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TV documentary rec
Jan. 7th, 2010 07:28 pmLost Kingdoms of Africa is presented by art historian Gus Casely-Hayford, not by the usual white celebrity. That'll be why it's on BBC4, not BBC2. It's also why I thought it would be worth recording, and I wasn't disappointed.
The first programme is about Nubia, the black African kingdom south of ancient Egypt (we don't know their name for themselves; "Nubia" may have been an insult). The Egyptian and Greek scholars of the time dismissed them as barbarians; colonial historians found the ruined cities and pyramids, and assumed they were copied from Egypt. A Sudanese archaeologist shows us where they actually came from, and where they went; Gus C-H talks to the people who live there now, and traces their cultural influences in present-day Africa. Bonus critique of colonial history ftw.
It's repeated at 8pm on Sunday, still on BBC4, and the next episode is on Tuesday.
Also looking forward to: series 2 of Being Human, Sunday on BBC3; series 2 of Survivors (yes, it's rubbish, but I expect it to be more fun than Heroes), next Tuesday on BBC1.
The first programme is about Nubia, the black African kingdom south of ancient Egypt (we don't know their name for themselves; "Nubia" may have been an insult). The Egyptian and Greek scholars of the time dismissed them as barbarians; colonial historians found the ruined cities and pyramids, and assumed they were copied from Egypt. A Sudanese archaeologist shows us where they actually came from, and where they went; Gus C-H talks to the people who live there now, and traces their cultural influences in present-day Africa. Bonus critique of colonial history ftw.
It's repeated at 8pm on Sunday, still on BBC4, and the next episode is on Tuesday.
Also looking forward to: series 2 of Being Human, Sunday on BBC3; series 2 of Survivors (yes, it's rubbish, but I expect it to be more fun than Heroes), next Tuesday on BBC1.
Is my journey really necessary?
Jan. 6th, 2010 10:45 pmLooked out of the window this morning: SNNOOOWWWW. Seemed to be tailing off about lunchtime, but then it came back with a vengeance.
Cold water comes out of the hot tap for a long time. My hands hurt. My knees, though, don't hurt as expected. Maybe the glucosamine & chondroitin actually works.
There are several things I should have gone out to do today, including buying food. Opted for pasta with the last spoonful of the pesto.
I did go out once today: to see Sherlock Holmes with the usual suspects. That was fun, and with blatant plot-hook-for-sequel-goes-here labels. People who were talking about it on my reading page: yes, I see what you mean. Has anyone written a Bechdel fix yet? Mary and Mrs. Hudson certainly meet, but I think they were talking about Holmes.
Cold water comes out of the hot tap for a long time. My hands hurt. My knees, though, don't hurt as expected. Maybe the glucosamine & chondroitin actually works.
There are several things I should have gone out to do today, including buying food. Opted for pasta with the last spoonful of the pesto.
I did go out once today: to see Sherlock Holmes with the usual suspects. That was fun, and with blatant plot-hook-for-sequel-goes-here labels. People who were talking about it on my reading page: yes, I see what you mean. Has anyone written a Bechdel fix yet? Mary and Mrs. Hudson certainly meet, but I think they were talking about Holmes.
Happy Holidays
Dec. 22nd, 2009 08:35 pmI know I've missed some of them, but whatever you celebrate, have a good one. I don't know whether it's OK to hotlink the image, but here's a link to an e-card: Season's Greetings.
The thaw has started
Dec. 21st, 2009 07:13 pmor a thaw, anyway. There is still snow everywhere, where it hasn't been walked on/driven over/sanded enough to clear it. Today, I got the spade from the shed, so if it comes back and blocks the front gate from opening again, I've got something to dig my way out with.
The fetching of the spade from the shed was more of an effort than that might sound. Things I didn't get done include clearing the overhanging branches (of next door's tree) from the path. It turns out that my one-hand clippers aren't up to cutting them where they reach head height (they're not as sharp as when they were new, and stronger hands might also be useful), and shaking off the weight of snow and removing the parts that are thin enough to cut didn't make them spring back to a reasonable height, woe. So I'm having to bend down to get underneath while being rained on by the melt. My back is not pleased.
I was going to the shed in the first place to put some things in there that have been gathering dust on a shelf in the kitchen, which I've never used for anything but storage, but now I need to clear it to make room for a microwave.
( oven saga )
So it might get here on Wednesday, which would be good. If not, can I buy food for Xmas assuming I'll have an oven to cook it in?
