very sad news today from the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.Lee Jeom-rae Halmoni, 89, passed away two weeks ago from a brain hemorrhage. She born in 1921 in Iksan, in North Jeolla Province. When she was only 14 years old, she was forced to serve as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers in China and Singapore for 6 years. She was finally able

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-34862000479262497192010-02-14T04:56:00.001-08:002010-02-14T04:56:29.056-08:00

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-74724930178007132562010-02-04T07:04:00.000-08:002010-02-04T07:05:32.498-08:00

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-40277116493115467422010-01-17T22:19:00.000-08:002010-01-17T22:20:15.601-08:00

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Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-5152849970978582152009-12-20T06:24:00.001-08:002009-12-20T06:24:57.748-08:00

Dear TWB community,The Toronto Women's Bookstore is in crisis and we need your help!Independent businesses and bookstores have been closing their doors this year, and after 36 years it is possible that we will have to do the same if we are not able to raise enough money to survive. TWB is one of the only remaining non-...profit feminist bookstores in North America, but despite all of the events,

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-87319795453655835112009-12-16T08:52:00.000-08:002009-12-16T08:53:14.478-08:00

Today the memorial service for Kim Hak Soon Halmoni, the first of the survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery to come out publicly with her story in 1991, was held in South Korea. Kim Hak Soon Halmoni took the leap of faith required to come forth and share her story on TV all those years ago, thus laying the foundations for the international movement of support for the former "comfort women

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-73360807772158374032009-12-14T06:21:00.001-08:002009-12-14T06:21:38.010-08:00

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-71928696069308885632009-12-03T00:30:00.000-08:002009-12-03T00:30:00.726-08:00

Global CEDAW 30th Anniversary Celebration EventEvent Type: Special Day or AnniversaryDate: 03.12.09 Time: 15:00–17:00 (GMT-0500) Location: United Nations, New York – ECOSOC Chamber, UN Headquarters, New York, NYOn 3rd December 2009, the United Nations will hold a global celebration for the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-41577702555301141312009-12-01T09:18:00.000-08:002009-12-01T09:18:00.629-08:00

"Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: without story, there is no debt. A story is a string of actions occurring over time-one damn thing after another, as we glibly say in creative writing classes-and debt happens as a result of actoins occurring over time. Therefore, any debt involves a plot line: how you got into debt, what you did, said, and thought while you were in there,

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-1759748566674931482009-11-30T22:52:00.000-08:002009-11-30T22:53:26.439-08:00

Tonight, I snuggled with my four year-old in bed to read his good-night story. His choice was one of the many books based on the movie Cars*. As we listed and described the various characters, I was struck once again by how few female characters are in that movie. Few as in one. Sally, the sports car who “turns heads”. Sigh, Pixar**. Cars wasn’t sexist enough? You had to make the spin-offs

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-88070047946621666622009-11-30T21:05:00.001-08:002009-11-30T21:05:44.976-08:00

HELPING VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING BECOME SURVIVORS: DURAEBANGYOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!Check out the FB event page at: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=209298802385&index=1This December, as we count down to the winter solstice, holidays of hope and a bright new year, Lila Yoga has partnered up with the House of Sharing International Outreach Team to raise funds for

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-88655314238275596852009-11-30T10:45:00.000-08:002009-11-30T11:20:48.114-08:00

Better a filler post than NO post, which is what I contributed on Saturday. Since the previous Saturday's post was me whining about mastitis, I guess I have officially been suffering from Boob Issues for a week. It seems to be getting better now.But nobody cares about my boobs (except the baby). So to switch to another topic entirely - check out this crazy ass interview. My head is still reeling.

Smithiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471431383788160051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-32972409605306064322009-11-29T07:27:00.000-08:002009-11-29T07:27:00.128-08:00

Yes, yes. It's a filler post. This is what adorns my walls - a couple of cards I picked up at the Toronto Women's Bookstore and things I've ripped out of magazines - mostly Bitch and Bust, but all kinds of random things I've bought over the past couple of years. What isn't pictured here is the Hot Priests of Rome calender, but it didn't seem to fit quite as well.

