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BiblioBitch: Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West, 1900-1917
The freedom of being a librarian in the west during this time was unparalleled: women were trained to be respected and valued members of the community, trusted with the task of educating and exposing their neighbors to the literary lifestyle, and they had the option of seeking new work in a huge... Read more »
Bitchin' Sex Diaries Alert!
If you’re interested in keeping a seven-day Sex Diary, visit the Sex Diaries Project here (be sure to click on the link from here so that Arianne knows who’s coming from the Bitch site)! We’ll also... Read more »
Somewhere Over the Double Rainbow
This is the final post in my “Double Rainbow” guest blog series. I’ve had a great time with this guest blog, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading it. As part of wrapping up the series, I wanted to leave you with something fun. In the spirit of... Read more »
School's Out: Looks Ain't Everything, But it Ain't Wrong to Look
If I could time travel without, like, disrupting the space-time continuum, one of the many things I would tell a younger me would be that: It’s not the interest in appearance that’s wrong, it’s how you do it. Fascination with the visual is something as broad as the history of... Read more »
Stop Telling Angelina Jolie to Eat a Cheeseburger
Look, I get that Angelina Jolie is thin, and that she also burns the brightest of all of our Bright Hollywood Stars and is therefore subject to more scrutiny than your average woman. However, body snarking of the “eat a sammich, skinny” variety is hardly different from body snarking of the “stop... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Ada Lovelace, First Computer Programmer
Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace—better known as Ada Lovelace—described herself as an analyst and metaphysician in her only published article. Seeing as how that article included what is cited as the first computer program and the first incidence of computers being assigned abilities beyond... Read more »
Required Reading: Cruel Optimism
“Even Adorno, the great belittler of popular pleasures, can be aghast at the ease with which intellectuals shit on people who hold on to a dream” writes Lauren Berlant, who is not shitting on you or your dream. Her latest book, Cruel Optimism, is less brutal analysis than a dark, lush still-life of... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: World Beatdown
Our remaining six designers were taken to the U.N. and inspired by the flags of six different nations. Except for Jerell, who was inspired by stereotypes.
Really, Jerell?
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On Our Radar
Here’s what you missed while you were planning your Oscars party…
At This Ain’t Livin’, s.e. smith wants to know where are all the disabled pop culture creators?
Mother Jones has a ... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Autism and Race
The history of autism is necessarily woven into the histories of any and all populations effected by autism, yet what one would term “autistic history” is largely treated as monolithic. Overwhelmingly, race is neglected not only in tracing the history of autism, but in contemporary research... Read more »
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