What I've Been Writing, Globally-Warmed Winter of 2012

[Sarah Seltzer]

Hi everyone! 

I hope you are all doing well!

Time for the seasonal installment.  I grouped a few of my favorite articles and appearances by category below.

Occupy Wall Street:

*You can buy the new issue of Ms. Magazine on newsstands now with my feature on Feminism in Occupy Wall Street. One of the activists I interviewed uploaded a PDF of the story to the internet, too. The senior editors of Ms. Magazine wrote me a sample blurb I could send out to family and friends, saving me some work. Here it is:

I’d like to let you know that the Winter issue of Ms. has just hit newsstands, featuring an article I wrote, “We Are the Many, Not the Few,” about the role of women in the Occupy movement. 

 

As I write, “Whatever else, Occupy has infused many feminists with new hope—a sense that we can fight back against tenacious conservative narratives; a sense that thousands are poised to pour into the streets to fight injustice; a sense that we are not alone….”

 

Ms. helps us to be righteously angry (instead of depressed) about what’s going on in the world, and encourages us to use that energy to move forward. Look for it on newsstands or, even better, join the Ms. community at http://store.msmagazine.com/msmembershipsandrenewals-2.aspx and have the new issue sent right to your door.

 

More OWS: 

*Occupiers aren’t running for office. They have their sights set higher, Washington Post Outlook, January 17th 2011

*Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere—and They’re not Going Away, The Nation.com, October 2011

*Some Occupy media appearances: TV appearances on Thom Hartmann's show, Tavis Smiley's radio show, a Nation podcast, a WBAI show.

And of course our AlterNet book, the 99%--compiled over two months, created over three weeks. You can now buy it digitally! I edited a section and wrote four pieces for this beautiful effort.

War on Women:

War on Women, Umpteenth Edition: a collection of some of my more recent posts.

Jon Stewart: Feminist in Bloom? – The Sisterhood – Forward.com Asking whether the GOP's extremism has made a feminist out of the comedian.

The 11 Dumbest Things Conservatives Have Said About Women (in February 2012 alone!) Self-explanatory, rage-inducing.

A radio interview on the War on Women with WZBC in Boston. I did a handful of radio interviews this month, this was my favorite. 

A late 2011 piece on state by state restrictions that got picked up in Salon, and led to my being on MSNBC.

Plus some pieces on Slutwalks and rape culture.

Cultural:

My Bitch magazine piece on The Hunger Games and Twilight. (pdf)

And yet more on Twilight in AlterNet: The Bloody, Twisted, Inverted World of Twilight

Asking Do 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Thelma and Louise' Still Matter? in the WSJ's Speakeasy. And a review of Pride and Prejudice, the Musical, which indeed is a work that exists (and I liked it, despite my doubts)!

A Katie Roiphe rejoinder reprinted at Ms. Magazine's blog

On gender inequality in "literary arts" magazine: Byline Bias — and What We Can Do About It – The Sisterhood

Talking about the influx of retro stereotypes on TV: Hartmann: Is Fall TV putting Women "In their Place?" - YouTube

Also...my father-in-law Paul Levinson and I did a video to promote a book that features both of our essays,  "A Friday Night Lights Companion." 

Labor: 

I've started doing occasional blogging for the AFL-CIO. A few posts:

Trader Joe’s Latest Food Chain to Sign Pact to Protect Tomato Pickers

Fired Latino Workers at Pomona College Fight Back

Alabama Law Dictates ‘Who to Be Friends With’

and my piece for AlterNet on Sotheby's locking out its workers--with pics.

Spousal Promotion: 

Simon has a tumblr where he's musing on music and compiling his bylines in Rolling stone. Bookmark it!

That's it for now! See you in the summer and thanks for reading. Be well.

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