On Being A Good Lebanese Girl
Or a good Greek girl. Or a good Indian girl. Or a good Mexican girl. Or a good any-ethnicity-that-has-ever-been-shoved-down-your-throat-ever girl. I want you to meet Charlie. Charlie and I met each other just a little over a year ago—but I can’t believe it’s only been that short. He was holding an appletini and talking about [...]
...read moreHello! Thanks for Having Me.
Hi There! For those who don’t know me already, I’m Anna–or perhaps my nom du tweet, @agoodcuppa. I am a writer (no way, the guest blogger is a writer!), a social justice activist and rabbel rouser, and an unapologetic feminist with a bleeding heart. I hail from the Bay Area in California. My mother is [...]
...read moreTeaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action
By Ileana Jiménez, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists know edu hashtags and vice versa?” The point I wanted to get across is that many feminists today don’t know much about today’s education conversation and, in turn, [...]
...read moreThings about me which please me (and even occasionally make me proud).
The other day I wrote about things I do of which I am ashamed. This shame is based in my personal, and particular, experience with patriarchy and my understanding of feminism, and it’s real, but it’s dawned on me in the meantime that it might have been useful to note that I don’t exactly live [...]
...read moreThings I do of which I am ashamed.
Please note UPDATE in the comments (#82). I’m a feminist. I’m 46 years old, and I have never known myself to be anything but a feminist, in word and in deed. I marched for the ERA as a young high schooler, had a copy of Our Bodies Ouselves when it was still thin, and knew [...]
...read moreBack from Suffragette City
You’ve got your mother in a whirl/Cause she’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl -Rebel Rebel, David Bowie And for my last trick… I’ve written about pop and dancing and falling in love and even a few political posts. So where to go from here? Bowie, of course. David Bowie made me [...]
...read moreWhat’s up? I’m Erica, and for the next two weeks, you’re mine.
Hey there! So, I’m Erica Sackin, one of the many guest bloggers whose semi-capable hands you’ve been left in for the next two weeks. I’m a feminist, but usually I write more about the young and tragically hip for websites such as The Awl, or FreeWilliamsburg.com. I also work for Planned Parenthood of New York [...]
...read moreI’ll make you a deal like any other candidate…
Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Katrina vanden Heuvel were on GRITtv yesterday to talk about the “Year of the Woman” framing that’s hit hard after the round of primary elections we saw in the States last week, and something that Harris-Lacewell said really struck me. Transcript: This is part of what identity politics always does, it assumes [...]
...read morelovers in a dangerous time
I know introductions seem to be the thing, but I’m going to jump in with both feet first and we’ll go from there. I’m Little Light, I blog here, and I’ve been a Feministe guest blogger before. Most of you know who I am. What I do is preach. I wrap that preaching up in [...]
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Women Athletes: Choose Between Strong and Sexy
Laurie and Debbie say: (Cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) Unusualmusic, blogging at The Angry Black Woman, has an excellent initial post on what we expect American women athletes to look like, and live like. One of the great problems that women athletes face is the idea that women are heterosexual sex objects. And the beauty ideal [...]
...read more“I’m Sorry, But We’ll Need to See Your Genitals”
Laurie and Marlene say: (Marlene Hoeber blogs regularly for Body Impolitic. This post is cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment. Blatt was working for Manpower, a temporary employment service. After [...]
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Will the Real Kelly Clarkson Please Stand Up?
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic Self Magazine isn’t ashamed that they clipped pieces off of Kelly Clarkson’s body for their current cover. They’re proud of it. Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief at Self, did a whole blog on the Self site about the decision to photoshop Clarkson’s figure. Here’s a picture of Clarkson [...]
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