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Girls, Girls, Girls: Recap of Episode 9 “On All Fours”
This idea of cleansing oneself has permeated this season—and the theme continues in this episode. Our characters here aren’t particularly good at cleaning up and starting afresh, but what they are good at is self-sabotage. In this episode, “On All Four,” several characters successfully take... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Good morning! Here’s all the feminist news on our radar today.
• Did England’s Queen come out in support of gay rights? Well, not specifically. [Guardian]
• Senators... Read more »
Across the Country, Catholic University Students Challenge Their Schools' Anti-Gay Rules
Students at a Catholic university in Portland are petitioning their school to do something new: Write sexual orientations and gender identity into the school... Read more »
A Different Kind of Literacy: Art Show "Cliteracy" Hits NYC This Weekend
You'll have to forgive the puns. “Cliteracy,” for one: a knowledge of women's bodies and female sexuality. “Phallusy,” for another: patriarchal misinformation. At Baang + Burne's booth at Scope NYC... Read more »
Beyond Betty White: Three Other Amazing Older Women on TV
Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, I want to recognize the women who have hung in there for decades on the small screen, playing (mostly) wives and mothers and then grandmothers to the ever-younger main characters. Who’s ready to start a Facebook campaign to get one of these... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Happy almost-the-weekend, everybody! Here’s what’s been blowing up the Interwebs.
• At the Guardian’s Comment is Free, Jill Filipovic wrote about straight women... Read more »
Remember Flicka? The Main Character Used to be Male!
The 2006 film Flicka is one of many interpretations of Mary O’Hara’s 1941 novel My Friend Flicka, telling the story of a... Read more »
Giant Oil Portraits Memorialize Female Reporters Killed in Action
While newspapers at home struggle to stay relevant and profitable, reporters abroad struggle to stay alive. Dedicated to exposing the truth, protecting their sources, and improving the quality of life for those living in war-torn nations, the men and women (especially women) reporting... Read more »
How Do We Solve Publishing's Gender Gap?
“Who says women don’t write serious nonfiction?” ask the editors at Creative Nonfiction, the largest literary magazine dedicated to publishing exclusively high quality nonfiction prose. The meaty essay section... Read more »
Three Things I Learned at the Exceptional Women in Publishing Conference
Yesterday, I was down in San Francisco talking about Bitch at the Exceptional Women in Publishing’s Fifth Annual Women’s Leadership Conference. That’s right,... Read more »
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