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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Here’s our roundup for Tuesday!
Pamela K.M. Chen became the first openly gay Asian Pacific American to serve on the federal judiciary. She was appointed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for... Read more »
How Great Would it Be to Relaunch Golden Girls?
The Golden Girls' feminism is self-evident: Four outspoken, post-menopausal women live together and support each other through older age, dealing together with their grown kids, ex-husbands, and dating lives. And they are not the punchline—they make the punchlines. This show,... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Law Professor Patricia J. Williams Opens Up
Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, published these words twenty-five years ago in her renowned essay on slavery, race, gender, and rights called “On Being the Object of Property”:
There are moments in my... Read more »
Girls, Girls, Girls: Recap of Episode 8 “It’s Back”
Girls, I love you. But this week’s episode just didn’t work.
This could be because it’s hard to keep momentum after a string of excellent episodes, but this week’s uneven episode “It’s Back” was built on out-of-nowhere plot points.
The episode... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Welcome to Monday! Here’s all the feminist news on our radar this morning.
• Scientists say a baby born with HIV has been cured... Read more »
The Senator Who Led the Charge Against VAWA Says He's the "Only Member of the Hip Hop Caucus"
While I was watching regrettable late-night TV recently, an interview caught my attention: Ultra-conservative Florida Senator Marco Rubio discussing his admiration of the music of Tupac Shakur and NWA.
This isn’t breaking news; Rubio has been openly discussing his love of hip-hop since a... Read more »
An Ode to Enlightened: The Best Show You Aren’t Watching
This Sunday is the season finale of HBO show Enlightened, starring Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe, a woman who has a nervous breakdown after her self-destructive tendencies cause her life to implode.... Read more »
Don't Laugh—Here are Four Reasons I Genuinely Like "Cougar Town"
Remember when Cougar Town premiered four years ago and we all made a whole thing of it because of its name, and, oh my God, what was this trying to say about older women’s sexuality, and why are we... Read more »
A Feminist Perspective on American Rodeo
Women and horses have a complicated relationship: Women both identify with horses emotionally—connecting with the freedom they represent—and gain power from their ability to control them. One compelling example of this paradoxical relationship in women’s involvement in Wild West shows and... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Happy Friday! Here’s all the feminist news that’s fit to print…you know, on the Internet.
• As you probably already know, the comprehensive Violence... Read more »
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