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- What Everyone Should Know About Nellie Bly by Peacocks and Lilies on Nov 22, 2009 in feminism Elizabeth Jane Cochran Nellie Bly
What Everyone Should Know is a bi-weekly column on women’s history.This article has been cross-posted. My interest in women’s history was sparked at a young age by the story of one woman: Nellie Bly. I was eleven years old when I found her story...
- Shorter DNC Memo: Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics by Peacocks and Lilies on Nov 19, 2009 in Political feminism DNC Memo Sarah Palin
The Confluence has the preliminaries on the DNC Memo/hit job on Sarah Palin, but I wanted to take a closer look for those who are interested in that kind of rhetorical analysis. Boston Boomer is right that what we are seeing is reaction-formation, an...
- Hit & Run by Peacocks and Lilies on Nov 17, 2009 in Political feminism Sarah Palin
This post will be brief. I just couldn’t help but take a minute to note the rising paranoid chorus against Palin. She must have hit it out of the park on Oprah or something, because I haven’t seen this kind of hysteria coming from the be...
- A Year Later, No One Really Gets What PUMAs Were Talking About by Peacocks and Lilies on Nov 8, 2009 in PUMA Political feminism
Well, I was happy to see this post by Dr. Socks, though the breakdown in comments blows chunks. In this post, Vi uses the last minute abortion amendment to show how some Democratic pro-choicers are finally “getting” what PUMA was all abou...
- Mandates, Taxes, & Fines, Oh My! by Peacocks and Lilies on Sep 11, 2009 in Political Health Insurance Reform
Like many Americans, I watched the President’s speech on health insurance reform. It really is amazing how Obama is able to tell people the truth–that he will fuck them over–and they love him for it. For all the pretty words and for...
- 22 Jandalusia Street by Peacocks and Lilies on Sep 9, 2009 in personal
Dear readers, I promised you some creative writing this fall, so here goes. The “short” story I’m working on is getting to be nearly 4,000 words in length, which is a bit much for a single blog post, so I thought I’d cut it up...
