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Sapphic Salon: Nicki Minaj and the lesbian problem in hip-hop

December 9, 2009 at 10:07am

Yesterday, one of hip-hop's rising stars, Nicki Minaj Tweeted something that caught my eye:

A rumored lesbian (or bisexual, depending on who you ask), Nicki is not "out," but took to Twitter for this random piece of knowledge, which only furthered my curiosity about her and how it relates to closeted women in the hip-hop community. As the "First...

On the Map: Constructing Feminist Motherhood

by Mandy Van Deven

December 9, 2009 at 1:37am

Balancing Act is a newly published work of fiction by architect and author Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy that demonstrates the challenge many stay-at-home-mothers – particularly ones with feminist sensibilities – face when reconciling their identities with the conflicting demands and desires of motherhood and working outside of the home. Although the topic being explored is not a new one,...

Screenshot: Wanda Does It (Again): Terrorists Don't Even Make Her Top Five

by Lisa Schmeiser

December 8, 2009 at 4:35pm

Television has given us a lot of great things over the past decade, but it’s really dropped the ball on Wanda Sykes. If we’re lucky, her new late-night show might just stick.

Kleenex wants YOU to Get Mommed!

by Kelsey Wallace

December 8, 2009 at 1:09pm

This cold and flu season, don’t take vitamins or stay home from work if you’re sick – Get Mommed instead! The new campaign from Kleenex offers the nurturing comfort that only a virtual mother can provide. (And the stereotypes are included!)

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Bunk Documentaries (1 of 2): The Right to Confuse

by Kjerstin Johnson

December 7, 2009 at 5:46pm

What's wrong with this picture? (Hint: it's not the competing fonts).

This still, taken from the trailer of the film South Dakota: A Woman's Right to Choose might be the first time I've seen "a woman's right to choose" accompanying an in utero photo. Those are both articles of rhetoric from opposing sides of the abortion debate. Could this be a movie aiming to "edify, inform and not...

Sapphic Salon: Sarah Schulman's foray into the straight press

by Natalie Stein

December 7, 2009 at 11:20am

I often wonder if fans of Michelle Tea are familiar with the work of Sarah Schulman. The lesbian novelist, playwright, journalist and professor has written several works since the 1980s, including Rat Bohemia, Empathy and Girls, Visions and Everything. The stories revolve around young, queer women, their lives in the city in an era...

The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Disability Archetypes: The Good Cripple

by s.e. smith

December 7, 2009 at 6:01am

So, how can we get pop culture to start depicting disability more honestly? How can we get pop culture to start pushing away from these tropes and exploring fuller disabled characters?

On the Map: This is Why I Love Prostitutes

by Mandy Van Deven

December 6, 2009 at 6:24am

“Be sustainable - Don’t buy sex!” exhorts a postcard that is being distributed to guests of 160 hotels in Copenhagen during the UN Climate Summit. The proprietors of the lodging establishments received the postcards along with a letter from Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard requesting they not facilitate transactions between the COP15 guests and the city’s prostitutes. In response to...

Transcontinental Disability Choir: We're not looking for Pity: The Trouble With Poster Children

by Anna Pearce

December 4, 2009 at 7:18am

I am just so proud that the Academy Awards gave the man who said “if you don’t want to be pitied for being a cripple in a wheelchair, don’t come out of the house” a humanitarian award for being so good and giving to those wretched disabled children! I do hope that everyone gives money to a man who said “You might as well put a gun in your mouth” after you find out you have...

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