Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

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Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies! was set up to discuss gender, sexuality, body politics & related issues from the very personal to the universal & everything in between; to address those gender/sexuality issues that, though of great importance, get fewer column inches than they should. For more information, please use the links below. Subscribe in a reader (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); {lang: 'en-GB'} var sc_project=6546546; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="ea0c6c49";

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Seriously. Sign it. Get your friends to sign it.

(For those living under a rock, the official petition title is "We call for a Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform, and a New Deal for sick & disabled people based on their needs, abilities and ambitions". Important stuff. Sign it.)

This is a really cool opportunity!!!!

Do you define yourself as LGBT or Questioning?

Are you aged 16 to 25?

Are you interested in circus and theatre?

Then PUFFBALL could be for you!

Contact is looking for young people to take part in an intensive five-day workshop running from Monday 15th to Friday 19th July. Led by artist Mark Storor, Puffball will give participants the opportunity to explore their personal experiences through circus, theatre and visual arts. Contact is particularly interested in engaging LGBTQ young people who are not currently in education, employment or training.

The workshop is a standalone project that will inform a new production performed at the Roundhouse in London and the WalesMillenniumCentre in Summer2014.

If you are interested or know someone who might be please get in touch with Abbie Willcox on 0161 274 0613 or [email protected]. The deadline is 5pm on Friday 5th July.

Puffball is a collaboration between the Roundhouse, London and the Wales Millennium Centre,Cardiff. Contact is the regional partner.

The Contact Theatre is based in Manchester, and the workshop is free. YES FREE. And for those of you who aren't based in Manchester, i've heard through the grapevine that Contact may be able to reimburse some of your travels costs.

I'd like to let you know why I'm unfollowing you. I'm doing it because I am a proud Gender Studies student who works adamantly for social justice, all while trying to convince both academics and non-academics that we don't sit in class discussing what is and is not problematic all day. And this blog seems to be becoming more of a personal one (ie your most recent text post). I was hoping this might be a better reflection of Gender Studies as a whole, perhaps showing what's going on in the field.

ok love you bye

***LOST MASKING TAPE***

Are you ever going to give it up, asshole? I wonder what your mother would say, you sad fucking worm.

For my readers in the UK, the very amazing Indie film Frozen River is currently available on iplayer.

Directed by a woman. Starring mostly women. Oscar-nominated. It's probably in my top ten films ever. If you've got a free couple hours between now and Saturday, check it out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wmwwc/Frozen_River/

Have you seen the photo's by a Chicago teen pregnancy campaign that show pregnant boys to underline shared responsibility. Are these photo's transphobic? Seeing a lot of disagreement in the comments section of the news and I'm not completely sure about this 1.

I hadn't; i had to google it to find it, but after looking at the campaign--yes, i would agree it's transphobic.

Here's a (Daily Mail) article on it, inc. pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325100/New-billboard-campaign-launched-Chicago-features-images-pregnant-boys-remind-baby-isnt-just-girls-responsibility.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

WOW, I just lost a bunch of weight using the OFFICIAL TUMBLR DIET!! Are u using it as well?

What.

Could you provide a list of how abortion save lives and how it does not leave the person who had an abortion traumatized forever afterwards?Thanks:)

This took me literally less than two seconds on Google.

"Recent studies that have been used to assert a causal connection between abortion and subsequent mental disorders are marked by methodological problems that include, but not limited to: poor sample and comparison group selection; inadequate conceptualization and control of relevant variables; poor quality and lack of clinical significance of outcome measures; inappropriateness of statistical analyses; and errors of interpretation, including misattribution of causal effects. By way of contrast, we review some recent major studies that avoid these methodological errors. The most consistent predictor of mental disorders after abortion remains preexisting disorders, which, in turn, are strongly associated with exposure to sexual abuse and intimate violence."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19637075

And the great news is there's a whole internet of research and data out there for you to investigate for yourself! THANKS AND HAVE FUN!

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Watching a show called "Your Style in His Hands".

Or, more accurately, “Throw Away All Your Wife’s Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You”

For the love of god this is actually a show?

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Oh, sure. On TLC, alongside corkers like "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" and "Long Island Medium".

madness-narrative

I’ll say it loud and I’ll say it clear. I am not mentally ill, never was, never have been, never will be. I am a survivor of abuse and I believe that I have had a perfectly natural human reaction to terrible experiences. And to frame my responses as illness, I think, is offensive. And I think we spend far too long talking about what’s going on in people’s brains, and not enough time talking about what’s happened in people’s lives.

Jacqui Dillon, The Personal is Political (via madness-narrative)

What do you think about Author Kailin Gow? Does she really empower girls as her Amazon bio's claim?

Not a scooby; until this message i'd never even heard of her, much less read her books.

Watching a show called "Your Style in His Hands".

Or, more accurately, "Throw Away All Your Wife's Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You"

Since you posted that article blowing his trumpet, what do you think about the fact that Charles Ramsey did time for domestic violence a bunch of times?

I only read about this just now after getting this message.He still saved those women. Nobody else did that. Would we even be hearing about these (spent) convictions if he were white? If we were would i be getting messages like yours about it? Like, fuck, what would you prefer? That he ignored it? Jesus fucking christ.I bet you listen to the Beatles.And i couldn't care less about his non violent convictions so don't even start.

[Charles Ramsey's] intensity [...] and also his competence (he does a better job with the essentials like the address than the 911 operator) make him one of those instantly compelling figures who, in the middle of an American tragedy, just start talking—and then we can’t stop listening. [...] But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute.” In many times and places, a line like that has been offered as an excuse for walking away, not for helping a woman break down your neighbor’s door. How many women have died as a result? They didn’t yesterday.

Amy Davidson about Charles Ramsey http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/amanda-berry-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnap.html

What do you think about the Anonymous hackers collective in general?

Seems to me like it's mostly a bunch of dudes patting each other on the back for executing elementary and/or pointless hacking exercises whilst being hugely misogynistic, often predatory. Lisbeth Salander they are not.

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