The Big C: So this is liberating?
The Big C is making quite a splash in cable programming. Laura Linney stars as Cathy Jamison, a high school history teacher diagnosed with Stage-IV melanoma. Cathy eschews chemotherapy and opts not...
Category: Feminism
Justice for Shaquan Duley, justice for mothers
In the wake of enormous tragedy, it is left to each of us to analyze the coverage of stories that startle even the most hardened of media consumers. Shaquan Duley, 29, is a South Carolina resident...
Editor’s Diary: Being allowed to want
I always love when things I've written turn back up in my Internet "social circle"--mentioned in a blog I read, reblogged on Tumblr weeks or even months later, forwarded on Twitter by someone I...
Apparently No Still Means Yes, For “Girls Gone Wild”
“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...
Grizzlies, Ducks and Waterfowl – Palin & feminist gatekeeping
When is a duck not a duck? Seemingly if it’s a grizzly. If you paid attention to United States “feminist” writing in May and June you may have noticed a wee bit of activity over the use of the...
When it comes to IVF, do we ask whether we should?
The modern world is filled with scientific innovations that have advanced the quality and longevity of life. There was a time when women who were infertile had two options: adoption or nursing an...
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’s imperfect young love
A Fandango email popped up in my inbox today. I’d used the service Saturday afternoon to purchase a ticket for Eclipse, the third film in The Twilight Saga. It asked, “How did you like ?”...
Mel Gibson: Unsurprising but still shocking
First he came for the Holocaust survivors, and I did not speak because I was not a Holocaust survivor. Then he came for the Jews, and I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then he came for...
A different sort of female genital mutilation
About thirty years ago, there was an informal secret society in the city of Cork. Perhaps a loose net of those with a shared interest might be more accurate. This group passed the names of certain...
Bobby Jindal: The Governor who stole Christmas
For a number of years now, the so-called “War on Christmas” has been a favorite meme of the Christian Right in the United States. As the title of Fox commentator John Gibson's book goes,we should...