The fetching of the spade from the shed was more of an effort than that might sound. Things I didn't get done include clearing the overhanging branches (of next door's tree) from the path. It turns out that my one-hand clippers aren't up to cutting them where they reach head height (they're not as sharp as when they were new, and stronger hands might also be useful), and shaking off the weight of snow and removing the parts that are thin enough to cut didn't make them spring back to a reasonable height, woe. So I'm having to bend down to get underneath while being rained on by the melt. My back is not pleased.
I was going to the shed in the first place to put some things in there that have been gathering dust on a shelf in the kitchen, which I've never used for anything but storage, but now I need to clear it to make room for a microwave.
( oven saga )
So it might get here on Wednesday, which would be good. If not, can I buy food for Xmas assuming I'll have an oven to cook it in?
Snow, redux
Dec. 18th, 2009 03:36 pmI was wrong: this morning it was still all fluffy-looking in my road. Nasty slush with clear patches in town, icy hummocks in between, depending on amount of (foot) traffic. In places it's safer to walk in the road: you can see where cars were parked overnight that aren't there any more by the big easy-to-walk-on patches. I pulled a muscle, or something, in my thigh walking to and from town, and discovered that one of my boots leaks.
The library will be closing early and the paper I was looking for is missing. (But their computers are, mostly, working. Have I complained on here about how the library computers haven't been working?) I am not wandering around town today looking for inspiration on Xmas-related matters.
I just got home ahead of the next lot. Snow is falling, snow on snow, snowow onnn snow ... it'll be dangerous tomorrow.
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The library will be closing early and the paper I was looking for is missing. (But their computers are, mostly, working. Have I complained on here about how the library computers haven't been working?) I am not wandering around town today looking for inspiration on Xmas-related matters.
I just got home ahead of the next lot. Snow is falling, snow on snow, snowow onnn snow ... it'll be dangerous tomorrow.
I need a snow icon. ETA: snow icon from
pretty_pixelsI've been having difficulty getting an internet connection all day, more so as time goes on. I assume this is weather-related. It'd been cold and damp, and by the time I went out briefly this afternoon it was sort-of-snowing. It's got a lot heavier since then! It's lying thick enough to hide minor obstacles in every direction. I know, this is nothing by some people's standards, but I'm bloody glad I don't have to go for an interview in it tomorrow as I did on the snow day in January!
I hadn't realised it had got too heavy for safe driving, so I wasn't expecting a phone call at tea-time, telling me the Amnesty meeting I was going to this evening was cancelled. I'd just finished cooking the carrot and coriander sausages I was going to take for the bring-and-share we do at the December meeting. (As far as I can tell from the ingredients on the packet, they're vegan. I can re-heat them in instalments over the next few days, right?) Also, I need more stamps for cards I expected to hand out in person.
It must be lovely, if I could see it. By the time daylight arrives tomorrow, it'll probably be all nasty slush except on the roof-tops. I hope so, since the plausible alternative is ice, and I need to be able to walk outdoors, for several purposes.
Now to post this before the internet goes down again. Stay warm, everybody in the northern third of the planet.
I hadn't realised it had got too heavy for safe driving, so I wasn't expecting a phone call at tea-time, telling me the Amnesty meeting I was going to this evening was cancelled. I'd just finished cooking the carrot and coriander sausages I was going to take for the bring-and-share we do at the December meeting. (As far as I can tell from the ingredients on the packet, they're vegan. I can re-heat them in instalments over the next few days, right?) Also, I need more stamps for cards I expected to hand out in person.
It must be lovely, if I could see it. By the time daylight arrives tomorrow, it'll probably be all nasty slush except on the roof-tops. I hope so, since the plausible alternative is ice, and I need to be able to walk outdoors, for several purposes.
Now to post this before the internet goes down again. Stay warm, everybody in the northern third of the planet.
Some links of interest
Dec. 7th, 2009 05:21 pmThe F Word has an article on trans issues by Laurie Penny, Moving towards solidarity.
Roz Kaveney has details of a masterclass next year provided by the SFF, at Science Fiction Foundation: SF Criticism Masterclass for 2010.
There's a new blog reviewing new-reader-friendly comics at New readers...start here!