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-58791656871643342792009-11-27T09:15:00.000-08:002009-11-29T21:24:00.205-08:00

""Any fable I've told about who I was then dissolves when I read that loose-jointed script I wrote. We tend to overlay grown-up wisdoms across the blanker selves that the young actually proffer." Mary Karr, CherryWhile I was home, I picked up a book called Dork Whore by Iris Bahr. A combination of the title and the blurb on the back, which explained that the book was about a twenty-year old

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-9766653417140581782009-11-26T20:11:00.000-08:002009-11-26T20:15:41.098-08:00

...that my son "merely" has croup instead of the swine flu...that the emergency room was exceptionally quiet and we could be seen right away...that the staff was friendly and helpful...and that my son is now soundly asleep and breathing freely

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-79271235240927190422009-11-25T21:03:00.001-08:002009-11-25T21:03:57.235-08:00

GENEVA, 25 November 2009 -- The Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, seizes the opportunity of the International Day on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November) to present her approach to the mandate, both in terms of thematic priorities and cooperation with other mechanisms, with a view to enhance efforts to eliminate

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-13186127301744001442009-11-25T16:45:00.000-08:002009-11-25T16:47:17.585-08:00

I was supposed to post my second post today. Instead, I am home with a sick 4 yr old who won't let me out of his sight for more than five minutes and doesn't want to nap.(posted for Yael-Einshem)

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-64023456921979736072009-11-24T21:01:00.000-08:002009-11-24T21:02:33.959-08:00

In 1999, the UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime - with the abuser usually someone known to her.Women's activists have

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-32692713074556988582009-11-24T09:22:00.000-08:002009-11-24T09:22:00.136-08:00

"In our country the constitutional separation of church and state has obscured the nonetheless real connection between the two as fellow enforcers of conformity, mystification, and hierarchy. Prayer in the schools will mkae it plain to see. It's never too early for the young to take the measure of the forces arrayed against those who would think for themselves. Right now religion has the romantic

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-77391352403177631172009-11-23T22:37:00.000-08:002009-11-23T22:38:20.848-08:00

My company has sent out a mandatory diversity training notice recently. It’s a web-based course with both narration and text, with a few quizzes thrown in to keep you awake. It probably wasn’t bad, as these things go. Despite the stilted dialog and acting, the scenarios were not wildly unrealistic, including situations like dating one’s supervisor (and then breaking up), or unwelcome jokes

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-19412121443434167282009-11-22T06:54:00.000-08:002009-11-22T06:54:00.200-08:00

In honour of Friday the Thirteenth, I watched Jennifer's Body. After all, it isn't every day that a movie written, directed and starred in by women comes along, much less a horror movie.It wasn't very scary and I'm a huge wimp. I was hoping for lots of moments where I jumped in fright or hid under my covers, but this one I could watch alone at midnight with all the lights out and no problems at

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-16145195968546441432009-11-21T18:25:00.000-08:002009-11-21T18:26:37.063-08:00

Sorry, Internets. I'm too sick to be witty today.

Smithiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471431383788160051noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-1198308443811149592009-11-20T04:53:00.000-08:002009-11-20T06:18:44.460-08:00

Recently the article making the rounds of the expat community here in Korea is this one. In the last year or so several blogs have popped up translating Korean articles about foreigners and I have to say that I, for one, rather wish they hadn't - I enjoyed not having to face that these attitudes existed in Korea. I liked my little Zen bubble. The group in question pops up all the time and

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-14509413602672914402009-11-19T22:50:00.000-08:002009-11-19T22:52:38.596-08:00

Deadlines are looming.Long hours barely sufficientTo manage my tasks.Avast needs tending.So many topics calling,Yet posting must wait.

