a million little carnivals

I've missed a ton during my hiaitus. Sorry 'bout that.

I'll try to go through and talk a little bit about a bunch of these, but for now, a handy little list of the more recent ones (in no particular order):


Similar to the blogging campaign I participated in a while back (Blog to Raise Awareness About Sexual Violence), Marcella has started what I guess is going to be a recurring carnival: the Carnival Against Sexual Violence. Number 1 is here, from June 1st. Number two is here, from July 1st.
Next one will go up on the 15th, and I'll link to it then.



And the carnival of feminists...well, I've missed a few, since the last one I blogged about was the 10th, and they're up to the 18th now.
So, links to the last couple:
Carnival of Feminists Number 18 at Ink and Incapability, up as of July 5th.
And the Seventeenth Carnival of Feminists at Bitch|Lab, published on June 21st.



And then there are The Gays and their Homosexual Agenda(tm) at the Carnival of Bent Attractions. The couple most recent ones:
The Seventh Carnival of Bent Attractions at 2sides2ron, up on June 10th.
And the Sixth Carnival of Bent Attractions at Multidimensional.Me, up on May 10th.



And lastly, the Radical Women of Color Carnival. I've missed a bunch of these, too, so the last couple:
The Fifth Radical Women of Colo(u)r Carnival at Fabulosa Mujer, up on June 6th.
And the Fourth Radical Women of Colo(u)r Carnival at blac(k)ademic, up as of May 6th.

momentarily ending my hiaitus

But only for a linkage, since it is April, and it's Sexual Assault Awareness Month. (I have soooo much I could write, and absolutely no time to write it, so go read other people's stuff.)

Lots of amazing posts here, all of which warrant thorough readings (even if the blogathon coordinator does employ the model of "The Survivor," which I have lotsandlots of ideological problems with....)



Blog to Raise Awareness About Sexual Violence.
And go.

FYI/10th Carnival of Feminists

It's just about the week before spring break. Which means it's time for the crazy midterm stuff. Which is also why I've been so off-and-on for the last week or so.

So I'm on hiaitus until I get home for spring break, when I'll finally have time to do more than skim through other people's blogs.

In the meantime, the Tenth Carnival of Feminists is up at indianwriting.

Good stuff, it looks like. As always.
Eleventh will be up at angry for a reason on March 22. I promise I'll do some worthwhile blogging by then. For real.

carnival pimping*

Second Radical Women of Color carnival is up.

Fantastic, as feminist carnivals always are.


*Note: I use the word "pimping" in the reclaiming-the-word way, not in the objectifying-women-who-mostly-don't-have-a-choice-but-to-enter-into-prostitution way. Obviously.

almost forgot

The Ninth Carnival of Feminists is up at Mind the Gap.

Wow, this one is gooooood. (And wicked long.)

I'm in it!

My favourites from this carnival (which is really difficult, because all the posts are fabulous):

"They asked for it," on gender politics in sport. How when female athletes get injured, it's not because that's the nature of the sport (like what's assumed with male athletes), it's because they shouldn't be doing such crazy athletic stuff anyway. That's men's stuff, you know. What can they expect, doing something so unladylike, other than to get injured?

Brownfemipower's post at Women of Color Blog on identity politics. Really really good. She doesn't give "The Answer" to the issues surrounding identity politics, but she asks a lot of really good questions. A teaser, and my favourite part of this post: "I know that women of color *must* centralize their identities in their politics. We get attacked and violated *because* we are Chicana, Mexican, Indian, Asian, black, Iranian, Arab, etc. We get attacked and violated *because* we are queer, poor, mothers, uneducated, prisoners."

A poignant poem by Kelley Bell, about the dissonance between what we're taught as kids (American Dream, bootstraps, blah blah) and what the real (sexist) world is.

blac(k)ademic's post on black women's sexuality. Especially black lesbians' sexuality. A teaser: "i am invisible. you do not see my face television or in cinema. you do not hear my voice in the popular songs rotating on bet, mtv, or the radio. you do not see me because i am a black lesbian and we do not exist."

Anti-Music Blog analyzes homophobia in NBC's article about male figure skater Johnny Weir. (Whoa, homophobia directed toward male figure skaters? Who'da thunk it?) Discusses how closely homophobia is tied w/ sexism.

Molly's post about the 'mommy wars', or the question of who the better mother is: stay at home moms or working moms? Fabulous in that it challenges the assumption that stay-at-home moms, those who "opt out" of working, are implicitly better mothers.

Tom Head on the anti-feminist left (mostly male) bloggers. Like, you know, the liberals at DailyKos, who think that us feminists should just shut up and stand behind them, even if they're ignoring our issues.

And then, read every single post in "Section 3: The Body." And I mean every single post.



Tenth Carnival of Feminists will be at Indian Writing on March 8. To submit, email indianwriting AT gmail DOT com.


Oh, feminist blogosphere, I loooooove you.