Feminism at its Finest: April 2008
Hooray, it’s the April 2008 edition of Feminism at its Finest! Carol presents Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, a great post on spousal abuse and when you know someone who is being abused by their spouse–physically or verbally. Definitely a must-read, so head on over toCan’t Holder Tongue. The Eclectic Female presents Recognizing Verbal Abuse in Relationships, saying: “Words can hurt, and it is important to recognize when verbal abuse occurs.” This is posted at READ MORE »
Report It on Angela Shelton Day
Happy Angela Shelton Day! Today is the day where the Report It campaign, a campaign motivating survivors of sexual assault to report their cases via an online form at the Report It website, comes to a close with the biggest rally of unified sexual assault survivors taking place at various courthouses across the country! Today, on Angela Shelton Day, survivors are being asked to go to your local courthouses and say that the silence of sexual assault survivors has went on for far too READ MORE »
Anti-Choice Oklahoma
The Oklahoma House has recently voted 80-12 in support of the Freedom of Conscious Act, also known as SB 1878. The Freedom of Conscious Act is basically an act that takes all of the previously brought up anti-choice laws and combines them into one. This bill allows health care workers to refuse to participate in actions that they feel are contrary to their religious beliefs and moral convictions. It also states that employers would not be able to “discriminate” against health READ MORE »
Now Every Girl Can Be a Pole Dancer
When I heard about this I thought it was a joke, but sadly, I was mistaken. With fans like Carmen Electra, Kylie Minogue, the Spice Girls and Pussycat Dolls, The Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit is a stripper pole that you can put in your home and practice how to be a real, live stripper! You know, before your 18th birthday when you can legally go give men their jollies and this way, you will already be experienced! With their booklet of dance moves, a garter and 100 peekaboo dance dollars to READ MORE »
Help Us Help You Help Others
SkirtSports, a retailer for sport apparel for women and children, has recently put together a campaign that will help their customers give back to the organizations and charities that mean the most to them. Help Us Help You Help Others is a campaign unlike most others I have seen. Not only can you donate to a charity and help that charity help others in need, but you, as a SkirtSports customer, can choose the charity that Help Us Help You Help Others donates to. Over a period of a month, READ MORE »
Get to Know, Explore and Love Nature
Nature is one of the biggest muses of all time. It is timeless, serving as the muse for many poets, writers and artists of all kinds. While I should do it more often, I encourage everyone to go outside, take in the fresh air and actually get to know and explore the scenery around you. Nature does amazing things to the mind–It’s calms, makes problems and stress seem as if they are miles away, it brings out your inner creativity and makes it shine through to the point where you can’t help but create.
There isn’t a better place out there to explore and love nature for what it is than Shangri La Botanical Gardens.
I Call Shenanigans!
I’m calling even more shenanigans today, when I found out that Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania. This makes me even more sad than I was yesterday. After losing 11 straight states, Pennsylvania is the state that makes Hillary think she can make a comeback. Grumble… READ MORE »
Pennsylvania Primary Day
Today marks the day of the presidential primary in Pennsylvania. I have been looking forward to this day since reading websites talking about Super Tuesday. I have done my research, know who I’m voting for, knew I had to get my state ID renewed since it is almost six months expired, I thought I had everything in order. I decided that I would go and renew my ID yesterday since the boyfriend’s driver’s license needs to be renewed and while looking up the business hours for READ MORE »
Take Me Now Here: The Commercial Sex Industry and Feminism
I have very briefly touched upon my thoughts on the commercial sex industry here and basically all posts I have written on the topic have been quite popular versus the other subjects I have written about. With the attention those posts have received and after talking to a friend of mine who runs Take Me Nowhere, a great site that touches upon some taboo subjects such as marijuana, law reform, Wicca, Paganism, The Occult and also some personal tidbits thrown in there for the hell of it, we READ MORE »
The Frightening Truth About Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Sadly, very few women know what the term “crisis pregnancy center” really means and that is exactly what crisis pregnancy centers prey upon. There is a personal story from Allyson Kirk published on AlterNet of a woman who got caught in the trap of these centers, thinking it was a regular reproductive rights clinic, as these centers have tried their best to look like to lure women in and intimidate them into carrying their pregnancies to term. After calling the National Abortion READ MORE »
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