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BiblioBitch: King Kong Theory

by Shaamini Yogaretnam
March 17, 2010 at 2:32pm

                                                            

The first line of Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory (written originally in French as King Kong Theorie and then translated into English) is:

“I am writing as an ugly one for the ugly ones: the old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls that...

Reproductive Writes: The Female Condom Reloaded

by Holly Grigg-Spall
March 17, 2010 at 12:07pm

The female condom. No one talks about it, no one uses it - it's just one of that group of contraceptives, which includes the sponge and the diaphragm, that everyone sees as outdated and useless. Hormonal contraceptives are considered the high-tech, modern method of birth control and they dominate the market. But lately the male condom had been taking back its share of the conversation – the...

Tina Fey: Esquire Fantasy Edition

by Kelsey Wallace
March 17, 2010 at 11:35am

So, Tina Fey is on the cover of the April 2010 Esquire:

The Biotic Woman: In Praise of Sistah Vegan

by Brittany Shoot
March 17, 2010 at 11:20am

For a long time, one of my favorite vegan thinkers has been A. Breeze Harper, author of the Sistah Vegan website/blog and now the author of her newly released book of the same name—out this month! Harper also contributes to the Vegans of Color blog—see my last post for a Q&A with the blog's founder—and perhaps not surprising when you consider her blog/book's name, her work centers on the...

B-Sides: Chiptunes

by Sara Reihani
March 16, 2010 at 6:29pm

I was lucky enough to attend a SXSW screening of Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, a documentary about chiptunes, an underground music form that uses hardware from old video game consoles, like classic Nintendo Game Boys and NESes, to create new, original music. Most of this music bears little resemblance to 8-bit video game music (except, of course, for the sound quality); it's more like...

Raising Trouble: Tim Burton's “Alice”

by Liza Featherstone
March 16, 2010 at 2:17pm

No matter how subtle and cerebral – or in the case of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 tale, wonderfully meandering and weird – the original story, these days, Hollywood will figure out how to transform it into an action movie.

Mad World: Mad Man George Lois

by Kelsey Wallace
March 16, 2010 at 12:36pm

Few people embody the tough questions raised by the advertising industry like George Lois. A brilliant innovator who is responsible for countless iconic (and offensive) ad campaigns and Esquire covers, Lois is both frustrating and inspiring. Which makes him perfect, of course, for this week’s Mad World discussion. Yep, Lois did this.

Feminist Rapper: A Lady Made That!

by Kelsey Wallace
March 15, 2010 at 12:49pm

It’s somewhat of a running joke in feminist circles that, while awesome, a PhD in Gender Studies doesn’t exactly bring in the big bucks. Well, Jenny Hagel is looking to change that (or at least the character she plays in her new web series, Feminist Rapper is). In the first episode, “A Lady Made That,” a frustrated Gender Studies professor learns how to rap to try and get her...

Reproductive Writes: Giving Blood Part 2: Interview with Chris Bobel

by Holly Grigg-Spall
March 15, 2010 at 12:36pm

University of Massachusetts professor Chris Bobel is the author of the soon to be released book New Blood: Third-Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. In the second part of this two-part interview she unpacks periods and the activism, advertising and controversy that makes them so very personal and so very political.

The Biotic Woman: Vegans of Color

by Brittany Shoot
March 15, 2010 at 10:50am

People unfamiliar with veganism—and hell, even people within animal rights movements—tend to think of vegan and animal advocacy issues as predominantly white concerns. It's a fair accusation that white privilege is rampant in AR movements and that many animal rights groups are constructed in homogeneous ways—because generally speaking, it's true.

One of my favorite blogs has always...

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