Listen up, ladies. Tilly’s, the popular surf and skate clothing chain, is “teaching women how to listen,” according to an LRG-brand t-shirt it’s selling. The front features a woman, nude […]
Year: 2010
NEWSFLASH: Ashtiani’s Husband Allegedly Sold Her for Sex … to Pay for His Drugs
As if Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s struggle for freedom could get any worse—especially considering the recently aired state-produced documentary that Amnesty International proclaimed was being used to paint her as a […]
True Grit’s Ad Campaign Buries the Lead
The other night, I got to see an advance screening for the Coen brothers‘ latest, the revisionist Western True Grit. The movie was no Fargo or No Country For Old […]
We Heart: Darlene Love
For the second year in a row, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame failed to honor deserving nominee Laura Nyro, but happily Hall voters elected the great Darlene Love–the […]
Dexter: Feminist Serial Killer?
(SPOILER ALERT: Proceed with caution if you’re not caught up!) Dexter’s eye-for-an-eye vigilantism came to a gripping fifth-season finale this week with Jordan Chase (Jonny Lee Miller), serial rapist and […]
“20 Under 40” Highlights Great Women Writers
Each writer featured in 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker represents a unique strand of what the future holds for American fiction, but as their characters ran through the post-Emancipation American South and stumbled through futuristic Rome, nearly every author examined loneliness. Similar to Freedom’s female protagonist, Patty, many of the women described throughout 20 Under 40 faced anxious isolation in the face of limitless options.
Childless by CHOICE, Get It?
I don’t want kids. Never have. I consider birth control the greatest invention of the 20th century and I’ve been taking it religiously for nearly a decade. No pregnancies to […]
Let the Women Fly
The calendar may say 2010, but for women ski jumpers it’s still feeling like the 1950s when men competed and women watched. Ski jumping is the only winter Olympic event […]
We Heart: Feminist Sarah Silverman
Those of you who caught Conan last night on TBS might have noticed a surprise shout-out to Ms. How did this come to pass? Well, back in October, a team […]
Excluded Workers Have Plenty to Say on Human Rights Day
The U.S. Social Forum in Detroit earlier this year saw the launch of the the Excluded Workers Congress (EWC), a coalition of workers historically left out of the labor movement: […]