Tide To Go talking stain commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cs8gnb42A

Straight Levi’s commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43uI5QL0dXs

Gay Levi’s commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB90Vkyqrts

Daddy’s Roommate children’s book: http://xaxor.com/funny-pics/35056-Funny–Daddy%E2%80%99s-Roommate-children’s-book.html

Article on Rush Limbaugh and sponsors: http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=253985

For the article, we decided on one that discussed the issue of birth control that is currently being debated in government and some of the backlash from that. In it we see how there is a way that society would prefer that women behave versus allowing them something that they have had access to in a more reasonable way that has expanded from its original purpose. Also we can see how certain people are taking what is going on and forcing stereotypes onto people and how they think others should be treated. You can also see what the other side is saying about how the statements made are a direct attack on women and not just the issue of birth control like everyone originally thought. This relates to the readings by showing women in a certain light from how they really are because we begin to associate negative connotations about procreation and birth control together, when in reality it has expanded into a more health wide issue.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/05/republican-party-declares-war-on-women

The University of Colorado Boulder’s TRANSforming Gender Symposium is celebrating its sixth year! The Symposium hosts national and local transgender and genderqueer activists to address issues surrounding transgender, genderqueer and related identities. Previous presenters and participants have included academics, health professionals, community organizers, performance and visual artists, students, faculty, staff, youth, family members, community members and other interested folks.

While all of the talks look very compelling Jack (formerly Judith) Halberstam in particular has written a number of fantastic works that address issues of gender and sexuality. In particular, her book Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), was instrumental in my thinking about gender and sexuality in horror books and films. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the horror genre.

Jack Halberstam (Judith Halberstam), is currently Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Southern California. She will be speaking Friday March 9th from 4 to 5:30pm in the Abrams Room, 3rd floor of Center for Community. Her talk is titled, “Gaga Feminism: Pregnant Men, Heteroflexible Women, and the End of Normal”

And consider the impact of this on the child. Regular kids do regular things like playing outside could end up breaking a bone that would in turn break the family budget. Any college fund could quickly be consumed just to pay those medical fees. These things matter.

What it’s like to be uninsured – Boing Boing.

Welcome to the psychologically complex and wacky world of polyamory, where people have romantic relationships with more than one person at a time. While there are many kinds of people in open relationships – swingers, polygamists (hello, Utah!), and orgy enthusiasts just to name a few – polyamorists identify themselves as people who can love more than one person at once. We aren’t poly just because we want sex with multiple partners, though admittedly that part is great. Ultimately, we’re in it for the love.

With all the extra amour going on among the polyamorously inclined, you’d think Valentine’s Day would be our holiday, kind of like Pride for the nonmonogamous. But for some weird reason Hallmark hasn’t made any cards you can send to your husband’s boyfriend; and there are no candy hearts that say “Be ours.” And so on V-Day all of us who are in nonproprietary relationships with our sweeties have to improvise.

The full story is available here.

Clearly this also reveals heteronormativity, heterosexual privilege, and other aspects of sexuality often assumed to be universal or at least more broadly practiced than they are.

Found on Boing Boing.

http://www.colorado.edu/GLBTQRC/index.html

Daniella in front of the GLBT resource center

Grace in front of Community Health Resource Center

Hope in front of the Womens Resource Center