March 2009
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Weakling.
Patrick just bench pressed me by pushing me up by my crotch and chest. I feel like an appropriate response would be for me to bench press Hamlet.
But I can’t.
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“I visited Simone de Beauvoir in Paris for sixteen years, and she never once...”
– the unexpectedly funny Kate Millet at her reading tonight
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Tonight: Kate Millet Reading in Harvard Square
Feminist scholar and artist Kate Millet is conducting a reading at Pierre Menard Gallery tonight at 7pm. Millet’s revolutionary work Sexual Politics (1968), which critiqued the subugation of women in Western literature, philosophy, and psychology, made a significant contribution toward feminist scholarship and incited a pissed off Norman Mailer to call her a “literary Molotov”.
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Do you identify as a feminist?
Why or why not?
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MenuPages Boston: Free Cocktail-Flavored Mini... →
Leila at MenuPages Boston reports that Davis Square’s Kickass Cupcakes is holding its monthly Cupcake Happy Hour from 5pm-7pm. Stop by to pick up a free mini-cupcakes in flavors like banana daiquiri, screwdriver, and the Sam Adams-infused Green Monster. First-come, first-served! Cocktail Cupcake Happy Hours take place on the last Monday of every month. Kickass Cupcakes Davis Square 378...
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Class & Inclusivity at WAM!
Renee Martin at GlobalComment questions whether WAM! is truly inclusive, considering the cost of attendance. She says that the registration fee (as well as accommodations, travel, and food) makes it unaffordable for many women:
“Some women have been able to achieve free entrance by volunteering. but what does this say about equality? Money is more valued than the equal participation of women...
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WAM! 2009: "Make Money From Your Writing: How To...
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From the program: You’re a freelancer who knows how to write, but to get published you need to know how to pitch ideas, negotiate fees and rights, adn deal with the editorial process. This panel of seasoned feminist freelancers, all National Writers Union activits, will share their strategies and professional...
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WAM! 2009: Workshop & Breakout Session Recaps
Couldn’t make it to Cambridge? Experience the conference through the bloggers who attended. You can check out other transcripts and summaries of WAM! workshops, keynotes, and breakout sessions on these websites:
Pre-Conference Workshop: PR: Getting Your Work Out There [WIMN’s Voices]
Pre-Conference Workshop: Women & the Dynamics of Digital Social Capital: Making the Tools Work...
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WAM! 2009: "New Administration, New World Order:...
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From the program: Looking at the five to ten top reproductive health stories to watch under President Obama, we’ll prepare bloggers, advocates, and journalists to cover them, offering a clear synthesis of what legal and policy issues are coming up next, discussing how the nuts and bolts of how to track and...
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WAM! 2009: "Get Inside The Minds Of Editors"
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From the program: Fewer than 20 percent of the op-eds published in newspapers nationwide are authored by women. Help us dig behind the myths and get the real story on what’s happening on the op-ed pages. This interactive workshop will bring together a panel of editorial/op-ed page editors (the insiders) and...
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WAM! 2009: "How To Work In The Mainstream...
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From the program: There are plenty of good reasons to work in the mainstream media: you can get your ideas out to a wide audience; you can establish a name for yourself; and you might just be able to make a living (or at least finance some of your less well-paid writing). This panel will explore the different reasons...
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WAM! 2009: Opening Keynote, "Women Reporting From...
Speakers: Huda Ahmed, Iraqi correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers in Baghdad, covered combat during siege of Najaf, Iraq’s historic elections, women’s rights, and corruption. Jenny Manrique Cortes, Colombian journalist, covered her country’s armed conflict for eight years, specializes in human rights. Peta Thornycroft„ one of the few independent journalists remaining in...
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Antifeminism's Straw Man
antifeminism:
“The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a “con.” It is as filled with falsehood, inaccuracy, and foolishness as astrology or parapsychology. As it is considered treasonous to criticise a sister feminist, no standards of accuracy or honesty are ever enforced. Hyperbole and deceit thus become the formula for success, “peer review” playing...
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Sex and the Ivy » Then & Now →
Cross-posted from SexandtheIvy.com:
I’m incredibly scared of loss. And I know I shouldn’t feel like I lose something by sleeping with someone, but I do. I decided to stop having sex because I was sick of giving away all these pieces of myself and subsequently worrying about unintentional attachment, ill-advised yearning. It felt like I had no control.
I rarely reread entries on this blog, but...
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A Bar Called "Dow Jones"
My best friend Jason is on spring break in Spain and going to a bar called “Dow Jones”, where the price of drinks fluctuates with the demand.
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Re: Melissa's Quote
Jessica says:
“I’m not sure if I agree with this - if the word feminism is co-opted by movements that are actually anti-feminist (read: International Women’s Forum), then I think it’s the responsibility of the fems to call that shit out. Personally, I’m really uncomfortable with “Choose Your Own Adventure” style feminism, where anything and everything...
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“Telling other women how they are fucking up feminism … is actually what’s...”
– Melissa Gira
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Is sexual expression and feminism incompatible?
I’ve had comments up on my blog for less than a month, and for the most part, I haven’t had any encounters with Internet fuckwads. Sure, some people disagree with what I have to say, but there are hardly any personal attacks (a huge improvement from my Sex and the Ivy days). A few recent exceptions have popped up on my semi-nude photo post:
You are such a disgusting whore. Thanks for...
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Titty Tap
I’m dancing with Patrick at the Armin Van Buuren show tonight when the guy next to me starts acting really strange. Every time my hand is in his vicinity, he grabs onto it, even though I move away each time and make it abundantly clear that he is not my dance partner. After ten minutes of hand wrestling, he decides to jiggle my braless left boob with his index finger. I spin around...
