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Page Turner: An Interview with Instinctive Mama Author Ada Calhoun
You’ve likely encountered the work of writer and editor Ada Calhoun—whether it’s her editorial work on... Read more »
Failure is totally an option: Free Press launches MediaFAIL project
Anyone who spends time on the web has seen the words FAIL splashed
across pictures of cats with their heads stuck in empty cans or dogs... Read more »
Feminist Replay: How To Make It In America
A few days ago, the Hollywood Scoop reported the same crew behind HBO's boys & toys hit Entourage were cooking up another show for the network. This one would be a spin-off of Entourage, but... Read more »
Tuning In: Redistricting, Christian rock, and teen girl bassists on Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights continues its fourth season tonight on NBC, to the excitement of one Texan feminist music geek.
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Stop the Deportation of Kiana Firouz
Iranian lesbian activist Kiana Firouz is currently seeking asylum in the United Kingdom after a controversy over the upcoming release of Cul de Sac. The film, which stars Firouz and includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, is based heavily on Firouz's life and struggles as a lesbian in Iran.... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Katherine Heigl's Film Career
I have always kind of liked Katherine Heigl. Maybe it’s because I think she has pretty good comedic chops, maybe it’s because she is (a little bit) curvier than many of her counterparts, maybe it’s because I spent an inordinate... Read more »
sm{art}: Shadi Ghadirian and Sara Rahbar
A photograph from Shadi Ghadirian's "Qajar" series.
I planned to write only about Sara Rahbar today, but in researching her and her work I found a few more amazing Iranian artists highlighted in the Saatchi Gallery's 2009 exhibition "Unveiled: New Art From the Middle East". This post will only... Read more »
Feminist Replay: MTV's The Maxx
Writers are supposed to shock people. We say witty and unpredictable things that are supposed to rip the shroud off a decaying society and expose it for what it is. Well, that's the idea anyway.
---Sarah, episode 5, the Maxx
Yesterday, Daria was released on DVD, to great fanfare and cheers... Read more »
HaskinsWatch: Erin Gibson's "Modern Lady"
HaskinsWatch (TM): bringing you Sarah Haskins news whenever there is any.
There's been a gaping lady-hole (i.e. lack of coverage of women) on CurrentTV's infoMania since Sarah Haskins stopped making "Target Women", but now that lady-... Read more »
Family Guy: Reaching new transmisogynistic lows
I like cartoons, and watch several less-than-feminist animated series, but as far as Family Guy goes, I watched my last episode years ago, fed up with its recycled gags and the way it confused political incorrectness with edgy humor (has somone already made the joke “So crass, so old” about Fox... Read more »
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