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-63535054261680846512009-11-18T09:24:00.000-08:002009-11-18T09:24:00.360-08:00

On the weekend I attended a book club meeting run by a friend - as per usual we only discussed the book briefly and ended up talking about completely different things. Somehow the talk turned to health care and my friend tried to tell me that not only will Obama never pass the reforms, but that America doesn't need to change its health care policies and that it's a better system than Canada's.But

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-68437546849025462772009-11-17T19:33:00.001-08:002009-11-17T19:35:47.297-08:00

When the idea for reviving Avast for NaBloPoMo came up, I thought it would be a great chance to write a post or two on feminism in Israel. My country tends to come up in conversations over lots of issues; feminism is not the first one to come to mind. I have spent the last few days trying to figure out what to write about.In many ways women here are considered equal. From day one of the

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-42919510325874679942009-11-15T22:12:00.000-08:002009-11-16T17:46:19.710-08:00

Before I became a parent, I thought few people in my educational and social cohort would have firm ideas about the inherent nature of boys and girls. After all, we’re generally progressive and at least moderately worldly. We’ve heard of the role of society upon our choices and lives, haven’t we? We know that cultures differ around the world and have changed over time, haven’t we? Sadly, I can add

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-60003804062359020962009-11-15T22:08:00.000-08:002009-11-15T22:12:50.996-08:00

Let's wait for tomorrow, shall we?

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-78123958841427513242009-11-15T21:18:00.000-08:002009-11-15T21:18:00.100-08:00

"Whatever you say about sci-fi fans, they have an acute sense of the monumental. A pretty good definition of sci-fi, in fact, is fiction that focuses exclusively on monumental events: plagues, comets, interspecies wars, the return of the dinosaurs." Nugent, American NerdIn Benjamin Nugent's American Nerd, the subtitle reads "The Story of My People". Certainly it isn't the story of my people.

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-57257461456293575142009-11-14T18:00:00.000-08:002009-11-14T18:33:44.608-08:00

So, the kids are involved in this homeschool theater troupe, and the ladies running it are very interested in fostering a "family-friendly atmosphere" - by which they apparently mean no mention of human reproduction, since the play they picked would get a thumbs-up from Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs for its anti-government, anti-Mexican overtones.All right then, we're encouraging chastity. No problem.

Smithiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471431383788160051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-64798784255383233002009-11-14T17:50:00.000-08:002009-11-14T18:30:21.328-08:00

First, please pretend this is November 13, ok? Then I won't get in trouble for being behind schedule (as usual.)I can't remember how, but somehow I stumbled across the men's rights section of Wikipedia. Now, you may be thinking that a smart person would have slowly backed away from the monitor and turned away to do something more productive and cheering such as clean the dog poop out of the

Sasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01811882099253294942noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-28320109474320382652009-11-12T07:07:00.001-08:002009-11-12T07:07:58.712-08:00

In Canada, the poppy is the official symbol of Remembrance Day. The Canadian Legion sells felt poppies as a fundraiser for disabled veterans. People wear the poppies in their lapels and coats for several days around Remembrance Day. It’s not a common practice in the US, so I was surprised and pleased to get one from a Canadian co-worker today. It made me think about what it means to support

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-32222301175919732622009-11-11T09:07:00.000-08:002009-11-11T09:07:00.131-08:00

I was going to write a big post about women and the Korean War, in honour of Remembrance Day (in spite of the fact that in Korea today, we celebrate Pepero - a chocolate-covered biscuit stick). However, in spite of borrowing a book from the school and printing out some Internet articles to do this at home, what I ended up doing was going to a pub quiz, winning and staying out until 6 a.m. (don't

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-15348451237516638542009-11-10T00:45:00.000-08:002009-11-10T00:45:00.336-08:00

While I was home, I bought a ton of books (between my father giving me gift certificates at the Bolton bookstore and Indigo and all those coupons designed to get people shopping at Canadian stores like Roots and Indigo, I had fun). In addition to lugging all of those back to Korea to read (minus the perhaps six or so I read while at home), I also grabbed Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-44847081786842454882009-11-09T17:31:00.001-08:002009-11-09T17:31:47.395-08:00

The theory of general relativity describes gravity as a bending of spacetime. Massive objects like the sun bend spacetime, forming a “well” that makes it difficult for smaller objects to escape it’s vicinity.When I was pregnant, we knew that I would return to work (after 9 weeks leave) and that my husband would stay at home with the baby. At that time my work visa changed and my husband no

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-23326465305094024402009-11-08T03:10:00.000-08:002009-11-08T03:10:00.523-08:00

Last year about this time I discovered two fantastic bloggers, as a result of NaBloPoMo, Feral Geographer and Mae Callan and then they, being the awesome bloggers that they are, set up Queer Canada Blogs. Go have a read.

