Sociology

Now that I’m unemployed again, I have found time to read and watch stuff that interests me. I think it really started with Freddie Gray. I wasn’t sleeping well during the protests, so I’d wake up around 4am and read Twitter updates and articles they linked to. I learnt a lot […]

Microaggressions

This entry was posted in Sociology and tagged feminist feminism microaggression racism intersectionality intersectionalism marinashutup on 25 May 2015 by aventurafranji

justin-fashanu — Apparently I haven’t already blogged about this, which surprises me. I watched the Amal Fashanu documentary about her uncle, Justin Fashanu, who was the first footballer to come out, and later committed suicide. It surprises me that I don’t remember it because I really liked football in the late 90s. […]

Homosexuality in Sport

This entry was posted in Sociology Sport and tagged justin campaign football anton hysen homosexual sport gay homosexuality amal fashanu gareth thomas britain's gay footballers lgbt you can play project justin fashanu joey barton on 16 April 2012 by aventurafranji

feminism — We’ve come a long way baby. But there’s still a lot to be done. Every minute, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, and another 20-30 suffer serious injury or disability. Unmarried women in Saudi Arabia must remain under male guardianship. Around 10% of women in the Democratic Republic of […]

Happy International Women’s Day!

This entry was posted in Activism Sociology and tagged women international women's day violence against women feminist discrimination feminism on 8 March 2012 by aventurafranji

I was reading something today that linked to this story about an 11-year old girl being raped by a group of boys. Or more rightly, the link is to an article outraged by an article in the New York Times about said rape.I was just as outraged and wanted to […]

Outrage at NY Times article about rape of 11-year old girl

This entry was posted in Activism Sociology and tagged feminist feminism nyt new york times la law alertnet slutwalk rape on 30 December 2011 by aventurafranji

Just been reading an article from Jessica Valenti in Newsweek and had to post this. Quote from the article: In much the same way Obama-supporting feminists were criticized, women who didn’t back Palin were swiftly denounced as hypocrites by those on the right. Rick Santorum called Palin the “Clarence Thomas […]

Sarah Palin is apparently Feminist

This entry was posted in Sociology Television and tagged feminist feminism katie couric newsweek jessica valenti matt damon sarah palin on 30 December 2011 by aventurafranji

I’ve really been getting on a feminist trip recently, reading many, many articles written on feminist blogs, such as The F Word, Geek Feminist, etc. One subject that comes up time and time again is rape, and more specifically the culture of victim-blaming. While reading all these articles, I found […]

Rape and Victim Blaming

This entry was posted in Activism Sociology and tagged wales violence against women feminist feminism rape mugging geek feminist victim blaming the f word on 21 December 2011 by aventurafranji

It wasn’t my choice: I was forced to watch. So essentially she gets a bunch of not-skinny girls with slight imperfections, dolls them up with fancy hair and make-up and in nice clothes, and sends them off to photo shoots. They then compete against professional models for contracts. My first […]

Coleen’s Real Women

This entry was posted in Sociology Television on 10 March 2009 by aventurafranji