Culture
Political InQueery: Tipping Points
I refuse to be distracted by Phyllis Schlafly's latest misinformation campaign, nor will I be sucked into the increasing suspicions... Read more »
The Dating Game: The Three Date Rule
The "three-date rule" is stupid. So's the five-date rule, the six-month rule and any other rule that someone's told you should govern the time in your relationship that you choose to engage in physical intimacy. The problem is that, in sorting through all the messages of when you should or should... Read more »
Genderlicious: "I believe that I can support you, but also support people who hate you"
The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival is next week.
Having not grown up in North America and having taken a fairly circuitous route to feminism, the first time I ever heard of Michfest was about seven years ago in the Inga Muscio book Cunt, where Muscio talks about what a transformative... Read more »
Political InQueery: The Where Are They Now? Round-up
We've taken a look at the past these past two months. It's like looking at a star, shining brightly from some other corner of the galaxy; by the time the light reaches our eyes, a hell of a lot of time has passed. Okay, it's not like that at all. Many of these stories are more like train wrecks—... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: The Women's Donor Activist Movement
Today’s Adventures in Feministory is brought to you by a smart and informative video from the Women’s Funding Network. Watch it and learn about the history of the Women’s Donor Activist Movement! (We could all use a fun video... Read more »
Genderlicious: Call for Submissions to "Dear Sister"
Yesterday Lisa from A Woman's Ecdysis sent me a call for submissions to an anthology she is editing, called Dear Sister: Letters to Survivors of Sexual Violence.
Lisa wrote:
I encourage you all to submit and forward this call widely. As we know the prevailing silence around sexual assault, it is... Read more »
Political InQueery: Backlash Against the Sherrod Backlash
I was in San Francisco last April, having dinner with an old friend
from college. His mother married, many years ago, a close business
partner of Rupert Murdoch. This had been, back in our school days, the cause of many
a sympathetic, slow shake of the head, because we liberal middle class
kids... Read more »
The Dating Game: The Disclose Act
Too often, people worry that if they expose the truth about themselves, the other person won't like them or understand... so they hold the truth back until they're convinced the other person likes them enough that the reality of whatever they were convinced was unlikeable will pass by unnoticed.... Read more »
Political InQueery: Politainment
There is the subject of politics and then there is entertainment. And never the twain shall meet, right? Wrong. So unbelievably wrong. In news of the “please don’t record this,” it leaked today that TLC—that’s The Learning Channel, for those who are television newbies—is doing some... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Pedophile
Hold on to your gag reflexes, feminists, because this is going to make you want to barf: Another privileged, wealthy, white male is walking free after being brought up on charges of heinous sexual crimes against underage women. Yep, it’s not just... Read more »
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