Thanks for having me!
My two weeks is up here at Feministe. The experience has been everything I had hoped for, so I’d like to offer another round of thanks to the Feministe team for allowing me this space to voice my thoughts. As I’ve been contemplating my last post here, a few things came to mind. Guest-blogging at [...]
...read moreThe Masquerade: I call myself a feminist, therefore I am a feminist.
There’s this guy at my college who calls himself a feminist and, well, I just wouldn’t feel right calling him anything remotely close to a feminist. I blogged about this student at my place after he attended his first meeting of the feminist organization on my college campus (Students Against Sexism in Society, or SASS), [...]
...read moreParental Advisory: Explicit, Unladylike S**t
It’s true. I swear a lot. It’s a fact that gets brought up frequently at random times by people who have spoken with me. Apparently, I shouldn’t swear. Why is this? A) It makes me sound unintelligent B) It makes me sound angry C) It makes me sound trashy D) It’s unladylike Trick question. It’s [...]
...read moreConsent and coming out
Knowing your preferences and your limits is an important part of having a satisfying sex life. For most of my life as a sexually active person, I could have talked about these ideas, but it wasn’t until more recently that I was finally able to practice what I often preached. This is tied to the [...]
...read moreMammally Factual
(The title of this post is based on a poem by Alix Olson called Armpit Hair (Mammally Factual), which I highly recommend.) I’m trying something new. I’m growing out my armpit hair. It started simply enough. I decided that shaving is a nuisance (I’m thinking my legs will be the next to become engulfed in [...]
...read moreEnter Madam Buzzkill
**Trigger warning for description of violence** It’s a Friday night after a long work week. A group of friends, four men and two women, sits down for drinks at someone’s house to unwind. All seems well. There is banter all around the table. Someone turns on a radio and music mixes with the sharp notes [...]
...read moreSkills I’m learning from blogging
I was into debating long before I hit the keyboard in an attempt to do some progressive feminist blogging. In high school I first found myself comfortable in the label of “Liberal,” which got me into almost daily “discussions” with a number of my decidedly conservative classmates. That was my life back then. I read [...]
...read moreSpeak up and expect to be dismissed, petulant child.
The past few months of my life have made one thing startlingly clear: At 21 years, I am too young to be taken seriously by some people who are older than myself, and quite frankly, it’s beginning to piss me off. I am not the type of woman who has ever been able to watch [...]
...read moreHello, my name is: Amelia
Dear Awesome Feministe Readers, Hi, I’m Amelia. I founded Female Impersonator about two-and-a-half years ago on a whim, just to see what it would be like to write a feminist blog. Besides blogging I also co-host a feminist radio program (Female Impersonators Radio Hour) at my college. I’m active in sexual assault activism on campus [...]
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