Books
On Our Radar
Phew! This week saw lots of compelling internet content, including the following:
Queerty... Read more »
SXSW Film: <em>The Dish and the Spoon</em>
Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon opens with Rose (Greta Gerwig) despondently crying as she drives to... Read more »
<em>The Hunger Games</em> Film Whitens its Warrior
Like many connoisseurs of young adult lit, I’ve been excited and wary about the upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’... Read more »
On Our Radar
Everyone have a good International Women’s Day/Feminist Coming Out Day? Check out these compelling links from this week, and feel free to share your stories below!
Andrea Grimes... Read more »
Zero-Summing It Up: What About the Men?
Well, it’s Women’s History Month, and that can only mean one thing: It’s time to freak out about what’s happening to dudes.
As anyone who consumes regular doses of media well knows, discussions of how far women have come often devolve into hand-wringing over the plight of... Read more »
Beyond The Panel: An Interview with Sam Orchard of Rooster Tails
Rooster Tails is a year-old comic by Sam Orchard in which he "explores [his life as] a simple transguy transitioning in the lower half of the South Island of New Zealand." Sam and his boyfriend Joe are both joyful and thoughtful as narrators,... Read more »
BiblioBitch: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
I noticed the book immediately: a colorful, unmistakably travel-esque picture topped with a billboard that evoked both Broadway and freeway diners, staring out from a new display... Read more »
Pink Slip: Breaking down the princess castle with “Cinderella Ate My Daughter” author Peggy Orenstein
Throughout her career, Orenstein has observed at close range how the media and popular culture have colluded to serve up distorted visions of womanhood to girls.
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