Andi Z on the B-word
For the third time this year, the word bitch has made national headines. Read cofounder and editorial director Andi Zeisler's take in the Washington Post.Is it a bad word? Of course it is. As a...
View ArticleSave the Shorts
Perhaps my love for the short story is due to my sometimes short attention span, but if you, too, adore them, you should consider subscribing to One Story. A nonprofit literary magazine, they publish...
View ArticleAbortion: the "shmashmortion" of 2008?
In a tiny bit of synergy, I read this excellent piece by Katha Pollitt only an hour after sitting at my ob-gyn's office next to a pregnant teen gabbing on a hot-pink cellphone. In other news, all the...
View ArticleKaraoke for shy people
Sometimes I find it difficult to keep up with my reading pile, especially now that I've inherited a coffee table so enormous it almost begs for piles and piles of magazines, books, and zines to be...
View ArticleDivertissements for performing bears
The title of this post is the song title of another provocatively-titled entity (or problematically-titled entity, depending on whom you ask), 3 Leg Torso, a band I saw perform tonight. I've never been...
View ArticleThinking lots about lots of things
Thinking so much about so many things that I don't really have anything to say just yet.But one of the things I've been thinking a lot about is knowing when to stop talking and listen. In that spirit,...
View ArticleMore reading and listening and thinking
Here are a few of the amazing, insightful, powerful, not-to-be-missed things I've been reading over the past few days. On some of the work that is cut out for feminists committed to making anti-racism...
View ArticleSlowpoke comes to Portland!
During the mid-'80s, my political education came almost entirely from Bloom County, to which my brother introduced me and to which I immediately became attached. Really, what's not to love about a...
View ArticleA collection of random things
Last night I co-hosted a fundraising house party for the kick-ass feminist media organization Women in Media and News. I've been involved in the organization since its planning and launch, and am proud...
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BiblioBitch: Cultural Crusaders: Women Librarians in the American West,...
Everyone knows librarians are just timid, dowdy women who spend all their time in a room full of books perpetually "shush"-ing people, right? Rest assured, we can now say confidently that that...
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