Culture
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 »
The Lady Is a Tramp: Eco-Sex Is Green
When it comes to eco-sex, people of color are…where?
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Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream
Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.
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Lavender Menaced: Is "lesbian" going out of fashion?
After the National Equality March wended its way through the nation's capital this past October, the New York Times ran coverage of the event under the headline “Gay Rights Marchers Press Cause in Washington.” A year... Read more »
The Young and The Feckless: Reinventing the Identity Wheel
I blame Douglas Coupland. Before he coined the term Gen X and set it loose into the cultural lexicon, we didn't care about analyzing and compiling character profiles of generations.
I was reminded of how damn I annoying I find these... 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 »
The Lady is a Tramp: The Magnum Campaign and Ye Olde Black Male Penis Myth
As much as we complain about hip-hop and rap staying mostly “unconscious” about reproductive-justice issues (the only cut to this day discussing pro-choice options is Digable Planets’ “Femme Fetale”—and that came out 15 years ago),... Read more »
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