January 2012
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X-Ray that Pie →
Ah, yet another technological fix for flawed processes. It’s easier to X-ray food instead of making sure the rocks and bones never get it the first place. X-ray spinach for E coli instead of making sure the port-o-potties are out of the fields and washing stations have soap for the field workers.
December 2011
3 posts
Life size Barbie →
Proportionally enlarged.
Arsenic in Apple Juice →
Here are the results - Yikes.
November 2011
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Opinionated women bloggers unite! →
Mississippi Law - Fertilized egg a person →
Linda Layne has pointed out in her book Pregnancy Lost that 25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Natural miscarriage. So, should women be criminalized if a pregnancy does not come full term? The law carried out implies that this would be murder if a fertilized egg is a person.
October 2011
4 posts
WatchLil Poundcake and HPV - Thanks to SNL
Girls and HPV vaccine
So, I’ve been thinking about the Perry/Bachman positions on vaccination. On one hand, you have the idea of public health (vaccination) for the good of society, and the other, infringement of government by dictating vaccinations. In some ways both positions have their merits, and are worth more public discussion. However, the vehicle used to transmit these ideas are voiceless girls’...
The Dichotomy that is Clarence Thomas →
September 2011
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March 2011
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Charlie Sheen & Domestic Violence →
February 2011
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"curing" baldness in mice →
"classic" ads of women and children →
December 2010
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nice men & men's responsibilities →
November 2010
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Films for the Feminist Classroom →
August 2010
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Mascara for your car: Carlashes →
June 2010
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Mean & Sexist Beer Ads →
She says it better than I can.
Feminist Technology →
April 2010
2 posts
Quilt's Rights Posts →
I guess I need to clarify my post. I actually liked the patchwork/quilt metaphor, and it made me think anew about the use of such a comparison. Ambinder says it’s an insult to quilts, and I agree, because they are arguable works of art. I thought it was a stunning and clever sentence because I had never thought about it in that way. And, it certainly brings home the point that there is...
Insult to Quilts
Marc Ambinder has an article about obesity in the May 2010 Atlantic. I was knocked over by one sentence:
“To describe the existing federal policies and regulatory approaches on obesity as a patchwork is an insult to quilts everywhere.”
This use of patchwork as an insult really struck me, because it is such a gendered insult. Ambinder deploys the metaphor because it assumes...
March 2010
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The iMaxi →
Oh the jokes continue…
February 2010
4 posts
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Menstrual Awareness Campaign →
My student Jenny has developed a tumblr site as part of her coursework that examines negative attitudes about menstruation and seeks to challenge them.
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Under Wraps Chapter 2: Technology & Passing →
Chapter 2 “Technology and Passing” from my book Under Wraps is now available on my website. It outlines my core argument that technologies of menstrual hygiene allow women to pass as their non-menstrual selves in a society where fluctuating and messy female bodies are not preferred.
January 2010
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More talk about iPad on MadTV →
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iPad, iTampon →
So the iPad was unveiled yesterday, and the means by which it is being degraded is to link it to menstruation and sanitary pads. This is fascinating to me, that menstrual humor is the vehicle to make the jab at this new technology. As the cultural logic goes, what could be worse than a menstrual association with a new computer artifact, and naming it pad when “sanitary pad” is the...
December 2009
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Baby Glutton, the doll that breast feeds! →
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November 2009
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Advertising Menstrual Hygiene →
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October 2009
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September 2009
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Eyelash curler →
Google patents makes finding these gadgets so much easier.
August 2009
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Do My Back →
Would this really work to apply lotion to one’s back? Perhaps a good technological fix.
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Technology inspired Art by Heather Ault →
Check out Wonder Woman!
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