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The Rebel Warrior and the Boy with the Bread: Gale, Peeta, and Masculinity in the Hunger Games
Just as Gale and Peeta give Katniss two very different boyfriend options, they give us as readers two very different ideas of what it means to be a man in Panem.
See what I mean about the two totally different masculinities happening here?
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Required Reading: The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street is all about voice. It’s about being heard. It’s about inventing new languages when the old ones don’t work. In the author’s words, it’s about “the ugliest subjects I could find. The most unpoetic.” In real life, The House on... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Kathrine Switzer, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon
In 1967, five years before the passing of Title IX (which required gender equity for sports in public education), twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer ran the Boston Marathon.
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School's Out: Family Matters: Lessons from Reconciling Radical Politics with Not-So-Radical Loved Ones
This post is about exclusion and the ethics of disagreement. Not exclusion by a dominant society of marginalized populations, but rather the selective practices of alliance and exclusion in anti-oppressive political circles. The theme I want to use to think through these questions is one of... Read more »
Political Fictions Kicks Off!
Anyone who’s spent time on a social networking site, watched cable news, or opened their email inbox in the last two months has probably heard about the “GOP’s war on women.” From placing humiliating barriers between women and their reproductive health to erasing domestic violence laws... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: Electric Feelings
We stepped off the runway and into a Daft Punk video last night as our All Stars took on an electrified black light challenge. In addition to eternal glowing glory, the winner’s look will be featured in a vaguely outlined Pharrell project!
One of these judges is embarrassed for the other... Read more »
On Our Radar
Happy Leap Year Week!
Sociological Images outlines how Leap Year Day was used as a day to ... Read more »
School's Out: What *Does* a Feminist Look Like? Teaching Boys About Feminism
My position right now is that it’s crucial that as we work to produce ourselves and others as people with critical consciousness—especially in schools, and not just in Women’s and Gender Studies classes—and that a feminist consciousness is a vital part of that for people of all genders... Read more »
Funny or Die's Women's Health "Experts" Video: Hilarious Yet Depressingly Accurate
It’s a shitty time to have a uterus, especially if you don’t want the government telling you what to do with it. Since we’d rather laugh than cry, check out this spot-on video from the folks at... Read more »
School's Out: Activist Quandaries and the Benefit of the Doubt
The crux of my confusion lies in the way that people who agree on the basic premise that social inequality exists and needs to be addressed sometimes fracture themselves by fighting about how to accomplish this goal, while the seeming majority blithely naturalizes inequalities, perpetuates systemic... Read more »
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