Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Give us what you got. Post a link and a description to one of your posts. Have at.
...read moreTell Us What You Want
I’m creating some new t-shirt designs for the Feministe store, and I need your opinions. Which ones will you buy? Ask Me About My Agenda #1 Ask Me About My Agenda #2 Some of my best friends have vaginas #1 Some of my best friends have vaginas #2 Fuck the patriarchy Mom, do you ever [...]
...read moreShop Feministe!
The Feministe store is now open at Radical Rags! Scroll to the bottom of the Radical Rags site for the Feministe shirts, and check out the rest of the progressive designs along the way. There’s also a Shop Feministe tab at the top of this site where we’ll keep images of the most up-to-date designs [...]
...read moreUsing Lawrence to challenge incest laws?
That’s what one Ohio man is doing, and he’s trying to take it to the Supreme Court. The man was convicted of sexual battery for having sex with his 22-year-old stepdaughter, who had reported to police that he raped her. Because the report came long after the sex occurred, and because she did not want [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten
the “It may be Saturday, but I don’t see nothin’ wrong…” edition 1. R. Kelly – Bump n’ Grind 2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Watching Alice 3. Franz Ferdinand – Shopping for Blood 4. The Avett Brothers – Pretty Girl from Cedar Lane 5. Etta Jones and Strings – Hurry Home 6. [...]
...read moreQuestion for the technically-inclined
For about a week or so, I’ve noticed that I can’t hear sound on YouTube videos on my home computer. There’s nothing wrong with my speakers, so I can hear other things. But while I can see the videos fine, I can’t actually hear them. This is true both for videos at the site and [...]
...read moreDepartment of Missing the Point
So I’m reading this story on Yahoo about an abstinence group at Harvard. It pretty much runs the course of most articles of this sort: blahblah students are oversexed, blahblah the university promotes sex, blahblah we formed a group to talk about how much sex we’re not having and how much sex we’re imagining all [...]
...read moreDisenfranchised for wearing a veil
Quebec’s chief election official has decreed that women who wear veils that cover their faces, such as niqab, must appear uncovered at the polls for Monday’s election, or they will not be allowed to vote. Marcel Blanchet had been criticized by Quebec’s three main political leaders for allowing voters to wear the niqab, which covers [...]
...read moreWife-beating legal in Germany
…if you’re Muslim. Sort of, anyway. A German judge has stirred a storm of protest by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman’s request for a speedy divorce on the ground that her husband beat her. In a ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim customs and European laws, the judge, Christa [...]
...read moreJust One Question
Why? When I saw photos of Travolta in drag on my Yahoo main page, I thought that surely he must be taking over the role on Broadway. Oh, no. They’re remaking the movie. Or they’re adapting the Broadway adaptation of the movie for the screen. Which, why? Plus, Travolta’s wig is too neat. Edna Turnblad [...]
...read moreMiss USA
Head on over to the Huffington Post and check out my piece on the Miss USA pageant. I’d love to hear your comments here or over there. And this would probably be a good time to announce that I’ll be blogging fairly regularly over at HuffPo. Feministe will remain my primary blog, and I won’t [...]
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