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I Was A Teenage Feminist…
Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Angier, E-Z Bake Oven, Natalie, National Institutes of Health, Woman: An Intimate Geography, biology, chemical, college, default, department, discrimination, education, english, equality, evolutionary, female, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender equality, genetic, genetics, hormone, institution, interdisciplinary, major, male, objective, objectivity, old boys, organismic, professor, reproduction, reproductive system, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociology, student, syllabus, testes, women's health, zygote.
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On Sppeling, Philosophy of Language & Parrots
Right, so first the spelling thing and then on to the long awaited polyamory discussion. I have no idea why I’m not asleep right now, but I’m sure I’ll get to that eventually. I’ve never really seen the need to respell words – ie wimmin, womyn etc. – to exclude men and man from them. [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under American, Unapologetically Female, attraction, awkward, bilingual, cathartic, cheating, cigarette, cousin, cynicism, diction, emotional attachment, emotions, encyclopedia, english, feelings, female, feminism, feminist, feminist philosophers, force, foreplay, gender, gender neutrality, grammar, hand, invisibility, language, law, legal definition, linguistics, los abandonados, love, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, man, mascot, masturbation, mixtape, orgasm, parrot, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of language, polyamory, primate, psycholinguistics, rape, relationships, school, semantics, sex, sexual activity, sexual harassment, sexual partner, sexual relations, spanish, spelling, stanford, the invisible woman, wimmin, womyn, words.
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You Had Me At Hello: Sex, Power, Rape.
In castellano, as residents of Buenos Aires, who call themselves porteños, call their native language, there are about a hundred ways to say hello. ¿Qué onda, buey? which translates literally as “what wave, ox?”, and more figuratively as “what’s the vibe, dude?” is the friendliest of the bunch, and a common choice among the hip [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under Argentina, Argentine, Buenos Aires, God, Juncal, Nixon, administration, bar, buey, campus, cardboard, castellano, college, country, dinner, dragon, english, feminism, gender, greetings, happening, hello, hoodlum, interview, kathleen barry, language, latin america, manners, martial arts, night, party, physical power, physical threat, porteno, power, provecho, que onda, que pasa, que tal, rape, respect, restaurant, retail, safety, semantics, sex, sexual assault, shag carpet, slang, sociology, spanish, street, syntax, threat, villa, walking alone at night, wealth disparity, weapons, what.
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Reserved to be Judged by God: Prostitution in Argentina
Last night, over wine ($3.50 a bottle) at a fancy club where most people were in awe of a celebrity named Gisela something who none of my compatriots recognized, someone I had just met told me the story of being pressured to join a prostitution ring. It was a long story, but it can be [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under AMMAR, American, Argentina, Argentine, Argentine constitution, Bolivian, Buenos Aires, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Europe, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Female Sexuality, Gisela, God, Mercy Plaza, Mujeres Creando, Ninguna mujer nace para puta, Once, Once Plaza, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Puta, United States, VIP, activism, activist, arrest, awareness, breasts, brothel, cab, cabron, celebrity, club, condom, constitution, crime, curse, danger, english, fashion, feminism, feminist, fine, fur coats, garter belts, hijueputa, insult, jail, judge, law, marriage, national campaign, pedophile, police, prostitute, prostitution, prostitution ring, punk, retro-punk, scam, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual violence, spanish, swear, taxi, the state, tourism, tourists, vandalism, whore, wine.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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