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July 12, 2010 | Emily B |
Arts and culture
Another Night
Before the sky empties of truth, she
tells him. He peels apart dollar bills like clammy thighs as
the faucet drips out a heartbeat
Or maybe it was tears.
She wishes she could turn up his love like
the...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Vanessa Paradis
Born in St. Maur, France on December 22, 1972, Vanessa enjoyed singing from an early age. Her career began to develop after she was discovered on a popular TV show entitled L'Ecole Des Fans; a French ...
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July 03, 2010 | Steph |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Andrea Gibson
Andrea moved from New Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where she began attending weekly poetry readings at Denver’s political hub, The Mercury Café. In a years time she had rushed the scene, making her ma...
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July 01, 2010 | Rachel P |
Arts and culture,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
Seixsm and the Double Bass
Like Esperenza Spalding, I too, am a female double bassist, with the greatest of respect for the wonderful things that Esperenza does - especially with first-hand knowledge of the blatant misogyny tha...
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Wonder Woman in Pants is Not a Feminist Win
It’s the end of an era. At 69 years old, Wonder Woman has decided to put on some pants.
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Brotherhood
Oh, how I wish to
be in a fraternity.
How grand it seems;
basking in the glow of
boyish camaraderie.
Alas! Tis’ the stuff of dreams-
Brotherhood,
never meant for a girl
like Me....
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Janelle Monae
Janelle Monae’s creativity knows no bounds. Her debut studio album The ArchAndroid (Suite II and III) is a 70-minute concept album where her alter-ego, Cindi Mayweather becomes a “messiah-esque figure...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: The Prids
The Prids are a band from Portland, Oregon. The quartet's music can be categorized as a blend of noise pop and post-punk, influenced by Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, The Smiths, Unrest, My Bloody V...
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June 18, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Media,
Violence against women
Perez, Miley and Slut Shaming
Last Sunday, gossip blogger Perez Hilton made the controversial decision to post a photo of Miley Cyrus exiting a car on his twitter, implying that she was not wearing underwear. Now, the internet is ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Esperanza Spalding
Hailed as a prodigy on the acoustic double bass within months of first touching the instrument as a 15-year-old, Esperanza Spalding has emerged as a fine jazz bassist, but has also distinguished hers...
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June 10, 2010 | Hannah C |
Arts and culture
Tradition
I was thinking about female genital mutilation and the prevalency it still has within a large number of African communities, and in other countries worldwide. After reading Alice Walker's Possessing t...
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Hayley Williams' Topless Photos: Who Cares?
So, as you may or may not have heard, a topless photo of Hayley
Williams was posted on her Twitter. The post was deleted fifteen
minutes later, and thirty minutes after that, another post appeared sa...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, daughter of Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker, and Elena Bonham Carter (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, was born in Golders Green, London, England on May 26, ...
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June 03, 2010 | Sarah Coggrave |
Arts and culture,
Media
Organs Grabbing
Organs grabbing
My greedy little body
It’s full of little hands
Feed me now they shout at me
You must meet our demands
Every tiny organ
Is pushing for its share
I was first no me pick me
Their finge...
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June 03, 2010 | Melissa Silverstein |
Arts and culture
The Lilly Awards Honor Women in Theatre
Preempting the male bastion that dominates the Tony Awards, supporters of women playwrights took matters into their own hands, as Women and Hollywood blogger Melissa Silverstein explains.
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June 02, 2010 | Markita S |
Arts and culture
The Music in the Bedroom
The whole thing starts with a sentence—not even—a word. As I sit on the scratchy, green couch, mashed up between Sara and Noah, I hear that word and I just feel… odd. It’s like all of me, my powdered ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn is an American singer-songwriter, poet and musician. The Los Angeles-born musician is also eccentric and label-defying in the best possible way.
As a young girl, it was Emilie´s dream t...
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All The Way
Therese Shechter, the awesome documentarian who brought us I Was A Teenage Feminist, is it again, and this time she's tackling virginity with "How to Lose Your Virginity":
Our new trailer! "How To ...
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May 24, 2010 | Allison Y |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
I Am Not
I am not:
a helpless lamb.
a damsel in distress.
a glorified baby receptacle.
a little flower incapable of thought.
I am a philosopher, a scientist,
an artist both in the visual
and auditory re...
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May 22, 2010 | Nia T |
Arts and culture,
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Ellie Goulding
23 year old singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding recently topped the BBC’s Sound of 2010 poll and won the Critics Choice Awards at the BRITs and is tipped for big things. After learning to play folk music...
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The Bronte Sisters Action Figures
I want to buy this for everybody I know / how cool would it be if there actually WERE commercials like this...
...
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Shining a Light Under the Veil
The author, whose interviews have been widely published, talks to playwright Mary Apick about the stories of women who spend their public lives shielded from our view.
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Support Women Artists Sunday (Mother's Day Edition): Carly Simon
My Mom is obsessed with Carly Simon. I'm pretty sure I knew the lyrics of Let The River Run before I knew my own name, which I suspect was inspired by the Carly song "Julie Through The Glass." So this...
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Every Minute of Every Day
I just received an e-mail from Ms. Magazine about their 'Countdown to 2015 Campaign'
The e-mail started with this sentence. "Every minute of every day, a woman or girl dies from complications of ...
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The Way We Talk About "Women's Lit"
Marketing demands and an underlying thread of sexism in the publishing industry work together to trivialize literature written by women, argues WMC Progressive Women’s Voices commentator Courtney Young.