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-71915796444895561462009-11-07T06:23:00.000-08:002009-11-07T07:48:50.379-08:00

Do you feel a headache coming on? A massive blinding frustration-induced migraine?In a lot of ways, the recent defeat of gay marriage rights in Maine is just plain boring. Same shit, different state. Mainers were snowed by the same "protect the children!" rhetoric that worked so well in California. That bewildering "it's not about fairness" tagline is an ACTUAL SLOGAN used by the irony-impaired

Smithiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471431383788160051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-42647539359154315272009-11-06T09:42:00.000-08:002009-11-06T09:42:00.111-08:00

"When you're shameless, you do what you want, how you want, and don't worry about what the neighbours think."While I was home, I must have bought about thirty magazines. I love magazines about as much as I love chocolate and cheese, and the opportunity to buy so many things that aren't stocked here in Korea or even just the opportunity to not spend $10-15 on them as I usually do, was too hard to

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-56824329518328667422009-11-05T07:51:00.000-08:002009-11-05T07:53:12.735-08:00

Tuesday was election day. Did you vote? Did you notice? It was one of the small, quiet election days after all, with no presidents and only a few governors. Some cities voted for mayors and a couple of states voted on same-sex marriage and domestic partnerships.I moved to the United States on January 1, 2001. A few weeks later, George W. Bush took office. I’ve been here through 9/11, the

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-61720575979043585332009-11-04T01:33:00.000-08:002009-11-04T01:33:00.709-08:00

When I was in Vancouver, lots of people were talking about the Olympics. Aside from liking the new Canada Line of the Skytrain, Vancouverites didn't seem particularly happy about the preparations for 2010. Between the complaining about budgets, people forced to sell buildings to the planners, or businesses that have been around for decades being threatened with lawsuits because they named their

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-6477934539552689492009-11-03T03:01:00.000-08:002009-11-03T03:01:00.209-08:00

Since January, I've been waking up earlier on the weekends than during the weekdays. You might wonder what could make me get up early on a Saturday or Sunday morning; certainly it was something I wouldn't have predicted a year ago. However, last January I became a Hasher. I don't mean that I started smoking anything: on a cold, wintery day, I went out running with a bunch of women dressed in

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-24199739823367879352009-11-02T20:18:00.000-08:002009-11-02T20:19:23.935-08:00

Hmm, looks like I’m still figuring out how to use Blogger. I thought I was posting late enough yesterday evening that it would be published on Nov. 2. Well, in the daily posting spirit of NaBloPoMo, I’ll write an extra post for today.Yesterday morning, my husband and I took Kidlet (almost 4) to a local playground. On the way home, we were admiring the different Halloween decorations on the

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-50803985042896032862009-11-01T22:35:00.001-08:002009-11-01T22:35:58.440-08:00

A few weeks ago, my friend Amanda said “Hey! Let’s resurrect our old blog for National Blog Posting Month!” I thought that I’d like to write more outside of work, so I said “Sure! That sounds like fun! I’ll do Mondays and Thursdays.” Yesterday, I realized that it was November 1 and thought “Crap! What did I just do?” Kidding aside, I’m excited to begin our month (and maybe more).To follow

antijenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15161869410664395836noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-12675894629874973902009-11-01T13:47:00.000-08:002009-11-01T13:47:00.597-08:00

It occurs to me that I never introduced myself when I started posting to Avast and in the interest of having something to say for the entire month of November, I thought I'd be kind to myself and start off easily.I've reached the grand old age of 31 and find myself far from home. After leaving home back in '97, I went to Queen's University, but more importantly ended up an exchange student at the

