Books
The Biotic Woman: Talking to Ruby Roth
You don't have to be a full time animal rights activist to spread the good word about healthy food, climate change, and women's and children's rights. Ruby Roth, author and illustrator of the recently released That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Lori Gottlieb *IS* all the single ladies
Have you been wondering what would be the perfect metaphor for being single in your forties? Well now, just in time for Valentine's Day, Lori Gottlieb and her godsend of a new book (... Read more »
Bibliobitch: The 2010 Amelia Bloomer List
The Amelia Bloomer Project just released their 2010 list of “recommended feminist literature for birth through 18” and they’ve included what look like some great selections!
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Kathryn Stockett's The Help: Count on the Happy Ending
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... Read more »
Sapphic Salon: Sex and Misogyny in the Publishing World
There's a great piece in this Sunday's New York Times Book Review by Katie Roiphe regarding the inclusion of sex in novels by American male writers over time. Roiphe... Read more »
Transcontinental Disability Choir: Disability in Comics -- A Discussion
Comics haven't always been a bastion of feminist values, but they have given readers some fairly positive examples of characters with disabilities over the years. I've pulled together a brief list of characters who are more than just tropes meant to teach a Very Special Lesson.
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The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
Whenever someone starts talking about “crip-drag” - the slang term that basically means “currently non-disabled actor playing a disabled character” - the conversation tends to eventually (usually sooner, rather than later) turn to this:
But but but! We shouldn’t accept a less-than-stellar... Read more »
Bound by Raw Survival: Working Class Women Writers
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire wrote, “Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with... Read more »
BiblioBitch: The Grammar Devotional
Grammarphiles of the world, rejoice! The fabulous Mignon Fogarty (aka Grammar Girl, profiled in the Buzz... Read more »
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