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Three Films to Catch This Week at the Portland International Film Festival
Here’s three films you can watch (or in one case, cover your eyes during) this week at the Portland International Film Festival! Whore’s Glory—a documentary on sex workers in the Global South, Water at the End of... Read more »
Required Reading: The Caine Mutiny
Although the Pentagon will soon ease restrictions on women in combat, a ban continues on women in infantry, keeping 200,000+ enlisted women out of promotions and leadership roles. So for all the ladies in the service: The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk’s bitter caricature of male... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Mozart and the Whale
I originally intended for this to be a companion piece to my previous post about the 2009 film Adam. Mozart and the Whale is a 2006 romantic “dramedy” about a man and a woman... Read more »
School's Out: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I’m an affectionate person, almost everyone I’ve dated or been friends with commenting on that. But whenever I am out in public with my fiancée, I become self-consciously affectionate. Not because I’m concerned about what nasty thoughts people might think about seeing such... Read more »
Bibliobitch: Ruth Tenzer Feldman's Blue Thread Weaves Through Time
Blue Thread is a YA novel set in 1912 Portland, and follows the main character—sixteen-year old Miriam Josefsohn—in her discovery of, and growing involvement in, the women’s suffrage movement. This isn’t just historical fiction though—along with fighting for women’s... Read more »
School's Out: Gender Bending and Gender Blending
We’re elaborately taught how to relate to ourselves as gendered beings. It’s been a long time that people have been building on the critical observation that there’s no natural connection between pink/girl or boy/blue, yet kids continue... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Parent Guides, Part 2
It was inevitable that I would come down pretty hard on these books, but in my frustration I left out an important point: These guides are not “disgusting” works of bigotry. They’re unassuming parenting guides right off the “Children with Special Needs” shelf of a... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman Elected to U.S. Congress
Jeannette Rankin was a suffragist and the first woman elected into the United States Congress in 1916. A lifelong pacifist, Rankin was the only person in Congress to vote against entering both WWI and WWII. She believed that many of the problems in government were tied to the fact that there... Read more »
School's Out: Asexy Teens
A few posts ago, in Slut Shaming and the Empowered Young Woman, one reader commented on the way that asexuality is written out of a lot of the most visible debates on what it means to be mature, empowered, and sexually self-aware. She... Read more »
Required Reading: A ______ of One's Own
In this blog series I want to look into “required reading,” how it’s taught, and what we (should/could) get out of it. Which classics take up the most space in the collective memory? Is there something worth remembering from the dudecentric classics of high school book lists? (I’m... Read more »
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