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Adventures in Feministory: Cathay Williams (a.k.a. William Cathay)
Imagine, if you will, that you are living in Missouri at the end of the Civil War (1864 or thereabouts). Imagine also that you are a woman without a ton of moneymaking options who is in need of a job ASAP. Oh, and you are also a recently freed slave living in a place and time where people are... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: PJ Harvey's Apocalypse Now
Last week, I wrote about apocalyptic themes and imagery in contemporary music. In closing out that discussion (at least for now), I use PJ Harvey’s February LP, Let England Shake*, as a jumping off point to... Read more »
Isn't He Lovely: It's Boom Time for Male Skin Bleaching
While we might scoff at the spray-tanned guys of “Jersey Shore” and their year-round pursuit of bronze, skin lightening isn... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Love in the Time of Apocalypse
I agree that apocalyptic imagery has figured prominently in the public imagination in 2011 in part as a result of the anxieties of this moment in time. Nowhere has this been more evident than in songs about love, in which said love is either a distraction from or metaphor for the end times. First,... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Michele Bachmann and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad HPV Vaccine
Sometimes it seems futile to try and separate the wheat from the douche from week to week in politics. You just want to give up. I mean why... Read more »
Pop Pedestal: Amber Holt from <em>Parenthood</em>
Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, the series where we pay tribute to our pop culture favorites. Up today is Amber Holt from NBC’s Parenthood... Read more »
Internet Crush: Ladydrawers
Anyone who gets geeky about gender, numbers, and comics should check out Ladydrawers today! Writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore teams up with a female comics artist to produce comics explore various inequities within the comics... Read more »
Anyone Else Up All Night Thinking About <em>Up All Night</em>?
I just finished watching the new NBC comedy Up All Night, and though repeat viewings might reveal plot holes and problematic jokes (it is a network sitcom, after all), I absolutely loved it. Will Arnett and Christina Applegate... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Mourning and Spirituality in Steve Reich's Response to 9/11
Responses to September 11 have been fraught from the start. As I thought through the problem of grief over the weekend, I was gratified that... Read more »
BiblioBitch: The Leftovers
What if the Rapture happened, but it wasn’t like anyone had expected? In fact, what if “Rapture” might... Read more »
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