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  1. The power of positive role models and portrayals

    6/11/06 9:02am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me Sometimes I need to read the right thing at the right time to know what the right thing is to do. And Liz Rizzo and Jory Des Jardins have recently written the right things, at the right time, to help me make a personal decision.  Read more >

  2. Vidlicious - all women videobloggers, all the time

    5/17/06 1:05am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me When the written word just isn't enough - trust women to find a way to use new technology to get their message across - including feminist messages. Among the current featured videoblog posts at vidlicious, which describes itself as an "ever evolving collective of female videobloggers. A place to track all the videoblogs/podcasts produced by female videophiles of all ages, races, philosophies, and graces", Killer B describes her decision not to shave her legs and underarms:  Read more >

  3. "Ask Me" or "Don't Ask" - you decide - or do you?

    5/16/06 12:54pm by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me Any story which touches on reproductive rights is guaranteed to generate strong emotions - and the new campaign by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is no exception. The campaign, called "Ask Me", is a prescription-writing campaign for Plan B (or the morning-after pill, or emergency contraception). An excellent column at USNews.com by Bernadine Healy examines some of the issues, and quotes Vivian Dickerson, former President of ACOG, who justifies the campaign because of the:  Read more >

  4. Blogging for LGBT Families Day - June 1 2006

    5/9/06 3:03am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me Here's another day of blog activism for those who appreciate such things - "Blogging for LGBT Families Day". As the organiser, Dana Rudolph of the blog "Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Mums" says, "Blogging for LGBT Families Day is a time for bloggers to write about LGBT family issues and collectively raise awareness of LGBT families, our diverse nature, and how current prejudices and laws negatively affect our lives and children."  Read more >

  5. Journalism and gender variance - uneasy bedfellows?

    5/6/06 7:13am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me In my opinion, a free press is an essential element of a free and just society. And yet, for all of the examples where journalists have uncovered wrong-doing and pursued those responsible (even to the highest reaches of government) there is at least one area where the fourth estate typically fails to cover itself in glory.  Read more >

  6. Only "real" feminists need apply

    5/5/06 9:35am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me If there's something more important than smashing the patriarchy, then it's obviously deriding another woman for making a conscious decision to stay at home to raise her children. As BlogHer Contributing Editor Erin Kotecki Vest discovered recently, when a "real" feminist decided to email her displeasure.  Read more >

  7. When feminists betray their principles

    4/12/06 1:53am by Koan
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    Contributing Editor Koan Bremner also blogs at Multidimensional.Me I'm proud to call myself a feminist - prouder than I am of being a transsexual woman (since I made a conscious decision to be the former, while I had no say in the latter). But there are aspects of some feminisms (and some feminists) that disgust me - transphobia not the least.  Read more >

  8. ... And Justice For Some

    2/18/06 1:11am by Koan
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    Take two intelligent women (who each blog) - combine them in convivial surroundings - wait for them to discuss how to put the world to rights - and for one of them to mention (in a comment on a third woman's blog) part of their discussion. Result? Sheer genius (in my humble opinion).  Read more >

  9. "The moment I wake up, before I put on my make-up..."

    2/10/06 10:58pm by Koan
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    ... I ask myself if I'm failing as a feminist - adhering to the brainwashing of the patriarchy - pandering to society's demands that a woman must look "just so" - or exercising my free will and right to choose.  Read more >

  10. Cruelty and ignorance - then and now

    2/9/06 2:19am by Koan
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    I first encountered roo in the comments of a post on Schmutzie's excellent blog, "Milkmoney or Not, Here I Come". The measuring tapes came out, readings were checked, and mine was half an inch bigger than roo's.  Read more >

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