*Explicit, frank discussion of sex below* Hey readers! I hope everyone is still enjoying their summer. If you’re anything like me, you’re spending your free time watching absurd amounts of tv with your cats having fabulous adventures. Even if it’s just vicariously through your favorite characters. One of my favorite new shows is Lena Dunham’s […]
Read More Why I Love HBO’s GirlsHey readers! I hope you’re all having a wonderful start to your summer and are enjoying this beautiful weather! As those of you who follow our comments may have seen, I recently had a very lively and interesting debate with a reader about the very use of the word “feminism.” There are some people who […]
Read More The Definition of FeminismMuch to my surprise and sadness, this will be my last (scheduled) solo post for the semester. I’m still not sure where the time went, but between classes and life happening, this semester flew by. I still have a slew of working women I want to tell of you readers about (perhaps a continuation of […]
Read More Working Women and Feminism: Final Thoughts and Frustrations*SPOILER ALERT* So in case you lovely readers weren’t aware, The Hunger Games is the hottest thing in Hollywood right now. Jennifer Lawrence, who portrays protagonist Katniss Everdeen, has been featured on the cover of pretty much every magazine in existence and her career has essentially blown up. FemOnFire and I even did a recent […]
Read More Working Women & Feminism: Katniss EverdeenThe name of the woman I’m featuring this week, Patricia Meyers, will probably sound completely unfamiliar to all of you. That’s because she is my paternal grandmother. It probably seems like a stretch for me to feature my own grandmother in one of my posts. But for the last 3 days, I’ve been awaiting a […]
Read More Working Women and Feminism: Patricia MeyersThis week at the Bitchin’ Table, eszenyme and femistorian take on the issue of feminist critiques of pop culture, and try to find a little common ground that anyone can approach feminism from. eszenyme: Hi Emily! femistorian: Hey Marie! I’ve been meaning to tell you, I love your series, Totally Awesome Women! I think it’s […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: Pop Culture EditionThat’s right readers, for my first installment of Working Women and Feminism, I’m talking about the (in)famous Betty Friedan. *SCREEEEEEEEECH* But wait…Betty Friedan? The author of The Feminine Mystique? Who so blatantly ignored the problems of low-income women and women of color, and even referred to lesbians as “the lavender menace?” Yes. Believe it or not, […]
Read More Working Women and Feminism: Betty Friedan*TRIGGER WARNING-discussion of rape* I was supposed to write my first full post on working women and feminism today. But lately, I’ve had something slightly more important on my mind. There’s been a lot of talk about rape in the news recently. From the Fox news reporter telling women in the military that they should […]
Read More Coming to terms, 4 years later(Or Maeby I could just become an atheist instead…) For this week’s Bitchin’ Table, Katie O. and Femistorian have decided to take a brief respite from the super-duper-political and move into the (slightly, until the GOP has their way and America becomes a theocracy) less political realm of religion-or lack thereof. That’s right readers, this […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: Teach Us the Ways of the Secular FleshLast week, aliasmitch and I participated in (what I thought was) a very fun, successful forum on women’s issues hosted by the JMU College Democrats. I was thrilled at the opportunity to represent the feminists on campus, and to show all the haters that we are intelligent, respectful, and, most importantly, that we actually do […]
Read More An Open Letter to the Editors of The Breeze
ShoutOut! James Madison University 