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Comics Alliance: Inking Outside the Box: A profile on editor Laura Hudson
“Reports of my boobs and fists have been greatly exaggerated,” says Laura Hudson, staring at a webcomic that depicts her with enormous versions of both, under the headline, “What I'm Offended About This Week!”
Hudson, the editor of AOL-owned comics blog Comics Alliance, deserves some serious... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Attention Shoppers! The Problems with Celebrating Memorial Day by Shopping
Memorial Day, a day of remembrance in the US for fallen soldiers, is also a day of shopping for many Americans—at least, according to TIME magazine it is. The... Read more »
Lady Business: New Female CEOs, Coming Right Up
A recent Catalyst survey of Fortune 500 companies found that in 2011, women accounted for 14.1% of executive officer positions. They are just 7.5% of top earners in those position, but there are apparently a lot of women being groomed for leadership in the “corporate pipeline.”
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Adventures in Feministory: Althea Gibson, the First Black Tennis Player to Win a Tennis Grand Slam Tournament
In honor of the French Open this week, it felt appropriate to highlight the achievements of the female singles winner from 56 years ago: Althea Gibson. Long before Venus and Serena started making waves in the tennis world, Gibson was... Read more »
End of Gender: Pink For Boys? Why "Sex-Appropriate" Colors Are Arbitrary
Back in the day, infants of all genders wore white frocks—white, because it could be bleached of any infant spewage, and frocks, because it’s easier to wriggle a baby into a dress than into britches. ... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Inga Muscio's Rose: Love in Violent Times
Inga Muscio’s Rose: Love in Violent Times is a heart-wrenching journey, with ups and downs, depressing moments mirrored by inspirational ones. It is beautiful, and though it largely continues with Muscio’s usual themes of feminism and antiracism, I would file this book under “... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Jim Foley, Vice President of Victim Blaming, the University of Montana
When a rape victim went public with her story earlier this year, Jim Foley, Vice President of the University of Montana, sent an email asking if she could be punished under the Student Code of Conduct.
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Lady Business: Motherhood and Debt
At the height of attending my friends’ baby showers, more than one feminist writer urged me to forego having children. Remaining childless is tempting in a world where the costs of raising kids and taking time off to help raise them are getting higher and higher.
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End of Gender: Not "Just A Tomboy"
When the Washington Post featured a story about a transgender five-year-old last week, online commenters accused the parents of overreacting to harmless “tomboyishness.” But parents who listen to their kids, allow their kids to live as their preferred gender, and guide them through... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Looking at Photos of Organic Food Makes You Jerk-y, Pointless Study Says
A study published last week by Loyola professor Kendall J. Eskine in Social Psychological and Personality Science reports that people who eat organic food are self-righteous assholes. My... Read more »
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