All blog posts published in July 2010 - Shameless Magazine - your daily dose of fresh feminism for girls and trans youth

All posts published in July 2010

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Pearl Luke: The Voice Behind Madame Zee and Burning Ground

July 8, 2010 • Desirée O

Every other Thursday I profile a new incredible woman, each from a different walk of life. Different professions, causes, backgrounds, ethnicities, orientations, and anything/everything else!

So without further delay, let me introduce the wonderful Pearl Luke…

Pearl Luke is the author of two critically acclaimed novels: Madame Zee, which was a book club pick for Chatelaine, Flare, and CanadianLiving magazines and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, is a fictionalization of the life of the mistress of one of Canada’s cult leaders.

Burning Ground, which was a Globe and Mail notable book of the year, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel in the Canada/Caribbean region, and was short-listed for the Chapter/Robertson Davies Prize, the Georges Bugnet award, and the Canadian Booksellers’ Libris award, is the story of a bi-sexual woman and her unconventional love relationships.

Also a former writer-in-residence for the city of Taipei, Taiwan, Pearl currently writes and mentors writers online, privately from her website, www.be-a-better-writer.com. As this week’s Shameless Woman, she tells us why we shouldn’t be afraid to follow what excites us.
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July 7, 2010 • Stacey May Fowles

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Malware warnings on the Shameless site

July 2, 2010 • Wesley Fok

Update: Google’s given our site a clean bill of health, so you should no longer be getting any angry red warnings. Again, apologies for any trouble we may have caused you.

Earlier today, Google reported that the Shameless website was serving malware to our users. As a result, the StopBadware database has flagged the site as a potential attack vector, meaning Firefox and Google throw up angry warning messages before you’re allowed to visit the site.

Chances are very few people are reading this message right now, as the danger messages are still up. Yes, Shameless was indeed serving malware; the OpenX software we use to serve ads on the site (namely the banner at the top of the page and the small ads in the sidebar) had a remote vulnerability that could be exploited to inject arbitrary code. In normal-speak, this means hackers could exploit a security hole in the OpenX software to serve malware through our site.

We’ve taken down the ads for the time being, so the site should no longer be trying to infect your poor computer with bad juju. I sincerely hope no one suffered lasting effects from the attack, but if something on the Shameless site asked you to install any software and you said yes, then you will need to clean your computer. Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-Aware are two widely used tools to get rid of malware; virus scanners such as Avast and Microsoft Security Essentials may also be useful.

My sincere apologies to anyone who was affected by our brief flirtation with malware distribution. Hopefully it will be the last time we have to deal with a problem like this.
Wonder Woman’s “Makeover”

July 1, 2010 • Desirée O

As I started to see the links pop up on the internet about Wonder Woman’s new “makeover,” I began to repeat in my head, “Please let it be good! Please let it be good!”

I am not a comic aficionado and bow to those with greater super-hero knowledge than I, but I’ve loved Wonder Woman ever since my much-adored older sister would slip into her Wonder Woman bathing suit and fight poolside crime.

On Twitter, OutTV described the costume change as “less…impractically attired.”

To be honest, my first reaction was, “WTF?!!” (you can check out a pic of the full “makeover” below as well as some pics of the former Wonder Woman).
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