Clothing swap Wednesday: Support a feminist fashion designer
My friend Kate, a feminist and eco-friendly fashion designer, has had some recent health problems, which you can read about in detail here — and, being a small business owner, her lack of health insurance has left her pretty broke. But she’s an amazing, motivated woman and she’s pulling through, and trying to raise some [...]
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Body Impolitic Greets Feministe!
Laurie Toby Edison and Debbie Notkin say: We are delighted to be invited to guest blog here at Feministe. We can usually be found (along with a couple of regular guest bloggers) at Body Impolitic, where we blog about body image (interpreted as widely as possible), photography, art, and occasional other topics. We got into [...]
...read moreAbortion and Health Care: Is there common ground?
Chris Korzen says yes, and that it comes in the form of the Capps Amendment, which “clearly states that federal funds cannot be used to pay for so-called “elective” abortions, ensures that private plans participating in a proposed regional health care exchange system will neither be prohibited from nor required to pay for abortion services, [...]
...read moreIs it a crime to be poor?
That’s what Barbara Ehrenreich asks in her latest New York Times op/ed, and the answer is a pretty resounding “yes.” Low-income people — and especially low-income people of color — are routinely targeted by police as communities continue to criminalize actions associated with the poor (sleeping on the street, receiving free food, walking into public [...]
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Another magazine another photoshopped woman
Seriously, why do magazines think that we won’t notice? Or are they truly going with the “a photo is just the beginning of our art project” theory? Becuase if photos are just an art project for them, then just fucking say it. This time around Kelly Clarkson is the winner of the photoshop diet. We’ve [...]
...read moreEWW! Is That Period Blood?!
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is people’s aversion to menstrual blood. Perhaps I’m just super comfortable with my body or took one too many reproductive health classes or maybe I’m just gross, but I really don’t get why people are so thoroughly disgusted by menstrual blood. I’ve been thinking a lot about [...]
...read moreThe Last Abortion Doctor
There’s a must-read piece in Esquire about Dr. Warren Hern, the last doctor in the United States to specialize in late-term abortions. It’s an interesting, nuanced piece, and I would recommend reading the whole thing — it neither lionizes nor demonizes Dr. Hern, and instead casts him as a complex and good-hearted human being. The [...]
...read moreSenate Confirms Sotomayor
Awesome. Sotomayor would not have been my first pick for a Supreme Court justice for a lot of reasons — chief among them her disturbing deference to law enforcement and her lack of regard for privacy rights. But she is undoubtedly a highly-qualified and seasoned jurist, even if I don’t agree with all of her [...]
...read moreThey don’t really like you, you know…
Okay then. Last eve, well, technically early morning, the Renegade happened upon a post which asserted that all “sex workers” who claim to love their jobs must be in denial. You know, sex workers (no quotes please) who do anything but claim to hate and despise their jobs hear that a whole lot. This, true [...]
...read moreDoes Crossing Over Mean Selling Out?
Yesterday, I wrote on my blog about my disappointment in Shakira’s new style. I don’t want to put Shakira into a category of “sell-outs” because I think she does a lot of great philanthropic work with her money and fame. But taking a look at her new stuff, I scratch my head and think what [...]
...read moreThe Line: A New Doc About Consent
[Trigger warning] THE LINE trailer from Nancy Schwartzman on Vimeo. I met Nancy Schwartzman, the director of and a principal in the new short documentary The Line, last year when she was looking for resources about consent in the sex industry as possibilities for inclusion in her documentary. I was really taken with her project, [...]
...read moreMore on the misogynist shooting in Pennsylvania
By now, many of you have probably already heard about the Pennsylvania man who entered a fitness center and opened fire, apparently targeting women in the gym. The guy had a blog, which has been taken down, but that apparently detailed his “frustration over his inability to find a girlfriend” — a frustration that, by [...]
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