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On Our Radar
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week:
Feministing tackles the media’s coverage of Whitney Houston’s death which showed another successful female artist... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
Our All Stars took on the Great White Way last night with a Godspell-inspired challenge.
Our posse’s on Broadway!
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Double Rainbow: Parent Guides, Part 1
In this post and my next one, I’m taking a look at a selection of four parents’ guides on autism and Asperger syndrome, to see how sex, sexuality, and gender are addressed. This is not a book review, but an overview of how these topics are presented in literature intended for parents of... Read more »
Women-Directed Documentaries Screening at the Portland International Film Festival!
This year at the Portland International Film Festival, there’s a wealth of documentary films directed by women! Check out some of them below (or put them on your Netflix queue for later)!
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School's Out: The (Queer) Sleepover Dilemma
For a lot of people, the idea of a sleepover conjures an image of wholesome youthful fun. In a culture that assumes that close friendships are usually same-sex, these occasions represent something platonic. At the same time, from an early age, a disproportionate degree of social anxiety and moral... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Liz "Women in the Military Should Expect to Get Raped" Trotta
Trigger warning for discussion of rape and sexual assault.
Fox News isn’t exactly known for its nuanced feminist critiques, but when pundit Liz Trotta aired her views... Read more »
Pop Pedestal: Bobby Hill
Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, where we take time to pay tribute to our favorite characters in pop culture. This week I’m choosing to celebrate the rose-growing, unicorn-loving, sharpshooting only child of the titular clan in King of the Hill, Bobby Hill.
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Double Rainbow: Autism and Masculinity
I’ve touched upon the construction of autistic masculinity and the construction of autism as inherently masculine a few times already in this series. In this post, I’d like to take a little bit of a closer look at the relationship between autism and masculinity.
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Read Spankin' New Articles from the Frontier Issue!
Read articles from the latest Bitch magazine—the Frontier issue!
Before you even get your copy in the mail, you can read... Read more »
PETA: Enough with the sex and the vegetables and the "shock tactics" already! WE GET IT.
PETA isn’t content to restrict its sex-sells messaging to the porn site, either. The latest campaign features a woman walking down the street in her bra and underwear in a neck brace, a result of rough (like, put your head through the wall and land you in a neck brace rough) sex with her... Read more »
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