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On the Map: Traveling Soon? Don't Forget to Pack Your Stereotype Repellent!
If this is how people in other countries see American women, how does it effect the way we are treated while abroad?
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Open Thread: Slangin' Out
We’ve got a discussion in the works on our Facebook page about the phrase “how’s it hanging?” that I thought I’d bring to the blog as well. What’s the deal with how’s it hanging? (Asked in my best... Read more »
Don't back down from backing up your birth control
Tell the FDA to Act on Emergency Contraception from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.
With the Ides of March (3/15), Pi Day (3/14), and Dodge the Drunk Douchebag Day (3/17), in... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Loretta Lynn
Full disclosure: I love Loretta Lynn. I have dressed like her for Halloween. I have sat glued to Sissy Spacek’s performance as her in Coal Miner’s Daughter. I have been known to... Read more »
Crip Drag No More?
Are you counting down the days until Glee returns for a second season (23!) or are you groaning at the mere mention of a show you hoped would be wiped from the national memory once American Idol came back on the air and satisfied the public urge to see young people engage in petty competition and... Read more »
Raising Trouble: The Pink and Blue Project
Artist JeongMee Yoon was inspired to create "The Pink and Blue Project" when her five-year-old daughter only wanted to wear pink, and to play with pink objects.
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Raising Trouble: Is My Four-year-old a Budding Hate Criminal?
"I want to shoot Iggy*," Ivan often tells me. He and his friends want to shoot Iggy, he says, because "we don't like princesses." Iggy is a boy in my son's preschool class who wears dresses to school – often bringing several, as he may want a new look by midday -- and likes to play princess with... Read more »
The Biotic Woman: What the Hell is a Femivore?
I mentioned over the weekend that I was a little too miffed after reading the terribly myopic piece in the New York Times Magazine last weekend, "... Read more »
Heather Cassils in Out: Kissin' Gaga and Pushing Envelopes
While the blogosphere is still wrapping their head around the epic Telephone video, Out Magazine got a hold of Heather Cassils, whose prison-yard smooch with Gaga is one of the most talked about portions of the video. A long-time performance artist,... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN EDITION
Someone should make a bumper sticker that reads So many douchebags, so little time. I’d buy it. Every week when the Douchebag Decree comes around, there are too many douches and it’s almost impossible to determine who deserves the honor most. This week, we have two very strong... Read more »