I was watching last week's episode of Life (available on the BBC iPlayer if they think your location is acceptable), there was this crowd of jellyfish, and the narration mentioned a predator. Here comes this huge jellyfish (though I couldn't tell how huge from that shot, maybe the others were tiny), and I'm just thinking "Wow, that looks just like a fried egg" when David Attenborough introduced it. The fried egg jellyfish - the second picture shows the bright yellow effect from the camera lights, and more of an impression of the size. Sometimes critter names are unexpectedly obvious!
Feminists - even prominent ones with big platforms to shout from - do not get to be the gatekeepers of what is and is not female, what is and is not feminine, any more than patriarchal apologists do.
Roz Kaveney has details of a masterclass next year provided by the SFF, at Science Fiction Foundation: SF Criticism Masterclass for 2010.
There's a new blog reviewing new-reader-friendly comics at New readers...start here!
This blog will avoid comics with sexist, racist, homophobic or ableist overtones or intent.
I was watching last week's episode of Life (available on the BBC iPlayer if they think your location is acceptable), there was this crowd of jellyfish, and the narration mentioned a predator. Here comes this huge jellyfish (though I couldn't tell how huge from that shot, maybe the others were tiny), and I'm just thinking "Wow, that looks just like a fried egg" when David Attenborough introduced it. The fried egg jellyfish - the second picture shows the bright yellow effect from the camera lights, and more of an impression of the size. Sometimes critter names are unexpectedly obvious!
New community
Dec. 5th, 2009 09:36 pmI've created a community for reviews of things you wish you hadn't read/watched, anti_recs. Have you watched a TV show "they" told you was going to be fun, only to be hit in the face with some gratuitous insult? Read a whole trilogy and found that it ends with a total cop-out? Come out of a movie saying "I want my two hours back!"? Spare other people the pain!
Time will tell whether I get about 3 members, or more than I can keep up with. You can tell I've never done this before, yes?
anti_recs. Have you watched a TV show "they" told you was going to be fun, only to be hit in the face with some gratuitous insult? Read a whole trilogy and found that it ends with a total cop-out? Come out of a movie saying "I want my two hours back!"? Spare other people the pain!Time will tell whether I get about 3 members, or more than I can keep up with. You can tell I've never done this before, yes?
My local post office has just introduced a ticketed queuing system. This is a lot more convenient for me, because I can sit down. There is now a block of seats to navigate around, where there used to be a chicane defined by ropes, so I assume this is easier for people in wheelchairs: more space, nothing knockable-over (the entrance is step-free with automatic doors, which look wide enough to me). I don't think the touch-screen take-a-ticket machine would be in reach of most wheelchair users though. There's a tannoy and a visual display, but the "Ticket no. xxx go to window w" doesn't stay there very long; but if your number's reached the front of the list on the screen and you missed it, there's a display over each counter which alternates the window letter with the number they're looking for. It's a new system and they still have someone there showing everybody what to do, and a big sign with instructions and "wheelchair user", "blind" and "deaf" symbols saying "ask for help if you need it". They clearly assume blind people will either have somebody with them or ask for help anyway, what with the touch-screen and the purely visual counter identifiers, but I think it's an improvement for anyone else, as long as you can operate the ticket machine. It's definitely better for my hips, or whatever else hurts on any given day.
Virtual shouting
Nov. 25th, 2009 05:21 pmPosted on the Home Learning College feedback page. I would have used something a bit more subtle than capslock if the form said anything about allowing HTML.
I tried to fill in the required phone fields with "please don't" and "I don't have one", but it threw them back at me. Therefore, ranting.
(Oops - just noticed I put source instead of course. Tough.)
Maybe I should be more diplomatic, but the answer to the question I really wanted to ask is probably "more than you can afford", so.
I tried to request course information for the VB.net source, but the form has all the phone numbers as required fields. I do not have a mobile phone, and avoid using the phone wherever possible. I am HIGHLY OFFENDED and if I knew how to PROSECUTE YOU UNDER THE DDA I would threaten to do so. WHAT CENTURY IS THIS? YOU HAVE EMAIL ON THE FORM FOR %^&* SAKE. Your site should say up front ONLY PEOPLE WITH GOOD HEARING AND SPEECH NEED APPLY. As for MOBILE phones being compulsory, WORDS FAIL ME.
I tried to fill in the required phone fields with "please don't" and "I don't have one", but it threw them back at me. Therefore, ranting.
(Oops - just noticed I put source instead of course. Tough.)
Maybe I should be more diplomatic, but the answer to the question I really wanted to ask is probably "more than you can afford", so.
