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November 22, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Lady Gaga is Confused
Lady Gaga, in a recent interview with Fuse about misogyny and homophobia:
Lady Gaga on why she's not a feminist:
Someone seriously needs to let her know that many of the values she has expressed ...
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November 21, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Meg & Dia
Meg & Dia is an American band formed in 2004. It was founded by sisters Meg and Dia Frampton, and is now a five-piece act with additional members Nicholas Price, Jonathan Snyder and Carlo Gime...
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November 14, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Ida Maria
Like the Norse warrior maiden Freya, 24-year-old Norwegian rocker Ida (eee-da) Maria is a force of nature, a goddess of love, fertility and sexual desire who led the Valkyries into battle, a fearless ...
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November 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Ingrid Michaelson
The other day I was listening to a radio interview with Ingrid Michaelson and it occurred to me that she is the perfect candidate for SWAS. She's funny, intelligent, real and an amazing artist. So thi...
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October 31, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is one of my favorite singers of all time. I got the chance to see Next to Normal this past summer, and the entire show was insanely incredible - from the way they handled the topic o...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins front-tress Heather B. Heywood grew up in the ghetto-rural outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama in the home of her step-father, a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. Most of the congrega...
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October 18, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday (On Monday!): Chix 6
Okay, I keep dropping the ball on Sundays. It's mostly because that's when I get more than 4 hours of sleep and do work for SCHOOL (not the fbomb...school...weird).
Anyway, I've been following this ...
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October 03, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Karen O
It was as I was waiting in line at Starbucks this weekend (coffee is life), that I picked up a copy of the "Where The Wild Things Are" soundtrack. Considering that the song in the trailer was Wake Up ...
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Bust Magazine: Ellen, Alia and Teens oh my!
Every so often, a magical thing happens. I open the mailbox and buried beneath bills that have no relevance to me and the catalogues that try to sell me more useless crap, there is Bust Magazine. Toda...
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September 19, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Mary Travers
On September 16th, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away. This Support Women Artists Sunday goes out to her. I respect her not only because Peter, Paul and Mary had some bangin tunes (serio...
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Grinding
I had been at college for three days, and my friends and I were anticipating the First Chance Dance, an annual tradition meant to facilitate fun and friendship during the notoriously uncomfortable ori...
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GR!C: Day 6...Final Performance at The Metro!
Seeing your show on the marquee of a venue that’s hosted bands like The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The White Stripes is pretty thrilling. And seeing people line up ...
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GR!C: Day 5
Xenia and I are a few minutes late today, and when we get to the cafeteria, everyone has paper taped to their backs and are running around with markers. We soon learn that you’re supposed to write on...
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GR!C: Day 4
Our song is nearly finished! Yay! We pretty much had the music down since day one, except for the last minute bass solo/bridge I added yesterday. The lyrics, on the other hand, were only finalized ...
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September 09, 2009 | Shelan O |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Media,
Violence against women
GR!C: Day 3
Our band finally has a name and a logo, which will be screened onto shirts, so each band has merch. Sweet! It had been down to Electric Field Trip or On The Fritz, but fate...took another course...(d...
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GR!C: Day 2
I’ve been moved to a new bass class, which is awesome because now I have Allison as my teacher! Allison was my drum teacher last year, and has been with the camp since the beginning, so we’re old p...
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GR!C: Day 1
I woke up at 5:40 am, raring to go. My sister, Xenia, who has been pretty low-key in expressing her enthusiasm, literally danced into the bathroom singing “Good morning, good morning, good morning to...
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Are You Ready to Rock?? GR!C 2009
Julie: Hey FBombers. This week, I'm handing the fbomb over to the super rad Shélan O. She participated in this year's Girls Rock! Chicago - a week-long summer camp program for girls ages 9-16 that mot...
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August 30, 2009 | Danielle C |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Porcelain and the Tramps
The first time I ever heard the name 'Porcelain and the Tramps', I was randomly searching YouTube (as one does on a boring Saturday morning) and their song Gasoline popped up in that Related Videos ba...
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August 22, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Jenny Owen Youngs
Born in New Jersey in 1981 and raised in the usual suburban surroundings, Youngs first picked up the guitar at the age of 14 and attended the music program at the State University of New York at Pur...
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August 15, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Little Jackie
Blend the old-school R&B sound with a quirky hybrid of hip-hop and pop and you get Little Jackie, the creation of genre-defying singer-songwriter Imani Coppola and collaborator Adam Pallin.
Th...
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August 09, 2009 | Nellie B |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
A Feminist Goes to the Ballet
Ballet, as fine arts and sources of entertainment go, is not exactly what one might call a feminist pastime. Though it is ridiculous trying to mandate whether something is "feminist" or not, ballet d...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Bikini Kill
It's baaaaaaack.
This week - a little history lesson. The post on Care Bears on Fire, and the comments about the riot grrrl movement got me thinking. Most girls my age don't even know what the riot ...
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Care Bears on Fire
It was a summer afternoon like any other. I was sprawled across the couch with a pack of twizzlers in one hand and a large iced coffee in the other, two food-items that are essential to my survival. T...
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Joss Whedon's Equality Now Speech
Joss Whedon is the creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse. He's also awesome. I'm not too familiar with his work, but I've always admired him as a feminist icon, as ...