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Adventures in Feministory: Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo
Lourdes Portillo has a decades-long film career. Her films, which tend to focus on Chicano and Latino culture and identity, range from realism to avant-garde, fiction to personal narrative, with every kind of genre-bending in between. Portillo continues her work today as a member of Xochitl... Read more »
Flyover Feminism: A New Site for East, West, and All the Rest
What would happen if Melissa from Shakesville, Garland from Tiger Beatdown (and the Bitch blogs!), and Jessica from scATX joined forces and... Read more »
Thinking Kink: The Final (Leather-Clad) Curtain
Writing this series has been amazing! Time for a few shout-outs to those who have helped the good ship Thinking Kink along its voyage…
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Project Runway Season 10: Going, Going, Gone
It was fewer designers, mo’ problems on last night’s episode of Project Runway:
Judge not, lest Michael Kors tell you you are a sissy.
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Douchebag Decree: Louisiana Charter School Bans Pregnant Students, Had "No Idea" That Was Illegal/Awful
The administration Delhi Charter School of Delhi, Louisiana, ought to be red-faced right now. Why’s that? Well, in 2006 the administration instituted a new policy: No pregnant students allowed in the classroom. The school reserved the (illegal) right to even force pregnancy tests on students... Read more »
RetroPop: Why Edna St. Vincent Millay Would Love
Welcome again to RetroPop, the Top 40-centric series where I invite you to help me compare the messages of lady-performed Billboard hits with themes from the work of great female artists of the past.
Today we’re going straight to the lyrics of the latest hit Nicki Minaj single, “Starships”... Read more »
Sm{art}: Diggin' Deep With Cristy C. Road
Cristy C. Road, a Miami-raised, Brooklyn-based, Cuban-American illustrator, writer, and of course, total dreamboat, is no stranger to DIY, punk, queer, zine, and activist communities all over the place, and certainly no stranger to the pages of... Read more »
Thinking Kink: The Right to Play With Race
Last post I looked at those for whom playing with racialized imagery in kink is too close to the bone. Today I’m turning my attention to the the black artists and performers who refused to be silenced in their desire to push boundaries.
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Parks and Menstruation: Sexism, Bears, and the National Park Service
Kerry A. Gunther, bear management biologist at Yellowstone National Park explains in her information paper “Bears and Menstruating Women,” “The objective of this paper is to present the data available on this... Read more »
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