Science heroine
Nov. 18th, 2009 08:23 pmDr Margaret Aderin-Pocock has a degree in physics, a PhD in mechanical engineering, and makes optical instruments for satellites for the world's third-largest space company. She also gives “Tours of the Universe” to school-children, and was awarded the MBE for this in January. She's a Black woman: I'm looking at her photo in the Radio Times.
Also: "Clangers first got me keen on space, but it wasn't till I got hooked by Star Trek that I wanted to be an astronaut." OMG ♥
She's in the Radio Times because she's the science advisor on a show that starts next Tuesday on BBC1, called Paradox. (The RT calls it "sci-fi", sigh.) Three cops, including a blonde woman and a Black man, are contacted by a scientist who gets messages from space, from the near future. They only have 18 hours tosave the earth prevent a disaster. Maybe one day they'll cast a scientist who looks like the science advisor, but in the meantime, I think this may be relevant to my interests.
Also: "Clangers first got me keen on space, but it wasn't till I got hooked by Star Trek that I wanted to be an astronaut." OMG ♥
She's in the Radio Times because she's the science advisor on a show that starts next Tuesday on BBC1, called Paradox. (The RT calls it "sci-fi", sigh.) Three cops, including a blonde woman and a Black man, are contacted by a scientist who gets messages from space, from the near future. They only have 18 hours to
This was written before watching Confidential or reading any other responses. I might have more to say later.
( Meta observation with implied spoilers )
( Meta observation with implied spoilers )
Three random unconnected things
Nov. 15th, 2009 03:12 pmI can haz avatar
I've changed my default icon. Until now I always used the UK dreamsheep, which is the first icon I ever acquired. This one was built at elouai.com's Gaia Online avatar maker and resized in GIMP. I'd prefer a different (messier!) hairstyle, but it wasn't available in dark brown and after trying to re-colour the reddish one for a while I realised my GIMP skillz are far too lacking. Also, you can't see the grey hairs. Still ... me twenty years ago, perhaps!
I would definitely wear those clothes. Colour co-ordination, what's that? Cardigan, check. House slippers, check. Trousers that are slightly too long because mass-market clothes are designed for tall people, check!
Domestic (mis)adventure
Yesterday morning, there was suddenly an intense downpour with hail! The road turned white! An hour later that was all gone. The rain continued for a while ... Meanwhile, as soon as the intense part started it got in under the back door again. Somebody is coming round tomorrow to check the gutters (at least that was the plan when I phoned yesterday).
Srs bsns
When several disabled feminists (FWD) spent a lot of spoons on a "chat" with representatives of Feministing, the transcript shows that Miriam and Courtney, the editors, were all "moderating comments is haaaaard" and "do our work for us" and even committed a t*ne *rg*m*nt. Since then, instead of living up to their claimed commitment to change, they've evidently used other people's suggestions without attribution (or practical follow-through). (I say evidently because I'm not going there to check.) Quixotess explains why you shouldn't give them clicks or link love in Please boycott Feministing.
I've changed my default icon. Until now I always used the UK dreamsheep, which is the first icon I ever acquired. This one was built at elouai.com's Gaia Online avatar maker and resized in GIMP. I'd prefer a different (messier!) hairstyle, but it wasn't available in dark brown and after trying to re-colour the reddish one for a while I realised my GIMP skillz are far too lacking. Also, you can't see the grey hairs. Still ... me twenty years ago, perhaps!
I would definitely wear those clothes. Colour co-ordination, what's that? Cardigan, check. House slippers, check. Trousers that are slightly too long because mass-market clothes are designed for tall people, check!
Domestic (mis)adventure
Yesterday morning, there was suddenly an intense downpour with hail! The road turned white! An hour later that was all gone. The rain continued for a while ... Meanwhile, as soon as the intense part started it got in under the back door again. Somebody is coming round tomorrow to check the gutters (at least that was the plan when I phoned yesterday).
Srs bsns
When several disabled feminists (FWD) spent a lot of spoons on a "chat" with representatives of Feministing, the transcript shows that Miriam and Courtney, the editors, were all "moderating comments is haaaaard" and "do our work for us" and even committed a t*ne *rg*m*nt. Since then, instead of living up to their claimed commitment to change, they've evidently used other people's suggestions without attribution (or practical follow-through). (I say evidently because I'm not going there to check.) Quixotess explains why you shouldn't give them clicks or link love in Please boycott Feministing.
