Over the past year, my Facebook has become a dumping ground for the hoards of links to political and feminist articles that I find interesting. On my list of Facebook likes I’ve followed the NO H8 Campaign, Transgender Student Rights, SlutWalk, and Planned Parenthood Action. My newsfeed is often overflowing with feminist activism, full of enlightening and fascinating information […]
Read More A Feminist and Her FacebookHello readers! After a very un-feminist year off I am back at school and excited to tell you what I learned! It was so easy to be a feminist when I was on campus surrounded by my feminist friends. Living downtown and working 40+ hour weeks in local restaurants? That wasn’t so easy. My values remained intact, but I […]
Read More The Hairy Truth About FeminismWhen I started college, I went through what can only be called a very intense punk period. I started listening to Leftover Crack, Black Flag, Bikini Kill, and Against Me!. I dyed my hair bright purple and sewed patches onto the only suit jacket I have ever owned (my favorite was a large one that […]
Read More Pussy Riot, Human Rights, and Rebel GirlsAs any regular reader of this blog can tell you, I identify as a working-class feminist. Class is central to my identity not just as a feminist but as a social justice advocate. But I haven’t always been this way. The idea of class divisions within feminism never even occurred to me until I started […]
Read More Helen Gurley Brown: In Memoriam*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 ShoutOut Readers! Today, I’ll be sharing some of my own culture with you! I am an Asian-American (specifically, I am Korean). Recently, my friend and I were talking about Korean-pop singers and how shocked we were at some of the dances that the female singers were doing. However, once we started talking about this, […]
Read More Sensual Content in Korean Music VideosTrigger Warning: Content includes profanity, and discussion of violence against women. After this week’s recent report that Nicki Minaj deleted her Twitter account after several songs were exposed before the official scheduled release, I thought it only appropriate to review her latest album “Roman Reloaded” and see what all the hype is about. “Pink Friday […]
Read More Nicki Minaj’s Roman Reloaded: A Look Into the Pros and Cons of the Pink Friday Sequel[Trigger warning: discussion of violence against women, racism, pornography] On the whole, being anti-porn is a pretty unpopular position to take. In feminist circles, the anti-porn movement has a pretty bad rap, in no small part due to anti-porn activist Andrea Dworkin’s collusion with the religious right. Her strange bed-fellows and desire to ban porn made […]
Read More Mythbusting Monday: Being Anti-Porn Means You’re Anti-Sex*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 EverdeenSo the title of this post is inspired by bell hooks’s Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics. The thesis of hooks’s book is pretty simple really — it’s an excellent introduction to feminist politics that demonstrates feminism is for everybody. Feminism benefits all people, despite what anti-feminists would have people believe. I discovered a new feminist campaign […]
Read More Because it needs to be said again, feminism really is for everybody
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