Ok, you can find video of Kathleen Hanna singing with her bands all over the web, and she pops up here and there in films, but why hasn’t there actually been a full-length documentary devoted to perhaps the most defining figure of the feminist punk movement? If you’ve been following Kathleen Hanna’s career fervidly over the [...]
When we last spoke with Tavi Gevinson, uber-precocious 15-year-old fashion blogger and out feminist, she was talking about launching a reboot of feminist ’90s teen magazine Sassy (which shared offices with Ms.) A year later, she’s made it happen. In honor of Tavi’s new accomplishment, the online mag Rookie, an aesthetically astute, hip teen site [...]
Time’s recent article on the 100 best non-fiction reads got us Ms. bloggers thinking about what we’d put on our own list. Time included a respectable number of arguable feminist classics such as Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective’s Our Bodies, Ourselves, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, Margaret [...]