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-90159708572397512012009-10-28T01:51:00.000-07:002009-10-28T01:52:33.737-07:00

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-90091804981716035612009-07-14T20:29:00.000-07:002009-07-14T20:53:43.595-07:00

Do you have two free minutes today?The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act is coming to a vote on the Senate Floor THIS WEEK and we need you to make two calls… one to each Senator that will take no more than 45 seconds each.There are reports of 300,000 letters and calls from right-wing groups trying to stop it. Anti-LGBT leaders like Focus on the Family’s James Dobson are referring to the bill as the

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-27152665569448963492009-06-15T07:02:00.001-07:002009-06-15T07:02:43.413-07:00

Since we won another trivia and have to make up yet another quiz, I thought I'd make mine all about things I found in this month's Bust Magazine. I have no idea if these are hard for the general quiz-goer or not, but I don't find half of them at all difficult, so let's hope...(I'll post answers later in the week, in case you all want to play along!)1. Who is the star of the TV Show My Life on the

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-49297728819948984032009-03-24T12:19:00.001-07:002009-03-24T12:21:10.819-07:00

In honor of Ada Lovelace day, I would like to tell you a little bit about Dr. Barbara Liskov (b. 1939), pioneer of object-oriented programming, and dedicated advocate for the advancement of women in science and technology.To call Dr. Liskov a breaker of barriers would be a bit of an understatement. She was the first US woman to be awarded a PhD in computer science (from Stanford, 1968) and the

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Comic by Kate Beaton.March 24th is Ada Lovelace Day, honoring women in technology. The challenge was to publish a post today about a woman in technology whom I admire. Who was Ada?Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a

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A friend sent me a goofy email. I did the math and got the silly answer and then noted that there wasn't a single female name on the list of role models, except for my friend's. Disturbing.WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL???Try it without looking at answers1) Pick your Favourite number between 1-92) Multiply by 3 then3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 34) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number….5) Add those

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The challenge: publish a post on March 24, 2009 about a woman in technology whom you admire. Needless to say, I'm in, and I hope you will be in, too! If you plan to participate, please sign the pledge and be counted toward the goal, which is to get at least 1000 blogs to join in. Additional details can be found at the Finding Ada blog. They also have a Twitter feed and a mailing list.Please

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Please take a moment to help defend the safety and work of Iran's Nobel Laureate human rights lawyer Dr. Shirin Ebadi.Dr. Ebadi, a defender of women's rights, has had her human rights organization forcibly closed by the Iranian authorities. In the latest of a series of serious incidents, an angry mob surrounded Dr. Ebadi's home and personal office chanting death threats against her and

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Benjie Perez posted an announcement to the cause REPEAL PROP 8!!. ----------------Hi everyone, This is an e-mail I received right before Thanksgiving from Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign. Please read what he had to say and be aware that we are donating to a great charity who is aligned with our vision to repeal Prop 8!! Dear Benjie, As Thanksgiving nears, I feel profoundly

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For International Human Rights Day, I participated in one of the weekly Wednesday Demonstrations in front of the Japanese Embassy. I first learned about the issue of sexual slavery by the Japanese military when I visited Sharing House. Sharing House consists of both a museum and a house where some of the halmoni live together. International volunteers run English tours. In addition to

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My SSAT prep class kids were sitting around, casually reading an issue of Seventeen when I walked in today. I was ripe for being sidelined from the grammar lesson - after a day of supervising tests, which at my school involves shuffling more paper than you can even believe, my brain was half-fried and half-dead of boredom. After we took up the homework, Morgan suddenly complained about how none

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You've seen the bumper stickers, you've heard your friends wax self-righteous that they've already done it. Now it's your turn: Vote, dangit. Ten days to go, and here's why you want to vote now. Not tomorrow, not next week, and definitely not on election day. I sat in on a meeting a few days ago for partisan volunteers who are aiming to work the precincts on election day. It was an

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Embedded video from CNN Video

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"I believe that any advance for a woman is an advance for all women. As I perform my duties as speaker of the House, I know it will pave the way for more opportunity for women throughout our country."~Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Washington, DC in Letters to the Editor of Ms. Magazine, Spring 2007

