The winter issue of Bitch magazine is all about green issues as they relate to feminism and pop culture. As always, Bitch is dead on in their content and critique, especially the piece "Green and Not Heard: Al Gore, Rachel Carson, and the feminizing of eco-activism." Recommended highly, though it's only available in print.
Wait, there's still print media? And print media that doesn't have the full text of their articles available online? Despite the horror of having to leave your house, travel to a bookstore (preferably a small, local, independent one), and interact with other human creatures, Bitch, particularly this issue, is worth it.
Calling all radicals: Unite for Kerry-Boxer
Dispassion as the world ends: The absent heart of the great climate affair
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mihan Posted 4:07 am
26 Dec 2006
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willa Posted 5:48 am
26 Dec 2006
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mihan Posted 1:48 am
27 Dec 2006
There. I said it. Gristmill is the only one I read. I just don't have time to wade through people's navel-gazing to get to the one or two interesting sentences. Even on Gristmill, I skip long posts (except the occasional long post from Dave and CanisC).
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sunflower Posted 2:02 am
27 Dec 2006
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willa Posted 10:18 am
29 Dec 2006
But, Bitch PhD is a fun read, at least for those with strong opinions about feminism. I don't read it to find out what Dr B is doing, exactly--I just like to be reminded that there are other feminists out there, and they're smart and funny and have relevant things to say about stuff. It's too easy to be grumpy about things, and too easy to be perceived as a man-hating, clunky-shoe-wearing closet dyke, just for noticing when things in society are not just and equitable. Finding sexist jokes offensive and unfunny, in the real world, is sort of like coming out against SUV's and fast food--it brands you as weird, different, suspect. So it's good to have some solidarity, that's all.
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caniscandida Posted 3:55 pm
29 Dec 2006
I also read pretty much only Grist and Gristmill, among blogs, not only because the content is usually interesting and the posters' styles of writing are often enough bright and engaging, but also because the size and personality-mix of the contributing readership is just right, in a Goldilocksy way.
Another issue entirely in my impatience with reading very much online is that format-wise, reading certain kinds of text printed on paper is much more aesthetically pleasing and comfortable, IMHO, than reading a computer screen. The latter obviously has its advantages, such as accessibility to linked sites or pages. But those advantages are not always necessary.
To Willa: It is curious that Grist does not regularly report on the places where feminism, or women's rights, and environmentalism overlap. I do not feel that that is a lack, though, because Grist enjoys the contributions of so many good women writers, present company included, and because guest-writers and Interactivists are often women. That does not necessarily amount to the same thing as true feminism, but it is still very impressive and admirable, no?
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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willa Posted 12:51 am
30 Dec 2006
I think we still live in a society where talking about it is better than the alternative. Grist may be different; having female scientists around participating in conversations helps everyone form a healthier background assumption about gender than the general one prevalent in American society. But in the real world, in life in general, I still need to be reminded to remind people that we still need equality. By the same token, I need to be reminded to remind people about environmental issues, because it's so easy to go along with society in general and not protest when people do dumb, wasteful things.
So, I read Bitch PhD to remind me to notice when people are sexist, and I read Grist to remind me to notice when people are stupid about the environment, and I read Animal People News and whatnot to remind me that not everyone gets it about animals (since in my personal life these days I only see happy critters, so it's easy to forget that, in fact, nothing has changed in the world in general). It seems like I'd have no trouble remembering these things, but somehow I still find it very easy to become a sheep like everyone else. Short attention span, I guess.
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