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I know I have SUCKED at updating. Teaching just makes me so freaking busy!!!
Which brings me to this………
My kids need calculators. Bad. I have a page up on Donor’sChoose.org and I am asking any one who can spare a couple bucks to please donate to my cause. Please.
Thank you.
Love from,
Kacie
I guess this is a thought expereiment to put us in the shoes of the McCains? You choose 8 homes, you can say why if you want. They have to be in the borders of the United States. Then you tag 8 people. I am going to cheat and tag my whole family in the family blog. There are 8 of them. HA!!
1. Portland: My roommate at induction was from there and it just seemed SO FREAKIN SWEEET.
2. New Mexico:
3. South Dakota: both 2 and 3 have the same reason–I’d like to live on two different American Indian reservations.
4. Somewhere in Florida, near the gulf: um beaches. HELLO
5. New York, New York: the orginal birthing place of Ms. Versaci
6. Denver
7.Boston
8: Providence: I am very attracted to such a small state.
Hey Guys. I know it has been a looong time since I have posted, but I promise I haven’t forgetten about this place. I have just been soooooo busy with teaching and everything. It is a 1000xs harder than I could have imagined, and my classes, are for the most part, nightmares. I pretty much suck at this, and have been pouring all of my time and effort into a) trying to teach these kids SOMETHING and b) not having a nervous breakdown in the process.
But please, stay with me. I have been working on a few things and I have been keeping up with everyone else’s blogs…when I have the time.
Thank you.
Love from,
Kacie
Because I am a dirty rotten SLACKER and forgot to post it.
This is for Renee, who so kindly reminded me!
My question is this: what is your religious persuasion and how does it affect your feminist world view?
I was thinking about this because I opened my big fat mouth and was elected to head an Atheist Affinity group here at institute. Thanks guys!
But really. I am atheist. I was born and raised as such. Never have believed in a higher power, never will. I would be lying if I said I didn’t find religion, in general, a nuisance at best, destructive at worst. However, for the most part, I think as long as religion is a personal thing, it’s as harmless as can be. In some ways, I find Atheists to be the last, fully acceptable group to marginalize. (No, I don’t think that we are MORE marginalized than any other group…just more marginalized by main stream society.) I mean, a poll said that more Americans would be willing to vote for a gay presidential candidate than an atheist one. That’s saying alot, since we here in the US of Fucking A hate the queerz. That said, I think atheism makes my feminist lens either, because I fear that lots of sexist and homophobic bullshit is heavily fueled by religious tradition.
YOUR TURN!
GO!!
But my updates may be few and far between. Besides not feeling like I have much to write about, I don’t really have time to write it. I am at teacher boot camp in ATL right now–taking teacher classes, going to teacher meetings, and getting ready to teach 8th grade summer school math. SCARY! Which means I have to relearn all math. AHHHH!!
Barbie says: MATH IS HARD!!
…anyway, I will do my best to update every other day or something…but no promises. I am sure I will encounter plenty race/sex/class issues in the classroom that I will love to share.
Talk to you soon!!!
<3
(that quote is from a commenter on the Feministing thread.)
This story disgusts me on so many levels.
I will recap. Girl meets boy. Girl and boy have relationship. Girl and boy have sex. Girl and boy break up. Girl attends party where boy is also present, wakes up the next morning with no recollection of the night before with bruises and tears near her anus. Girl gets rape kit–which states there is evidence for anal rape. Girl takes boy to civil court. Judge decides that the girl got the cuts from shaving (even though she denies she shaves there) and the bruises could have been from anything…declares that GIRL pay the boy $150,000.
Did I mention the Boy was the son of state Rep. Burke Day, the family who owns Days Inn?
So, Daniel Day is part of the good ol’ boys network. Which means he pretty much can get away with rape. Oh yeah, he did.
What is really sickening to me is the fact that Melissa Ross’s complete sexual history was disclosed in court; and apparently, since she has consented to sex with Day (and others) in the past, she has no case, since now her body is considered as accessible as a public restroom.
