“Lately, I’ve been thinking about craft and how storytelling relates to social and cultural norms and values. One thing that both amuses and troubles me is the idea that when a story is told from the male perspective, it’s considered universal, yet when a story is told from a female perspective, it’s somehow particular to […]
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“I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics, including a 16 year old schoolgirl who came back to picket the day after her abortion, about three years ago. During her whole stay at the clinic, we felt that she was not quite right, but there were no real warning bells.
For those interested, Laura Quilter and Liz Henry have put together a Feminist SF group blog. Why, yes, I’m one of the contributers. I will be posting soonish (give me a little more time to sort my laundry). And won’t that be interesting?
1) All hetero marriages will be desolved! 2) All heteros will be forced into same-sex pairings! 3) All your children will grow up gay! 4) Everyone will get AIDS! 5) There will be butt-fucking in the streets! 6) Free booze for everyone! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m voting yes… for the booze!
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Meanwhile, the abundant pity that Muslim women inspire in the West largely takes the form of impassioned declarations about “our plight”–reserved, it would seem, for us, as Christian and Jewish women living in similarly constricting fundamentalist settings never seem to attract the same concern. The veil, illiteracy, domestic violence, gender apartheid and genital mutilation have
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Well, today’s the first day I’m going without the midday insulin, as my doctor prescribed. I was supposed to lower my Lantus dose (my once-a-day long-lasting insulin shot that I take every morning) and go without the midday hit starting yesterday, but chickened out. My sugar count is always highest at noon, and I hated
Totally bounced two checks this month. $400 in medication costs and 2 weeks of unexpected no-work pay will do that (alas, I’d already sent out these checks before getting the news that I was getting $300 less this month). And yes, I paid for groceries this week with my credit card. Oh, I just got
My second week of Clarion, I stayed up all night writing a short story about a women who leads a group of desert fighters on behalf of a foreign man she’s sworn herself to. There were two kinds of women in this society – “women,” who were the fighters and occasional mothers, and “ladies,” who
Ran errands today with Jenn, and did our once-every-two-months-or-so Costco run. My blood had been running high at lunch, so I wasn’t very concerned about it. I walked up our three flights of stairs three times, and for the first time in months, the idea of slogging up them didn’t make me tired. I grabbed