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feministing.com - 1/18/2009

Does the personal always have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?)

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So, I'm getting married. To this guy . There, I said it. I've been putting off writing about this for a while now (as somewhat explained by the hilarious someecard that Amanda sent to me above). Being that most of us here blog about our personal lives quite a bit - from birth control ...

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