For shameless self-promotion! So dear readers, you may want to know some of the wonderous ways you can flex your feminist activist muscles on campus with like-minded people. You may wonder how we got this gig at the blog! You too can be a blogger! Or you could look into contributing or working on JMU’s feminist zine Sister […]
Read More It’s that time of year…So Guys, here is a post just for you, written by a fellow guy. You should feel just as special as anytime you read, well, 80% of anything written ever. So, feel mediocre. You are entitled to it, after all. Oh, I’m just being facetious! I kid. But maybe, you have been wondering, why do feminists have […]
Read More Mythbustin’ Mondays: Feminism Ain’t For The Menz.This week at the Bitchin’ Table (Which has been on vaction. Sorry everybody!) ecstanton and aliasmitch brain storm a very crazy monstrous creation, and ponder about her ultimate ability to smash some patriarchy.
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: Beware of Feministein!In my “Major Authors: Women Writers from 1900 to 1950” class last Tuesday morning the professor raised an important question: Where, in any major works of fiction (particularly American fiction) were mothers? After much deliberation, awkward silence and head scratching; the class concluded that mothers were notoriously absent from major works of literature. Amazingly, the one […]
Read More In Search of Mama Dick: Where Are The Mothers In Literature?Forewarning: Some of the subject matter, links and citations are Not Safe For Work and contain explicit sexual images. Reader Discretion Is Advised. Disclaimer now out of the way– there is this dude. Named Terry Richardson. He is all around Grade A Gross. He is also a photographer! You may have seen his work recently due to […]
Read More Have You Heard About This Guy Named Terry Richardson? Probably Not.Maybe all of us saw the craziness that was Bill O’Reilly on the View this week (or like me, you saw little internet clips…that were maybe edited and took his words out of context…like Shirley Sherrod! But he’ll still have his job! And chances are, they were not edited, because this looks like his signature shtick to […]
Read More You Little Ladies Need To Monger Some FearRead this. Sound crazy and not something that would happen in America, where Roe V. Wade constantly protects a woman’s right to choose? I often hear these arguments that consist of “Women all around the world have it worse.” Hell, as one my professors pointed out in class the other day: the media uses the Middle East […]
Read More I Hate To Be An Alarmist, But…So last friday, I wrote a piece on Street Harrassment. By using our very scientific WordPress bar graphs, Venn diagrams and the Table of Elements, our team of mad scientists at ShoutOut! JMU have determined this article struck a nerve! (If you doubt their credentials, they wear goggles. So there!) Readers, we want you! We want you […]
Read More Call Out: Send Us Your Stories On Street Harassment.feministing posted this today and I thought it was too precious to not share. Because I Love Tim Gunn. And not just because he has such snappy advice on design! (But mostly because of that.) It kind of made my day. Make sure to check out the Trevor Project And make sure to check out BlondeRedhead’s […]
Read More Real Talk: Tim Gunn Makes Me SwoonI’m So Over This As some of you may know, I’m a women’s music-phile. I pretty much exclusively listen to music made by women. Now what exactly do I mean? Our pop culture consciousness informs us that women on the radio sing high-pitched and delicate like Disney princesses and make pretty dance candy for our ears. (Read: […]
Read More Hey Mama: Narratives in Women’s Music