Social Justice and the Power of Twitter
Rumpus editor Roxane Gay has a new essay at Salon discussing the power of Twitter and empathy in the wake of the Justine Sacco scandal.Social media can give people a voice in situations where those...
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Writing Romance Fiction is a Feminist Act
When I walked into the biennial conference of a local chapter of the Romance Writers of America, I expected to learn something but also find lots at which to snicker. I expected to find breathy-voiced...
View ArticleThe New Women’s Revolution
Last December, a group of feminist activists from all over the world met and discussed a new women’s solidarity movement. The full discussion, with an introduction by Eve Ensler, is up now at...
View Article12 Lol-Worthy Gifs That Will Recuperate Feminist Praxis
Bitch is where many of today’s feminist internet denizens (yours truly included) got our start reading and writing about culture with a critical eye. In many ways, Zeisler’s book is a call to arms,...
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Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel
Mademoiselle Gantrel appears in my mind from time to time, snow-capped and distant, like the Alps. Arriving at our house at Smith College for evening cocktails, she stamps snow from her high leather...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #73: Prince Rogers Nelson, Guitar Player: A Symposium
The passing into the afterlife of Prince Rogers Nelson was sudden, it was unwarranted, and, because of his very reasonable wish for privacy, it was inexplicable. The outpouring of sentiment that...
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Ready for Change: Discussing Sexual Assault with SafeBAE
SafeBAE was founded by three teenage survivors of sexual assault and cyberbullying, Daisy Coleman, Jada Smith, and Ella Fairon, along with Daisy’s older brother, Charlie Coleman, with the assistance of...
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Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block
So some of you may have seen Katie Roiphe’s long and sometimes-sharp-and-other-times-kind-of-annoying piece in the New York Times Book Review about literary S-E-X. You can read the blow by blow here....
View ArticleCome for Me, Katie Roiphe
Like the reanimated corpse of a horror movie monster, Katie Roiphe and her backlash feminism is back. On January 9, news broke on Twitter that Harper’s would be publishing a story by Roiphe about the...
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and as our wise Managing Editor Lyz Lenz tweeted recently, “the perfect Mother’s Day gift is the end of the patriarchy.” While we can’t promise to shut down the patriarchy...
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