Activism
Isn't He Lovely: Male Body Image Standards Are "Virtually Non-Existent." Q&A with Yashar Ali
Yashar Ali is the founder of The Current Conscience, which examines “politics and the personal, culture and relationship” from a progressive, feminist viewpoint. Particularly after... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Evangelical Wedding Songs: Wifely Submission and the Cult of Biblical Womanhood*
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
After she read my last post... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Anti-Feminism in the Music of the Christian Right
I have a confession to make. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home, and when I was much much younger… I was a fan of contemporary Christian music (CCM). Oh, yes. I reailzed just how much of an affront to music it is almost half of my life ago, but lately, I’ve been thinking... Read more »
Isn't He Lovely: Male Nudity, the Final Frontier
The first time I really paused to consider the naked male body happened circa age 9 while watching Blossom on the floor of my parents’ bedroom, where I ironically snuck in all of my parent-disapproved TV programming. I can’t remember... Read more »
The H-Word: Paper Crane: Antonia Crane Writes About Recession Sex Workers
“It all started with Stephen Elliot. I read his book My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up while in grad school and I started following him. I discovered the Rumpus and submitted an essay. I got rejected... Read more »
Isn't He Lovely: The Ad That Turned Men Into Sex Objects
Advertisers have long used handsome men to hawk their wares. In the 20th century, marketers who realized that women did a majority of the household shopping created dashing spokesmen, such as the Arrow Shirt Man, to appeal more to the... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: A Word About Slutwalk, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Who Gets to Reclaim Racist Words and Traditions
Full disclosure: I have had misgivings about Slutwalk from day one. “Slut” has never been a term used against me. Though the idea of reclaiming the word seems to resonate with many young, white heterosexual women, it is not clear to me that it’s something that can unify all women. It... Read more »
The H-Word: "I'm a Whore"
“I’m a whore, a proud whore. What does this word mean? A whore is a prostitute, sex worker, hustler, degenerate, scum in a female body. I call myself a whore revolutionary. I consider myself a survivor.”
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Celebrate Columbus Day: Call Out Native Appropriation
Well, today’s Columbus Day, a time when we feel weird about getting a day off work because Columbus and the genocide that followed his “discovering” of... Read more »
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