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Diaspora and the lose of language - Biyuti is a bakla Filipina living on stolen Algonquin land. He works to sustain and increase the biyuti of the world through decolonization and through h...
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Persephone Magazine

Recap: The Vampiaries, Episode 3.14, “Dangerous Liaisons” - In this week’s episode, the “previously, on The Vampire Diaries” spiel was all about relationships—oh, and something about a ball? But before we get to the...
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Thompson on Hollywood

Awards Watch: Pitt and Clooney Do Inside the Actors Studio, Can't Stop Dujardin's Oscar Momentum - Oscar contenders George Clooney and Brad Pitt have both recently appeared on Inside the Actors Studio to celebrate their successful careers in Hollywood (a...
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Feministe

Chris Brown won’t let us forget: Domestic violence is okay if you’re hot - *Trigger warning for domestic violence* Sasha Pasulka of HelloGiggles said it best: "I'm not okay with Chris Brown performing at the Grammys and I'm not su...
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Shakesville

Monday Blogaround - This blogaround brought to you by blue corn tortilla chips. Recommended Reading: andreana: 'It's Not Right'...On Whitney Houston, Black Women, and Loss P...
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FlickFilosopher.com

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D (review) - It’s still a not very good movie. But... It’s still Star Wars.
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Racialicious

Open Thread: The 2012 Grammy Awards - *By Arturo R. García* The more I think about this year’s Grammy Awards, the harder it becomes to figure them out. For starters, I can’t imagine what Je...
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Gender Across Borders

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the Hathor Legacy

Choose Your Female Posse - We all know that all women are bitches who will screw each other over for their own gain – especially when men are involved. They steal each other’s boyfri...
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AngryBlackBitch

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Feminéma

Three things to read/ listen to/ watch - I don’t do this often enough: recommend things I’m reading, especially considering how much these three pieces have provoked my imagination during the past...
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The New Agenda

Barbara Walters Attacks Mimi Alford - Barbara Walters is an icon in journalism and certainly the woman journalist with the most name recognition in the United States. Unfortunately, her daytime...
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Marinagraphy

The Importance of Fighting Back - The following article discusses the importance of self defense for women, and provides steps one can take to defend herself.
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Bad Reputation

[Gamer Diary] – What I’ve been playing… January 2012 - I have decided to ape some of the monthly features of gaming print mags and introduce a “What I’ve been playing…” summary post.
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The Crunk Feminist Collective

whitney: an attempt at tribute. - RIP Whitney Houston i’m still in utter and complete shock regarding whitney houston. floored. very saddened. i left church this morning with some seething ...
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Roxie's World

Contact -- and Non-Contact - This kicks off Monday at QTU, which partly explains the radio silence around here lately. (Image Credit: Mira Azarm, Assistant Director for Client Publica...
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The Feminist Bride

Happy Anna Howard Shaw Day! - 30 Rock's lovably quirky Liz Lemon introduced us to Anna Howard Shaw Day. Despite the obtuse and ridiculous plots brought to us by the hijinks of Tracy Jor...
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Our Turn: Feminism for Newbies

RIP Whitney - I've literally been unable to post about this until now... too sad. No, I'm serious. As soon as I read the headline that Whitney Houston had died, I just ...
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

From Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artist. - Just because this is so funny. I'm reading books from the fifteen hundreds right now. Vasari on the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello (1396/7-1475): *Paol...
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Wellywood Woman

Pietra Brettkelly & Maori Boy Genius - Pietra Brettkelly Pietra Brettkelly's feature documentary *Maori Boy Genius* will premiere today, in the Berlinale's Generation programme. Many congratulati...
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About-Face

Apparently, Melissa McCarthy deserves no awards for “Bridesmaids” - The film Bridesmaids has gotten a lot of attention this past year: a female-friendship focused film written by and starring women is pretty hard to come by...
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Gender Focus

A Part of Our Heritage? - Most Canadian kids of the 80s and early 90s will remember the “Part of Our Heritage” ads produced by Charles Bronfman’s CRB Foundation that seemed to run a...
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Rage Against the Man-chine

