{"id":1295,"date":"2008-10-31T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2008-10-31T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T22:53:13","slug":"weekend-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/31\/weekend-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am all nail-bitey today as we enter the final stretch. As my co-penner extraordinaire Kristen said to me this morning, we have the audacity to hope.<\/p>\n

To get your mind off–or ok, on–everything, here are a few links that came our way via the WMC. Enjoy, and Happy Hallowe’en!<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow<\/strong> has something to say<\/a> about Sarah Palin<\/p>\n

Lynn Sherr<\/strong> writes on why she thinks non-voters should have their toenails removed<\/a> (ouch!)<\/p>\n

Prize-winning historian Mary Hershberger<\/strong> asks why the media won’t examine the McCain war record<\/a><\/p>\n

Nida Khan <\/strong>brings up the other <\/em>campaign, the one with two<\/em> women candidates<\/a>: Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente of the Green Party.<\/p>\n

Robin Morgan<\/strong> tackles “faux feminists.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Lorelei Kelly<\/strong> tells us why women must take charge<\/a><\/p>\n

Ellen Bravo<\/strong>, who advocates for paid sick leave, sympathizes with Barack Obama’s break<\/a> from the trail to see his ailing grandmother<\/p>\n

Joanne Cronrath Bamberger<\/strong> writes about one congresswoman who went a few steps too far<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peg Simpson<\/strong> focuses on possible wins for women<\/a> in Congress.<\/p>\n

Rebekah Traistor<\/strong> writes on the effects of the election on Katie Couric, Campbell Brown and Rachel Maddow: “Ladies of the Nightly News”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the current issue of Ms. Magazine<\/em> has GWP blogger Veronica Arreloa’s <\/strong>review of the anthology edited by amazing duo Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti<\/strong>, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape<\/a>\"\" and also a piece by Latoya Peterson<\/strong>, who edits Racialicious.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am all nail-bitey today as we enter the final stretch. As my co-penner extraordinaire Kristen said to me this morning, we have the audacity to hope. To get your mind off–or ok, on–everything, here are a few links that came our way via the WMC. Enjoy, and Happy Hallowe’en! Rachel Maddow has something to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10745,85,176,21804],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political-campaigns","tag-politics","tag-sexuality","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}