Feministe Feedback: Publishing Articles as a Feminist Man
This week’s question: Are there feminist journals who publish pieces by men? Currently I’m dating a guy who is a pretty ardent feminist and has written a lot for campus newspapers. He is looking to shop some of his pieces around to different feminist online journals/publishing outlets. I feel absolutely terrible because every journal he’s [...]
...read moreFeministe Feedback: Responding to, “Why, because he’s black?”
Last night, while at a bar in the city my friend [G], his cousin-in-law [P] and I started talking politics. Naturally, we almost instantly gravitated to the primaries, and being from Columbus, I recently voted. G asked who I voted for, and I said “Obama, but I feel sort of bad about it.” Immediately after [...]
...read moreFeministe Feedback – Feminist Primers
We have a request for books that are intelligent and representative of modern, intersectional feminist analysis but that aren’t too jargony (so no Judith Butler), abstract or radical: A male friend of mine (who I think has potential to be a feminist, or at least a feminist ally) recently mentioned to me that he’s looking [...]
...read moreFeministe Feedback – Where Can I Volunteer?
I’m a freshman at [a small Northeast art college], and feminism is an extremely important part of my life, especially global reproductive rights issues. I want to use my resources and training at art school to bring these important issues to the attention of the public. Thing is, it seems really difficult to get involved [...]
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Feministe Feedback – Is sex work anti-feminist?
A pertinent one this week: Feminism and sex work. My partner (male) asked me recently how one can be both a feminist and a sex worker. He feels that women who offer sex work (in addition to men that use the service) promote the sexual objectification and commodification of women, which feminists are (generally) against. [...]
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Feministe Feedback: Challenging Sexism in High School
This time around, a high school student writes in with an issue that I imagine is pretty common among women of all ages — dealing with sexism, and especially sexism from other women. I’m a seventeen year old student at an all girls’ Catholic school. From Feministe I found other blogs; “Feministing”, “Pandagon” and “I [...]
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Feministe Feedback: Talking to Kids About Homophobia
I’m going to make “Feministe Feedback” a regular feature here, given that the last two reader-response threads went really well (see: Raising Feminist Daughters and Talking to Your Partner About Sexism). I’ll try to do it weekly, although I think it’ll depend more on when questions for the peanut gallery are posed. This week, the [...]
...read moreAnother question from a reader: Raising feminist daughters
Following up to the thread about discussing feminism with male partners: How does a father teach his daughter about feminism? I’m the father of a nearly five-year-old daughter, and I want to raise her to be fully aware of the misogyny around her and not be afraid to confront it and fight for herself. I [...]
...read moreQuestion From a Reader
This came up in the comments section, and I think it’s an important issue: Random aside, does anyone have any advice for weeding out the misogynistic programing in a man? My husband is a great guy, and for the most part a feminist. Problem is he lives in the real world and has internalized a [...]
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