Things that piss me off
Veterans Day Celebration: Where are the Women?
Earlier this week, my colleagues and I organized an event honoring women veterans at CCSU. Our headliner was VA Commissioner Linda Spoonster Schwartz, who started her career during the Vietnam war. At that time, the military only permitted 2% of active duty personnel to be female. So, Schwartz began her career as a contract nurse [...]
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via She Writes, who tells us that Publishers Weekly included ZERO female authors in its list of best books of 2009. The blog encourages us women writers to participate in SHE WRITES DAY OF ACTION. Here’s what they ask us to do, including my replies:
“By Friday, November 13th, please do three simple, but enormously powerful, [...]
Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool
As I wrote back in April, fundraisers that “arrest” and “jail” volunteers for fundraising purposes are tasteless and outrageous. Imagine my shock and dismay when I arrived at church this morning to find that the rector has agreed to have a “warrant” put out for a fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Association (aka “Jerry’s Kids”) hosted [...]
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