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Preacher's Daughter: Sexual Violence and Discourses of "Purity"
I have spent a lot of time thinking about the silliness of “True Love Waits”-style campaigns, but it never really occurred to me to think about how a child who has been raped might experience these shaming “abstinence-only” discourses. That is to say, this would be particularly cruel, painful, and... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: ChapStick: It's On Everyone's Lips (When They Are Talking About D-bags)
Not only does the ad offensively use women’s bodies to sell a product it, also needlessly sexualizes a non-sexual product. It’s ChapStick for god’s sake! And now I have to think of this lady’s ass every time I rub it on my lips? What? I didn’t want that!
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Bringing Up Baby: The Traumatic Birth Scenes of Ye Olden Days
Nothing instills a fear of pregnancy more than watching childbirth scenes that take place during the Medieval period.. or the Renaissance… or during the Enlightenment… or any time, really, before the twentieth century. Screaming mistresses/courtesans/queens/princesses lay flushed in... Read more »
BiblioBitch: Dorianne Laux and the Poetry of the Everyday
Dorianne Laux’s fifth book of poetry, The Book of Men, was released earlier this year. Spoiler alert: It is NOT ACTUALLY A BOOK OF MEN. It is a book of earth, and... Read more »
Don't Mess Up When You Dress Up: Cultural Appropriation and Costumes
Halloween is a notorious time for offensive outfits. If you’re still not sure what your costume is going to be this year, make sure you don’t go the culturally appropriative route. Dressing up as “another culture,” is racist, and an act of privilege. Fortunately, thanks to some college... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: What Evangelical Christians Mean When They Say...
Last week, a friend sent me a link to the blog... Read more »
Why Aren't You Married? Answer Coming Soon to ABC!
Ugh. Remember Tracy McMillan’s Huffington Post article from earlier this year, “Why You’re Not Married”? The one that was designed to piss you off and calls unmarried... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Anna May Wong
Born in LA’s Chinatown in 1905 to a family that ran a laundry service, Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese-American movie star.
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Bringing Up Baby: Is Pregnancy A Disease?
In the political and media realm, this “pregnancy as disease” model is one thing that pro- and anti-choicers agree upon, although they use it for different ends.
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On Our Radar
At the end of a long week, kick back with a couple of links, fresh off the Internet.
Jos Truitt over at Feministing, looking at the recent events in Topeka, Kansas, reminds us how the police really... Read more »
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