I’m sure by now you’ve all heard of the most recent addition to the category of unsettling television programs: Toddlers in Tiaras. The show airs on TLC (but I guarantee the previews alone will make you uncomfortable, if not trigger your gag reflex). Anyway, after months of passive aggressively shaking my head at the show, […]
Read More What’s Wrong with Toddlers in TiarasWhile avoiding the hundreds of things I had to do this week, I decided to visit StumbleUpon (one of my favorite procrastination websites). Clicking through some of the fashion pages, juvenile comics, and uplifting quotes, I stumbled upon a page that caught my eye immediately. It wasn’t a typical feminist blog or website, but it […]
Read More Breaking News: MEN CAN STOP RAPE!Just a reminder that tomorrow, September 22nd, is the first day of the Reproductive Justice Film Series sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Program and Dukes for Choice! We will be showing Vera Drake at 6:30 PM in Keezell G08 so I hope to see you all there!
Read More Quick Hit: Reproductive Justice Film Series Starts Tomorrow!On Sunday, The Telegraph confirmed that PETA—the animal rights campaign infamous for the exploitation of women in its advertising—is gearing up to launch a pornography site. Yep, that’s right, that’s no typo—PORN. It appears that PETA’s newest strategy to attract a fresh crowd of supporters is enticing browsers of the triple-X domain in order to […]
Read More Quick Hit: PETA Strikes AgainSo, hopefully you watched that video. I wanted readers to view the video first, think, and then proceed with an analysis. A relatively new form of Caribbean, Dancehall dancing has come to life. A dance which includes highly sexualized, excessive pulsations, aggressive, and occasionally, violent forms of dancing. Dance positions generally but not exclusively, include […]
Read More Grinding, Daggering, StimulatingHey everyone! Another feminist event is coming up: the interest meeting for Dukes for Choice, a new feminist pro-choice group at JMU is tomorrow (September 21, 2011) at 7 p.m. in the Airport Lounge in Warren. Come out if you’re interested in joining feminist organizations or you have specific interest in reproductive justice, or you […]
Read More Signal boost: Dukes for Choice meeting tomorrow!With over 1,000 pieces of anti-choice legislation introduced this year, it’s become more and more difficult for GOP members to stand by their claim that their war is not one against women. However, recent remarks by Texas GOP Representative Wayne Christian have cast a sobering, albeit refreshingly honest, light on the true incentive behind the […]
Read More The War on Birth Control“Adrienne Rich would follow the banner cry of the “personal is political” to argue for a “crossover between personal and political” and applaud the efforts of her fellow women poets to “write directly and overtly as a woman, out of a woman’s body and experience, to take women’s experience seriously as theme and source for […]
Read More Poetry beats Patriarchy?I really wanted to share this story because I really was affected by it, even though I have no relation to anyone involved. There was a fatal stabbing at Bowie State University in Bowie, MD this past Thursday. According to news reports, on Thursday evening, September 15, 2011 at 8:00pm, Police in Prince George’s County, […]
Read More Stabbing at Bowie State University! Suspect a woman, how ironic?Hey everyone! Just a reminder that Robert Jensen’s talk, “Pornography’s Perfect Storm of Inequality” is tonight (Monday, September 19th) at 7 p.m. in Harrison 2105. If you’re interested in feminism in any way, shape, or form (as I’m sure you are since you’re reading this blog) and you want to hear a feminist argument against […]
Read More Quick Hit: Robert Jensen’s Talk on Porn is Tonight!
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