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Douchebag Decree: That Racist Swedish Cake and Everyone Who Had a Piece in It.
Like many, I find these images racist, repulsive, and anti-woman. But, because this cake was consumed at museum and not, (believe it or not) at a pathetic frat party, and this cake was conceived as performance art, we will discuss further.
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Why Everyone is Losing Their Shit Over the Magic Mike Trailer
The Internet echoed with the sounds of thumpa-thumpa strip club music as the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s <a href=”hotly anticipated... Read more »
End of Gender: Public (Trans)portation
When the TSA announced a new line of body scanners that were supposedly less-invasive, gender-nonconforming folks excitedly packed their bags.
But when a traveler prepares to be scanned, security staff... Read more »
Fertile Ground: OCCUPY the Earth
I began as an urban gardener. Urban farming is imperative to cities, and I had thought my husband and I would eventually be urban farmers—but alas, that is not where life has taken us, and we currently rent land in a halfway suburb, one that straddles concrete city and corn-strewn country.
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Required Reading: Banned Books and Black Ink
Judy Blume made it to the the top of the American Library Association’s “Most Frequently Challenged Authors” list in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2010.
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End of Gender: Melissa Harris-Perry's "Being Transgender in America" Roundtable
Last week the trailblazing scholar and MSNBC television host Melissa Harris-Perry featured a segment on being transgender in America.
In true Harris-Perry fashion, this segment blasts through... Read more »
BiblioBitch: "Virginia Woolf," Abridged and Alluring
Claude Monet called Herman Bang’s wartime Tine “the world’s first Impressionist novel,” floating as it does between characters, events, and chronology.... Read more »
"The Women's Vote" Was Awesome on The Daily Show Last Night
On The Daily Show last night, Jason Jones met with Tad Devine, a political consultant, to talk about the increasing emphasis on “the women’s vote” among the remaining presidential candidates. After pointing out that many of the discussions about women in Washington don’t... Read more »
Fertile Ground: Bloody Ecofeminism
There are a lot of simple ways to try and prevent toxins from being absorbed into your body. Everything from new clothes to drugstore make-up to regular deodorant carries toxins, and your skin, which happens to be the largest eliminating organ your body has, absorbs all that it comes in contact... Read more »
End of Gender: Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Boys
Teen birth rates in the U.S. have hit an all-time low.
Much of the conversation has revolved around this: in a generation with greater freedom to break... Read more »
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