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I like it without pinkwashing

By ~LS~ On October 6, 2010 · 17 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Fashion/beauty, Gender, Pop Culture, Science, Sexism, Slacktivism, YWCA

This week I received many Facebook messages urging me to tell my friends “where I like it” in my Facebook status. I’ve seen my friends post such mysterious statuses as “I like it on the chandelier” and “I like it on my car seat.” This morning I posted, “I like mine without pinkwashing.” Many people didn’t understand my status or why the meme makes me so angry. I have two simple answers:

1. I hate pinkwashing.

2. This is nothing but Facebook slactivism.

Put differently, I do not believe that if I post an “I like it…” status on Facebook, I have done something significant to advance women’s health.

Instead of pinkwashing, send a $5.00 check to the YWCA who will spend it helping poor women, primarily women of color, get free mammograms.

What is pinkwashing?

pinkwashing is the commodification breast cancer. I’ll let Wikipedia explain (quoting the [...]

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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Randomly Musing – Madonna and Keith Richards

By ~LS~ On October 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Age, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Music, Pop Culture, Queer, Sexism

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Back in the Stirrups Again — My visit to the Gynecologist

By ~LS~ On August 7, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Feminism and tagged Tagged With: Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender

Today I visited the gynecologist’s office for my annual exam. The visit reminded me intimately of why I’m a feminist and why feminism is still necessary today. Times have changed since the emergence of the women’s health movement in the 1960s (see Into Our Own Hands by Sandra Morgen) and since I read Mary Daly’s Gyn/ecology years ago and studied the early versions of the Boston Women’s Health Collective’s Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Or, perhaps not.

Setting aside the profoundly political and complex issues of women’s reproductive freedom and the medicalization of women’s bodies and women’s health that remains prevalent in our culture, I can only marvel at how my visit was utterly..well…disheartening.

I waited an hour in the waiting room, resentful about the McDonaldization of the gynecologist’s office. But that’s a fact of our health care system. We might grumble about it, but

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I like it without pinkwashing

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Back in the Stirrups Again — My visit to the Gynecologist

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