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Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Cellar Door

Cellar Door — Mon, 28 May 2012 00:21:13 +0000

I talked about some solid reasons why the marriage equality movement needs to be redefined and abandoned.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by curtrice

curtrice — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:50:50 +0000

A previous entry on my blog got picked up the The Guardian and published as “Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried.”

It’s been “shared” on Facebook over 4000 times these last 3 or so days. Check it out!

Comment on Awesome Dad of the Day by zuzu

zuzu — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:18:59 +0000

Conditions for child actors are a *lot* better than they were in the old days, when they were essentially exploited and robbed blind.

But the appearance clauses are standard for a lot of actors. I have to wonder if the Smiths avoided such a thing for Willow because a) Willow is a singer, not an actress, and thus might not be asked to even have that term; b) Will and Jada have been around the business and are probably a lot more savvy than Emma Watson’s parents were years ago.

Few adult actors even think to negotiate around these clauses, because who really thinks about the show being a multi-year hit that will lock them into a look? Ginnifer Goodwin is one of the few I know about; her contract for Big Love specified that she could keep her hair any way she liked and wear wigs on set.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by alynn

alynn — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:06:51 +0000

It’d be just great if S.E. Cupp didn’t take a bad situation and use it to insult other women, right?

And a bit about how fat people play their own role in fat shaming.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Krista

Krista — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:42:39 +0000

At Muslimah Media Watch this week:

Eren asked what the idea of an “Islamic state” means for women, in theory and in practice.

Nicole looked at France’s new Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, and the potential impact of his politics on Muslim women.

Guest contributor Arwa Aburawa interviewed Samar Hazboun about her film Hush, which features women living in a women’s shelter in Palestine.

Samya looked at the TEDxMogadishu talks, and how these might challenge images of Somalia as only ever a place of suffering, war, and poverty.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Eskeptrical Engineer

Eskeptrical Engineer — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:38:52 +0000

Why don’t we tell the stories of women in science?

http://eskeptrical.blogspot.com/2012/05/bro-ographies.html

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by The Sartorial Nerd

The Sartorial Nerd — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:38:52 +0000

At The Sartorial Nerd, I looked at the best and worst of this season’s finales.

And Amanda Leigh took another look at the women of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Glasgow sex worker

Glasgow sex worker — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:29:01 +0000

Yay! Heya. I wrote a thing about self care.

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Jem Bloomfield

Jem Bloomfield — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:28:56 +0000

Sherlock Series 2: not plugging my work this week, but my mate Sophie, who has written possibly the definitive (and certainly the side-splittive) commentaries on the BBC/ Cumberbatch/ Gatiss/ Moffat show SHERLOCK

Comment on Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday by Jo

Jo — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:21:57 +0000

This week at my blog:

Some thoughts on going to the Brisbane Slutwalk and what I liked and didn’t like about it.

Questioning why the sort of love found in romantic and sexual relationships seem to be the most important thing there is (other than parent love) and how other forms of love are classed as lesser.

And a bit of a rant on dreams and doubt and why I feel like I constantly have to question myself and justify myself in terms of my identity as asexual.

Look forward to reading everyone else’s posts later today! :)