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by Deb Jannerson

March 4, 2011 at 11:26am

What a week! Here’s some of what caught our attention in the blogosphere:

At Racialicious, Bitch contributor Latoya Peterson speaks of how Planned Parenthood has helped her personally. On Saturday, people across the United States rallied in the Walk for Choice to save PP’s funding; see some of their signs here.
After a hate crime including arson, couple Carol...

The Games We Play: The Light is Right

by Brandann Hill-Mann

March 4, 2011 at 11:00am

The false dichotomy dividing "good" and "evil" into groups represented by light and dark goes back further than my first memories of seeing The Empire Strikes Back at the drive-in. It is a way of looking at the world around us and packing things into neat little boxes, and it has enveloped our popular culture and our mythology. How does this affect the way some people consume video...

No Kidding: Do Women Have the Right to Sterility?

by Brittany Shoot

March 4, 2011 at 10:25am

A fairly obvious question that I haven’t addressed during this series is whether women have the right to be sterile. It seems like sort of an obvious one (if not with just one obvious answer) until you consider how we frame other discussions about women’s health.

Douchebag Decree: “Gentlemen” Hijack Women's History Month

by Mel Mundell

March 3, 2011 at 11:44am

Seeing as it's National Women's History Month I thought we might be short on douchebags this week. No chance. Beyond the heaps of reappropriation and cause-branding companies stamping International Women's Day discounts on "goods" ranging from totebags to mail-order brides, senior d-bags up for declaration are the Network of Enlightened Women and their annual Gentlemen's...

Race Card: John Galliano

by Nadra Kareem Nittle

March 3, 2011 at 10:56am

The past week has been awful for designer John Galliano. He was arrested, trashed by Natalie Portman, and fired from Dior. By now, you likely know the reason why. It all started on Feb. 24, when the 50-year-old reportedly pulled a woman by the hair and called her “a dirty Jew face” in a Parisian café. According to reports, he also spewed racial slurs at the woman’s Asian friend....

No Kidding: Are You Essure?

by Brittany Shoot

March 3, 2011 at 10:30am

Do you think women know that non-invasive procedures like Essure are an option? Do you think childfree women have the same trouble securing any form of permanent birth control, no matter which type they want? Have you encountered resistance from medical professionals about sterilization options?

Sm{art}: Swooning for Swoon

by Kristin Rogers Brown

March 2, 2011 at 8:35pm

Swoon works in a combination of wheat-paste and paper cutout to create life-sized, figurative and graphic street art with strength and femininity. While a great deal of her work has been done outside the confines of a gallery, she was classically trained as a painter before adopting street art techniques.

The artist formerly known as Caledonia Curry studied painting at the Pratt...

Sex and the Fat Girl: The Femme Mystique

by Tasha Fierce

March 2, 2011 at 2:21pm

I talk a lot about lingerie, perfume, makeup etc. as ways for fat girls to feel sexy/enhance sensual feelings. These are all fine and good ways to do so—but what if your particular groove doesn't mesh with the more “femme” style of sexiness? Not every fat girl feels hot in skimpy nightclothes or red lipstick, and that's not necessarily because they don't feel good about how...

The Games We Play: The Default Hero

by Brandann Hill-Mann

March 2, 2011 at 12:17pm

Despite the fact that, according to the ESA, gamers are about 40% women and girls (to be really general), it doesn't seem that the world of developers and marketers has caught on terribly to these stats. Or to many things, actually.

B-Sides: Video Dance Party!