Instead of posting some random facts about this holiday (if there are any?) I figured I should post about the “Don’t Drop The Ball” campaign. Hope everybody has a happy (and safe!) holiday.
Why New Year’s Eve?
New Year’s Eve is not a good night for birth control use. Condoms break. Pills are forgotten. In fact, sales of emergency contraception more than double in the days after December 31st, according to January 2009 statistics provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals, makers of Plan B One Step ® (the one-pill version of emergency contraception).
What is emergency contraception?
Make a birth control plan before New Year’s Eve. But if that goes wrong, as things can, know that you have a back-up option with emergency contraception. Emergency contraception is birth control that prevents pregnancy after…
Right. Islam and feminism. What’s the deal? I really don’t know. I do appreciate the religion, though, as a lapsed Muslim, I’m probably not the best person to talk about this.
Still, I think I’m qualified enough to say Islam is a patriarchal religion, especially in the way it’s practiced. It’s not the only patriarchal religion, and I’m sure that, like other religions, Islam is open to more feminist interpretations. But there will be some parts of it that will tick off most feminists.
One example would be the hijab. Being brought up by a rather religious family, I used to consider it a predestined (but unacknowledged) fact that I would grow up to wear one, just like most of my female relatives. But I’ve never been one to swallow things…
It seems like blogging is a pretty accepted form of spreading the feminist word. However, we don’t talk about those who are doing some awesome feminist vlogging. I thought today I’d share some of the cool vlogs I’ve come across.
SHE-TV
SHE TV is described as:
S.H.E. (Sugar Hooker Entertainment) is a Los Angeles based multi-platform girl culture brand. SHEtv’s latest production, called “G.I.R.L. (Girls In Real Life),” offers conversation among girls about real-life subjects that are relevant to girls aged 12-24. G.I.R.L. is a live, hosted magazine show, where segments are dictated by the interactive audience.
“TV networks don’t have characters that speak to the diversity of girls who exist out there economically, socially, and ethnically,” says Jerra Spence, CEO of S.H.E. “Girls are forced to look to fantasy novels and movies like “Twilight” and…
I’ve written a couple of posts for the FBomb before now, and the first one was about feminism and the fashion industry, and, to be honest, opinions about it were really quite mixed – something I’d anticipated.
This post, too is about fashion, but I think it’s something that everyone can agree on. At least, I hope it is!
So…I run a website called British Style Bloggers (please don’t let the “British” bit put you off straight away, non-Brits!) and a little while back, we launched our Fashion Activism campaign, asking readers to help us prevent climate change because of the Copenhagen Summit. That campaign was such a success that we’ve decided to start a whole new campaign for the new year – a campaign of positive body image.
A veteran of New York’s anti-folk scene, songwriter Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father’s bootleg tapes of Western pop and rock as a young child and also learned to play piano. She and her family moved from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the first Russian family in the borough in 20 years). Eventually, Spektor and her family became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her new home’s culture. Meanwhile, she continued to practice piano anywhere she could, including at her synagogue, until her family got a piano of their own.
Spektor further developed her classical piano training…
This morning I felt extremely lazy, so when I woke up at 11:00 I decided to turn on some cartoons. (Hey, we’re all kids at heart.) There were commercials on, but one of them was a little different than I expected:
Every year my best friend and I always watch Love Actually around the holidays. If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically the perfect Christmas movie: good actors, sappy story, lots of love. There are also a couple of musical gems in there.
Olivia Olson singing All I Want for Christmas better than Mariah (in my opinion):
I just finished reading the book Girldrive by Nona Willis Aronowitz (who has been an fbomb supporter from the beginning!) and Emma Bee Bernstein, and I must say, everybody who reads this blog HAS to read this book.
Essentially, the book is Nona and Emma’s road trip diary of the nearly 200 women they interviewed about what matters to them and about the role feminism plays in their lives. Long time friends, and both daughters of Second Wave feminists (Nona’s mom is the late Ellen Willis), the two women set out on a post-college, cross-country road trip to really get inside the heads of the women of their generation, and to depict what feminism looks like in our country today.
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