Well, it was news to me
Nov. 10th, 2009 07:26 pmPeople who seek out show gossip on-line probably already knew this, but ( Doctor Who spoilers in Radio Times )
Good symptoms, bad symptoms
Oct. 31st, 2009 04:40 pmYesterday I was signing on, and the woman processing me had a couple of printouts of jobs somebody behind the scenes had told her to tell me to apply for (which they've started doing recently), and the one on top was Telephone Sales, which is right at the top of my Hell No list. So I went into my semi-prepared spiel about how nobody with an ounce of sense would employ me to do (insert telephone-related job here), because of this and that and it helps if you can speak for more than two minutes without coughing (cough on cue) and also etc.; but my voice was breaking up! and doing its familiar tricks of (in other circumstances) badness.
So instead of the expected "Your voice sounds all right to me" and pooh-poohing the rest of my issues with phone work, ending up with me applying for jobs I know I can't do, she cancelled that one and the next one, which involves taking people's details over the phone. Result!
(Well, a result would be if people advertised office jobs that didn't rely so much on the phone, OMG have they not heard of email? But in terms of getting out of the Jobcentre without more unnecessary stress, check.)
... Then when I was at a Halloween party in the evening, my joints started playing up in a major way, which they're still playing up, ow.
So instead of the expected "Your voice sounds all right to me" and pooh-poohing the rest of my issues with phone work, ending up with me applying for jobs I know I can't do, she cancelled that one and the next one, which involves taking people's details over the phone. Result!
(Well, a result would be if people advertised office jobs that didn't rely so much on the phone, OMG have they not heard of email? But in terms of getting out of the Jobcentre without more unnecessary stress, check.)
... Then when I was at a Halloween party in the evening, my joints started playing up in a major way, which they're still playing up, ow.
An assortment of news and a meme
Oct. 30th, 2009 04:17 pmIn the UK
Amnesty International is organising a mass lobby of Parliament to end violence against women, next Wednesday - particularly against the No Recourse to Public Funds rule which prevents women with insecure immigration status from escaping abuse.
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day: the average pay gap between men and women in the UK is 17.1%, meaning that while men in work will be paid for the full year, women in work are effectively working for free from today until 2010.
From the Dreamwidth Herald
Yesterday,![[site community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_codesharing was changed to allow open posting. if you have spare invite codes, post to the community using the tag "codes available".
Also, free accounts now get 15 userpics instead of 6. Go out and proselytise!
Follow Friday
I don't do memes, but this meme seems like a good idea for making Dreamwidth more awesome. Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die." Just introduce us to some new things to read.
With recent linkspams in mind, some communities to follow relating to access issues:
dw_accessibility (about making the site accessible), accessibility_fail (in RL, also features occasional accessibility win), access_fandom (canonically about making fandom more accessible; hosted the Feministing-fail linkspams). You can also follow the excellent new blog FWD/Forward via their Dwth feed, ![[syndicated profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
disabledfeminists_feed.
Amnesty International is organising a mass lobby of Parliament to end violence against women, next Wednesday - particularly against the No Recourse to Public Funds rule which prevents women with insecure immigration status from escaping abuse.
Friday 30th October is Equal Pay Day: the average pay gap between men and women in the UK is 17.1%, meaning that while men in work will be paid for the full year, women in work are effectively working for free from today until 2010.
From the Dreamwidth Herald
Yesterday,
dw_codesharing was changed to allow open posting. if you have spare invite codes, post to the community using the tag "codes available".Also, free accounts now get 15 userpics instead of 6. Go out and proselytise!
Follow Friday
I don't do memes, but this meme seems like a good idea for making Dreamwidth more awesome. Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die." Just introduce us to some new things to read.
With recent linkspams in mind, some communities to follow relating to access issues:
dw_accessibility (about making the site accessible), accessibility_fail (in RL, also features occasional accessibility win), access_fandom (canonically about making fandom more accessible; hosted the Feministing-fail linkspams). You can also follow the excellent new blog FWD/Forward via their Dwth feed, disabledfeminists_feed.More new styles
Oct. 18th, 2009 10:59 pmI'm still changing my style every time there's a code push, but I'm getting closer to something I like out of the box. The rounded corners on that last one, Fluid Measure (Wooded Theme), were nice, but once I increased the sidebar width so that feed names would fit, the entry boxes were not quite as wide as I like them, and I prefer text to icons for link, reply etc. Also, now I can have icons on the left again!
