Which Western feminist icon are you?

The survey says that I’m Angela Davis, probably due in no small part to my response to third question, “What is the most important feminist issue?”: “Race, class, and gender must be examined, recognized, and the power redistributed.”

You are Angela Davis! You were the THIRD WOMYN IN HISTORY to appear on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. You are a communist, black power-lovin’ lady who shook up the United States when you refused to lie down quietly to oppression. You WENT TO JAIL! Wow. You kick so much more ass than Foxxy Brown.

I was kinda sorta hoping to have animal rights, animal welfare or even plain ole environmental ethics or ecology figure into a question or two – certainly, the above answer could have done so seamlessly, i.e., “Race, class, gender and the human/animal dichotomy must be examined, recognized, and the power redistributed.” – but no go. Nor did Carol J. Adams, Alice Walker, Josephine Donovan or company make the list of iconic Western feminists.

Interestingly, the results do include Susan B. Anthony and Gloria Steinem, two iconic feminists who were/are less well-known for their vegetarianism. Still, nary a word about animal advocacy in the quiz; even though non-human animals vastly outnumber the human ones, they and their concerns are practically invisible. Sigh.*

On a lighter, more serendipitous note, I am wearing my Foxxy Brown tee today.

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After a few days away from the internets, I sat down at my desk this morning, only to find 100+ emails cramming my inbox – most of which are end-of-the-year donation appeals. Sigh.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind receiving the occasional solicitation – even though these can quickly add up, as I’m subscribed to a ridiculous number of mailing lists. But as we approach the 31st, groups have ramped up their efforts to the point where I’m receiving a couple emails per day, per group. That’s spam, peoples, and it’s only slightly less annoying when done by a non-profit. Seriously, it’s going to take me an hour to slog through it all.

One solicitation from Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary – who haven’t spammed me ad nauseum, I should add – is super cute, so much so that it yanked me out of my grumpy stupor, if only for a moment.

I just have to share:

I love it!

You can view the entire email as a web page here, and, if you’d like to send some cash Woodstock’s way, go here.

I think I’ll make a last-minute donation as a token of gratitude to Woodstock for not abusing my inbox.

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Shane and I are finishing our concrete floors today (and given that we’ve owned the house for just over a year, it’s our first time maintaining the concrete, so we’re about as fast as molasses, natch), so no vegan mofo recipe post today. I do, however, believe I have just enough time to fill out this vegan survey from Vegan Soapbox while I wait for the floor finish to dry.

1. What was the most recent tea you drank?

Fennel seed. I’m usually a green tea gal, but fennel’s supposed to help with IBS. TMI!

2. What vegan forums do you post/lurk on? If so, what is your username? Spill!

I’m more of a lurker, though I tend to skulk around blogs moreso than forums. I usually go be the oh-so-creative “kelly g.,” with a link to either easyVegan.info or Smite Me!

3. You have to have tofu for dinner, and it has be an Italian dish. What comes to mind first?

Lasagna, but using the tofu like noodles. The dogs love it. (Me, not so much – I’m not big on tofu. *ducks*)

4. How many vegan blogs do you read on an average day?

I have about 100 blogs in my reader, but I tend to rotate through individuals blogs, as well as subject matter (animal rights/welfare, food blogs, environmentalism, feminism, current events/politics, GLBT issues, POC bloggers, etc.). In the AR sphere, currently I check Invisible Voices, Animal Person, Elaine Vigneault, Vegan Soapbox, That Vegan Girl, Superweed, The Veg Blog, PPK, Vegans of Color, and Green is the New Red most often.

5. Besides your own, what is the most recent one you’ve read?

Vegan Soapbox, obviously – that’s where I got this veganmofo post idea, duh ;)

6. If you could hang out with a vegan blogger that you haven’t met, who would it be, and what would you do?

I’m a recluse. I don’t usually socialize with anyone who doesn’t walk on four legs.

Not to suck up to our carnival host, but Isa seems pretty kickass. Of course I’d beg and/or pay her to help me bake some vegan cupcakes, and then we’d take over the world. Muahahahaha!

7. If you had to base your dinners for a week around one of the holy trilogy – tofu, seitan or tempeh, which would it be?

Tofu, because tofu and I are experienced.

8. If you had to use one in a fight, which would it be?

Tempeh, because I could probably poke someone’s eye out with a tempeh strip, dontchathink?

9. Name 3 meals you’d realistically make with that tough protein of choice!

Oh jeez, I dunno. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with tempeh. So…all three recipes would probably be dog food in the end. My dogs aren’t fussy; one of many reasons I love the little buggers.

