Yes homo.
New York is so gay. And Pride tomorrow is going to be SO MUCH FUN.
...read moreHappy May Day!
“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” -Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, Hellraiser. Here in the U.S. Labor Day is a muted affair celebrated at the end of the summer. It’s mostly lost its meaning to millions of people as anything other than the time at which kids go back to school [...]
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Do your thing. Also, happy Easter! I’ll be brunching hard with lots of champagne, and toasting to Jesus (“thanks for the soul-saving!”). Anyone else?
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Passover
Today is the beginning of Passover, a Jewish holiday commemorating the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in Egypt. I’m not Jewish, but I’ll be having Passover Seder with feminist friends who have kindly included me and a bunch of other folks they have designated “Jews, almost-Jews, and People-I-Secretly-Think-of-as-Jews” (unclear if I’m in category B or C). [...]
...read moreAh, Romance.
It’s Valentine’s Day, which means that everyone is either complaining (“it’s such a corporate, Hallmark holiday”) or making a big show out of how happy they are (see 1.5 million Cosmo-style articles across the interwebs and on a magazine rack near you about how much the author, who spends the rest of the year hawking [...]
...read moreHappy Birthday, Jane Austen!
Jane Austen, observer of the minutiae in Regency English life, is fundamental reading in many a lady’s library. She would have been 235 years old today. I can never quite decide if my favourite of hers is Emma or Sense and Sensibility.
...read moreReconsider Columbus Day
In the U.S., today is the National Observance of Columbus Day. While perhaps the least celebrated of all U.S. public holidays, its continued existence and observance is incredibly disturbing, as the video above by Reconsider Columbus Day notes. Transcript: The black and white video features a number of alternating unidentified individuals facing the camera and [...]
...read moreIt’s So Hard To Say Goodbye
Today is my last day blogging with the lovelies here at Feministe. It’s been fun, and I hope you’ve found my posts interesting at the least, maybe infuriating, hopefully not boring. I’ll be taking a brief vacation and staying “home”, as it were, at my blog Red Vinyl Shoes, and then starting August 1 I’ll [...]
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Happy Title IX Day!
On June 23, 1972, Title IX was enacted in the United States. Title IX requires that education institutions receiving federal funds not discriminate on the basis of gender. It applies to a range of practices, but has been most controversial in college sports. Before Title IX, few opportunities existed for female athletes. The National Collegiate [...]
...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 [...]
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