Lauren
Lauren founded this blog in 2001.
Comment Moderation, Redux
[UPDATE: Edited to reflect change in the function of the feature.] Some concerns about comment moderation have been brought to us by the community, so we have decided to try something new. Below every comment you will have “thumbs down” link with the ability to report a comment for moderation. This icon should also be [...]
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Tuesday True Blood Roundtable: Trouble
Too much happened this week to avoid spoilers above the fold, so read on, fangbangers.
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Tuesday True Blood Roundtable: It Hurts Me Too
SPOILERS BELOW. This week on True Blood, we are introduced to a new Nice Guy Werewolf, ponder the paternal lineage of Arlene’s baby, and hate on Bill for his misogynist extracurricular activities. Enjoy the discussion and add your own thoughts in the comments.
...read moreHappy Father’s Day
To all the men who helped raise feminists, whether they meant to or not. (Mine didn’t. Ha.)
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Happy Juneteenth!
[Image description: an illustration of broken chains superimposed over African art and a quote: ‘In accordance with a proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free…’ Big letters in the middle read ‘Juneteenth: June 19, 1865-Galveston, Texas.’] Juneteenth is a celebration of the day the Emancipation Proclamation was made official in [...]
...read moreTuesday True Blood Roundtable: Bad Blood
Spoilers Below After the demise of the Thursday Lost Roundtable, Sally and I decided to open up the floor to our undead friends for a weekly roundtable discussion of Feministe’s vampire show of choice: True Blood. There is a lot going on, so to do our very best to figure it all out, the vamp-obsessed [...]
...read morePTSD and Healing After Sexual Trauma
This post is a part of the Feministe series on Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Before I really get started, this is a piece about how you, a rape survivor, can regain a sense of wellness after the fact. This is neither a professionally nor universally designed plan of action to combat PTSD or heal one’s [...]
...read moreBlessing the Boats
It pains me to find out that Lucille Clifton, the beloved American poet, passed away on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. Clifton had a long, celebrated career spanning forty years, writing poems about what it means to be a black woman in America, to have the legacy of slavery lapping at her ankles, [...]
...read moreFriday Random Ten – The “If You Put Them All In a Room, Will They Sync Up?” Edition
Or, “Where I Crap on Mac Users,” thanks to this delightful essay pointing out the class aspirations inherent to Apple products, cost, technology, and design. Consider this your daily flame. …something that to me is so obvious that it barely needs mentioning, and yet I never see people talk about it openly: the real advantage [...]
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RIP, Howard Zinn
It is being reported that Howard Zinn, the famed historian, activist, and author, is dead at 87 of a heart attack. To him, to representing the underclasses, and to challenging the status quo.
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The Hurt Locker (2009)
There is a lot of chatter about The Hurt Locker and whether director Kathryn Bigelow will serve up a feast of schadenfreude by besting ex-husband and douche James Cameron at the Oscars this year. Despite not having seen Avatar just yet, I did sit down to watch The Hurt Locker last night and was blown [...]
...read moreTaking One For The Team
The lady blogger at I, Asshole tries My New Pink Button so you don’t have to. She is sorely (heh) unimpressed with what appears to be a scam involving hundreds of mascara wands and repackaged cherry Kool-Aid.
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