As a non-virgin who lives in Georgia…this really worries me. If I am raped (again…third time’s a charm, right?) I do not have any case.
This really really REALLY sucks.
Oh, and if you really want your blood pressure to rise, check out the comments on this story.
Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.
Please; why would I bother arguing with dumb trolls who just want to waste my time by calling me an idiotic feminist and so on?
I am not silencing the discourse. Said trolls have their own forums where they can talk about how stupid feminists are and so on. Why should I allow it on my site? I always welcome criticism, but when that criticism is just to call me stupid, why should I bother?
In the end, this is my blog and I will decide whose voices I want to represent.
(I decided I will, every monday, make a nice post rounding up what made me happy and pissed me off in the world of gender in past week.)
Love for:
These books: It’s A Jungle Out There by Amanda Marcotte; Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly; and Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti (of Feministing.com fame. Whoo!!) All these books are simutneously hilarious and horrifying. I am enjoying them thoroughly. I just finished that first one, about halfway through the last one, and that middle one is super heavy, so its taking more time.
Kill Bill Vols 1 and 2: maybe not the most feminist of all movies, but I completed the series (having only seen parts of the first one) yesterday and I really liked it. It’s nice seeing a woman kick some serious ass. Also, Uma Thurman is usually dirty and bloody and angry. Not exactly sexed up all the time. Loved it.
The fact that noone has ripped down or defaced my Take Back the Night flyer on my dorm room door–esp since signs on my door have a history of being assualted by drunken athletes…of which there were a lot of running around this weekend.
And this video of a rat and cat riding a dog:
(not really super gender related, but very uplifting all the same!)
Bugged by:
I was talking with a group of acquantinces at a party Saturday night, and the subject of Rape in the Congo cropped up. When I informed them that a number of UN Peacekeepers had been also raping women there, one young man in the group replied: “well, maybe if the women in the congo weren’t so hot, it wouldn’t be a problem.” EXCUSE ME?!?!? Um, girls as young as 2 and women as old as 90 have been victims of rape. I highly doubt it had anything to do with sexual attraction. When I tried to call him out, he replied that he was just making a joke to keep the conversation light. What an ass.
“Freshtakes with Alicia Keys” is a micro series that airs during MTV’s The Hills that is supposed to be about real women’s lives. Now, I’m all for Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, plus I love love LOVE their new Go Fresh line, however…I am seriously disturbed that this little series, while racially diverse, is very…well…not body type diverse. Go figure.
Little kids getting bikini waxes Sweet tap-dancing Jesus Christ on a cracker, when will it end?!?!! (this link via Feministing)
is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Not because I am planning it in the near future, but because I have been reading a lot about it, and it has been on my mind as more and more of my friends and peers get engaged.
Oh, and also when I read bullshit like this.
Here’s a nice gem: I’m guessing there are single 30-year-old women reading this right now who will be writing letters to the editor to say that the women I know aren’t widely representative, that I’ve been co-opted by the cult of the feminist backlash, and basically, that I have no idea what I’m talking about. And all I can say is, if you say you’re not worried, either you’re in denial or you’re lying. In fact, take a good look in the mirror and try to convince yourself that you’re not worried, because you’ll see how silly your face looks when you’re being disingenuous. (emphasis mine.)
Because all women want marriage. All women want kids. (And I am sick of the idea that these have to come as a package anyway.)
The more I think about the marraige, the less desirable it becomes. Not because I don’t want to find a person to spend the rest of my life with and possibly start a family, but because a marraige, aside from the religious connotations, is still a union in which there are three parties: you, him, and The State. I just don’t feel comfortable with this idea–that my relationship is being officially monitored by the government and I can’t just deal with it on my own terms. I don’t think you need to get married to have healthy, happy home. On the other hand, I do recognize the benefits that our society and government rewards us for being married: insurance, hospital visitation, social acceptance. It’s a real Catch-22.
When I decide to spend the rest of my life with someone, I guess I will have to question (and decide with him) what the best option for us would be. Until then, articles like the above still piss me off for assuming that all women do want to be married, above all else, and should do anything to get there.
