MS Awareness month

Sharing in honor of a friend who lives with MS and all those with MS, as well as their health teams, researchers, families, and friends.

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In honor of my wonderful friends that bravely fight every day not just one month a year.

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Save HarsH ReaLiTy!!

Re-blogging this from Linda’s blog, which, I found through HarsH ReaLiTy. WordPress is making a big mistake. Let’s help them to see that and lift the prohibition against OM. And, if you don’t already, follow both Linda’s blog and HarsH ReaLiTy!

No one likes spam. In internet terms (as opposed to the stuff you find on the grocery store shelf) it’s the bane of our existence. Its sole purpose is to get our attention and once it does, it either begs us to buy something or gives us something we would never pay for – something like a virus.

Then there is the exception to the rule. In fact, there is only one exception that I’ve found in over a decade of browsing the web. It may have seemed like a “spam follow” at the start, but when I followed the cookie-crumb trail that led me back to its source, it ended up benefiting me beyond my wildest dreams: it was HarsH ReaLiTy.

Jason, also known as Opinionated Man, has a huge (over 50,000 blog, twitter, and Facebook combined) following on his blog, HarsH ReaLiTy. His passion for connecting with other…

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The Thinks You Can Think: Dreams of Indigenous Intent

Sharing Oscar’s vision of love. Thank you, Oscar, for this hopeful post.

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I started following this blog recently and love how it combines beautfiul photography with exactly two powerful sentences to accompany it.

Mytwosentences

She stretched outwardly above the mirror to get a better view of the prismatic vivid visage that was now ablaze upon her colorful autumnal torso.
She admired the growth of her glorious gown which gleamed with snazzy seasonal sequins, and found herself captivated by the flaring foliage of her rhythmic reflection.
(Photo: Edward Roads)

Written by Edward Roads

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“I’m Not a Feminist, But . . .”: Ecofeminism

Emily J has been doing a great series of posts based on Rosemarie Tong’s book on the different schools of feminist thought. This post is on ecofeminism. I find that I am a hybrid feminist and ecofeminism is one component of that.

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We hear people say this all of the time, and yet they often go on to express “feminist” ideas and could identify as a feminist. There are many reasons why people distance themselves from the feminist movement. I can’t possibly explain or guess them all. But I can explain the different types of feminism according to Rosemarie Tong’s book Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (2009). There are many types of feminism, and we know that “all feminists do not think alike” (p. 1). However, labeling different schools of thought help us to “mark the range of different approaches, perspectives, and frameworks a variety of feminists have used to shape both their explanations for women’s oppression and their proposed solutions for its elimination” (p. 1).

This series will outline and define the many feminisms. Maybe you’ll be able to identify where you agree and disagree with feminist thought.

Today’s focus…

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More Work for Mother

Thanks to Emily for writing about this book. I admit that it continues to bother me that homemaking is not considered as contributing to the economy/society, unless you are paying someone else to do the work. I hope to read this book someday.

The Bookshelf of Emily J.

A social rhetoric surrounding household technologies, such as the dishwasher, is that these devices are “labor-saving.” Ruth Schwartz Cowan (1983) argued that this assumption of technology, especially technologies made for domestic work, is wrong. She instead posited that so-called labor-saving devices have actually increased work for women.

Cowan traced household technologies in detail from industrialism, through the great wars, and into the postwar years. Before looking at these eras closely, she examined the general tools and conditions of pre-industrialism. This was necessary to her research because industrialism is generally seen as the catalyst that made housework lighter, easier, and less time consuming. Yet as technologies emerged to improve and streamline household chores, work moved from being shared among family members and hired to domestic servants to solely resting with the housewife. Suburbia contributed to this, by causing men to travel long distances for work and requiring that somebody…

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The Thinks You Can Think: Being Dependent & Purging the Fallacy of “Independence”

Wisdom shared by Oscar Hokeah. I was especially struck by this today because it relates to a poem I was revising recently.

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