Viva la Feminista

I don't want to just send you off to another blog to read something, but sometimes I can't do justice to a piece. So head on over to Alternet to read Alex Jung's White Liberals Have White Privilege Too! I don't agree with every word, but gawd damn, it's pretty right on and does explain white privilege pretty darn well. And it was this paragraph that really drew me in. It was as if someone was writing about me except that I did have a bit of a realization that being Latina meant something, but being as non-Latina in the company of non-Latinas was emphasized without saying those exact words. At least that's how I read the signs. Growing up in the company of white people, I was unaware of systems of whiteness. I knew that, as an Asian American, I looked different (and was unhappy about that), and that my parents faced linguistic and financial barriers (which I blamed them for). I did what "good" Americans did, and I individualized my struggles, believing ...

A quick reminder to get your comments & email address in for the Piper Reed give-a-way . I have three comments, but only one left their email address. Thanks!

There's a new blog carnival in town folks - The Pro-Choice Carnival . Check out the first issue ! Of course, yours truly makes an appearance for my musings if abortion can be in a love story . That was an awesome birthday present. Thanks! Technorati tags: blog carnival , pro-choice carnival , feminist

Britt Bravo at Blogher asks us : What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions? 1. Give more money. I really am horrible at giving money to organizations that I support or even volunteer with. I'm going to put reminders in my Treo to help. 2. Write more. This isn't just because I want to be a better writer, but I really do try to incorporate my feminism into everything I write, thus I feel that my writing is an extension of my activism. 3. Get published more...anywhere. See #2, but getting published somewhere other than this blog means a much wider audience. 4. Say no more often. I say yes far too often and that not only makes my life a mess, but it also means that I don't give my best effort towards whichever action I'm trying to do. Sadly, I think my increase in work responsibilities may mean the end of one of my beloved 'after-school' activities and perhaps a need to pick up another one - that is more work related and local. 5. Be a better advocate. In high school ...

I'm back from vacation and ready to rock. Stay tuned for some actual blog posts.

As some of you know, I am a board member of an awesome feminist media organization, Women In Media & News. Well it's that time of the year to ask you to reach into your wallet, perhaps looking between the cushions of your couch, and that spare change in your bag. And who better to ask you to give a little love to WIMN than the amazing Susan Faludi? ♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥ ~ ♥ Dear Friend of WIMN, Award-winning journalist Susan Faludi has spent decades documenting the dangerous impact of media sexism on American women, and on our country. Now, the author of Backlash and The Terror Dream asks for your help to improve the media landscape : “Women in Media & News offers a desperately needed and all-too-rare public service: spotlighting media’s misrepresentations of women from all angles–from distortions to falsehoods to utter erasure–and countering them with careful reporting, no-nonsense statistics, and intelligent analysis. And WIMN’s dispatches are fun to read, to boot. What’s m...

Hoyden about town is taking nominations for best feminist blog post of the year! It was hard picking out two to self-nominate, but I did it. Now to find some other feminist posts that I think were awesome and didn't get a lot of play outside a small circle of readers. I'm all about getting the lil blogger some recognition. So dig through your posts and nominate yourself while you send in your favorite post from here. ;-) 2008 will be the year of no shame for me. Technorati tags: feminist , blogging