A Troubled Daughter
Another thing you should read today: New York Magazine on Joan Didion and losing a child. Also file under, “Books I will be reading.”
...read moreCall-Out Culture and Blogging as Performance
Another really good thing you should read today: Call out culture, a phenomenon that casual readers might not even notice, is to me, the most toxic aspect of blogging. Not because it is set to correct wrongs and engage in meaningful ways to actually enact change. No, call out culture is toxic because it has [...]
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White devils like it.
Instead of celebrating our father’s birthday, May 29, 2011, his two ungrateful sons, the singer and the lawyer, performed at the Sasquatch! festival in Washington. My set went better than expected, considering I was performing in front of many white people who had no issue wearing Native American headdresses and face paint and didn’t even [...]
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People who should not exist
Guy Fieri. I mean, anyone who wears his Oakley sunglasses wrapped around the back of his head is clearly a waste of space (see also: his hair and his bowling shirts and ohmygod that goatee and basically everything about him). But he’s also an anti-Semite, a misogynist and a homophobe to boot. So yeah, fuck [...]
...read moreTeaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action
By Ileana Jiménez, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists know edu hashtags and vice versa?” The point I wanted to get across is that many feminists today don’t know much about today’s education conversation and, in turn, [...]
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