Archive for the 'Culture' Category

New site: Heroine Content

Yazan: Candace | 21 August 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: Bodies, Boothbabes, Culture, Feminism, Games, Sexism, Sexuality, Technology

I added the feed from Heroine Content to my collection recently. This is from the site’s first post and welcome: Heroine Content is a feminist and anti-racist blog about women kicking ass. More specifically, we write about women kicking ass in action films, with a side order of television and video game commentary as things […]

Not a mommyblogger, not a Jane

Yazan: Candace | 01 August 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Blogging, Blogher, Culture, Diversity, Family, Feminism, Life, Technology

I’m on my way home from BlogHer 2006 and realizing that there are a lot of things I am not. Mostly today I know I’m not a mommyblogger. Mommy/parent blogging does have incredible potential to support new parents in what can be overwhelming isolation and a shocking discovery that babies are not all crisp cotton, […]

To the Death: A Historical Snapshot of Feminists Who Took it to the Extreme

Yazan: Candace | 23 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture, Family, Feminism, Feminist Theory, History, Sexism, Women's Studies

Margaret Sanger. Ethyl Byrne. Genora Johnson Dollinger. There are women who have dedicated their lives – even risked their lives – for the cause of the women’s movement. Publishing, speaking publicly, and hunger strikes are some of the ways that feminists have placed the greater good of many before their own needs. In the excerpt […]

Old Women

Yazan: Candace | 09 May 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Culture, Feminism, Happy, Life, Third Wave

I’m getting older… single mom, couple of kids…I’m relatively casual, a jeans and t-shirt person predominantly although on a hot day I’ll wear a long loose skirt. I don’t wear make-up, I have a practical shoulder length haircut which I tie in a ponytail when I’m teaching dance classes. My hair is string straight and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ballet Teaching

Yazan: Candace | 17 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Bodies, Culture

Why do I teach ballet? I’ve been trying to sort this out in hopes that it will help me make the decision whether or not to continue. My life is stretched far and wide and this seems to be the piece that doesn’t really fit in with the others, at first glance at least. If […]

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