I am way overdue for calling your attention to one of my favorite web sites: Mommy Tracked, which is dedicated to “Managing the Chaos of Modern Motherhood.” It is not a feminist blog per se, but it displays what I think of as the spirit of feminism. It is not afraid to call out society [...]

Just released on November 1st, Girldrive is a book about “criss-crossing America [and] redefining feminism.” The road trip that was undertaken by Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein is the inspiration for the book and the blog by the same name. These videos are from the Girldrive website.

Girldrive trailer! from Girldrive on Vimeo.
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Each year as many as 100,000 little girls under the age of 12 participate in what is now a $5 billion-dollar industry: U.S. child beauty pageants. A new book has captured their perfected products, what I call “baby ladies.” High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants contains 90 photographs taken by the author [...]

Martha Kempner, who is the Vice President for Information and Communications at SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), has written a great post about abstinence-only sex education programs–isn’t that a contradiction in terms??–over at RH Reality Check. This time she’s writing about the scare and humiliation tactics used by such programs [...]

I apologize for being preoccupied with other things this past week: my grandson’s visit, my husband’s birthday, the observance and celebration of Ramadan and my conversion to Islam. Just little things like that. I’m easing back in with this edition of my Tuesday Tidbits. This week I’m featuring Salon’s Broadsheet. There’s so much there, I [...]