Now I'm using Crossroads (Descending Blue theme). I've picked Two Columns Sidebar Left, increased the sidebar, and put the modules back in the order I prefer (one day they won't get lost every time I change style). Usually I also change the link colours, but these might work as they are. (Wanted: a colour for visited links that isn't a shade of grey, but doesn't clash with these blues, and is easier to read against the off-white background while still being clearly different from the basic link colour.)
The other thing I have done is add custom CSS:
.entry .footer, .entry .tag, .comment .footer { background-color: #ebeef4; }
so that the metadata and action links are on a slightly different background. Some of the Crossroads themes already do that, and I don't know how, because I can't find it in the wizard; but I don't want to pick one of them and lose what I've done with this one.
Now I'm using Crossroads (Descending Blue theme). I've picked Two Columns Sidebar Left, increased the sidebar, and put the modules back in the order I prefer (one day they won't get lost every time I change style). Usually I also change the link colours, but these might work as they are. (Wanted: a colour for visited links that isn't a shade of grey, but doesn't clash with these blues, and is easier to read against the off-white background while still being clearly different from the basic link colour.)
The other thing I have done is add custom CSS:
.entry .footer, .entry .tag, .comment .footer { background-color: #ebeef4; }
so that the metadata and action links are on a slightly different background. Some of the Crossroads themes already do that, and I don't know how, because I can't find it in the wizard; but I don't want to pick one of them and lose what I've done with this one.
Unsolicited advice
Oct. 17th, 2009 10:43 pmA couple of days ago I was leaving a meeting and I complained about my knees hurting, and one of the other people started in asking what's wrong with them and stuff, and then with the "You should ignore what the doctor says, doctors don't know everything" (which, that last part is true, so?) and I should go to a chiropractor instead. 'Cos he (the speaker) is older than me and his knees don't hurt, therefore it's nothing to do with my age, also the other person still there is female and older than me and her knees are OK, QED.
GO AWAY. (Or, alternatively, d'you want to hear all about my peri-menopausal symptoms?)
So, disabled people get this all the time: Please, Tell Me More. Observe my total lack of surprise.
GO AWAY. (Or, alternatively, d'you want to hear all about my peri-menopausal symptoms?)
So, disabled people get this all the time: Please, Tell Me More. Observe my total lack of surprise.
If it isn't one thing, it's another
Oct. 11th, 2009 11:53 amCosigned: Meloukhia's Open Letter to Feministing
Feministing is a very large feminist group blog, which I've never followed. I didn't have enough online time, then I found that the site didn't load properly in Firefox 2. By the time I upgraded to Firefox 3, I'd got the impression that they were part of the mainstream white middle-class feminism that claims to lead the movement while neglecting intersectional issues and failing to credit other people's work, as critiqued by women of colour (see ABW's On Feminism series). Recent events have not changed that impression; see also Narcissist Feminism as described by Jennifer Kesler.
There's a new group objecting to being treated dismissively by the Feministing crew, and to the commenting culture there, except that it's not new at all. Disabled women have been calling out ableism on the site for some time, and being ignored. Meloukhia's Open Letter is not so much a response to a particular event as a "last straw" situation. Disabled feminists have had enough, and they're not going to take it any more! Anybody is welcome to cosign, either on the open letter post or elsewhere (with a link on Meloukhia's post so she can keep track).
Linkspams are being collected ataccess_fandom.
Feministing is a very large feminist group blog, which I've never followed. I didn't have enough online time, then I found that the site didn't load properly in Firefox 2. By the time I upgraded to Firefox 3, I'd got the impression that they were part of the mainstream white middle-class feminism that claims to lead the movement while neglecting intersectional issues and failing to credit other people's work, as critiqued by women of colour (see ABW's On Feminism series). Recent events have not changed that impression; see also Narcissist Feminism as described by Jennifer Kesler.
There's a new group objecting to being treated dismissively by the Feministing crew, and to the commenting culture there, except that it's not new at all. Disabled women have been calling out ableism on the site for some time, and being ignored. Meloukhia's Open Letter is not so much a response to a particular event as a "last straw" situation. Disabled feminists have had enough, and they're not going to take it any more! Anybody is welcome to cosign, either on the open letter post or elsewhere (with a link on Meloukhia's post so she can keep track).
Linkspams are being collected at
access_fandom.
