ANY FACEBOOK POST about a hijabi — whether she’s transforming herself into Disney Princesses or getting an inventive, new sports uniform — will attract a handful of…
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…There is an argument for poetry being deep but I am not that argument. Eileen Myles, “A Poem,” Not Me I BECAME INTERESTED in Eileen…
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FROM SUFFRAGIST PAMPHLETS to the xeroxed zines of riot grrl, DIY publishing is one of the oldest tricks in the feminist book. Creating and controlling…
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I AM, AND HAVE LONG BEEN, KEENLY AWARE of the fact that, had I been born in another time or in certain parts of the world,…
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THE INTERNET — or at least the corners of it I frequent — was abuzz earlier this week about this so-called feminist shark who ate…
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ON NOVEMBER 6, Elizabeth Koke filed a $3.5M lawsuit against The Feminist Press at the City University of New York (CUNY). The former Feminist Press staffer…
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I REALLY LIKE ROSE MCGOWAN. Her performance as heartless high-school queen bee Courtney in 1999’s Jawbreaker sparked my love for her, and her role as…
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FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. So said bell hooks and so say I. But — and I hate to say it — there are people out…
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EARLIER THIS MONTH, a marketing campaign for the new film Suffragette showed the (all-white) cast — including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan — wearing tee…
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“You piss someone off? Stand behind it.”
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WE LIGHT UP WHEN WE HEAR IT: another young star comes out as a feminist.There are cheers and pats on the back to go around, and…
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