Introduction to Porn Part 10: The Rutting Dogs of Capitalism - The porn series needs an update, does it not? I’ve struggled a bit with what part ten should be about, assuming it ought to be the capstone to an anti-porn...
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The F-Word Blog

Weekly round-up and open thread, 7 - 13 February 2012 - Hi everyone Here's this week's round-up of some of the bits around the internet we haven't had a chance to blog about. As always, we'd love to hear about oth...
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pop!goesalicia

Celebrating Whitney - Whitney Houston died yesterday. Saturday Feburary 11, 2012. She was 48 years old. In 1987, my Mom took my to my first concert. It was Whitney Houston at Ma...
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Mendelson's Memos

Weekend Box Office (02/12/12): Everybody wins as The Vow breaks records, Safe House opens huge, Journey 2 best Journey 1, and Phantom Menace 3D feels the Force. - Wow. Just wow. Four major releases debuted this weekend and every single one of them opened with superb numbers. On one hand, that means that every res...
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Not Another Wave

Sex Tourism and Exploitation -
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Political Poet(ry)

sirens for whitney houston: february love poems, winter in brooklyn poems - february love poems, winter in brooklyn poems 1. forget to remember love (for sinatra) remember leaders dont follow the haters are all so hollow but baby s...
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Gone Elsewhere

Oscar 2011: Best Supporting Actress - Octavia Spencer Over the next two weeks until the Oscar ceremony I will take a look at each of the “major” categories and analyze who I think will win and ...
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http://microaggressions.com/

The disciplinary principal at my arts high school calls an assembly that was supposed to be about... - The disciplinary principal at my arts high school calls an assembly that was supposed to be about not wearing hats inside the school buildings, but which...
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I Blame The Patriarchy

Hugs, Twisty: I may have finally found that guest blogger I’ve been looking for - On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM, kelly marsh wrote: Hi, My name is Kelly Marsh and I am a writer and a blogger. I’m just getting in touch to ask if you’re ...
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Athena Film Festival

Producer Lisa Cortes at the Athena Film Festival - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbwXhI15i0…
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CRITICAL WOMEN ON FILM

Women Film Critics Circle On The Air: Jan Huttner Disses The Oscars - ***Arts Express: The Politics Of The Oscars.* Hot Pink Pen movie critic Jan Lisa Huttner phones in to Arts Express from Chicago with the Oscar Blues, and...
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Ms Magazine Blog

Whose Trial Is It Anyway? - As we’ve been reporting on the Ms. Blog, Kansas City was rocked last fall by the indictment of Bishop Robert Finn for failing to report that a priest in hi...
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Her Film

Maria P. Williams: First African American Woman Film Producer - Maria P. Williams is a name that few film buffs and even film historians would know, but she is the earliest known African American woman film producer. S...
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Adios Barbie

Size Activists Shed Light on Fat Shaming Campaign - by Jennifer Jonassen WARNING CHUBBY KIDS MAY NOT OUTLIVE THEIR PARENTS. This is only one of the incendiary campaign slogans Strong4Life is admittedly using...
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Bitch Mag Movies

Bechdel Test Canon: XXY - *Trigger warning for descriptions of bullying and sexual assault.* As we bring the second installment of this series to a close—the final post goes live ...
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The Opinioness of the World

Athena Film Festival Celebrates Films on Women & Leadership - As I shared in my last post, I’m headed to my fave city in the world…New York City!! What does The Opinioness have planned? A weekend at a feminist film fe...
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Arielle Loren

My Perfect Vulva -
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Film Studies For Free

The Legions of the Lost: Michael Klinger and the role of the film producer in the British film industry 1960-1980 - Framegrab from *Repulsion* (directed by Roman Polanski and executive produced by Michael Klinger [uncredited], 1965) During the 1970s, a period of economic...
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Women and Hollywood

Cross-Post: A Feminist Film Festival With a Different Take - A couple of years ago as part of my work on Women and Hollywood I hosted a party for the great Australian director Jane Campion. Campion is one of only fo...
3 days ago
Pop Culture Pirate.

