Isabel

Where Are My Keys I Lost My Phone

So this is kind of a post about ADD, ish. Ish because, I’m not an ADD expert – I’m not even a psych major – and I can’t give anyone any kind of official perspective or information about ADD. Which, normally this would never stop me, but here I’m like, a guest in the house [...]

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Last-minute Monday Fluff: Mysterious As The Dark Side Of The Moon

In which I talk about my really like disproportional, somewhat inexplicable, and frankly kind of embarrassing love of Disney films! …again. Y’all, I swear, I think about things other than this! Like all the fucking time! Like, I HAVE semi-substantialish posts in the works, I do! Buuuut none of them are going to get done [...]

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on language, and body, and fear

Originally posted here like eight thousand years ago in internet time; reposted because I’ll try but I’m not sure whether I’ll get a chance to write something for Feministe today, and because it’s in a pretty different vein than the stuff I normally do and variety is the spice of a guest-blogging stint, or something. [...]

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this is not a post about SEX

In my high school, there was for a time a trend among student groups to put up signs advertising their meetings saying, in big capital letters, SEX, beneath which, in tiny font, was printed, “Now that we’ve got your attention…” It was a smart move, because hey, everyone loves sex! Teenagers especially love sex, in [...]

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Not a Fish, Not Yet A Human

So one time, Chloe at Feministing posted about Disney’s The Little Mermaid, calling it “a feminist’s worst nightmare,” because it’s literally the story of a woman who gives up her voice to get a man, which: sort of true, but also no, because in a universe where you can VERY EASILY read the moral of [...]

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Hello, sunshines!

Yo! My name is Isabel, and I am honored/slightly freaked/mostly way excited to be able to guest-blog around here for two weeks. My internet activity happens pretty much at my tumblr, which maintains roughly the formality of the emails I send my best friends, i.e. no formality at all, so it’s a fun new adventure [...]

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