“Adrienne Rich would follow the banner cry of the “personal is political” to argue for a “crossover between personal and political” and applaud the efforts of her fellow women poets to “write directly and overtly as a woman, out of a woman’s body and experience, to take women’s experience seriously as theme and source for […]
Read More Poetry beats Patriarchy?To kick off my blogging for the semester, I’d like to start with a lighthearted topic. There are endless criticisms to be made from a feminist’s standpoint, but today I have nothing but praise for Tina Fey’s autobiographical novel, Bossypants. The author blends together what I believe to be the most beautiful combination since chocolate […]
Read More Tina Fey’s BossypantsSo as my roommate and I flipped through the channels for anything quality to watch at the dinner hour, we had to make an important decision: Food Network with Paula Dean orrrrr… a CBS special on Nancy Lieberman. Well, as you can imagine we chose Nancy, because how often do you see a whole hour’s […]
Read More Totally Awesome Woman: Nancy LiebermanLast week in my queer lit class we watched a film released in 1961 called The Children’s Hour, featuring Audrey Hepburn, James Garner and Shirley MacLaine, all looking like this: Now, why am I talking about an old black-and-white film? Well, the premise of the film is that two teachers (Hepburn and MacLaine) start a […]
Read More Oh, Audrey Hepburn. You will always have my heart.There’s nothing I like more than sassy videos about gender stereotyping! Enjoy the one below, and watch the others in the Target Women series if you’ve got time. Whodathunk that feminists are humorous? My favorite line? “the gray hoodie: the ‘I have a masters but I got married’ look”
Read More Quick Hit: the Target Women SeriesHappy 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 StudiesAmazing things have been occurring in Egypt in the past few weeks, and I, for one, have been captivated. This afternoon it was announced that Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak who had been in power for the past 30 years, had fled Cairo and renounced the presidency. Watching the mass groups of protesters celebrate on Al […]
Read More This is what a revolutionary looks likeThe 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”“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” — Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese opposition leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and generally fantastic Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house […]
Read More Finally free, after 15 years of house arrest
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