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The Best and Worst of the 2012 Emmy Nominations
Girls! Downton Abbey! No love for Parks and Recreation! The best and the worst of the 2012 Emmy nominations.
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Today in Riot Grrrl News: Bikini Kill Starts Bikini Kill Records!
This week, feminist punk pioneers Bikini Kill started their own record label. Yep, you read that right.
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Overdressed: Elizabeth Cline on Fast Fashion, Overconsumption, and What We Can Do About It
If you’ve ever felt disturbed by how cheap the tank tops were at H&M—but bought one anyway—you’re not alone. In her illuminating new book, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth Cline writes that the... Read more »
BiblioBitch: Elissa Schappell's Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Named after a fictional girls’ etiquette handbook, Elissa Schappell’s 2011 short story collection, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, offers a multi-perspectival, intergenerational portrait of American... Read more »
Thinking Kink: Safewords
In light of the Daniel Tosh firestorm this week, I probably don’t need to make the point that joking about sexual abuse is harmful, not funny. However, in the context of kink, a subculture that... Read more »
Introducing a New Series on Love and Afrofeminism!
My name is Spectra, and I’ll be your resident Cupid for the summer. Kinda. I’m a Nigerian writer, women’s rights and media activist, and editor at the afrofeminist blog Spectra Speaks, which publishes news, opinions, and... Read more »
Bridal Party: Put A Ring On It! (An Origin Story)
When Beyoncé took a stand for all “single ladies,” no one in my then-same-sex relationship had as of yet put any rings on anything and I was pretty happy about that.
After thoughtful and difficult conversations, however, my person and I agreed on a compromise: I came around to the romantic angle... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Queer Pioneer
As a good queer studies (not to be confused with lgbt studies, gender studies, and women’s studies–though, they’re all related) student, it’s important to have your bases covered. You start with the foundational texts, because as an incredibly new (we’re talking about my age... Read more »
Remembering Kitty Wells, Queen of Country Music
Kitty Wells was an amazing vocalist who paved the way for women in country music for more than seven decades. She’ll be missed, but she leaves a tremendous legacy behind.
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Five Things that Work on USA's Political Animals (and Five that Don't)
I know I wasn’t the only one who cheered when Sigourney Weaver’s Elaine Barrish told a handsy Russian diplomat that she’d “fuck his shit up” on last night’s premiere of ... Read more »
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