Not So Shitty: “Shit People Say” power play - The “Shit People Say” meme began with “Shit Girls Say” and took off around the internet with thousands of iterations, many of which were problematic and st...
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A Creative Revolution

Holy war on Women. - Anyone paying attention to the Brouhaha down south right now, that has to do with contraception and the decision from the Whitehouse that all women shoul...
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MediaRights

SOMJA Welcomes William Hague’s Speech for Journalist’s Murder in Somalia -
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Tiger Beatdown

Personal Decisions, Global Catastrophes: Capitalism is Not Inherently Friendly to Human Life - For the past few years, I’ve been coming back to this idea about the danger of treating self-replicating, amoral systems as if they were a fit substitute f...
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Change.org's Women's Rights Blog

LEGO Agrees to Meeting After 50,000 Denounce Selling Out Girls - After a month and more than 50,000 petition signatures, an open letter, numerous radio shows, TV segments, blog posts, articles, and even YouTube videos ...
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I Will Not Diet

Don’t Just Stare—I’m Not The Window Dressing - Last night I went back to one of my favorite local restaurants—440 Main—in my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Bowling Green isn’t really a city, and i...
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DR SHE BLOGGO

The RBI Report: "The Spanish Teacher" - Before I get into tonight's recap, it must be said that I actually watched "The Spanish Teacher" with my mother, who is, in fact, a Spanish teacher. Like ...
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THE HOT PINK PEN

2011 TWOZIES - Winners of the 2011 TWOZIE Awards for Best Films of 2011: Meek’s Cutoff, Tyrannosaur, & We Need to Talk about Kevin. (Each one of these three superb films ...
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The Sociological Cinema - The Cinema Blog

Methods in Context videos - __How do you make social science research methods come alive for your students? Karen Sternheimer, USC sociology professor and Everyday Sociology Blog writ...
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Feminism: Not a Naughty Word

What's the Buzz? Tell Me What's A-Happenin'! - First of all, yes, that is a musical reference in the title of this post. No, *Jesus Christ Superstar* is not my favorite musical, but the song title was f...
5 days ago
Feminist Frequency

LEGO & Gender Part 2: The Boys Club - Watch Part 1: LEGO Friends | Also available on Blip.tv In part 1 of my two part LEGO and Gender series, I explored how LEGO went terribly wrong with LEGO...
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Walking Upstream

Past and Present Tense - [image: English: A stylized delta shield, based on the...] Image via Wikipedia Y'all know I'm a Star Trek fan, right? Of course I am. I'm a pie in the s...
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Heroine Content

February Link Love: Attack the Block, Dragon Tattoo, Star Trek, Loki, and Black Widow - Haywire's Action Hero - She's a Deadly Woman, without being a Femme Fatale by Jennifer K. Stuller at Ink-Stained Amazon. She didn't much care for the film, i...
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The Curvature

Don Cornelius: 1936 – 2012 - With my infrequent writing here, I’ve neglected the opportunity to previously mention over the last 18 months my obsession with and love of 1960s and 70s s...
1 week ago
Sasha Said

Homelessness Averted - A huge, giant, colossal THANK YOU to everyone who donated in the past week! You guys are truly lifesavers! Many thanks also to everyone who helped get the ...
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists

An Oscar For Jack (Uggie) Russell? - Commentary by Julide Tanriverdi - These days the best actors have four legs and the shiny fur of a Jack Russell terrier! The star of The Artist has cute eyes, a lovely smile and Hollywood a...
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WIMN's Voices

Vigil-aunties beware! - A recent report in *The New York Times*, For Many in Pakistan, a Television Show Goes Too Far, flags a raging controversy that "could well be the beginning...
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The Feminist Guide to Hollywood

We Need To Talk About Kevin - Brilliant film by Lynne Ramsay. If you see only one film this year, this should be it. The Frisky did a very interesting interview with the film's youn...
2 weeks ago
Feminism/Popular Culture

12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music - This might make me pretty un-hip but I am just going to go ahead and say it: I don't care that Celine Dion's album “Falling Into You” sold more copies than...
5 weeks ago
Mirror: Motion Picture Commentary

Keira Knightley’s Vagina (A Dangerous Method) - method A Dangerous Method opens with the ominous notes of a cello, that, leading out of the opening credits, give way to a horn & string crescendo and the ...
1 month ago
Feminist Looking Glass

Eleanor Roosevelt Would Have Approved of Occupy Wall Street - From a blog written yesterday by Suzanne Kahn for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, I learned new things about one of my icons, Eleanor Rooseve...
2 months ago
Professor, What If...?

