Rubyfruit Jungle, oh how I heart you
Hi everyone–apologies for being MIA since Monday, things have been a lot crazier than I expected in the last few days. I am planning on posting something else later tonight or first thing tomorrow morning, but I’m going to first leave with you this. It’s a post I just did for Bitch’s blog about a [...]
...read moreWhat Gives You Hope?
In a world that has so much terrible stuff going on, finding hope has always been incredibly important to me. I need hope to survive, and I need hope to do pretty much anything related to social justice or helping other people. I have to believe that somehow, what I do will help. It will [...]
...read moreLove
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about love. Probably through some combination of Buddhist practice and reading a whole lot of bell hooks books, I’ve started to see love as the essence of what it is we’re really looking for and trying to express when we talk about ending oppression. In my life at [...]
...read moreBetter Than A Magic Eight Ball
Last week I got an email in my personal mailbox from a high school debater who found Feministe while researching the Hyde Amendment, who asked, “I have one question: ‘What’s with the toddler with the gun?’ How is that representative of feministe movements?” I ignored the message, you know, because I have a rather busy [...]
...read moreIn Which Solnit and BFP Split Some S*it Right Open
So it’s an era of content overload, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how to apply a sort of slow-food/deep-economy/earth-democracy ethic to media making and consumption, and that has me thinking about what kind of media really moves and disrupts and changes and inspires, and I find myself most valuing writing that is rigorous [...]
...read moreAngry White People Write Me Letters
Oh this is special: I have a few things to settle w/your stupid white ass. I just read a letter I wrote that you posted on your Feminazi blog or whatever the fuck it is. Stupid little white bitches like you can on my last nerve. You aren’t a NYer. You NEVER EVER will be [...]
...read moreDear Internet Porn,
Oh the gems that are on Craig’s List: Dear Internet Porn, These last ten years have been quite a trip, have they not? My letter to you now, however, is not one of celebration… I don’t feel like we are the same anymore. We just don’t have that passion we used to. When we first [...]
...read moreAn Open Letter to Anonymous.
Dear Anonymous, Thank you for your organized campaign to silence us. That you would choose to devote so many hours and resources to your illegal and ill-fated efforts toward our demise is the highest compliment you could pay us. It tells us that you think our movement is powerful, and that we are a significant [...]
...read moreMade for me
It’s everything I love in life (Mariah, Elliot and Olivia), and I thought I’d share. Plus, Lauren dared me.
...read moreWe Just Love Life So Much That We’re Happy to Threaten Yours
Or, “Pro-Life: We’ll Kill You If You Don’t Agree With Us!” An MP who called for Parliament to debate abortion limits has been bombarded with hate mail and death threats, forcing him to take stringent new security precautions. Dr Evan Harris has been told by senior police officers to take measures to protect his staff [...]
...read more“Why do I love her SO MUCH?”
(That is a direct quote from me to my room mate, about two minutes ago). I have a not-so-secret love for all things Mariah Carey. And so I cannot tell you how excited I was when I happened to be at the gym, watching tv and running on the treadmill, when her new video premiered [...]
...read moreThe Coot Awards
World O’Crap has ‘em, and there are some of our usual favorites, like Mike Adams. First of all, let me tell you how thrilled I am to receive hate mail from a feminist named “Daisy.” I can’t think of many names – with the possible exceptions of Coco, Mercedes, and Jasmine – that could make [...]
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