Feminist Carnival #53

There's some great posts this time around: some submitted, some found through extensive blog-hopping. Like the last time I hosted the carnival, I've marked any blogs that maybe unsafe for you to view at work with a "(NSFW)". Enjoy.....

a
Amber Rhea brings us What Would They Think? (and related ramblings), claiming that sexuality is a basic characteristic of humanity.
Audacia Ray (NSFW) on Sex workers speak up: but who publishes it?

b
Be a Good Human with Misogyny in office suppiles.
belledame222 writes about the death of Sanesha Stewart in Read It and Weep.

c
The Curvature with Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Time Magazine.

d
Diary of a Freak Magnet's Ginger with Defeating assholery, one sexist turd at a time.

e
Ellee Seymour examines the Sotuh African MP George Lekgetho's suggestion that prostitution should be made legal during the world cup in Prostitution and the World Cup.

f
Feminist Law Professors' Ann Bartow presents Crime Prevention Tip Theater.
Feminist Philosophers bring us Stanley Fish gets it right.... almost!

g
Greta Christina's Blog (NSFW) talks about the problem of saving oneself for marriage with True Love Waits... And the Rest of Us Get On With Our Sex Lives.

i
I Blame The Patriarchy's Twisty contemplates Valentine's Day in How cheap is your love?
Marianne from Indiscretion (NSFW) brings us My Submission - My Choice.
Snark via I Never Leave the House Without an Incident in Ladies, did you take your vaginas to the polls?

j
The Jaded Hippy on why she considers herself as a radical feminist.
Jo Christie-Smith talks about why diversity is important in Getting liberal about diversity.

l
Letters from Working Girls (NSFW) with I Wanted To Fuck Like A Man.
Living the Scientific Life offers a solution to Bias Against Women in Science.

m
Menstrual Poetry with Blog for Choice 2008 - the importance of celebrating Roe vs. Wade.

p
Persephone's Box looks at Alternative Relationships.
Another Pro-Choice blog post from Polyamorously Perverse (NSFW).
post doc writes of genderless science in When I arrive at work in the morning...

r
Radical Vixen (NSFW) with Freedom of Religion - a feminist issue?
Rantings of the Biscuitnapper with On the ordination of women.

s
Searching for Crabshells' Nandita Saikia writes about Sex, Drugs and Bad Journalism.
Sex~Kitten.net's Gracie (NSFW) muses gender and politics in Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right.
Sexual Embodiment with Dismantling Body-Phobia.
Slutty McWhore (NSFW) asks Can a prostitute be a feminist?
Smart Girls Who Do It's Z (NSFW) with Words Don't Hurt My Girly Bits.
Socialist Unity on Ann Widdecome and David Alton's anti-abortion campaign in Doris and Dave anti-abortion road show to do Westminster.

w
The Wannabe Indian Punkster looks at Privileges.
Women's Health News on Reproductive Health and the Catholic Church Conundrum.
Womenstake with Women and Health Reform: Making It Personal.
Written on the Body with National Media Shocked to Find Women Have Political Opinions.

z
Z from The Naked Truth (NSFW) with Figleaf, & I Do the Fuck (no, not like that).

The next Carnival of Feminists will be held at In a Strange Land, on 27 February. You can send contributions to her at: dfr141 at hotmail.com, or use the carnival submission form on the Carnival of Feminists homepage.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the founder Natalie Bennett for sending all those links my way, and also to Radical Vixen for making the Call for Submissions post Editor's Choice in this week's Sugasm and for posting the link on her own blog, along with Tom Paine, Mind The Gap and Viviene's Sex Carnival.