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Nearly ten summers ago, I was taking - of all things - a 101 level chemistry class at a junior college in San Francisco. I struck up a conversation with the gal on the lab bench across from me, and over some foggy lunches and breaks between cram sessions, we talked about all kinds things political and passionately personal. One day, she brought me a magazine and told me she thought I’d like it,

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I didn’t realize Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates was for young adults when I bought it; however, it fits in well with all the books I kept borrowing from school. It’s a book that deals with feminist issues – spousal abuse and date rape. The main character is a fourteen year old girl who is caught between a father whose approval she craves and a mother she is upset with. A girl who suspects

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cross-posted at my blog

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Hollywood's Five Saddest Attempts at Feminism.I giggled and I agreed. Doesn't get better than that.

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-27259915148164325552008-08-25T09:46:00.000-07:002008-08-25T13:22:16.526-07:00

The PUMAs (Party Unity My A**) aren't even feminist. Or Democrats. Their leaders are two GOP men, Darragh Murphy and Will Bower, who have targted Hillary Clinton for destruction as much as they've targeted Barack Obama. PUMA PAC's blog contains talking points straight from the right wing. And their obsession with all things Michelle Obama has a decidely right-wing flavor to it -- they're

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Last Thursday night I annoyed a cab driver.It was my friend Sheila's last night in Korea and I was grabbing some of her stuff, including a clothes rack, a mattress (of sorts), a giant pillow, a small bedside table and a rice cooker. So, naturally, I hailed a cab. He happily took me over to Kyungidung (spelling undoubtably wrong there), but he was mighty unpleased upon mention of the trunk being

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Who knew this even existed?Women are becoming players on the competitive barbecuing circuit in OntarioJune 13, 2007 Jennifer BainPARIS, ONT.–Competitive barbecuing may be a man's "sport" but that doesn't stop the guys from welcoming Diva Q into the fray.They wander into her makeshift cooking tent – a white, waterproof car shelter actually, since the wicked winds of Friday destroyed her regular

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I read Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller. It was inspired by my trip to Sharing House, which is a museum and home for Korean women who were sexual slaves of the Japanese Army during the Second World War. I found the book a bit of a disappointment - I had been looking in What the Book in Seoul for a historical book about the issue, but when I looked in the Asia Interest section, there wasn't a

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-20082124263549673452008-03-11T06:35:00.000-07:002008-03-11T06:36:22.646-07:00

Women's History linksInfo and quizzes galore!

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Famous Feminists Quiz

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Feb 13thDear supporters,The "Unborn Victims of Crime Act" is scheduled for debate on Feb 29 with a Parliamentary vote on March 5. This bill would give fetuses personhood, and it has a chance of passing. Not only is it a foot-in-the-door to recriminalize abortion, it would also endanger the rights of all pregnant women, and violate women's equality rights in general. Please check out our 14

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-63141035875490042882008-02-26T04:59:00.000-08:002008-02-26T06:00:42.722-08:00

One of the ways I waste time on the internet is posting on a few parenting-themed message boards. A topic that pops up every few weeks is "my parter/spouse and I can't agree on how many children to have - what do I do?", and lately I've seen a trend that bothers me, where it's assumed that women should be the sole person to decide how many children to have.Recently, there was a discussion where a

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The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women is continuing the unattractive Second Wave practice of deliberately turning the Democratic presidential nomination process into a divisive race v. gender war. Almost immediately after Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama the chapter came out with a press release titled "Senator Ted Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing for Hillary

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Mark January 8 in your book as the day both Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton came out with anti-Barack Obama rhetoric of the same classic, ugly racist cloth that proved to be one of the undoings of Second Wave feminism. Yes, Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton are exporting the politics, tactics, and nastiness of the Second Wave's internal race wars into the mainstream. Lovely.Note: It didn't

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Back when I was on a university exchange in Edinburgh, I went to the St. Andrew's Day Ball with four friends I lived in residence with. We got all fancied up (and I remember the dress shopping taking ages and costing far more than I wanted to spend) and ended up getting one of those professional photos done that they all have at things like this. When we finally got the photos back, everyone

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I've been stewing over this for a few days, so I guess I should just write about it and get it out of my system.Little Circus needed some dental work done, and because of work schedules, it was easier for me to take the her to her first 2 appointments (a consult, and then a filling). The pediatric dentist is a woman around my age, which at first made me happy. In general, I try to select female

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This is a fascinating clip. People are asked what the penalty would be if abortion was illegal.

