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BiblioBitch: The Vanishers
The Vanishers is four-time novelist and Believer founding editor Heidi Julavits’s new work, and it has a really, really bright cover. It’s a good book, for the most part, and an interesting book, and I promise I’ll talk about it in an... Read more »
School's Out: The Bathroom Debate
One of the most troubling anxieties of the public bathroom is one that purports to care about the safety of women and youth, but really only ends up further marginalizing, and perhaps sometimes outing, trans* people and other gender-variant folk. This space of the illicit—a place where we perform... Read more »
Political Fictions: Behind the Scenes in DC
If the fictional representatives, senators, and political wannabes we’ve looked at so far in this series have been limited by sexist stereotyping—emotional instability, petty greed, and weakness among these ideas—some of the women who are portrayed working outside of the spotlight come off a... Read more »
Phone a Friend with the Circle of 6 Violence Prevention App
The Circle of 6 iPhone app, designed to prevent sexual assault and dating violence among young adults, launched today—just in time for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And it’s free... Read more »
B*tches in Bookshops! Read So Hard.
This Watch the Throne parody video about books by La Shea Delaney & Annabelle Quezada is AMAZING. Read so hard!
Lyrics available here.
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School's Out: The Real World?
Apparently, we have to get an education in some land of make-believe shot through a vaseline-covered lens in order to get a “real” job, and then endure the “real world” where we won’t have it so easy, and then, at some undisclosed point in the future, “it gets better”? If we don’t... Read more »
Open Thread: Does Feminism Really Need "the Next Gloria Steinem"?
The New York Times ran a profile of Gloria Steinem by Sarah Hepola on Friday that asked... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Mary Elizabeth Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew, Co-conspirators Against the Confederacy
Mary Elizabeth Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew, a former slave and a wealthy white woman in Richmond, Virginia, might seem unlikely members of a successful espionage ring. Thanks to Hollywood, the typical images surrounding spies include scantily clad women, technological gadgets, and Pierce Brosnan—... Read more »
On Our Radar
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week:
Remember these awesome pics of punk band Pussy Riot at the Kremlin? Two alleged members have been detained and face imprisonment... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: Finale Fake Out!
Well, Lifetime only gave us part one of the Project Runway All Stars finale last night, but we still got a sneak peek at what the designers have in store for the runway next week (hint: Fragonard’s therapist on safari), and a few of our old faves returned to the workroom.
Come... Read more »
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