Arizona Catholic school baseball players won’t make it to second base with a girl
As it is written, “Engage thyself not in coeducational sporting endeavors, lest thou get thine ass kicked by a gi-irl.”
...read moreInstead of playing in a championship baseball game, Paige Sultzbach and her team won’t even make it to the dugout.
A Phoenix school that was scheduled to play the 15-year-old Mesa girl and her male teammates forfeited the game rather than face a female player.
Feministe Book Club: The Hunger Games, Chapters 10-18
Ready, go.
Next up: Next Saturday, June 2, we’re going to finish the book with chapters 19-27. If you feel like taking on Catching Fire next, start getting ready for that.
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
You know what to do.
...read moreEvent You Should Attend: Girls for Gender Equality 10th Anniversary
It’s Thursday June 14th from 6-9pm at the Brooklyn Historical Society, and it honors Anita Hill. Go! All proceeds will go directly to support GGE’s ongoing work, which includes sexual harassment training, youth leadership, and a wide variety of gender equality work. GGE is also doing a special “Phenomenal Women” tribute where smaller donors can give $50 to have a picture of a “phenomenal woman” in their life be a part of a slideshow at the event. And Feministing’s Vanessa Valenti will also be honored as “Gender Justice Warriors.” It sounds awesome and you should go.
...read moreDreams
I have been dreaming. Dreaming and dreaming of creating an organization that offered empowering support for new mothers facing difficulties.
...read moreBreasts — Augmented or Not — Belong to Real Women
For a show set in Miami in 1959, the director and casting director are discovering that women who haven’t had breast augmentations are hard to find.
...read moreThe Truth About Teen Pregnancy
A must-read by Matt Yglesias over at Slate:
...read moreWhen it comes to early pregnancy, surprising new evidence indicates that Romney and most everyone else have it backward: Having a baby early does not hamper a young woman’s economic prospects, as Romney implies. Rather, young women choose to become mothers because their economic outlook is so objectively bleak.
Fine Art, Social Change, and Community Involvement
A connection of ours who does excellent community work, including in the field of fat activism, has asked us to summarize how we create community involvement (especially diversity of involvement) in our work. Because all of the work we did before Body Impolitic was done before the explosion of social media, much of it would be done differently now–and at the same time, we both believe that face-to-face contact is a profoundly important piece of connecting to any community.
...read moreFemale Vampires: Children, Villains or Servants
Looking at Urban Fantasy we see a lot of vampires. A lot of vampires. Sparkly vampires, sexy vampires, daylight walking vampires, sexy vampires, magic vampires, sexy vampires, viking vampires, sex vampires – did we mention sexy vampires? Yes, lots and lots of sexy vampires.
...read moreIs this feminist?
It’s true — being a perfect feminist is a full-time job. That in itself is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC.
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