Culture
Visi(bi)lity: Deconstructing Images of Bisexuality in the Media
Over the next eight weeks, I will explore both progressive and problematic depictions of bisexuality in order to see how far we’ve come and how much progress still needs to be made. Together, we will look at examples in film, television, music, celebrity culture, and new media. And, with any... Read more »
The Rebel Warrior and the Boy with the Bread: Gale, Peeta, and Masculinity in the Hunger Games
Just as Gale and Peeta give Katniss two very different boyfriend options, they give us as readers two very different ideas of what it means to be a man in Panem.
See what I mean about the two totally different masculinities happening here?
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Adventures in Feministory: Kathrine Switzer, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon
In 1967, five years before the passing of Title IX (which required gender equity for sports in public education), twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer ran the Boston Marathon.
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School's Out: Family Matters: Lessons from Reconciling Radical Politics with Not-So-Radical Loved Ones
This post is about exclusion and the ethics of disagreement. Not exclusion by a dominant society of marginalized populations, but rather the selective practices of alliance and exclusion in anti-oppressive political circles. The theme I want to use to think through these questions is one of... Read more »
Political Fictions Kicks Off!
Anyone who’s spent time on a social networking site, watched cable news, or opened their email inbox in the last two months has probably heard about the “GOP’s war on women.” From placing humiliating barriers between women and their reproductive health to erasing domestic violence laws... Read more »
School's Out: What *Does* a Feminist Look Like? Teaching Boys About Feminism
My position right now is that it’s crucial that as we work to produce ourselves and others as people with critical consciousness—especially in schools, and not just in Women’s and Gender Studies classes—and that a feminist consciousness is a vital part of that for people of all genders... Read more »
Somewhere Over the Double Rainbow
This is the final post in my “Double Rainbow” guest blog series. I’ve had a great time with this guest blog, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading it. As part of wrapping up the series, I wanted to leave you with something fun. In the spirit of... Read more »
School's Out: Looks Ain't Everything, But it Ain't Wrong to Look
If I could time travel without, like, disrupting the space-time continuum, one of the many things I would tell a younger me would be that: It’s not the interest in appearance that’s wrong, it’s how you do it. Fascination with the visual is something as broad as the history of... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Ada Lovelace, First Computer Programmer
Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace—better known as Ada Lovelace—described herself as an analyst and metaphysician in her only published article. Seeing as how that article included what is cited as the first computer program and the first incidence of computers being assigned abilities beyond... Read more »
Required Reading: Cruel Optimism
“Even Adorno, the great belittler of popular pleasures, can be aghast at the ease with which intellectuals shit on people who hold on to a dream” writes Lauren Berlant, who is not shitting on you or your dream. Her latest book, Cruel Optimism, is less brutal analysis than a dark, lush still-life of... Read more »
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