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Thinking Kink: Is Vanilla Sex Boring? Who Gets to Decide?
As kink continues to infiltrate the mainstream media so does its accompanying lingo, and one of the terms that’s bugging non-kinksters is “vanilla.” As folks who’ve fought against negative labels themselves, should BDSM practitioners quit bandying around this term? Or do we just need to... Read more »
True Blood: Hopeless
Last night’s True Blood may have been “Hopeless,” but it gave us plenty to hope for.
Party Roman likes to party.
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Thinking Kink: Secretary and the Female Submissive
A decade before 50 Shades, closet kinksters were finding a way to come out via Steven Shainberg’s exercise in office S&M, Secretary. While this tense and sexy movie may have avoided coming off like a bad porn script, did Secretary do much to challenge the... Read more »
Playing with Fire: The Ethics of Transnational Feminism
“Transnational feminism” is given a lot of weight—negative and otherwise—and most said it couldn’t be done, ‘til Playing with Fire came in 2006, that is. A quick introduction: Playing with... Read more »
WTF Files: New York Times Wonders, "Are Modern Men Manly Enough?"
The headline alone is enough to bring on an eye-roll headache: “Are Modern Men Manly Enough?” And the head-desk-inducing subheaders will only make it worse: “... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Daniel Tosh and the "Comedy" of Rape Culture
Some weeks it’s tough to choose who gets the Douchebag Decree. I’ll admit that I’ve written posts that were a bit of a stretch in the past, or tried to cram two stories into one because I couldn’t decide who was the bigger douche. This week, however, the guesswork’s... Read more »
New Promo for the Mindy Project! Mindy Kaling's "Having it All"
Sure, it’s summer and that means you’re more likely to find me streaming old episodes of Pretty Little Liars on my laptop than watching a season premiere (no, YOU stayed up until 2:00 last night to find out what happened at the dance-a-thon!), but the fall shows are only two... Read more »
You Scream I Scream: New Monster High Doll "Scarah Screams" Debuts at Comic-Con, Is Just as Bad as Other Monster High Dolls
Though Monster High claims to be about celebrating differences (tagline: “Freaky is fabulous”) the dolls themselves are very similar—not only to one another, but to their... Read more »
BiblioBitch: 25th Anniversary of Gloria Anzald
If you read Bitch, you are likely at least somewhat familiar with Gloria Anzaldúa and her work with feminism, her beautiful writings, and her advocacy for women of color. She was a Chicana-Tejana-lesbian-feminist poet, theorist,... Read more »
Thinking Kink: No, Female Submission Doesn't Mean Oppression
This is the second part of a two-part series on female submission and oppression. Read the first post here.
The woman who admits to enjoying sexual submission often finds herself stuck... Read more »
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