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Some SOPA Links to Help You Tell Congress to Shove it
Since you are currently online, you’ve no doubt noticed that SOPA (don’t worry, you can click on the link—it’s one of the only Wikipedia sites that isn’t blacked out today) is the talk of the... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature Irma Vep celebrates Maggie Cheung, the actress under the catsuit.
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The 99%: Why the Real Housewives of Atlanta Aren
Few women of color are allowed to represent themselves on television with much nuance; frequently they are reduced to stock characters like mammies and Jezebels that deny them full, complex humanity. Successful women... Read more »
Double Rainbow: A Peek at Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is an easy, easy target. And a literally huge one—it’s the largest and best-funded autism “awareness” and “advocacy” (I kind of want to just call it “autism-themed”) organization in the world. Autistic self-advocates rip into Autism Speaks every day because of the organization... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Civil Rights Activist and Writer Daisy Bates
Behind the scenes was Daisy Bates.
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Thursday Night 'Lights: New Year, New Lineup
So with the start of 2012 ushers in a new lineup on Thursday nights on NBC. With Community and Whitney replaced by 30 Rock and Up All Night, we have a comedy block in which three out of the four series are headlined by women, which is pretty awesome. So how did... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: A Pa-poom Moment?
Project Runway All Stars went to the opera last night, and brought their “pumped up prom dresses” with them.
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Double Rainbow: Adam: "More like a child than anything else"
The 2009 romantic drama Adam features a relationship between a non-autistic woman and a man with Asperger syndrome. Any portrayal of autistic sexuality has the potential to be subversive, but unfortunately this particular movie squanders that potential and reinforces existing tropes about... Read more »
On Our Radar
Um, if Jay-Z has sworn off the word “bitch,” how will he renew his subscriptions?
This week’s homework: check out an excerpt from Professor Melissa Harris-Perry’s Sister Citizen on Michelle Obama and... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Je tu il elle
Je tu il elle illustrates why such enthusiastic fandom and hushed reverence toward the work of queer Belgian director Chantal Akerman feels earned.
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