10. What’s a recipe in vegan blogland that you’ve been eyeing?

More than I can count, but vegandad’s Creamy Mac and Cheeze dish springs to mind.

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My bathroom flooded last night, so no blogging today. Go watch this instead.

(Crossposted from.)

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Happy Monday.

(Maximize your browser for the ultimate awwwww factor.)

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I cannot watch this clip too many times. LOLZ all around.

Videos in this post

The Colbert Report, Thursday, February 14, 2008
Clemens Hearing
Just like Brian McNamee, Stephen also keeps medical waste as mementos. (3:24)

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easyVegan.info, circa June 2006:

easyVegan.info, as of this morning:

Viva la veg-olution!

(You can get your own geeky goodness here.)

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91% Mike Gravel
86% Dennis Kucinich
81% John Edwards
78% Chris Dodd
78% Barack Obama
77% Bill Richardson
74% Hillary Clinton
70% Joe Biden
39% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
33% Mike Huckabee
30% Ron Paul
25% Mitt Romney
22% Tom Tancredo
18% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I knew there was something I liked about Mike Gravel, creepy campaign ads aside. Although, they really should add in a question on dietary restrictions, since our shared veganism certainly would have put my score more in line with Kucinich’s.

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I’ve been tagged! And by pattrice jones of Superweed/Aftershock fame, to boot. Talk about good company.

OK, The Rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Like Neva, I started to pen a memoir, and then realized it was TMI.

So the short of it goes like this:

1. I give my dogs massages. (Is that totally weird?)

2. I haven’t paid for a haircut since 7th or 8th grade (I forget). I used to have my mom trim my hair; now my husband’s stuck with the chore. He hates doing it because he’s terrified of mucking it up and reducing me to tears (or murrrrdurrrr!).

3. I’ve always wanted a tattoo, but have been scared to get one. Not scared as in “OMG IT WILL HURTZ!” scared, but scared of becoming addicted and ending up with “freakshow”-quality ink within ten years. If I were to go to the tattoo parlor (do the kids still call ‘em “parlors” nowadays?) tomorrow, I’d probably get the IPU logo, the SSOV insignia, or a little masked animal liberator. Probably all three. Which is why I’m getting absolutely zero.

4. I’m a book fiend, but I especially love anthologies. The short, discrete chapters must appeal to my noncommittal, ambivalent side. (Currently reading: Bitchest, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?, She’s Such a Geek, Igniting a Revolution, and the Way of Compassion.

5. Guilty tv pleasures: ER and The Real World/Road Rules challenges. “Guilty” as in, I feel silly if anyone so much as passes by the living room while I’m indulging in either.

6. I’m a picky eater by any standards. As far as veg*ns go, I’m a crazysuperpicky eater. Some might even call me childish as far as food preparation goes. (As a side note, back when I was a yung’un, I made my parents strain the pulp out of my OJ. Even when they bought the no-pulp kind.)

I don’t like tofu. I don’t like celery, peppers, avocados, or water chestnuts. I don’t like brown or wild rice. I don’t like all but the blandest of ethnic foods – if I’ll try it at all (Chinese and Mexican, yes; Thai and Ethiopian, no). I used to blame my fussiness on my mom (i.e., for not introducing me to a wider variety of foods when I was a kiddo), until I found my feminism and realized how sexist this is (so, why couldn’t dad ever cook, hmmmm?).

On the plus side, I am making a good faith effort to try new foods. Last month I had a bite of the Thai lettuce wraps at the Cheesecake Factory. Didn’t like ‘em.

7. I kinda sorta miss the marshmallow-ey breakfast cereals. Especially Count Chocula. (Ummm…should I be concerned that I mentioned food twice?)

8. I really, really wanted to tag Moby, but I didn’t think he’d play along.

And the tagee becomes the tagger!

I choose:

1. Meshell (my sis)

2. Shane Brady (the husband)

3. Liberal Serving

4. apie

5. Vegology!

6. Soul Veggie

7. A Liberal Atheistic Vegblog

8. Dee

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This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

* death (6x)
* kill (3x)
* suicide (2x)
* murder (1x)

Really? That’s the worst they could find? Mingle’s search engine must not, er, search back all that far then, because I know I’ve dropped at least a few f-bombs over the past 13 months. Ah, well, better R than NC-17…easier to learn the young’uns on the errors of their omnivorous ways when they’re pliable, rebellious teens than rigid, set-in-their-ways adults.

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