Culture
Isn’t He Lovely: Do These Blue Jeans Make My Butt Look Gay?
The type of jeans a man slips on nevertheless seems to say a lot about how he projects his masculinity and sexuality.
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B-Sides: Colleen Raney
Call me old-fashioned, but I think most of the best voices in the world come out of folk singers. Maybe that’s just because you can actually HEAR the singing,... Read more »
The H-Word: Reflections on Sex, Power, and Speaking the Truth
This weekend Sex, Power and Speaking the Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later convened to discuss women’s ability speak up against gender inequality and abuses of power, with a focus on the intersectionality of race, class and gender in defining a... Read more »
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 »
Bringing Up Baby: Motherhood as the Dream Deferred
Last month, New York Magazine published a cover story entitled “Parents of a Certain Age: Is there anything wrong with being 53 and pregnant?” The title invites the reader to answer the question with a “yes” or a “no.” The author, veteran journalist Lisa Miller, says “no,” yet the... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Evangelical Wedding Songs: Wifely Submission and the Cult of Biblical Womanhood*
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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On Our Radar
So many links, so little time.
At Clutch, Drew-Shane Daniels asks, “Why Won’t TV Networks Let Black Actors Be Great?”
African Sexualities: A Reader,... Read more »
Bitchtapes: Sibling Solidarity Mix
My sisters and I grew up listening to tons of great music together (Hannah is already on her way to being a famous guitarist and singer at 17!). So it was an obvious choice for us to get together and do a Bitchtapes when our sister, Jesse, came to visit us from Austin. What better topic than songs... 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 »
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