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Salon Newsreal | A joke too bad to print?
McCain made a terrible joke that newspapers would not print. It should let all women know where he stands on gender issues: " "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
Waiting
Barthes writes on the power relations, temporality, and states of consciousness and desire involved in this moment. He does not see that is it mostly women who wait.
Jeff Curto’s Camera Position
folks will mostly watch these podcasts on their computer; lots about aesthetics of photography
Feministe » Take Action for Jamie Leigh Jones
US Congresswoman asks readers to contact legislators to get justice for this woman raped by US contractors in Iraq
CWLU Herstory Project: The Online History of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - CWLU Herstory Project: The Online History of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." For many women of my generation, this was one of the most important documents and explanations about our selves that came out of second wave feminism.
An End to Female Genital Cutting? - TIME
"Pakhshan Zangana, head of the women's caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that is the first of its kind in the Middle East — a law criminalizing female genital mutilation."
50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic - Dumb Little Man
just reading it gives a feeling of warmth; useful scenarios to include in fiction or screenwriting
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
witty web site by prominent artist and filmmaker
Travelers' Tales - Publishers of Stories, Wit and Wisdom from Travelers Around the World
well written travel writing can be found here; good prose is always a delight
Bhutto photographer: 'Gunshots rang out and she went down' - CNN.com
Benazir Bhutto's assassination
Femina Web Search for Women
has sites for seniors and for girls, organized around topics of interest
Airlines planning to filter, censor in-flight 'Net access
"Some airlines will filter VoIP packets, others will use blacklists to block access to sites." Author decries airline censorship. My take? If some creep sitting next to me looks at porn, I'll announce it in a loud voice to shame him.
A Companion to Feminist Geography - Google Book Search
social geography anthology oriented around gender issues, international in scope
ABC News: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
Jones' alleged assailants will likely never face a jury, due to loophole that puts contractors in Iraq beyond the US law. She was held like a prisoner afterward and got out only via cel phone call to father who contacted legislator in US.
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Mona Hatoum - Measures of Distance
one of the very best autobiographical films ever: "Mona Hatoum's artistic statement in which she examines her position as an exiled female artist"
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites
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"Selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program."
Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times
thought to be impossible; a young woman worked out a math equation of it and did it, pictures and equation shown
BBC NEWS | South Asia | India's 'pink' vigilante women
"They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes." Activists in one of India's poorest areas.
Researchers Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells -- Vogel 2007 (1120): 1 -- ScienceNOW
"Scientists reprogrammed human skin cells directly into cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells; can generate patient-specific stem cells to study or treat disease without using embryos or oocytes"
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