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Douchebag Decree: Smart Girls Gone Wild?
Smart Girls at the Party fans, prepare for a disappointment of the douche kind. In order to increase viewers for their second season, the SGATP team (whose first season focused on young girls kicking major ass – check it out... Read more »
Pissed Off at Ticked Off: Trans bloggers react
International Day of Transgender Visibility was started just last year as a much-needed counterpart to the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which focused more on memorializing those lost... Read more »
Lilith Fair: No money for crisis pregnancy centers!
Seriously, Lilith Fair? Just when I was thinking of attending you because my country music crush Loretta Lynn is playing your festival this year, you have to go and... Read more »
The Immortal Woman: Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks deserves every ounce of praise that has been heaped on it. Rebecca Skloot has one heck of a story to tell, a story that actually belongs to another woman: Henrietta Lacks.
The book is partially a retelling of Henrietta’s life and her death, but also a... Read more »
Sarah Haskins Update!
I've been craving more Sarah Haskins ever since Target Women ended, and now her new short film "DILF" (mentioned in her... Read more »
Return of the Ankh
It's a long time in coming—Erykah Badu
is finally releasing Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
tomorrow. The album is a followup to the 2008's totally underappreciated
release, New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War). Some of her
best, most unexpected music is on that album. So I'm excited... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, magistra, composer, healer and author, one of the first female composers whose works are still intact. In an era where few women were allowed or able to read and write, Hildegard wrote songs, poems, theological texts and medicinal guides and... Read more »
Raising Trouble: When Good Things Happen to Bad Guys
Why are little boys obsessed with "bad guys"?
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Raising Trouble: Pink and Blue Brains?
When you have a small child, many conversations begin like this:
Another parent – often the expensively-educated New York Times-reading mother of at least one boy –will say, with the air of someone who is imparting a profoundly original thought, “You know, I always thought gender was socially... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Special Healthcare Reform Edition
While I never thought I’d be declaring someone who doesn’t like Bart Stupak anything but a friend, Randy Neugebauer’s “baby killer” accusation this Monday on the House floor to Stupak earns him a raging douchebag award, which he gets to share with Senators Stupak and Nelson, and... Read more »
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