More on beauty….

joankelly6000 linked to this, which is amazing and wonderful, and made me remember this:

The conversation continues.

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Countdown is on….

Deadlines for registering to vote in most states are between October 6 and October 15.
Click here for state-by-state voter registration links.

Keep on pushing…..

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Why won’t you look at me, John?

Click here for a series of photos of Senator McCain not looking at Senator Obama during the debate last night:

I think Angry Black Woman nails it:
Not so long ago in this country — within McCain’s adult lifetime, though not Obama’s — white men did not look at black men, except to order them around or [...]

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An Intersectional, Reproductive Justice Feminist Response to LaBruzzo’s Sterilization Plan

bfp has posted a talking points response to John LaBruzzo’s racist, misogynist suggestion to end poverty by sterilizing poor women.  The response is from the Women’s Health & Justice Initiative and the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic.  
I’ll post a couple of paragraphs but you should really go read the entire document.
The sterilization policy currently being advocated [...]

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RBOC* about being on the road

* random bullets of crap
You know how, back in the winter months, your calendar for 3 seasons ahead looks all empty and pristine and everything seems possible?  Even though school will be starting and you know what that is like – what with the getting the syllabi together and meeting new students and getting classes [...]

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Because it’s Saturday and my brain hurts but this makes my brain feel better….

It’s like that. (yes… on the surface everything I hate…. but it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.)

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Ohio Campus Vote Corps Needs Help

Opportunity for young folks who are between jobs, flexible and wanting to be involved in the political process in Ohio.  They are looking to hire 50 people.
 
 
Work for Obama and the Ohio Democratic Party!
Apply NOW for the Ohio Campus Vote Corps
The Ohio Democratic Party is launching an exciting new program: Ohio Campus Vote Corps.
We are [...]

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In the meantime….

Let’s pay poor women to have their tubes tied because that’s really what has happened to the economy.
Check out what Renee has to say because I can’t even deal right now.

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Hmmmm

Effigy of Obama alarms George Fox campus.
Don’t read the comments if you want to keep your breakfast down.
ETA: more here.
A George Fox University employee discovered the life-size cutout of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a campus tree with a fishing line around its neck. Posted on the cardboard effigy was a [...]

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On beauty

I am thinking about beauty, about acceptability, about the notion of real women, acceptable women, the impossibility of the ideal woman and the great distraction that happens when we focus so much on what we look like – and how nearly impossible it is in this culture to just look like what you look like, [...]

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