Qwiki: storytelling for websearch
March’s issue of Wired has an article on the new search engine Qwiki. I was intrigued by what they said (the article was too short …
Nobody is born this way
Let me preface this by saying: I loved Gaga’s first album. It was good dance music (one can argue it was also mostly inconsequential, but …
Why we should be proud spinsters
This past weekend I was re-reading some articles by Howard Zinn about the badly documented role of women in American history. His piece focused specifically …
I am not a feminist
Yeah, rant mode ON (again, for the nth time today). I’ve encountered many a woman who would tell me “I am not a feminist”. These …
Also about the FGM photo
I have this much to ask: if the girl was white, would people still feel comfortable reblogging? How many would have considered it violent child …
UGH Disgusted by a cheap plea to reblog
This post about Female Genital Mutilation made me sick. I guess you can say it triggered me (even though I haven’t experienced it myself, the …