What if we refused to occupy Black Friday? Or, at least stopped shopping at Wal-Mart? - One might think that Black Friday mania might be scaled-back this year, given the economic crisis and the rising awareness of socio-economic injustices evi...
2 months ago
Seduced by Twilight

A Twilight Turkey Day Treat - My kids (starring as Bella and Jacob) and their friend (starring as Edward) made this a few years back. There is no death by human-vampire baby or dental c...
2 months ago
An Open Letter by a Feminist

The Universities Today - Historiann has tagged me to engage in a discussion about how our universities work and the problems we see in them. I am currently in the unusual position ...
3 months ago
Fourth Wave

RIP Rudolph Byrd - Pardon me for being a little late with this, as I've been struggling to keep my head above (grading) water, but I'd be remiss if I didn't post a short note...
3 months ago
Cinema-Femina (New York, NY) - Meetup

Women's Film Preservation Fund - [image: photo]Cinema-Femina TBA New York, NY - USA Monday, October 24 at 6:30 PM Attending: 1 Details: http://www.meetup.com/Cinema-Femina/events/328...
3 months ago
The Double R Diner

Geek Misogyny in the Backlash Against Alyssa Bereznak - [Blows off dust, taps mic. Hello? Is this thing on? I still have this blog!? Phew. Thanks for staying with me despite my neglect, blog. You never know wh...
5 months ago
Jezebel

“No Dinosaurs in Heaven” is getting mega-media attention! - Our newest film, “No Dinosaurs In Heaven,” is getting great publicity from its Celebrate Science screening tour across the country. It’s already been writ...
6 months ago
Fetch me my axe

New blog! - Bookish Foodish Geekish
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The Second Awakening

Long, Long Gone - I’ve been away. (Where O where have you been, C.L.?) I’ve been to love, ducks. Love love super lovey love. Although I might not be for much longer, after t...
6 months ago
Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog

Signal Boosting: spruik your social justice events in July-August - Events posted so far: SlutWalks continue around the globe – check out the SlutWalk Toronto website which is keeping tabs on the Satellite Slutwalks. This p...
7 months ago
Unapologetically Female

Feminist Lessons from Zombie Marie Curie - (Via xkcd)
8 months ago
Elevate Difference - Films

Certified Copy - Directed by Abbas Kiarostami MK2 Productions The latest film from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, *Certified Copy*begins with the same joke...
9 months ago
The Girls on Film

The Fresh Outlook article - A new profile on The Girls on Film at The Fresh Outlook.com. Check it out here: The Fresh Outlook Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Subscribe to the comme...
11 months ago
Urban Media Warrior

Race and Crime in America when the Scottsboro Boys comes to Broadway - A young man was murdered after being shot in the back while in custody by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Officer. A young woman was arrested and th...
1 year ago
The Sexist

Goodbye! - In the two years I've written The Sexist, I've offended Catholics, sorority sisters, former homosexuals, Tucker Max fans, breast massagers, a child's sense...
1 year ago
Sarah Haskins

Sarah Haskins Introduces Modern Lady - Target Women's Sarah Haskins drops in on infoMania's newcomer Erin Gibson to present the tools for an important quest. Tune in at 10pm this Thursday, Ma...
1 year ago
adventures of a young feminist

Lost: LAX - First off, I have to admit that I did the unthinkable…I fell asleep during the season premiere of Lost. But I feel like it’s excusable. I was sick and ...
2 years ago
The Cliterati

Health Reform as a Queer Issue - Word! - Check out this awesome post at the similarly awesome blog RH Reality Check! Blogger Katherine Franke gives the quick & dirty version of why a health care ...
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