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Music Matters: (Not A) Typical Girl
Ari Up is dead.
That just seems wrong to type. She should've been too badass to die. She was, really.
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Douchebag Decree: Ladies, please!
This week we’re highlighting three women who have a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease.
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This week in Angela Davis media!
Prison-rights activist and black feminist Angela Davis was arrested forty years ago this month for accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide. Celebrate this iconic woman who has never stopped or been silenced by checking out a new documentary featuring her alongside fellow activist Yuri... Read more »
Sm{art}: Hungry Eyeball's "Buzz"
“Buzz” is a current art show curated by Hungry Eyeball installed inside Tender Loving Empire, an impressively multi-tasking collective. “Buzz” contains works by five Portland, Oregon based artists: Chelsea... Read more »
Terry Richardson+Glee+GQ=Creepfest
File it under Gross Yet Unsurprising: Terry Richardson, the “creepy uncle” of douchebags has taken yet another misogynistic and off-putting set of photos of the cast of a... Read more »
Political InQueery: Campaigns Going Negative
Politicians often promise the electorate, especially at the outsets of their campaigns, not to "go negative" or take pot shots at their opponents. We hear phrases like "issues oriented," "positive campaigning," and "bridging partisan divides." And behind the scenes, no matter the rhetoric, somebody... Read more »
Tube Tied: Notes on Mad Men's Fourth Season
Mad Men's fourth season, which finished this past Sunday night, had a dualistic quality, it seemed to me. On the one hand, the season had some of the strongest episodes of the entire series—particularly "The Suitcase," which I wrote about in this space... Read more »
Music Matters: There's More Than One Way Of Knowing
I still haven't read Sara Marcus's book on Riot Grrl, Girls to the Front, but I did bring two friends down to a reading in NYC last night that featured Marcus, poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Rob Sheffield.
Marcus gave the most rock'n'roll... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Voltairine de Cleyre, Anarchist without Adjectives
Voltairine de Cleyre was an Anarchist thinker, lecturer, and writer. A contemporary of Emma Goldman's, she was known for her strength of will and commitment to the power of the individual. (Incidentally, she was also a total babe.)
I wanted to write about de Cleyre for the obvious reason that she... Read more »
Political InQueery: The Poverty of Citizenship
I had fully intended to take on the "everyone for themselves" quality of predicting election results, spending some time researching through the he said/he said (that's not a typo) of who will win the House and Senate when the smoke clears on November 3. And then German Chancellor Angela Merkel... Read more »
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