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Okay, Facebook friends, I get it. I’ve seen your witty political cartoons and dubiously strung together metaphors. I get that Obamacare is simultaneously ruining and furthering the nation. And to be honest, I have conflicting feelings about Obamacare. Not because it is cruel to insurance companies or because it gives people new chances at health. Rather because I would like to have the health insurance to remove these pesky, painful wisdom teeth, which have been causing me distress for a little over a year now, but I also remain ideologically terrified and opposed to body policing.

The conservatives have stumbled onto an interesting argument that they are, of course, probably for political reasons as well as a desire not to question the question, not going to make. Perhaps even better, this conservative objection to Obamacare throws the issue around the circle and into radical critique. People should not be forced to buy health insurance and, subsequently, should not be punished for refusal.

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I’ll admit that I’m slow on the uptake on this one. MTV’s PUSH has been around for a while. The website boasts “former PUSH artists including global superstars like Justin Bieber, Ke$ha and Bruno Mars.” The only part of this whole PUSH thing is that now I have someone to blame for forcing me to hear these “artists” all the damn time.

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On Goucher College’s recent decision to ban children from the campus, rather than institute on-campus daycare. Maybe I’m just being a sensitive feminist, but I feel like this is both sexist and racist. 

Fist-Swinging Feminist back up and running! For my return, I decided to do a short analysis of why the GOP keeps women on reproductive lock-down aside from the obvious misogyny. 

Too bad he did it so poorly.

Finally another post from Fist Swinging Feminist. The first of many to come about Occupy Wall Street. This post takes a quick, critical look at media coverage of the demonstration.

Another post on Fist-Swinging Feminist, this time about the jukebox scene from Y Tu Mama, Tambien and the dramatic tension between engagement and disengagement utilized to disrupt the hyperrealistic tendency of cinema. 

My timid return to the blogosphere after a needed but regretful hiatus. In which I explore where the Other is and where her illusion is hidden.

Fist-Swinging Feminist posts again! I couldn’t help but to do another Crass post, but damn if they don’t inspire the hell out of me.

A post about the power of Crass songs and my inability to be coherent when talking about them.

Two posts in one night. Hu-rah!

New post at Fist-Swinging Feminist! I interviewed Zachary Gallant, author of Voices of a Revolution about the women-lead autonomy movement in Vojvodina. Even if you don’t listen to the whole podcast, please be sure to download the ebook I linked in the entry.

Support a women’s movement that really, truly matters! Support the spread of women as politicians and important figures in an international community!

Another new post from Fist-Swinging Feminist!

This time, we’re talking about the backwards notion of an environmentally friendly technocratic building.

New post from Fist-Swinging Feminist!

In response to an article highwaydandy showed me, I’ve written about the unethical behavior of the media regarding scientific studies. With a focus of page views instead of finding truth, journalism seems to have lost it’s way.