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I want to start off by saying that I think labeling these kids as sex offenders is overkill, and that jail time is overkill too.Now, let me rage.I'm fucking sick to death of the harassment of women and girls being minimized like this. I'm sick of the "boys will be boys" attitude that pervades our culture. I'm sick of people using cutesy words like "butt slaps" instead of "groping" or "assaulting"

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I think it might be time to cut off my hair.When I was with toad, she loved my hair short, and that worked for me, because I had always worn it short, and when I came out as a lesbian, I did what all the baby dykes were doing at that time in that area, and I got my hair cut with a one-guard. I wore variations of that cut for years.I have a life-long issue with my hair. It’s thick and coarse with

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If you visit eBay on any given day, you can pay a couple grand and buy yourselves an ultrasound machine, the kind they use in hospitals to look at gallbladders and heart function and little babies in their respective uteri. Someone teaches you the basics of looking at a fetus through the snowfield of an ultrasound screen and you find out that wow, it's not that hard. After all, Tom Cruise could

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Being back in Canada for me means clothes shopping - since I don't exactly conform to the Korean ideal shape (or the North American one, but here I'm not quite so far off, I guess). Which also means lots of lovely afternoons drinking coffee and reading magazines in Indigo for free. I should start being a little more discriminating, perhaps, because I read O Magazine and I wasn't impressed.July's

Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215460807321949806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-50683628899606348892007-07-14T04:13:00.000-07:002007-07-14T04:45:05.610-07:00

I thought I was used to catcalls and come-ons by now. I'm in my 30's and it's been happening to me for over 20 years, so I thought I was at the point where I could roll my eyes and brush it off, but I guess I'm not.Yesterday evening, we ran to Target to get a new swimsuit for Little Circus. I hate looking for clothes (for anyone), so MrCircus took the kid to the children's department, and I

GyratoryCircushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09664065228284041168noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-29608582133307073352007-07-11T14:08:00.000-07:002007-07-11T14:16:14.209-07:00

A former high school friend of mine and all-round fabulous feminist, scholar and activist, Maia, is currently being harassed by Clint Heine, a right-wing blogger affiliated with the ACT Party, New Zealand's most right-wing political organization. One of Heine's commenters suggested that Maia and her political views (which they interpret as signs of "mental illness") could be silenced with "a big

Sofiyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271450822046525653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-16825628322768678552007-07-09T09:12:00.000-07:002007-07-09T09:13:51.460-07:00

Over the weekend, I went on a little roadtrip with a girlfriend. We ditched the kids and the husbands and drove out of town to go to a concert for a friend of mine.Yesterday morning, Friend and I were in the elevator going down to the lobby for the free (but terrible) breakfast when a man got in the elevator with us. Friend and I were talking about when we might leave, and when we might call

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The recent death of Baby Emilio - first and foremost a beloved though very ill child, secondarily the test case for the Texas futility of care law - forces a re-examination of the intersection between ethics, health care finance, and since that's not complex enough, the differential value of life in the context of a world that still doles out merit points based on race, origin, and membership to

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Those of you who've known me for a long time online know that I'm against Mother's Day. I've got very good reasons to be against it, all of which have to do with my abusive mother and the way society and the media drive home for me every year that I don't have what's "normal." And that I will never have that. She's not going to get less crazy. We can't go back in time and have her fix the awful

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I spoke with a D., a grad school friend, the other day. Currently at home full time with her two small children, D. wants to make a career change and is trying to decide what to do. She has a M.Sc. and has worked for several years as a technician in a university biomedical research lab. D. is smart, hard-working, and knows both the techniques and the underlying theory cold. Despite this, she

