Famous Feminists: Part 1

This is the beginning of a list of famous feminists that I'm going to compile. This part will include mostly first wave feminists. If you have any suggestions of first wave feminists that I may have missed, tell me so and I'll add them.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony
Olympia Brown
Helen Pitts
Jane Addams
Barbara Bodichon
Lucretia Mott
Alice Paul
Margaret Sanger
M. Carey Thomas
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Lucretia Mott
Margaret Fuller

I know I've got to be missing people here. But it's a start.

Racism Links

Well, here I am at home, feeling ill. I have a sore throat and I can't speak all too clearly. So I figured I'd do another linking post. Only I decided these links would be about racism and white privilege because I don't think I've posted enough about those things here. Some of these links may be older, but they all are important to read.

Anti-Racist FAQ
"Check my what?": On privilege and what we can do about it from Shrub.com (Not only about white privilege, but that's certainly included)
On "Colorblindness" from The Angry Black Woman
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
On the definition of racism from The Angry Black Woman
On white privilege from The Angry Black Woman
And then a lot of things from Womanist Musings, of course.

I'll be on the lookout for some more.

Links

I unfortunately seem to have come down with some sort of sore throat-related illness. I figured I'd just link to other posts instead of attempting to come up with something myself. These links, however, are very good.

From Womanist Musings about what Obama's healthcare plan doesn't cover.

From Appetite for Equal Rights about Caster Semenya
From Shakesville about the same
Also about the same from Feministe
A cartoon from Shakesville
From Sociological Images

So that's it for now.

Vegan Junk Food

I watched the health care speech earlier today (I would have watched it yesterday, but I was far too exhausted). I thought about writing about it, but I'm not in the mood to think about such things (I really don't need to feel depressed again). So I decided I'd write about a much lighter topic: vegan junk food.

Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I have a huge sweet tooth. Back when I wasn't vegan, I'd consume large quantities of ice cream and such. I've been known to eat far too many donuts. Cinnamon buns, etc. But ice cream was always my favorite. In fact, when I thought about being vegan (not seriously entertaining the idea yet) for the first time, the main reason I didn't consider it further was that I didn't think I could give up ice cream.

Luckily, though, there's vegan ice cream! Very luckily. Some of it is better than others, but there's definitely good vegan ice cream out there. The Rice Dream brand was pretty awful. There was another kind that I didn't like, but I can't think of what it was called. My favorite brands are Tempt (this one appears to be hard to find, but if you find it it's good), Tofutti (much easier to find), and So Delicious (a newer favorite). The good thing about So Delicious is that it has more flavors than the others seem to. At least, more flavors that are easily procured. Vegan ice cream sandwiches I would say go by the same brands.

I technically haven't yet sorted out the vegan chocolate dilemma, but I'm close. I just don't like dark chocolate. I mean, it's better than nothing, but I much prefer milk chocolate or white chocolate. I gave dark chocolate another try, but it really wasn't going to do it. So earlier today I looked up vegan milk chocolate (I figured it had to exist. Maybe soymilk chocolate or something). Luckily, it did exist. Lots of people seem to like the Terra Nostra Rice Milk Chocolate. So I'm planning on procuring some of that if possible.

Then there are a few things I haven't figured out yet, but which I can go without if necessary. For instance, whipped cream. I did like to occasionally have my ice cream with a large mass of whipped cream. Maybe more than occasionally. I seem to be the best in my family at spraying out the whipped cream. The trick is to have it COMPLETELY vertical. Completely. Anyway, I still need to see if such a thing as vegan whipped cream exists.

The other thing is cookie dough. Mostly cookie dough ice cream. I'm not sure if I'll have any luck with that. If I do, though, it would probably be at least marginally healthier than regular cookie dough due to the lack of eggs...

One thing I really do need to find is vegan cinnamon buns. So now I'm going to continue my research (...on trivial matters, but still research).

Results: Ha ha! Vegan cookie dough ice cream does exist! Brands include Wheeler's, Purely Decadent, and Temptation. Vegan whipped cream, too, exists. The main brand seems to be Soyatoo. My cinnamon bun search was slightly less successful, but I did find about a million recipes. So it's not hopeless. Hah! And going vegan's supposed to be hard!

Links

Well, I figured since yesterday's post was so depressing (...in a different way than usual), I should write about something else today. Of course, I couldn't think of anything. So much for that bright idea. But I did think of something I could post. I'm going to post a series of links to websites/blogs that I frequent. I may make a comment or two about their contents. We'll see.

First up is Jezebel, which is basically an online magazine. At the moment, some of their articles that strike my attention address topics such as health care, the creation of gender roles, and lead in lipstick. Not that that last really affect me, but whatever.

So then there's a blog called... Alas, a blog. Not one of my very favorites, but I do like to visit it occasionally to see if anything interesting is going on. The most recent post, which qualifies as interesting (although frightening) in my opinion, is about Pat Buchanan's defense of Hitler.

Next (I am skipping a number of bookmarks, but if anyone's interested I can include them in a later post) is one of my favorites: Echidne of the Snakes. It's one of the first few I found and I recommend it to anyone even slightly interested. I suppose I should recommend some posts but they're pretty much all brilliant.

Another one I like is Feministe. No posts particularly catch my attention today, but when I see a particularly interesting post I'll try to link to it. Jump off the Bridge is pretty cool too. Don't ask me what the deal with the title is. I feel sure it's explained somewhere on the site, but I can't remember what the reasoning was at the moment. Again, right now I'm not finding any really exciting posts, but I'd still recommend checking it out.

Another great site is Sociological Images. I'll let that site speak for itself.

Now this next one is definitely a favorite, although it's a newer find for me. Womanist Musings has to do to some degree with the intersection of sexism and racism. It's wonderful.

So those are some of my favorites from that particular folder in my bookmarks. Tell me if you want some more links, because I could definitely do that.