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Douchebag Decree: Disney's Grab for Dia de Los Muertos and Half-Assed Apology
Oh, Disney. We don’t always want to hate on you. Sometimes we even debate whether your princesses have gotten better over the... Read more »
Teen Sex is Safer than You Think
Over the past several months, I have found myself increasingly depressed and enraged by what seems to be endless stories about sexual and physical violence directed toward girls. There is something that tends to haunt our culture’s thinking about girls: suspicion.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic: Queens of the Pole
For the second installment of my comic series on sex, I attended a Disney-themed pole dancing event. Yep. You read that right.
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Why Feminists Should Care About the FBI's Hunt for Assata Shakur
Last week, the FBI named former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur as the first woman on its Most Wanted Terrorist List... Read more »
"Seeing Like a Feminist" Book Should Be Required College Reading.
Some books are easy to read, yet stay with you long after you’ve finished the last chapter. Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin/Zubaan, 2012) is a timely work that explains a... Read more »
How "The Great Gatsby" Fears the Flapper.
Have you heard? There’s a new swell in town named Gatsby, and he’s bringing flapper flair back into fashion.
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Remembering "Titters": The Complicated History of "The First Humor Collection by Women."
When I first heard about a book called Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women, it could be conservatively stated that I just about lost my frickin’ mind.
Published in 1976—smack in the middle of the both the height of second wave feminism and the golden years of “... Read more »
On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Good morning, all! Here’s the latest feminist news on our radar…
• The arrest of 16-year-old Florida high-school student Kiera Wilmot for conducting what she... Read more »
Who Was Anne Boleyn?
Susan Bordo is one of the most acute and lively chroniclers of our time. Whether she takes to task the male body (in her aptly named book The Male Body) or female body image (... Read more »
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