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Ever since I saw this post on Pandagon, I've been thinking about just how aware I am of my surroundings. This morning, as I was preparing to go for a walk around my neighborhood, I realized just how much more mental preparation and attention it takes than when my husband does the same thing.MrCircus goes running: He puts on running shorts and shoes, no shirt. Ipod is strapped to his arm, volume

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A veterinarian. A neurosurgeon.The first two victims of the massacre at Virginia Tech reportedly planned to become a veterinarian and a neurosurgeon. That information hardly sums up their lives or circumscribes the grief of those who loved them, but it does help describe the stunning loss of human potential of two young people who were strangers to most of us.The facts about Cho Seung-Hui's

Kay Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04944108413520042042noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-83073266788465032912007-03-20T17:33:00.000-07:002007-03-20T14:33:55.483-07:00

Flipping channels last night, I stumbled across the second half of Sisters of '77. I know it's not a new film, but somehow it has managed to elude me until now. And all I can say is...wow. This film is a feminist must-see.From the film official info page:Twenty thousand people from across the U.S. gathered in Houston, Texas on a historic weekend in November 1977 for the first federally funded

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While browsing the SF&F section of a bookstore a few months ago, I decided to stop judging the store on how many books it carried by my favourite authors and to look for an author that I had never read before. I soon found the Jenny Casey series by Elizabeth Bear (Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired) and was quickly hooked by its fast-moving and exciting plot. Set about 50 years in the future,

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Last week, Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' was voted the most popular book in a World Book Day survey. Clearly this disrupts the natural order of things, so the BBC have carefully selected people to explain why, in their opinion, Miss Austen was not in fact a great novelist, satirist and social commentator, but really just a bit dull and silly. But it's something I've noticed before - some of

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It's something that's rarely focussed on, but men, in general, really are whiners about anything which even slightly impinges upon them in a society which is still, on the whole, biased towards them, not against them. We still have a long way to go to reach gender equality, yet the way many men talk, you would think that the whole of society was matriarchal, pro-woman and man-hating, that the

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In 1992 Anna Nicole Smith's Faux Marilyn Monroe Replaced Claudia Schiffer's Faux Bridgette Bardot in Ads for Guess . . . Faux Celebrity? . . . GuessOne of the strangest things about the media's coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's sudden death is how many commentators cannot pinpoint her celebrity-making moment. What's more, most don't even mention her breakout appearance in Guess's gimmicky (

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Better yet, have a big juicy double cheeseburger with bacon in honor of PETA's latest - and perhaps most assinine - ad campaign ever. You remember the one where they compared eating meat to six million murders during the Holocaust. You remember the series where all the skinny girl celebrities get nekkid except for Carnie Wilson who - even fresh from a gobsmacking 100-pound post-bariatric

skylandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09446077096538291998noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21596291.post-1169568882105661712007-01-23T07:46:00.000-08:002007-01-23T08:52:15.996-08:00

... or Polish v. TrashHere's the list of the top movies in 2006, according to box office receipts:1.) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2.) Cars3.) X-Men: The Last Stand4.) The Da Vinci Code5.) Night at the Museum6.) Superman Returns7.) Ice Age: The Meltdown8.) Happy Feet9.) Casino Royale (James Bond)10.) Over the HedgeSimilarities in this list? Family fare. Escapist fun and fantasy. (

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The Ugly Truth Underlying Boxer's Comments I can't let this go yet, it's one of those rare things in the news that continues to fester instead of healing naturally and I think I've finally figured out why it's still bothering me: No one is saying the truth of what really was going on between Senator Barbara Boxer and Condoleeza Rice. Put simply: Boxer not only doesn't respect Condoleeza Rice, she

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There’s this stark, sharp division that I see online, and sometimes IRL, between what I’m going to term “moms” and “nonmoms.” With few exceptions, moms seem to think that nonmoms don’t know jack-shit. They don’t know anything about kids, they don’t know anything about prioritizing time, they don’t know anything about how oppressive the patriarchy is and how women are supposed to be a disposable

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