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Screenshot: Tina Fey, avatar of ambivalence

January 14, 2010 at 2:46pm

Can we talk about the food thing? It wasn't particularly cute when Aaron Sorkin made Republican blonde Ainsley Hayes' thing her prodigious appetite, and it's sort of unsettling how Liz's unhealthy and emotional relationship with food is played as hysterical now.

Asylum-seeking lesbians find expression through art

by Kjerstin Johnson

January 14, 2010 at 2:05pm

The recent Uganda death penalty bill for homosexuality has raised awareness of the inhumane treatment of LGBT people globally. The repercussions of rape, jail, and murder for expressing your sexuality are horrendous, but they sometimes make it easy to cast a blind eye to the way so-called first-world countries continue to foster homophobia, transphobia, and sexism. Gay women seeking asylum in...

Date Night vs. The Bounty Hunter

by Kelsey Wallace

January 14, 2010 at 10:58am

I might be a little late to the party on this one, since this trailer’s been out for a while, but I think Tina Fey’s upcoming movie Date Night looks like a lot of fun. And (judging only by this trailer) it seems to avoid many of the rom-com/action movie anti-feminist pitfalls (more to come on that in a minute). Check it out:

Kathryn Stockett's The Help: Count on the Happy Ending

by Sara Stroo

January 13, 2010 at 6:04pm

Although Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, came out nearly a year ago, it remains to date on the New York Times Top 10 Bestselling Fiction list… Forty weeks of its shelf life in fact, it has spent jostling with other titles on the list, still sitting comfortably at No. 4 as of January 11th.

In this list-watching way, I waited patiently, patiently for my copy to...

Douchebag Decree: Special Two for One Edition

by Malori Maloney

January 13, 2010 at 2:28pm

Every now and then there are just too many d-bags committing too many acts of douchebaggery to pick just one. Plus there’s the whole ‘is-this-person-alone-even-worth-blogging-about’ question to reckon with. But hey, that’s why god invented the Special Two for One Edition, right? Here goes…

Screenshot: Why it may not matter whether a woman ever hosts Late Night

by Lisa Schmeiser

January 12, 2010 at 6:34pm

This whole late-night kerfluffle is an odd relic of a dying age. Maybe, the next TV institution won't be as much of a boys' club as late night turned out to be.

B-Sides: This Week's Music Round-Up!

by Kjerstin Johnson

January 12, 2010 at 1:43pm

Pepa of Salt'n'Pepa's Let's Talk about Pep, a new VH1 reality show billed as a "Black Sex & the City," debuted last night. Here's Pepa's take on it, did anyone else catch it? (In way less-glamourous news about hip-hop women being on reality tv, Lady Soveriegn is slated for Celebrity Big Brother. She will be housemates with Sisqo. [Stereogum]). • Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings will have...

Race Card: Blagojevich Says He's “Blacker” than Obama

by Nadra Kareem Nittle

January 12, 2010 at 9:20am

Oh, no he didn't. In the February issue of Esquire, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declares himself "blacker" than Barack Obama is. Discussing the first black President, the disgraced politician told the men's magazine:

"This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the fuck? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than...

Adventures in Feministory: Olympe de Gouges

by Kelsey Wallace

January 11, 2010 at 2:17pm

Born in France in the year 1748, Marie Gouze (later to be known as Olympe de Gouges) was no ordinary petite fille. From a very early age she championed the rights of illegitimate children (of which she believed she was one) and their mothers, as well as writing abolitionist plays and speaking out for women’s rights in France.

If you’re thinking that de Gouges’...