tangle's blog

We’ll consider this my preliminary Skeptical Feminist FAQ:

• What is feminism? Is it a philosophy, an ideology, or just another ism?

Abortion has always been a women's issue. It has not always been a medical issue, or a legal issue, but it has always been an issue of personal liberty and reproductive freedom for women.

To be, or not to be a feminist? I've blogged about this before, but recently I've had to yet again reconsider my position. This is no doubt because I've been consumed lately with the idea of sex work.

As I lamented to my sociology professor yesterday, I have a bad habit of thinking in terms of overly-broad, dissertation-length concepts, which is a bit premature at this stage in my academic career. And so, in keeping with my goal of paring down my interests into more focused topics, I'm setting out to once again blog about race, specifically about whiteness and the subtle privileges enjoyed by those with a light skin tone.

I cannot escape racism. It paints my world in stark, thick, contrasting strokes of black and white. So it goes that I devote much thought to the matter of that social construct so casually referred to as race. (In a very similar manner, I might add, that I cannot help but to constantly consider gender as it shapes my world.

Have you given much consideration to the inevitable fact of your death?

What color are you? And what color am I, for that matter? How much thought have you given the topic of race today?

When it comes to the tactics of the anti-abortion proponents I'm nearly always appalled at what they deem to be appropriate forms of protest. So when I read this article in my local paper yesterday I was surprised to see some of the pro-lifers actually showing something resembling compassion.