Happy T-Day

In my family we’re not big on Thanksgiving. We don’t invite all of our relatives from the far reaches of the country to our house where we spend the whole day cooking turkey(s), mashed potatoes, gravy, peas, cranberry sauce, pies, and all that Thanksgiving entails. We certainly do not go shopping on Black Friday. I [...]

I love the smell of grass roots in the evenin’!

Tonight was Common Ground Wisconsin’s big hearing on foreclosed homes in the Milwaukee County War Memorial from 7 to 9 PM. The hearing was specifically about the over 10,000 filed for foreclosure homes in Milwaukee County. 1,348 homes are bank owned. Two thirds of these homes have been subject to building code violations. When the [...]

Nice Jewish Calendar

Apparently there is a “Nice Jewish Guys” calendar out there for all you Semites and Semite-lovers. Instead of depicting half-clothed, provocatively posing Jewish men, it features your everyday, fully clothed, posing normally, Jewish Joe Schmoe.

The creator, Adam Cohen said he found guys to pose for the calendar,
through Craigslist – just wrote “Are you Jewish?” and [...]

Damn you Feminism!

Why does Feminism seem to catch the unrelated flak that it does? Feminism is often blamed for ideas women hold that are not agreeable to the status-quo, regardless if these ideas are feminist in content or not.
While discussing the issue of affirmative action and its role in graduate school admissions this I have been confronted [...]

Poetry Thursday! (belated)

The Ditty of First Desire
by: Federico Garcia Lorca
In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening’s end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.

Precious

I am really excited about the release of Precious, a movie based on the novel Push by Sapphire. Although Precious showed at the Milwaukee Film Fest earlier this fall, I was unable to make it. Precious opens Friday in New York, Chicago, L.A., and Atlanta. It is about a 16 year old girl named Precious who is a [...]

So this is what all my friends are doing…

I’m basically a middle-aged woman with no children when it comes to video games. I don’t know how to play them, I don’t know anything about them unless it’s Nintendo 64 or later or a gameboy from the late 1990’s. So when I asked a friend what he’d been up to the past few weeks [...]

Dads are important too

New study shows that fathers are just as important in child’s development as mothers are.
… Mother’s support of the father turns out to be a critical factor in his involvement with their children, experts say — even when a couple is divorced.
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, found that when couples scored high on positive [...]

Obligatory Halloween Post

No matter what you’re doing to celebrate the harvest this year, try to keep the Word Warrior in the back of your mind. I wanted to create this post so we can document both the amazing and wonderful costumes and the sexist/racist/homophobic/etc. costumes we see this year. So here’s your prompt:
What was the costume?
Where did [...]

Poetry Thursday!

Women
Adrienne Rich
My three sisters are sitting
on rocks of black obsidian.
For the first time, in this light, I can see who they are.
My first sister is sewing her costume for the procession.
She is going as the Transparent lady
and all her nerves will be visible.
My second sister is also sewing,
at the seam over her heart which [...]