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Pop Pedestal: Tami and Eric Taylor

May 5, 2011 at 2:00pm

Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, a series dedicated to the pop culture personalities we most admire! Up today: Tami and Eric Taylor of Friday Night Lights. (Attention Netflix Instant viewers: This post contains no spoilers past season one!)

Celebrating Fifty Years Since the Freedom Rides on Television

by Kjerstin Johnson

May 5, 2011 at 1:12pm

“I wouldn’t be sitting here if it wasn’t for your courage,” Oprah said “but I am frustrated, I am disappointed, and at times angry that the history does not get carried forth.” Oprah was speaking about the Freedom Rides, a months-long Civil Rights demonstration in 1961 organized by CORE and executed by young people risking their life to travel by bus from Washington, D.C. to the...

Sex and the Fat Girl: Basking in the Afterglow

by Tasha Fierce

May 5, 2011 at 12:11pm

This column has come to an end! I hope what we discussed helped you learn to love yourself a bit more. And, of course, I hope it made you think a bit and challenge assumptions about fat sexuality and societal beauty standards. My goal is to enlighten and deconstruct, to help fat women empower themselves and take their body image and sexuality into their own hands. So if anyone started on the...

Electro Feminisms: I'm in Love with a Strict Machine

by Emily McAvan

May 5, 2011 at 10:07am

Electronic artists have long made use of science fiction motifs like the robot. Of course, music being music and people being people, one of the most common things it seems anyone wants to do with a robot is have sex with it.

Read on for more about what some female artists do with their robots.

What Sexist Crap Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?

by Kelsey Wallace

May 4, 2011 at 1:34pm

Klondike rolled out a new ad campaign last week called “5 Seconds to Glory.” The premise: You must complete a five-second challenge in order to get your hands on a Klondike Bar (a square of chocolate-covered ice cream). Why you can’t just bypass the challenge and go straight to the bar itself is beyond me, but the real kicker here is the misogynistic, homophobic challenges Klondike...

The Wedding March: Is the Honeymoon Over?

by Kaite Welsh

May 4, 2011 at 11:37am

Now that the confetti has settled, the media is starting to move on from the modern fairytale. But there are some people for whom the royal wedding was an experience they’ll never forget, in all the wrong ways.

BiblioBitch: Kittatinny and the Legacy of Joanna Russ

by Deb Jannerson

May 4, 2011 at 11:29am

I am an enormous fan of Joanna Russ’ work. The feminist science fiction author is best known for her dense exploration of the effects of parallel societies on a given character, The Female Man, but I swear by We Who Are About To…, about a woman fighting to die rather than colonize an unknown planet, and The Two of Them, about a traveler who feels...

Revenge of the Feminerd: Nerd Brain = Male Brain?

by Jarrah E Hodge

May 4, 2011 at 9:52am

In addition to thinking of nerds as people who are intellectually focused and slightly obsessive, I’d argue that a lot of us attach a gender (male) and race (white, South Asian, or East Asian) to the stereotype of a nerd. When I asked for suggestions of who pops into mind when you think of the idea of nerdiness, white guys accounted for most of the answers I received. And just do a quick...

Sex and the Fat Girl: Interview with “Fat Bitch!” Creator Erica Watson

by Tasha Fierce

May 3, 2011 at 1:29pm

I had the pleasure of attending the April 30 performance of Erica Watson's “Fat Bitch!” The show incisively cut through the societal baggage attached to being a fat woman using humor (hilariously!) and personal anecdotes. The finale video is something I hope everyone eventually gets to see because it is a work of comedy art. I got the chance to meet Ms. Watson after the show...