Seriously??

A bra for your butt? Will this crap ever stop?

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Can we perhaps move our focus from 'boosting saggy bums' and 'shrinking our backsides' to a focus on 'boosting' the self esteem of women and girls, 'boosting' wages for working women, 'boosting' representation of women in politics and 'shrinking' discrimination, sexism, homophobia, violence, and inequity?

Another reason for Feminism and Justice

This blog post, Shocking Photos of Corrective Rape Victim, came across my facebook tonight. My immediate reaction was tears....but then rage took over. The violence, hate, brutality that continues to plague women and girls around the world overwhelms me. If ever there was proof that sexism and homophobia are alive and well...here it is. If ever we need to recommit to feminism, activism, and justice...here is the call.

My thoughts are with Millicent Gaika tonight, I'm in awe of her strength and her survival.

My daughter's logic

My daughter, Molly, wanted to visit the girl toys in a store today. I explained (again) that there are only toys, not boy and girl toys, and that anyone can play. She looked @ me and said, "OK, then, I want to go where the pink and purple toys are." Geez...

Re-Post from Ms. Blog

When Infidelity Becomes “Sex Addiction”

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Trailer for new documentary...a must see!

March On

And Ms. Blog What Prop. 8 Defenders Don’t Want You to Know

Did you know...

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment march down Pennsylvania Avenue, Aug. 26, 1977.

Read this article: On This Day: Congress Passes Equal Rights Amendment

by findingDulcinea Staff

I am so proud to stand with students today!

With Sociology Club students at the March in March Rally today at California's State Capitol.

Molly and I at the March in March Rally

I'm often asked how I will raise my daughter to be an activist. As with most things, living the example is the best education. I take my daughter to most all events that I attend. In her two and a half years she has gone to every vote I have cast; to Take Back the Night rallies to watch me speak; to walk with students at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk and fundraiser; to rallies and protests against ballot measures that prohibit marriage equality; to Martin Luther King Jr. community celebrations; and today she attended the March in March rally for education at the state Capitol in California. We marched, we rallied, we chanted. My baby girl chanted "Si Se Puede" and made my heart sing and since coming home from the rally today she has been running around the house yelling "No More Cuts!" and "Power to the People!" with her fist in the air. I imagine the day she'll come out of her room with self-made signs protesting some injustice she believes her dad and I have imposed (like bed time, for example).

We had many conversations today about activism and why we go to rallies. What it means to stand up and raise our voices. How people can and do make change. I'm not sure the true extent she understands it all, and yes, I am choosing for her the issues we focus upon. But as I responded to a reporter today, I take my daughter to these events so she grows up knowing that people do act, that change can happen, and that her voice is important. So that when she is older and finds an issue that impassions her, she will know that activism belongs to her.