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Effective or Just Plain Creepy? Snake and Rat Posters Aim to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
You might recall BabyCanWait’s guerrilla teen-pregnancy prevention tactics from that “elaborate hoax” of a movie... Read more »
End of Gender: Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Boys
Teen birth rates in the U.S. have hit an all-time low.
Much of the conversation has revolved around this: in a generation with greater freedom to break... Read more »
School's Out: Parting Thoughts
Today marks the end of my time as a guest blogger for Bitch. Eight weeks and 24 posts later, I’ve learned a lot from the editors (thank you, Kelsey!) and readers about writing and politics. And the politics of writing. Rather than end off by talking specifically about a particular topic at... Read more »
School's Out: The Real World?
Apparently, we have to get an education in some land of make-believe shot through a vaseline-covered lens in order to get a “real” job, and then endure the “real world” where we won’t have it so easy, and then, at some undisclosed point in the future, “it gets better”? If we don’t... Read more »
"Become a Porn Actress": Sasha Grey's Equal Pay Day PSA Misses the Point
March 20 is Equal Pay Day in Belgium, and to draw attention to the country’s 22% wage gap for women, zij-kant (a women’s group organizing the equal pay efforts) has launched an awareness video and... Read more »
School's Out: Gender Bending and Gender Blending
We’re elaborately taught how to relate to ourselves as gendered beings. It’s been a long time that people have been building on the critical observation that there’s no natural connection between pink/girl or boy/blue, yet kids continue... Read more »
School's Out: The (Queer) Sleepover Dilemma
For a lot of people, the idea of a sleepover conjures an image of wholesome youthful fun. In a culture that assumes that close friendships are usually same-sex, these occasions represent something platonic. At the same time, from an early age, a disproportionate degree of social anxiety and moral... Read more »
PETA: Enough with the sex and the vegetables and the "shock tactics" already! WE GET IT.
PETA isn’t content to restrict its sex-sells messaging to the porn site, either. The latest campaign features a woman walking down the street in her bra and underwear in a neck brace, a result of rough (like, put your head through the wall and land you in a neck brace rough) sex with her... Read more »
School's Out: Tonight, on a Very Special Episode...
So I was watching Glee the other night, waiting desperately to see if Brittany and Santana would show some sign that they were still together. As I tried to peer into the minds of Glee’s creators and discover their subversive intent in having the lesbian character Santana... Read more »
School's Out: Slut Shaming and the Empowered Young Woman
There have been countless observations made here at Bitch and elsewhere about how the term “slut” has been used, abused, and reclaimed with varying degrees of success. In this post, I want to explore a topic that I’ve been having a lot of conversations about lately with a friend who works... Read more »
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