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"Become a Porn Actress": Sasha Grey's Equal Pay Day PSA Misses the Point
March 20 is Equal Pay Day in Belgium, and to draw attention to the country’s 22% wage gap for women, zij-kant (a women’s group organizing the equal pay efforts) has launched an awareness video and... Read more »
School's Out: Giving Our Schools Some Homework
I just read an article in the most recent Curve magazine issue (which was themed around the concept of lesbian families) called “Back to School: How to Choose an LGBT-positive school for your child.” This article was mostly written... Read more »
Required Reading: Aya de Yopougon
Although she has some great comebacks for street harassers, our hero Aya is otherwise as problematic as your typical Disney heroine. Luckily, the graphic novel “Aya of Yopougon” is really about Aya’s lying, fighting, partying friends: Bintou and Adjoua. They’re not role models; they... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: Not Quite Ready-to-Wear
It was penny-pinching time last night as our All Stars took on a ready-to-wear challenge with budget constraints—and Nanette Lepore!
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#BlogforIWD: An International Women's Day Round-Up!
The sun still hasn’t set on International Women’s Day here in Portland. Here’s a brief round-up of some blog reading from around the web celebrating IWD and this year’s theme, “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.” Make sure to leave any more recommended readings in the... Read more »
School's Out: Frank Sex Talk
Discussions around sex and sexuality can sometimes be dignified by being medicalized or being couched in the terms of education. But sometimes that very frankness makes these discussions culturally unacceptable, even alongside completely normalized images of sexualized bodies, themes of promiscuity... Read more »
Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival Starts Today!
The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, aka POWFest, begins today and goes until March 11th at the Hollywood Theater. From animated, experimental, or “mature themed” (my favorite!) shorts, a local and international showcase, and more than a few... Read more »
Political Fictions: The Personal (Life) is Political
It’s something of an understatement to say that politicians have spent a lot of legislative and stump speech time this year talking about women. More specifically, about women’s personal lives. If anyone thought that we’d hear about jobs and the economy, or the pressing need to... Read more »
School's Out: Science is Not an Exact Science
This conception of empiricism—what it means to do “good,” “reliable,” and “valid” science—constrains what work can be done in the future. The exclusions “necessitated” by these models of research aren’t an accident either—broadly speaking, the conception of rationalism underpinning the... Read more »
Sm{art}: Translady Fanzine
Translady Fanzine is a fine art photographic periodical, that in its first issue, features high-gloss portraits of video and performance artist Zackary Drucker. Amos... Read more »
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