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School's Out: Teaching Homosexuality?
After seeing the headline “Catholic School Board Raises Concerns Over Teaching Homosexuality in School” the other day, I got to thinking that there’s still a lot of confusion about “inclusive” education. Teaching homosexuality!? What exactly does that mean? Here’s my take on the... Read more »
School's Out: Tonight, on a Very Special Episode...
So I was watching Glee the other night, waiting desperately to see if Brittany and Santana would show some sign that they were still together. As I tried to peer into the minds of Glee’s creators and discover their subversive intent in having the lesbian character Santana... Read more »
Films to Watch This Week at PIFF: Attenberg
There are many movies about a young person awkwardly stumbling into adulthood—but they’re not usually about young women. Attenberg (screening this week at the Portland International Film Festival) follows Marina, a 23-year-old woman... Read more »
Relive Your Teen Years and Support a Good Cause with EMA's "Take One Two"
Digital artist and kickass musician Erika M. Anderson (EMA) released her latest single today, “Take One Two.” Not only is it a great song, it comes with a touching (and nostalgia-inducing, for those of us who were teens during the ’90s) video, and... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Valentine's Day Fluff
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I have a pathetic affection for this holiday. Sure, it’s a grossly problematic event dedicated to perpetuating the cultural ideal of heterosexual monogamy via capitalistic consumption. But—thanks to social conditioning too relentless and insidious for me to resist... Read more »
Out today! A Q&A with Agorafabulous! author Sara Benincasa
Many of us have, at some point, asserted that we “don’t feel like leaving the house.” It may take a few days, several long naps, and many hours of Criminal Minds reruns, but eventually most of us manage to get out the front door and back to our regularly-scheduled lives. Sara... Read more »
Happy Galentine's Day!
All Parks and Rec fans know that February 13 is Galentine’s Day in the fictional town of Pawnee. However, like other fictional-but-fun holidays before it (... Read more »
Feministory: Isadora Duncan, Mother of Modern Dance
Isadora Duncan might be the most famous dancer you’ve never seen dance. Often referred to as the “Mother of Modern Dance,” she was a self-made and intensely driven, confident woman who saw personal freedoms, expression, justice, and dance as essentially intertwined. Isadora once said, “For me... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Pariah
We bring the Bechdel Test Canon to a close today with Dee Rees’ Pariah, a coming-of-age film about a black lesbian nerd hopefully playing at a theater near you.
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Thursday Night 'Lights: My Funny Valentine
Valentine’s Day is a tricky holiday for TV shows, no matter if the characters are coupled or single, happy or miserable, or somewhere in between. The TNL lineup (and last week’s Parks and Rec) all tackled February 14, with mixed results. Here’s what worked, and what didn... Read more »
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