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WoW – The New Birth Control

Yazan: Candace | 02 May 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Culture, Games, Life, Relationships, Technology

Rob acquired a 14-day free trial dvd for World of Warcraft. Since we’re getting hyped up for E3 and our trip to California (next week!) we thought it would be the perfect time to get in the spirit and see what all the WoW hype is about. Four days, 3 characters, and a combined 20 […]

More about Booth Babes

Yazan: Candace | 21 April 2006 | Comments Off on More about Booth Babes
Categories: Boothbabes, E3, Feminism, Sexism, Sexuality, Technology

So Noah wants to bring back the booth babes. He’s a 17 year old high school student (technically not even old enough to get in to E3) and he’s crying that taking booth babes out of E3 is a travesty. /sigh/ There is more to life than booth babes. I don’t go to E3 for […]

Are you a list person?

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Do you make lists? Do you hate lists? Do you realize there are different kinds of lists? First there are the lists that give you chores to do. Often other people make these lists for you: wash windows, clean eavestroughs, fix the faucet, clean the clutter off the counter, catch up the mending, etc. Lists […]

Learning to enjoy life

Yazan: Candace | 20 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

I’m learning some things. I’m trying to learn to enjoy life more. I’ve been participating at 43 places.com and looking at all the beautiful places there are in the world to visit, all the amazing history to see, all the cool people to meet and watching the people who are really doing all of this. […]

summer at last

Yazan: Candace | 19 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life, Photography, School

This summer is much needed. Classes are over finally and my exams are done. I have two final papers due next week that I will have to write sometime but I’m not thinking about that right now. I need a break. I have been a full time student for 8 semesters straight now. I got […]

Yay Canadian BlogHers!!!

Yazan: Candace | 09 April 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Canadiana, Culture, Technology, Third Wave

Hooray for Kate! After BlogHer 2005 (which I could not attend) I got really keen for bringing it to Canada. I talked with the team at BlogHer and they put me in contact with Alexandra Samuel. Unfortunately my house was robbed right as the excitement was building and with no computer it was a challenge […]

Get ready for more of this at E3 2006

Yazan: Candace | 26 March 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: Culture, Games, Life, Sexism, Technology, Third Wave

Rob‘s been away at GDC this week and he’s been taking pictures of the boothbabes apparently. This photo is from his flickr page. With the fines for objectifying women set for this year I wonder how many boothbabes like this one we’ll be seeing at E3 2006?

It ain’t easy

Yazan: Candace | 03 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Feminism, Feminist Theory

These ‘happy’ posts are easy. Essays about sexism, feminism, culture, i.e. ‘Issues’ are easy too. For the ‘happy’ posts, all that’s required is making a list about my day, noting a few good things. For an essay, I just do some research, often something I’m doing for school anyways, maybe form an opinion or take […]

Happy? February 26, 2006

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Happy, Life

Happy things for today: I found skates – they’re bright blue and they’re comfortable. Not to shabby considering it’s February, winter’s almost over here, and I had to go to more than one store to find them. Skating was excellent. I took my kids, my s.o. brought his, and other friends brough their three. We […]

When I Need Help Getting Happy

Yazan: Candace | 26 February 2006 | 5 Comments
Categories: Culture, Feminism, Happy, Women's Studies

When I need help getting back to feeling good about what I’m doing, I like to read Gendergeek.org’s FAQ page In clear language, they summarize the reasons why we’re doing what we do as feminists: We would like to live in a world where women weren’t subject to male violence; where work of equal value […]

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