Politics

Jail Bait: Rethinking Images of Incarcerated Women

December 31, 2004 at 11:00pm

It is not my pleasure to remind anyone of the 2001 teen flick Sugar & Spice. Teetering between the black humor of Heathers and the girly glitz of Clueless, it achieves the success of neither, and I bring it up now only because of a single scene. The movie follows a group of cheerleaders who... Read more »

Full Frontal Offense: Taking Abortion Rights to the Tees

December 15, 2004 at 3:08pm

There's a new front in the battle for abortion rights—the literal front, that is, of a t-shirt designed by writer and feminist activist Jennifer Baumgardner that proclaims "I had an abortion." The shirt, initially for sale on Planned Parenthood's national website and now available on Clamor... Read more »

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Will Filming the Police Keep Us Safe?

by Victoria Law

February 5, 2015 at 10:31am

There’s a cultural idea that having someone looking over our shoulder makes us behave better. From fake security cameras to Elf... Read more »

The Dramatic History of American Sex-Ed Films

by Sarah Mirk

June 17, 2014 at 10:29am

In 1948, in a seventh grade classroom in Eugene, Oregon, a teacher dimmed the lights and flipped on 16mm projector. A film called Human... Read more »

Where My Girls At: Meet Two of Ferguson's Black Queer Activists

by Erica Cardwell

April 27, 2015 at 3:26pm

Amid national discussions of police brutality and systemic racism, Black women have been the loudest and most consistent voices demanding change. Read more »