Creative types, help me out.
I’m working on upgrading the Feministe store (yes, we are moving it to somewhere more socially conscious — please be patient!) and am playing around with some new t-shirt designs. So here’s what I need from you: Images and funny/clever/powerful slogans to put on the shirts. They don’t have to say Feministe — I’m happy [...]
...read moreWhat Is It?
What, exactly, is it I’m finding so irritating about this article? Is it the fact that it’s in the Style section rather than Arts or the Book Review? Because that’s where all the stories about feminism go. Is it the whininess of the interview subject? Because, yeah. Is it stuff like this? The most incendiary [...]
...read morePlaces to Go: Vienna
To visit the Museum of Contraception and Abortion. And its founder sounds pretty badass. I hear there’s some other stuff to see in that city, too.
...read moreBecause You Can’t Get Enough of AutoAdmit
Spirit of Margaret Brent sent along this article from the UVa Law Weekly which demonstrates that, yes, the harassment and libel of female law students by shitstains on AutoAdmit has had demonstrable effects on the subjects’ careers: Recently, several female UVA Law students have been targets of harassment by members of an online message board. [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Link yer posts here! Be sure to tell us what they’re about. Have at.
...read moreThe Women’s War
There’s a very long cover story in the NY Times Magazine this week about women vets and the additional stress they experience from being raped or harassed by their brothers in arms: Swift’s stress came not just from the war and not just from the supposed harassment, she told the investigators, but from some combination [...]
...read moreCh-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry Bomb!
The Runaways always make me think of sitting in Susan DeGeralomo’s* older sister Diane’s bedroom, listening to her records. Does anyone know which song it was that had lyrics about breaking out of reform school or prison or something? I can’t seem to find that one. * And Susan DeGeralomo reminds me of Hotel California, [...]
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