Gainesville Women's Liberation meeting

I began this blog because of the classes that I am taking this semester, which are; Feminist Fiction, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, and Transnational Feminism.  It seems like everyday I'm reading or hearing about something I find really exciting that I want to share and discuss with people, so I though this blog would be a good outlet for that.  People who are interested in what I'm learning about but don't have time to take the courses can come here to find links to interesting articles or movies or organizations.  Anything I get excited about really.  It doesn't even HAVE to be about women's studies.  It can be about my deep love of Reality Bytes or Pink Flag by Wire or pulling Kilo's tail.  Whatever makes me happy.  So enjoy, or mock.  haha.  

  

WOMEN'S EVENTS THIS WEEK:

March 1st (TODAY) @ 7pm on the UF Campus, Pugh Hall Rm 150

This is a Consciousness-Raising Meeting, which is "a way to gather information about our lives and experiences." It's an awesome way to talk to other women in the community and learn about how somethings may be affecting most or all of us.  

ALSO March 3rd Sarah Weddington (the youngest lawyer to win a Supreme Court case and one of the most important cases affecting women ROE v. WADE!!!!!) is going to be speaking at the Grand Ballroom on the UF Campus at 8pm!!!! It's going to be rad, at least I think so. 

Today in my Interdisciplinary Women's Studies class we read, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" by Anne Koedt, published in 1968.  We got extra credit if we brought a man to class so I brought Dante.  There were a lot of men present and everyone seemed to like the article and find it informative.  Most of the women and men agreed that education on female anatomy has become more widespread so that men now understand the importance of the clitoris.  I still feel like there should be sexuality education incorporated in sex ed.  Young men at my school were taught how to have orgasms but no one told me how to achieve an orgasm, some people might think that would corrupt young adults and encourage them to have sex but REALLY?  They're eventually going to participate in the "act" some day, they might as well be educated in how to enjoy it.  It's unfair that sex is taught with men's pleasure as the object and women's pleasure as the subject.  It perpetuates inequality and it makes women feel like the purpose of sex is to please the man or worse....reproduction yuck! :)  Anyways, here is the link:

 http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/The-Myth-ofthe-Vaginal-Orgasm.html