I watched the Presidential Debate last night knowing that there was nothing Mitt Romney was going to say that would make me want to vote for him. I should have realized that he would say things which would motivate me even further to push for voting Obama into a second term. I haven’t been super happy with Obama for several… Read more →
I’ll be watching tonight and tweeting about my opinions. You can catch my 140 character snarky commentary at snarkbat on twitter!
In graduate school I studied the history of obscenity in the United States, and specifically sought to understand art as a subject for legal critique. My question has always been why art is so threatening to society. Every year, the American Library Association presents one week (the first week of October) as Banned Books Week. One week to educate the… Read more →
I wanted to watch the Paralympics, but there’s no way for me to watch them. I don’t have a television, because it is too hard for me to watch things on a screen far away – but even more problematic than that, I live in the United States. It is because I don’t have a TV that I didn’t realize… Read more →
For those of you in the United States – please remember to register to vote! I’m going to be harping on this a lot in the next few weeks. We cannot complain about things not changing if we do not participate in our own democracy. Please make sure you do. National Voter Registration Day Website I’ll admit that I’m frustrated… Read more →
In order to verify this I went to the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s website and took a look at these fifteen criteria. Now you go read them. In order to go further, I have to admit that I have read the Twilight series. I did it for my 7th graders. In undergrad I was an education major, and since all… Read more →
“Do things gradually will bring more tragedy. Why don’t you see it, why don’t you feel it? I don’t know, I don’t know. You don’t have to live next to me, just give me my equality. Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddamn!” – Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn. Once a week I’ll be covering a different issue of the election season. This… Read more →
Glimpses of Tanya Ransom It isn’t often that I get to see my father perform. Actually, it’s a pretty rare occurrence. I think the last time I saw him perform was when I was seven years old. Maybe 8, I can’t really recall. The point, is that this is very unusual. yesterday I got to watch a video of my… Read more →
Neil Gaiman shared a letter by a young, frightened actress today. I wanted to link to it, and also to talk a little about the nature of truth. Anna wrote to Neil asking for his advice and he wrote back to Ms. Anna Gurji, and told her to send him her story. He said “The best weapon against lies is… Read more →
Well, this blog has been in a work of progress mode since May – and now that I’m settled, I know what it is. Feminist Sonar indicates what I do – I seek out things that need discussing, and I do the work that I feel needs doing. That’s what this space is for. So far, it seems like whoever’s… Read more →
