Girl with Pen Recently I’ve been researching the life of my childhood friend, Miss Georgiana Fulton. It’s been a welcome distraction from news filled with stories of urban protests against police violence and continued assaults on women’s reproductive rights. Battles once considered fought and won are again bitterly contentious. Miss Fulton’s life spanned nearly a century. From time to time here at Second Look I’ve mentioned Miss Fulton, the example of she set of an independent woman, the lessons in the struggle for women’s suffrage she insisted I learn and not forget: “Don’t you ever let anyone say women were given the vote, child. “Not everyone will agree with you when you speak your mind, girl. “If you want to do something and you’ve thought it through, do it, child. All good advice for anyone of any age—but especially good for a girl growing up in small-town Connecticut during the 1950s. Practice for what I wasn’t quite sure. We’ve struggled and pushed ahead.
Michelle Obama Watch The Curvature THE EDDIE ARGOS RESOURCE In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. On Monday night, Donald Trump’s wife Melania touched hearts as she addressed the Republican National Convention, sharing the lessons she learned growing up as a black girl on the South Side of Chicago. As first spotted by journalist Jarrett Hill, Melania’s speech bore more than a passing resemblance to another speech at another convention about eight years ago — Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention. The cribbed portion discussed the values that Michelle and Melania apparently share, including working hard for what you want in life and keeping your word. Read more → I apologize for Feministe’s long, long radio silence, and I hate that this is the occasion to break it. Read more → [Content note: mentions of transphobia and child sexual abuse] While Feministe has been down, an issue erupted in North Carolina about where trans people are allowed to pee. Here are some highlights, if somehow you missed it while you were missing us. Read more → Calm down. Read more →
HotHead Paisan Homocidal Lesbian Terrorist I Blame The Patriarchy AddieStan Feminist Law Professors | Nearly all of us root for fairness, not for our own sex. – Nicholas Kristof Women's Media Center The Homicide Report : Los Angeles Times Posted April 2, 2014, 4:34 p.m. Monty Wayne Barker, a 74-year-old white man, was shot Friday, March 21, in the 5200 block of Mecca Avenue in Tarzana, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. Around 5:10 p.m., officers responded to a call of a man with a gun, according to an LAPD news release. When officers arrived on the scene, Barker walked from the rear of his Mecca Avenue residence to the front, still carrying a shotgun. He confronted the officers and there was an officer-involved shooting. Barker, who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:28 p.m. The LAPD’s Force Investigation Division responded to the incident and will conduct an investigation of the officer-involved shooting. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s Justice System Integrity Division also will review the incident. Anyone with information is asked to call ... Continue reading »
Stephen Fry Mac at 30 By Stephen Fry January 24th, 2014 It was thirty years ago today that Sergeant Jobs taught the band to play. Sergeant Jobs together with Privates Smith, Atkinson, Kawasaki, Crow, Espinosa and the rest of the Apple Macintosh team, not to mention all those back at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and the crew at Stanford who had built the first computer mouse, and back before them, of course, all the geniuses in a line back from Steve Wozniak and Gordon Moore to the original pioneers like Von Neumann and the great Alan Turing. Close SEND TO A FRIEND To send a link to this page to a friend, fill in the following form, and we'll do the rest. An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC By Stephen Fry August 7th, 2013 Dear Prime Minister, M Rogge, Lord Coe and Members of the International Olympic Committee, Only The Lonely By Stephen Fry June 24th, 2013
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