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October 22, 2009 | Lauren M |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Femininity
I am the clatter of stilettos on concrete,
The sheen of glittering clothes,
Bathrooms foggy with hairspray and perfume,
The pink ribbon tangled in your hair,
Threaded between your teeth.
I am your ar...
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September 01, 2009 | Amanda M |
Arts and culture
Pretty Girl
You know the kind.
She takes her panties off but you're scrubbing at the pie tin, the aluminum pie tin, because you don’t want to be wasteful. You're scrubbing at the pie tin with steel wool, and sh...
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Trying To Be Pretty
this is a quiet acknowledgement
of running a hand over skin to see if it is soft
and over a body to see if it is full
and of measuring the size but more importantly the consistency of breasts
and ...
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July 23, 2009 | Mia |
Arts and culture,
Feminism
Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Someone told
Me that a waltz with him
Would be the end
But we all know that that prompted the flappers and
world war
to hear them talk
children laughing, the
teasing is and ha...
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Tori Amos on men
Tori Amos just wrote a beautiful a piece for The Guardian's Observer. She speaks, as a victim of sexual assault, how her life was shaped by the incident, the dangers of masculinity standards and the m...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Meiko
Meiko, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia (population: 808), has the classic story of a girl with talent from a small town. She honed her skills by singing at church, little league baseball parks and...
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Women and Broadway: what EXACTLY do we hate?
Clearly there is discrimination against women in the film industry. Hell, if Ela Thier’s open letter didn’t make that clear enough, the associations most of society has with “Hollywood” and “women” sh...
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Support Woman Artists Sundays: Bat for Lashes
This week I'm going for Bat for Lashes. She's relatively new on the scene but I totally dig her.
According to her website Bat for Lashes is "the work of British singer/ songwriter, multi- instrument...
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Support Women Artists Sunday
Alright, I'm ready to start a weekly series. Every Sunday (unless I forget and it's a different day...which will happen) I'm going to feature an up and coming new female artist that we should all supp...
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Urbindex
Go check out Urbindex- he's a great musician and also a great guy (I've known him forever).
Here's one of his songs: sweet dreams.
He's on iTunes too- just search Urbindex....
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April 22, 2009 | Ana M |
Arts and culture,
Media
Untitled
Your fingers dig deep into my skin
cold and calloused, they didn’t seem apt for impalement before
but sticking from my sides are the words you leave me with
twisting my organs into ice as the sink ...
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March 10, 2009 | Shaniqua C |
Arts and culture
To Fall in Love with India
My gift cannot be seen or sung, but can be heard. I am a writer, but also I consider myself a performing artist because I perform my poems in front of my cohorts in school and other poets and artists ...