Cultural Constructions, Part 1
I want to have a conversation about how race and racial difference are constructed in different cultural contexts. This will be a general opening post. In the next couple, I want to turn the lens on whiteness, that wily, often invisible beast that is nevertheless a highly constructed one! Race is constructed radically differently across [...]
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The Plight of the Successful Woman
It’s a story as old as second-wave feminism (OLD): Successful women can’t find good men. Female empowerment is killing romance! Poor men, sometimes their girlfriends pay for vacations, and sometimes their wives make more money. That must be hard. Some couples manage it, somehow — she pays for all of the big expenses, but when [...]
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Radical 80s Prom benefitting WAM, this Friday in NYC
This Friday, December 3rd, join WAM!NYC for a radical 80s prom to benefit the fantastic organization Women, Action and the Media. It’s at the Bowery Poetry Club and starts at 10 pm — be there in your best 80s gear, and get ready to get down. I’m one of the costume contest judges and I [...]
...read moreNicki Minaj and hip-hop misogyny
Such a great piece – just go read it. A taste: Often praised as one of the most talented MC’s — female or otherwise — in today’s ever-evolving rap game, Nicki Minaj has an indisputably tight flow, swag for days, and the kind of business savvy that would make even Jay-Z proud. And her unique [...]
...read moreWhy men rape
1 in 3 men in South Africa admit to committing rape; 78 percent of men said they had committed some act of violence against women. Two-thirds of the men surveyed in that study said they raped because of a sense of sexual entitlement. Other popular motivating factors included a desire to punish women who rejected [...]
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Don’t you hate it when…
This is a guest post by Dr. Buckshot Rackoribs. Dr. Rackoribs is the chair of the Male Studies department at Miskatonic University. A bit of intro: When I read “Don’t you guys hate it when…” linked by Feministe last Tuesday, I couldn’t help imagining that lurking behind that really, really long sentence was the infamous [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Leave a short description of something you’ve written this week, along with a link. Make it specific — don’t just link your whole blog. Happy Sunday!
...read moreOn Stealing Social Justice Work
I want to talk about a blogular phenomenon that has been irritating me no end for… I can’t even remember how long. This phenomenon is plagiarism. Now, plagiarism comes in a lot of forms. A pretty common one is just plain old incorporating other people’s ideas into one’s work without credit. Today, though, I particularly [...]
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Tuesday Pile-On
Someone’s parents should have told him, “Sweetie, just because a thought crosses your mind does not mean that it is such a brilliant special snowflake thought that you should broadcast it to the world. Think, edit, speak.” And someone should have told the editor of the Chicago Tribune that the Creative Writing for Beginners coffee-shop [...]
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Bike Lane Scrooges
Apparently bike lanes in New York City are wildly controversial. Setting aside the fact that bike lanes aren’t actually that controversial – the linked article indicates that bike-lane-supporters outnumber the nay-sayers 4 to 1 — who are these scrooges who are against bike lanes? I understand you want your three lanes of traffic instead of [...]
...read more<3 Kimba Wood <3
Just go read this letter, and Wood’s hand-written response.
...read morePro-Choice Reads
Two articles to get your week started right: First, Loretta Ross of Sistersong takes on the racist anti-black-abortion campaigns, and emphasizes the need to trust black women. She writes: Our opponents began a misogynistic attack to shame-and-blame black women who choose abortion, alleging that we endanger the future of our children. After all, many people [...]
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