Female Vampires: Children, Villains or Servants
Looking at Urban Fantasy we see a lot of vampires. A lot of vampires. Sparkly vampires, sexy vampires, daylight walking vampires, sexy vampires, magic vampires, sexy vampires, viking vampires, sex vampires – did we mention sexy vampires? Yes, lots and lots of sexy vampires.
...read moreHow Equality In Sport is Undermined by Compulsory Heterosexuality
By Leanne Norman, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. A major hidden ideology that runs through sports and that affects all women participants is the need to appear feminine, according to research that I’ve conducted in the United Kingdom. My study leads me to conclude that the fight to gain equality in sports will mean [...]
...read moreAbout HBO’s Girls…
So what’s the deal with that HBO show Girls? It’s getting a lot of attention as a great new feminist tv show, but Julianne Escobedo Shepherd over at AlterNet isn’t quite so convinced:
...read more“Confessions of a PUA Chaser” is OUT now! Also: Thank you, Feministe.
Love.
S&M.
Ethics.
Seduction.
Feminism.
Polyamory.
Pickup artists.
The best thing you will read today about Breaking Dawn
And vampire-fetus-babies and misogyny and female desire and abuse and rough sex and mother-martyrs:
...read moreWelcome to the twisted glory that is Mormon housewife turned teen-lit sensation Stephenie Meyer’s imagination.
On the pages of Breaking Dawn Meyer let that imagination, which has been hovering under the repressed surface of the series’ previous three books, run rampant: Bedboard-breaking, feather-spilling, bruising honeymoon sex. A demonic pregnancy that grows so fast the fetus is nudging and jumping around the heroine’s womb days after conception. A grown-up werewolf falling in love with a half-vampire infant. And our heavily-pregnant heroine sipping blood from a soda cup–and loving it–just before her ribs and spine are shattered by the immortal spawn she’s carrying. It gets better: a c-section performed by vampire teeth. A shot of venom straight to the heart. A crazed childless vampire woman who will protect the fetus at all costs.
Filming Against Odds: Undocumented Youth “Come Out” With Their Dreams
By Anne Galisky, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine.
“Papers”is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. More than two million undocumented children live in the U.S. today, most with no path to obtain citizenship. These are youth who were born outside the U.S. and yet know only the U.S. as home. The film highlights five undocumented youth who are “American” in every sense but their legal paperwork.
...read moreCan commodification save reproductive justice?
This is a guest post by Echo Zen.
“It sounds ludicrous. Let’s try it.”
“Good. I’m down for anything involving karate and contraception.”*
As Feministe readers may have noticed lately, my crew of summer film students and I have been making short films on kung fu condoms over the past few months.
...read moreFeminist-Friendly Marriages on Television… Or Not
This is a guest post by Ashley Lauren.
Believe it or not, fighting against patriarchal norms that come with the idea of marriage has been a piece of (wedding) cake compared to what it has taken for me to define myself as a wife in the face of what pop culture tells us wives in heterosexual relationships are supposed to be.
Eight Red Flags I Learned from Online Dating
I have an article in GOOD today about online dating red flags, and how the internet evens the gender playing field. Check it out. And yes, someone on Twitter already sent me this article in response. The one red flag that I didn’t give much time to but that I keep seeing over and over [...]
...read moreThe Walking Dead: How not to minimize liabilities in a zombie apocalypse
Okay, The Walking Dead. I’ve been giving you a lot of passes. The horrible, awful accents. The fact that they were right there at the CDC and nobody thought, Hey, maybe we should stop off for some firearms and SUVs before we leave town, seeing as how Decatur has the greatest number of early-model Broncos [...]
...read moreContest: #Rewrite The Ending for great justice!
I heart Breakthrough — “a global human rights organization that uses the power of media, pop culture, and community mobilization to inspire people to take bold action for dignity, equality, and justice.” Previously I’ve posted about their awesome Facebook game “America 2049″, and now they’ve got another sweet initiative: “#Rewrite The Ending“. Snip: Show of [...]
...read moreKids These Days.
Everyone should read this very excellent piece by Edith Zimmerman. I guess this may all just be a roundabout way of saying, “I saw something that made me feel old, isn’t that crazy?” To which you say, “No,” and also maybe, “That song sounds terrible.” Then again, the Internet is a new kind of barometer [...]
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