3 Buck Bites | Cheap Eats for Food Lovers! →
I just started covering Boston-area dining bargains for Citysearch’s newly launched 3 Buck Bites. Check out my first post about the high-quality, bargain sushi at Porter Square’s Blue Fin.
Preliminary Reader Poll Results From Urtak
As promised, I’m posting some reader trends from my Urtak, though with barely over 100 responses so far, this is hardly representative of all of you:
Half are college students, and 28% (overall) attend Ivy League schools.
A slight majority have blogs of your own. Nearly half of you have seen me naked.
95% of you believe I should learn how to swim, but only 75% think I need to learn how to...
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Hey, Feministas in the Media!
This weekend, I’m attending the Center for New Words’ Women, Action & the Media conference in Cambridge, thanks to a scholarship that subsidizes part of my registration fee. It’s my first time going, and I’ll be live-blogging the whole thing for the benefit of those who can’t attend.
What kind of conference is this? The official goal is “to bring together...
Readers: Give Me Your Take On Urtak.com →
My friends Aaron and Marc have set up a page for my readers on their public polling website Urtak. It’s a super easy way for you guys to offer feedback by submitting questions, answering existing ones, and letting me know which topics you actually care about. I’ve added a bunch of random questions to the database just to start it off, and naturally, the first one I proposed was...
Armin Van Buuren @ The Roxy
I got us a pair of tickets to this as a birthday present.
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Patrick's 29th Birthday Is At Midnight
And the birthday cake I baked him does not look like what I envisioned.
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The Gym-A-Phobe's Guide To Having Your Cupcake &...
I hate exercise. The majority of my early childhood was devoted to the memorization of multiplication tables, not the development of hand-eye coordination. Subsequently, I was a terrible athlete. The only B I got in middle school was in Physical Education. Other than a season’s worth of second string volleyball in 7th grade, I’ve never participated in an organized sport. (Not that...
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Excuse me, I think I screwed here.
Are you living in a former dorm room of mine? In honor of Housing Day, I’m posting a list of my previous residences at Harvard:
Canaday D 32 (second room from door)
Mather 312 (right room in the second pod)
Currier Bingham 322 (corner single FTW)
I may have orgasmed on your mattress. Or in your shower. Congratulations.
(P.S. I may follow up with a list of other people’s rooms...
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Housing Lottery
Not to dash anyone’s hopes or anything, but Harvard assigned me to Canaday (hated it), then Mather (hated it), and I eventually transferred to Currier (much better). Next year, when I return, I hope to be affiliated with Eliot, though I won’t be living on campus.
Four different residences in four years? Whether Harvard allows me to do this or not, I’m obviously less than...
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Flour Bakery
I had lunch in the South End at Flour Bakery yesterday. I’ve heard a lot of hype and this was my first visit, so my expectations were high. The menu includes the expected cafe items: various kinds of pastries, presumably good coffee (didn’t try it), and heartier items, like sandwiches, for good measure. A few complaints upfront:
There are babies and kids, approximately one per five...
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Call The Paramedics
Me: my nipple is seriously twice its normal size ... what should i do?
Adina: call a doctor!!! what did he do to you?
Me: pinched me.
Adina: Google the condition!
Me: pinched nipple syndrome?
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Fuck My (Sex) Life
I’m 90% certain that Patrick pinched a nerve when he squeezed my nipples during sex yesterday. The left half of my left breast is out of commission, due to occasional shooting pains that run from the nipple to the armpit. I have already randomly screamed about five times today.
Oh, and also — my left nipple? About twice its normal size. This can’t be benign, right?
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Celebrate National Pi Day (3/14)
National Pi Day (yes, it’s now official) is this Saturday, March 14th. The Harvard party is cancelled, but I’m guessing MIT will have a celebration — especially since they chose Pi Day as the day to release admissions decisions. Other ways to celebrate:
Petsi Pies is offering a 10% discount for every 10 digits of pi you can recite. Memorize 100 digits for a free pie. (via...
New York
Leaving tomorrow for a weekend in the city. Three stops I’m definitely making:
Beacon’s Closet
Strand Bookstore
Antibes Bistro
Call me if you’re in town :)
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“The possibility of negative health effects should never have been a reason to...”
– Harvard Economics Professor and Libertarian Extrordinaire Jeffrey Miron (via 2arrs2ells)
The Great College Tour
I just booked my little sister’s flight to Boston for her spring break trip in April. It’s her first time in town and only her second time traveling domestically! It’s going to be very interesting to have her in my domestic life.
She’s spending her trip visiting colleges in the Northeast (since she’s applying next fall). Our list includes: Brown, RISD, Columbia,...
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“God shoulda put a ring on it.”
– poster from a Chicago counter-protest to the homophobic Westboro “Baptist” Church, whose members are protesting at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School tomorrow (the public high school just blocks from Harvard). Their beef? The existence of a gay straight alliance there. Join the...
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Fuck My Life
When Patrick started to pick me up in the middle of sex tonight, I squealed, “Be careful, I’m small!” He picked me up all the way, then grunted and put me down. FML.
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“Oh, shit. We have to use this soon. This expires … last year.”
– Patrick
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First Year Group for Fourth Year Students?
First Year Group is a safe and confidential space to discuss whatever issues are on your mind in an open and welcoming environment. FYG is open only to first-years, so it is a great place to hang out with other bi, gay, lesbian, transgender, queer, questioning, curious, not-into-labels and supportive freshmen in a neutral space. The group is entirely student-run, so it is what its members make...