This is What a Feminist Looks Like

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Julie Zeilinger, is a 16-year-old high school sophomore from Pepper Pike, Ohio and the owner of theFBomb.org In this case the “F Bomb” stands for “feminist.” However, the fact that the “F Bomb” usually refers to a certain swear word in popular culture is not coincidental. TheFBomb.org is for girls who have enough social awareness [...]

Elite Tweets

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Is Twitter elitist? The blogging community has generally placed cross promotion and inclusion high on the list of founding values. Facebook encourages networking, friending, joining groups to promote concerns both local and global. Twitter on the other hand seems to be the antithesis of that approach. Rather than cross promote, read and include the emphasis [...]

The Working Meme

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Skdadl at POGGE tagged me for this meme. I think I will likely be pretty boring in comparison to most of you. Paid Work in no particular order Babysitter Cashier Secretary – 3 different places Accounts Receivable Worked in a garment sweat shop for a week that was an eye opener. Florist phone order taker [...]

You like me! You really like me!

April Reign has been nominated over at the CBA’s in the Best Non-Partisan Blog and Best progressive Blog categories. Thank you for the nominations! Unfortunately for the mods at the CBA’s they must sort between traditional blogs like mine and such feminist stalwarts as BBW. Good luck with that mods and good luck to everyone [...]

WordPress themes and other things

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I’ve been lax on my political blogging, though much of what I’m reading makes you wonder if the human race has jumped the shark. What I have been doing is building WordPress themes Serenity was my first one. I had thought about calling it “it’s my first day”(Simpsons fans will get that) The second and [...]