CrissWrites
Blog URL http://blog.crisswrites.com
Located Fort Worth, Texas USA
Tags feminism, pro-choice, women, politics, religion, writing
The rants and ramblings of a bleeding-heart, liberal, Christian, socialist, feminist hippie.
Latest Blog Posts
- Feminists Give Thanks on Nov 25, 2009 in Thankful Thursday
So... Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I was supposed to write about what I'm Thankful for and submit it to Danine yesterday so she could add it to this post... but I completely forgot. I knew I had to do it, I forgot that yesterday was when I had to do it.
- Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov 20, 2009 in trans rights
Read about the International Transgender Day of Remembrace. Stats and other info here.Some blogs to read:genderbitch's I Will Not Forget ThemChally at Zero at the Bonemeloukhia at this ain't livingkaninchenzero at FWD/ForwardAlso, Queen Emily's post...
- Women's Day of Action for Health Care Reform: The Choice Movement and [Trans] Women's Health on Nov 4, 2009 in pro-choice health care reproductive rights trans rights politics feminism abortion
The choice movement is not about babies or fetuses. It's about women* and their bodies. It's about a woman's right to medication and medical care.For the majority of women, meaning hetero cis women, "medication" translates into birth control and "med...
- Dear Biblethumpers: You're doing it wrong. And making the rest of us look bad. on Oct 21, 2009 in the Bible religion God faith rants
Dear Biblethumpers:Stop. Please STOP.You don't get it. You're doing it wrong, and you're making the rest of us look bad.You're making those of us who were already on (what you claim to be) your side want to jump ship.So quit it. Stop the hate, stop t...
- How To Tell People They SOUND Racist (or Sexist, or Homophobic, or Ableist, or Etc.ist...) on Oct 19, 2009 in sexism activism race
@HappyFeminist tweeted this video just now. I'm saving it, though, and post-dating this post. Because I'm RTing her tomorrow morning, and I'll schedule this post for sometime maybe even next week, to kind of spread the video's visibility.I stole the...
- Meet Violet, and Second Story Press on Oct 14, 2009 in ethnicity girls books race publishing feminism
Apparently, it's Book Week at Criss's blog.Looknig through my apparently long-forgotten Google Reader subscriptions, I came across this book trailer on Literanista's blog, and I wanted to share it with you because I thought it was cute (and very clev...
- Queen Bees & Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman on Oct 12, 2009 in girls role model feminism
I had another post planned for tonight. But then I found out Rosalind Wiseman is giving away copies of the revised edition of Queen Bees & Wannabes (yes, the book Mean Girls was based on), and I had to write this post to let you know, and to give...
