The Tyranny of Education
Arielle is a college student living in Philadelphia.
In many ways, I am a model college student (never thought I’d say that!). So it was surprising, then, that I should find myself looking at the website of Goddard and other alternative college options, and wondering if my decision to go to college hadn’t been a mistake altogether.
Fat, Gender and Achievement
File this one under “Fat is a feminist issue“: MUCH of the debate about the nation’s obesity epidemic has focused, not surprisingly, on food: labeling requirements, taxes on sugary beverages and snacks, junk food advertisements aimed at children and the nutritional quality of school lunches. But obesity affects not only health but also economic outcomes: [...]
...read moreGuess who might be losing his job.
So tragic. (And no, it’s not because the PC Police got him. It’s because he was promoting racist opinions under the guise of scientific research, and compromising the academic credibility of LSE). Thanks, Xtina, for the update.
...read moreAt least the Tea Party has a bright future.
Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks and balances among the legislative, executive and judicial branches, according to test results released on Wednesday. At the same time, three-quarters of [...]
...read moreStep 1: Buy pearls. Step 2: Clutch.
Women are going to college and then not marrying plumbers. Holy crap, who are they going to marry then?! In a few weeks, the first of the 2011 college grads will toss their mortarboards in the air and bid adieu to campus life. A healthy majority of those hat-tossers — 57%, actually — will be [...]
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Transformative Change
Guernica interviews Dean Spade, the first openly trans law professor, about his activism and work with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. It’s a must-read, but the lead particularly caught my eye: The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The whole interview is amazing, and do read it. A sample: A lot [...]
...read moreThe GOP’s hidden Head Start agenda
I’m writing in the Daily News about the Republican attacks on Head Start, and how they aren’t about the program’s efficacy — they’re about enforcing conservative gender roles. Check it out.
...read moreReproductive Justice and the Law
Law Students for Reproductive Justice commissioned a study of reproductive rights legal courses in American law schools, and the results are pretty predictable: Only 18% of U.S. law schools have offered reproductive rights law courses at some point over the last seven years, and half of those courses were only taught once. On the LSRJ [...]
...read moreOver-booked moms opt out of volunteering
Here’s a thought: When your school system runs in some substantial part on the free labor of parents (and let’s be real, it’s almost entirely the free labor of mothers), you have a big problem. (As an aside, does anyone else hate the term “frazzled moms”?). It’s not the school system’s fault, of course — [...]
...read moreUp Next: A Twilight Degree
I guess this answers the whole “Can feminists read/like Twilight?” question: California State University’s women’s studies program offered a course on Twilight this semester. From their special topics descriptions: Topics in Women’s Studies: Twilight: The Text and the Fandom Examines the Twilight saga and the resulting fandom. Explores Twlight in relation to the social and [...]
...read moreSex Ed Week of Action
It’s Sex Ed Week of Action, and Planned Parenthood is giving away some awesome prizes to the first Feministe reader who emails me with the correct answers to the following questions: 1. By age 25, what percentage of sexually active young Americans will have a sexually transmitted disease? 2. In how many American states is [...]
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