Does Iraq execute gays?

So far, the only original source to report this is UK Gay News (Andrew Sullivan, my source, can’t find independent confirmation). God damn:
More than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution – and many of them are believed to have been convicted of the ‘crime’ [...]

Overhearing conversations in the Union…

I am currently overhearing a conversation on feminism and how feminists are all queer. Sweet. 
Also of concern in this conversation: what about the menzz??
In other news, what do ya’ll think of a WordWarrior twitter? Too much? Not enough? 
I think I’d blog more if only 140 characters at a time were expected of me, evidenced by [...]

“Worse than during the Taliban”

A bill was apparently signed into law by Afghani President Hamid Karzai that legalizes rape in marriage and forbids women to leave the house without permission. Thanks to reader Storm for the link from the Telegraph (entire contents of news story reproduced below):  
The law, which has not been publicly released, is believed to state women [...]

Quick hit: event today!

At Marquette:
Mon. March 30, Living in the Hyphen-Nation. This highly acclaimed one-woman monologue portrays life as an Arab/Muslim American after 9/11. 7pm at MU’s Helfaer Theatre, 12th & Clybourn, Milw. Free performance. Actress Laila Farah is a Lebanese American professor of women’s studies at DePaul University.
More on Farah:
Dr. Laila Farah is a Lebanese-American feminist performer-scholar. [...]

Reflections on Ensler, 1st day

First of all, I would like to give a belated congratulations to the extraordinary women who made happen last week’s just-barely-off-campus production of The Vagina Monologues. All audience members I have spoken with where amply impressed by your performances, and you all did good work putting on an event that enabled us to raise several hundred dollars towards a [...]

WAM, Session 3: Women in political media

This is just going to be random. 
So.
Lisa Stone and Rebecca Traister are on this panel talking about women in political media and the effect of the recent election on women journalists.
Lisa Stone: founder of blogher mentions: 300-400 political blogs out of 20,000 in the blogher network.–number rose to 2, 600 by the end of the election. [...]

WAM, Session 2: How do we measure social media’s impact on cultural change?

On to the second session of WAM presentations…
We were running a little late to the start of these panels, went to our first choice, couldn’t really hear (they didn’t have a mic), left that one, went to a random one nearby, it was interesting, but wasn’t entirely applicable, and now here I am at “Catalyzing [...]

At WAM!

Thanks to Bento for the well wishes! Ali and I are in sunny Boston at WAM! having a fabulous time so far, and we’ve only been to the keynote so far. I’m in a session that’s about to begin entitled, “In/Out of Focus: Broadening a Feminist Lens: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media.” The two panelists [...]

New trailer gives exciting previews of the next generation of children’s nightmares

Above the the trailer for the film adaptation (!??!!?) of Where the Wild Things are. In between the trailer’s indie soundtrack and surrealist setpieces, I was honestly unsure for a minute if this was supposed to be a kids movie. (Also, there seemed to be an inordinate number [re:any] of explosions.) Then [...]

Best of luck!

To-day, Dashaway and reader Ali are off to Boston for a Women, Action and Media (WAM) conference. I wish them the [see headline]! I expect a thorough report for this space!