Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder that tomorrow, as part of the Reproductive Justice Film Series, the JMU Women and Gender Studies Program will be showing Jane: An Abortion Service. The film profiles the abortion service which operated in Chicago during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when abortion was illegal. It consists primarily of […]
Read More Quick Hit: Reproductive Justice Film Series TOMORROW!So, a new meme has gone viral and it’s got me wondering whether or not this is good for feminism. Oringinally, the blog “Fuck Yeah Ryan Gosling” posted pics of the actor with captions like the following: While all of these posts are’t entirely sexist and some of them seemed to indicate the opposite, I […]
Read More Me(me) and Ryan GoslingFor those of you that don’t religiously read feministing.com like I do, I wanted to share an interesting article they linked to at racialicious. The piece talks about race and it’s interplay with sex at SlutWalk NYC. In short, a young girl showed up with a sign saying “Woman is the N***er of the World.”
Read More Quick Hit: Race, Gender, and Oppression in the SlutWalk movementJust 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!Dr. Susan Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, will present the annual Dominion Lecture sponsored by the James Madison University Faculty Women’s Caucus in the Highlands Room of the Festival Conference and Student Center at James Madison University on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 pm. Douglas’ most recent […]
Read More Full Equality for Women? Think Again.Shelby Knox first gained notoriety in 2005, after the release of the award-winning The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary chronicling Knox’s fight for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her small, conservative Baptist town of Lubbock, Texas. Currently, she is touring around campuses and organizations, discussing sex education and youth activism, and last […]
Read More Shelby Knox and the Education of JMUDubbed “The Super Bowl for Women” for its focus on fashion and glamor, the Academy Awards is a one of the biggest nights in Hollywood. But what does the show really tell us about the values Hollywood is selling us? After all, calling the show the “Super Bowl for Women” specifically for the fashion essentially […]
Read More Who Are You Wearing: A Feministy Break-Down of the Academy AwardsHappy Sunday! I will be speaking at the Associated Colleges of the South Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at University of Richmond, April 1-2, 2011. I want to share my abstract, and then comment further on Reconstituting, Redefining, and Integrating Heterosexual and Homosexual Males into the Women’s Studies. Abstract: Defining Women’s studies as an area of […]
Read More The Reconstitution of Women’s StudiesHolly Kearl,” Street Harassment: What it is, why it matters, and what YOU can do about it!” Thursday, February 24, at 6:30 pm in Miller 1101 Kearl is a national expert on street harassment and author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women. She is based in the Washington […]
Read More Quick Hit – Holly Kearl Speaks On Street Harassment 2/24If there is one thing that will make me emotional, it is being disappointed in a museum. Sound extreme? You obviously didn’t grow up across the mountain in Luray. My small hometown is lacking in just about everything but charm and caverns. The only place to shop is Wal-Mart. There are four traffic lights, one […]
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