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Douchebag Decree: The out-of-bounds coverage of Ines Sainz
You know what time it is, right? It’s time to have a decree for the douchebags.
As you might have heard, Mexican sports reporter Ines Sainz was harassed with cat-calls and “suggestive comments” this past week... Read more »
sm{art}: Time Based Art Festival
It’s festival season here in Portland, and MFNW was just the beginning. Running now thru September 19th, the... Read more »
Racy Thoughts: Little Boxes, Little Boxes
Anyone who caught last week's episode of Jersey Shore likely noticed a rather interesting conversation between Jenni "JWoww" Farley and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi on the topic of race. At one point in the show, the two women discuss the possibility of going to a nude beach, then move on to the topic... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath is the most famous woman poet of the 1950s. She's probably one of the most famous poets of the 20th century. And she was a pretty good poet. Her work is honest, heartwrenching, and chock-full of angst and guilt and daddy issues. But she's also famous for her bummer life story (... Read more »
Size Matters: Fat Acceptance and You
We've spent time discussing the media's portrayals of fat people and society at large's reactions to such portrayals, now let's get meta and talk about your reactions to portrayals of fat people in the media. Specifically the reaction to my last post about Donna... Read more »
On Our Radar
The official site for Tyler Perry's film adaptation of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is up. Rose at... Read more »
MFNW: Shonen Knife
I think there’s a great comic book to be made about Shonen Knife. The story would start in an Osaka office building in 1981, where twenty-somethings Michie Nakatani, Atsuko Yamano, and Naoko Yamano decided to start a band as an antidote... Read more »
MFNW: Y La Bamba, for Portland's Lonely Hearts
Did you Bounce a little too hard yesterday? Need a comedown for day two of your MFNW marathon... Read more »
Films to Watch: The Black Girl Project
Image from Super Hussy
From the Awesome New Project files, Aiesha Turman, who heads the blog and media company Super Hussy (read her reclamation story here), has set... Read more »
MFNW: Big Freedia, The Queen Diva
It’s MusicFest NW week here in Portland, and though it takes a lot for a shorty like me to brave the crowds of unbelievably tall dudes who magically appear out of thin air during music festivals, tonight I am heading out for one reason and one... Read more »
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