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The Invention of Heterosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz
The Invention of Heterosexuality seeks to prove that “heterosexuality” as we conceive of it today is not a fixed, absolute state, and that the fundamental binary of homo vs. hetero, upon which our current culture so heavily relies, is similarly … Continue reading
Dilemmas of Desire, Deborah Tolman
In Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality, developmental psychologist Deborah Tolman examines the cultural messages around female sexuality through one-on-one interviews with adolescent girls. Tolman is co-founder of SPARK, an intergenerational, girl-fueled movement-building organization dedicated to challenging the … Continue reading
No Excuses, Gloria Feldt
It was only a matter of time before I read Gloria Feldt’s No Excuses; Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power. Gloria Feldt is a Women’s Media Center board member, former president of Planned Parenthood, and current … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Gloria Feldt
Tagged Gloria Feldt, No excuses, women and leadership, women and politics, women and power
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This Girl Is on Fire.
Reblogged from Pop Culture Pirate: Meryl Streep and Hilary Clinton snap photos with Meryl’s iPhone at the Kennedy Center State Dinner, Saturday December 1st in Washington D.C Source. Read more… 7 more words These pictures are gorgeous and uplifting.
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The Glamorous Lure of Hollywood Violence
Published by the Women’s Media Center It is tempting to view the recent string of violent massacres in our country as senseless, isolated incidents perpetrated by troubled individuals. When we view the shootings through this lens, we absolve ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurora, College Station, entertainment industry, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, guns, second amendment, shooting, shootings, violence, weapons
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Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots is the memoir of 24-year-old Deborah Feldman, who was raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, NYC. A New York Times bestseller, the book is in every way a page-turner. The … Continue reading
Posted in 2010s, Deborah Feldman
Tagged 2012, Deborah Feldman, hassidic, hassidism, judaism, memoir, orthodox, satmar, unorthodox, williamsburg
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Why Bad Sex Is Good—On HBO’s “Girls”
Published by the Women’s Media Center The new HBO series “Girls” chronicles the experiences of four girlfriends living in New York City. So comparisons to “Sex and the City”—that other HBO series that chronicled four women living in NYC—were inevitable. … Continue reading
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Tagged Girls, HBO, Katie Roiphe, Lena Dunham, Sex and the City
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State-Sanctioned Shaming and the Battle for Reproductive Rights
My piece from last month, published by the Women’s Media Center and Moms Rising. For almost all American women, reproductive rights are not mere fodder for political debate. Rather, they encompass highly personal decisions. Do I want to get pregnant? Do I … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, birth control, contraception, IUD, Reproductive rights, war on women
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Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues is a novel by activist and author Leslie Feinberg and tells the story of Jess Goldberg, a Jewish girl growing up in 1960s Buffalo, NY. From a young age, Jess is confronted with the question, “boy or … Continue reading
Posted in 1990s, Leslie Feinberg, Uncategorized
Tagged 1993, activism, butch, fiction, lesbian fiction, Leslie Feinberg, LGBTQ, Stone Butch Blues
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