NWSA MEMBER BLOGS
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Number of member blogs so far => 11
Blogger: Jennifer Steenberg
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AAUW Staff members and occasional affiliates as guest bloggers
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Women's equity issues in the news and updates on AAUW programs and evnets
2.creating the political in my everyday life: (queer) feminism into action
Blogger: Heather Joy Jackson
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I am a sober, single mother, radical feminist, queer, bike commuter, full-time student, womyn. I want to start a discussion about political acts on a daily basis. How can we queer and act in a feminist (political) way everyday? What aspects of our lives can be politicized, creating the political in our everyday lives and putting the (queer) feminism into action?
3.GID Reform Advocates: Essay Series on Gender Diagnoses in the DSM-V
Blogger: Kelley Winters
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Nearly four decades after the American Psychiatric Association (APA) voted to delete homosexuality as a mental disorder, the diagnostic categories of "gender identity disorder" and "transvestic fetishism" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders continue to raise questions of consistency, validity, and fairness. Recent revisions of the DSM have made these diagnostic categories increasingly ambiguous, conflicted and overinclusive. They reinforce false, negative stereotypes of gender variant people and at the same time fail to legitimize the medical necessity of sex reassignment surgeries (SRS) and procedures for transsexual women and men who urgently need them. The result is that a widening segment of gender non-conforming youth and adults are potentially subject to diagnosis of psychosexual disorder, stigma and loss of civil liberty. It is time for the medical professions to affirm that difference is not disease, nonconformity is not pathology, and uniqueness is not illness
4.Guerrilla Girls On Tour!
Blogger: Aphra Behn
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Guerrilla Girls On Tour's blog written while touring the world proving femininsts are funny.
5.Professor Splenda Galore
Blogger: Juli L. Parker
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Articles written for local newspaper and other venues on topics relevant to women.
6.Sciencewomen
Blogger: Alice Pawley
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Co-blogger the pseudonymous ScienceWoman
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We write about lots of things related to gender and science: being women academics in the sciences or engineering, science associated with gender, how life intersects with work, navigating the academic pathway as women who don't want to conform to existing disciplining, and so on. Come read!
7.Spitfire Grrrl
Blogger: Harmony Leanna Eichsteadt
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8.Stop Street Harassment
Blogger: Holly Kearl
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The blog is a space for anyone to share their gender-based street harassment stories and strategies for dealing with it. It’s also a place where the administrator (Holly Kearl) comments on street harassment in the news and highlights street harassment activism.
9.Tiffany E. Cook
Blogger: Tiffany Cook
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Sustainable living and feminism.
10.UMKC Women's Center
Blogger: Brenda Bethman
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Kristen Abell, UMKC Women's Center Staff
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Blog sponsored by the UMKC Women's Center. We post on thought-provoking articles to foster discussion on women's issues. We also accept guest posts, so contact me at bethmanb@umkc.edu if you would be interested in writing a guest post for our blog.
11.Yan Bin Chronicles
Blogger: Vivien Ng
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This blog is my muse AND superego. Chronicles my creative projects and other musings.