The Right to Fuck Up
I almost called this post “Fucking Up: A Right or a Privilege?” but I decided that A. I am tired of debates over privilege and B. I believe we SHOULD have a right to fuck up. I’m not talking just about fucking up in feminism/social justice movements, mind you. I’m talking about life fuck-ups. I’m [...]
...read moreGrandmothers
This isn’t the post I was going to write today. I was going to write about the right to fuck up in feminist/progressive/social justice communities. Maybe you’ll get that one later in the week. But this morning I woke up late and the first thing Twitter told me was that Elizabeth Taylor had died. I [...]
...read moreFrances Fox Piven Has a Posse
I’m enough of an Internet Personality that I’ve had some hate-tweeters and hate-bloggers in my time. Not a lot, but a few. But I’ve never gotten as many straight-up nasty responses as when I tossed off a tweet Friday night that “Frances Fox Piven is tougher than you. Fact.” See, Glenn Beck has it in [...]
...read moreThat’s all we’ve got
The time has come, she said, to move on. It’s been lovely playing here with you for the past two weeks. It’s made me write every morning–happy to say that I didn’t miss a day, since I thought I would–and I’ve been really, genuinely impressed by some of the discussions that have cropped up in [...]
...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 moreWe like dancing and we look divine
We don’t have ideology; we don’t have theology; we dance.-Shinto monk to Joseph Campbell It’s not my revolution if I can’t dance to it. – my version of the oft-paraphrased Emma Goldman line. also the tattoo on my forearm. From an elite perspective, there is one inherent problem with traditional festivities and ecstatic rituals and [...]
...read moreI believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure (I do, I do, I do)
It is time, she said upon waking up this morning, to blog about sex at Feministe. I talked about falling in love, falling wildly in love, but I didn’t really talk about sex. Because they’re two different things, obviously, but maybe I was a little bit afraid? I used to blog about sex all the [...]
...read moreHey Baby Hey Baby Hey
So! In the Zeitgeist of the blogosphere, there is something making the rounds now. It is, apparently, a videogame, available to play on the Web for free, called “Hey Baby.” Jessica Wakeman describes it thus: A new video game called “Hey Baby” lets a female avatar run around with a gun, shooting men who sexually [...]
...read moreFembots Have Feelings Too
Or, How I Learned To Stop Caring and Admit I Love Pop. A guy I met recently was sort of surprised that he met me at a Hold Steady Show. “They’re such a guy band,” he said, and I sort of agreed. The show that I attended (with two very feminist girlfriends, I might add) [...]
...read moreCaught in a bad romance
I wrote not too long ago in semi-defense of the Twilight books, mentioning that part of the backlash against them was rooted in sexism. I hate that argument. I like dresses and makeup and boys, and I’m still a feminist. I maintain that I can also be a romantic (when I’m not being a cynic) [...]
...read moreHello and Thanks for Having Me!
Hi, Feministe-ers. I’m Sarah Jaffe, and I’ll be one of your guestbloggers for the next couple of weeks! I have a blog that is rarely updated these days–more often I do my writing elsewhere. I’m a journalist by trade, but I do dearly love blogging and so when the Feministe crew offered me a guestblogger [...]
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