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#MeFirst: Lady Gaga Doesn’t Need to Name Her Rapist
Treating survivors as a monolith only perpetuates further violence against them.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency
Cyntoia Brown, a victim of child sex trafficking, was sentenced to life in prison at the age of sixteen.
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Eclipsing Fame: “A Star is Born” Treats Pop Music as a Telltale Sign of Selling Out
What Jackson comes to describe as Ally’s artistic insincerity is very nakedly the nascent bloom of his own jealousy.
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You’ve Heard This One Before: The Zero-Sum Legacy of “A Star Is Born”
You can think of this story as a life-force transference, or, if you’re cynical, a law of nature.
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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
Good morning! Here’s all the feminist news on our radar today.
• Opt-out, opt-in: what women want are options. Writer Judith Warner checks... Read more »
Body Revolution: Is Lady Gaga's New Project Resisting Beauty Standards or Reinforcing Them?
Earlier today, Lady Gaga posted photos of herself in her underwear on her website with the caption: “Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15” and launched a new... Read more »
Introducing RetroPop: Connecting Today
The world’s biggest flirt has triumphed over a social revolutionary on the pop charts: Carly Rae Jepsen and her flouncy seven-week chart topper “Call Me Maybe” finally unseated Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” as the longest-running number one single for a female singer with the Interscope... Read more »
The End of Gender: The Beginning of the End
Last June, NPR reported that the “end of gender” was near, citing everything from gender-neutral prom courts to clothing ads to suggest that perhaps people aren’t so hung up on the male/female gender binary anymore. But despite the growing trend of gender neutrality, the response to... Read more »
In the Frame: I'm As Free As My Hair
Lady Gaga sang that she was as free as her hair, and she has been spotted in a dress that appears to have been made from her leftover wigs. It’s certainly a talking point, especially in light of her song lyrics which associate freedom with the choice of how you wear your locks. She’s... Read more »
Raise Your Glass If U R A Firework Who Was Born This Way: Who's to say what makes a gay anthem?
Hey, guys…. Um, this is Ke$ha. I just wanted to say something. Um, to anyone who's being bothered, or abused, or harassed, or bullied, I just wanted to tell you that, um…it will get better. It will. No matter if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, however you are... Read more »
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