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On slut-shaming, deleting comments, and respectful discourse 4 Mar 2011 | 02:36 am
ETA 2011/03/06: It turns out that my comments were marked as spam, not deleted; they have now been published. For some reason Blogspot, unlike WordPress (which most of my experience is with), displays...
This is why I hardly read blogs anymore 31 Oct 2010 | 02:48 pm
In the past year the amount of (feminist) blogs that I read regularly, or even on an occasional basis, has shrunk to fit on one hand. Literally, aside from keeping up with Iris, the only blogs I regul...
New post at Better by Design 29 Aug 2010 | 05:38 pm
Just posting here to let everyone know that I’ve written a post about sexism in Stardock’s new game Elemental: War of Magic over at Better by Design: Stardock’s Elemental and what it says about the st...
Moved to WPMU 25 Aug 2010 | 02:04 pm
Some of you might notice that the blog has a new look; this is because I’ve moved over to WPMU and am using the new default WordPress theme. Still busy with school, still no time to blog, though. Sorr...
Brian Ashcraft, let me do your homework for you 8 Apr 2010 | 03:14 am
In Kotaku’s grand tradition of shoddy reporting and lack of any decent research, Brian Ashcraft has written an impassioned but so supremely hypocritical article on the RapeLay controversy (link roundu...
Ableism is not feminism. Spread the word. 9 Oct 2009 | 08:18 pm
I know this blog is in retirement (my internet time these days is practically nill), but when I saw Meloukhia’s An Open Letter to Feministing (hat-tip: Hoyden About Town) I had to cosign it. Yes, it’s...
Update on AmazonFail 15 Apr 2009 | 01:49 pm
First off, it has been noted that the de-ranking wasn’t limited to GLBT issues and erotica, but also notably affected books on disability and sexuality as well as feminist books, books on sexuality, a...
Amazon censors women and queer people 13 Apr 2009 | 01:24 pm
So, I’m sure everyone has heard by now, but Amazon has recently made the decision to remove the sales rankings of so-called “adult” books in order to ensure that they don’t show up in some searches (l...
All the RE5 discussion needed was a Nice White Gamer 13 Feb 2009 | 11:16 pm
Dear Nice White Gamers, I am glad that you, unlike the Not Nice Gamers, understand that we don’t live in a post-racial world. It’s nice that you’re able to see the the word “racism” in the same paragr...
Retiring the blog 22 Dec 2008 | 07:19 pm
So. My life is super busy, I rarely have time to update, moderation has become a chore that I take care of only once a few weeks, and I really don’t have the time and the energy to deal with … Continu...
