A little internet searching by a friend of mine revealed this little gem; PABBIS or People Against Bad Books In School. The oganizations goal is to encourage parents to take action against schools teaching dangerous books such as Beloved or The Handmaid’s Tale. Attached to the list are links to reasons why the books have been targeted including […]
Read More Burn Them BooksThe Daily Swarm has announced that on December 11th The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn will be hosting “Rah! Rah! Replica,” a benefit/show/project/EXTRAVANAGZA to honor Riot Grrrl goddess Kathleen Hanna. ‘Bout time, am I right? Or am I right?
Read More “Rebel Girl, You Are the Queen of My World”A 43-year old woman named Amy-Erin Blakely is suing her former employer, the Devereux Foundation, a non-profit health organization dedicated to helping children and adults with emotional, developmental, educational, and cognitive disabilities, for firing her in 2009 after she filed two complaints about gender discrimination. Blakely claims she was told her breasts were distracting for […]
Read More CAUTION: Distracting Breasts in the Workplace!In this recent season of Desperate Housewives, there has been an addition to the cast, Vanessa Williams. After Williams’ axe on Ugly Betty, she quickly came into another on-going job, and from what I’ve seen, she fits. I don’t watch the show very often, I snag a view or two if my roommates are watching […]
Read More Desperate Are We?Over the summer I wrote this response to a particularly heinous article from Cosmopolitan Magazine entitled “10 Sentences He’d Be Psyched To Hear”: Cos·mo·pol·i·tan -noun: a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world. Now color me biased, but I find it pretty hard to believe that […]
Read More Cosmopolitan: Still A National ConcernAs I got a glimpse of my secret indulgence, The View, one hot topic was on the Glee photos in the men’s magazine GQ. http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201011/glee-photos-rachel-quinn-finn#slide=1 Of course the actresses Dianna Agron, “Quinn” and Lea Michelle, “Rachel,” would be overly sexualized seeing how it is a heterosexual man’s magazine. But what do you think? I don’t […]
Read More Glee GQ: What do you think?The clip below is an opening scene from the FX show “Louis”, a sitcom starring comedian Louis CK. Feel free to watch the whole thing, but the part I’ll be talking about starts at 4:10. Also, this clip is not safe for work…or class, in the event you’re reading this when you should be listening […]
Read More “Louis” Talks About Queer Issues…In, You Know, A “Manly” Way“Wanna hear a joke? Women’s basketball.” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one… As sad as it is, it’s pretty clear that a lot of people don’t take women’s sports very seriously. No matter how hard female athletes train, practice and compete, in our society they never seem to receive […]
Read More A League of Their Own?I’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 MusicWelcome back for round two of The Bitchin’ Table, where two of your favorite Shout Out authors bring it to the Bitchin’ Table for some always interesting discussion. On this week’s edition beauty standards have us Bitchin’, and you won’t like us when we’re Bitchin’. (Or hopefully you will.) We’re going to throw down on […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: A Brain for Scarecrow, and Double D’s for Me.
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