The sorority Delta Delta Delta and partners have come together to introduce “Fat Talk Free Week”, a five-day event that challenges people to stop criticizing their, or anyone else’s, body. Its goal is to raise awareness of how cultural body ideals effect how we perceive ourselves, and how negative criticism keeps us in a vicious […]
Read More Quick Hit: It’s Fat Talk Free Week!Alright students, get out those number 2 pencils and a good eraser. This is a True/False Quiz and be sure to write out the word, no funny T/F hybrids in an attempt to cheat the system. Below for you’re reading pleasure on this lazy Fall Sunday I’ve listed a NY Times Marriage Quiz that […]
Read More Pop Quiz: MarriageAs I got a glimpse of my secret indulgence, The View, one hot topic was on the Glee photos in the men’s magazine GQ. http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201011/glee-photos-rachel-quinn-finn#slide=1 Of course the actresses Dianna Agron, “Quinn” and Lea Michelle, “Rachel,” would be overly sexualized seeing how it is a heterosexual man’s magazine. But what do you think? I don’t […]
Read More Glee GQ: What do you think?Patriarchy perpetuates the sexual exploitation of women in all areas of society, specifically in the institutions of pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking. These patriarchal driven institutions coincide with one another and consequentially create the sex wars. Continuous debates of solutions to end the dehumanizing, devaluing, violence against women occur between feminist approaches, within nation-states, and […]
Read More The Sex WarsLate last night before getting to bed, I flipped on the TV and caught the end of David Letterman’s Interview with Johnny Knoxville, star of the new movie Jackass 3D. One minute I was laughing at the clip of Knoxville’s valiant attempt to roller skate through a buffalo herd, and the next, I was watching […]
Read More Horrifying Pro-Life Campaign Ads from DC’s Candidate for Congress, Missy SmithAs I text messaged my girlfriends today asking if they had an iron, each replied with, “No, I use my hair straightener.” Each one of them. I did not know this creative practice, to use your hair straightener to iron, it is as creative (well, besides the burns to the face) when women once used […]
Read More Hair Straighteners & Africana SymposiumOkay faithful readers, I have a confession to make. When I sat down today to write my blog I couldn’t think of what to write about. I had a few ideas, but none that really spoke to me. So I spoke to a friend of mine and asked her what she thought a good topic […]
Read More Does Success Have a Gender?Just a quick hit… here’s a beautiful video of our secretary of state, the first female presidential candidate, an incredible woman, telling queer youth that “tomorrow will be better.” Seriously, I think it is incredibly important that someone of her stature in the U.S. government is addressing this issue. I think she’s just incredible, and […]
Read More Quick hit: Secretary of State Clinton: “Tomorrow will be better”So, I am a devout listener and advocate of public radio (despite constant harassment from my friends that I am a grandma). Being that I am able to be in my car a lot for my job, I always get a chance to hear tons of awesome stories on NPR. The other day, I heard […]
Read More Dad Hair?The clip below is an opening scene from the FX show “Louis”, a sitcom starring comedian Louis CK. Feel free to watch the whole thing, but the part I’ll be talking about starts at 4:10. Also, this clip is not safe for work…or class, in the event you’re reading this when you should be listening […]
Read More “Louis” Talks About Queer Issues…In, You Know, A “Manly” Way
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