Are You Orientalist When Discussing Women’s Rights?
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…
Read onANY 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…
Read on…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…
Read onFROM SUFFRAGIST PAMPHLETS to the xeroxed zines of riot grrl, DIY publishing is one of the oldest tricks in the feminist book. Creating and controlling…
Read onI 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,…
Read onTHE INTERNET — or at least the corners of it I frequent — was abuzz earlier this week about this so-called feminist shark who ate…
Read onAttack of the groans.
Read onON 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…
Read onI 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…
Read onFEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. So said bell hooks and so say I. But — and I hate to say it — there are people out…
Read onEARLIER THIS MONTH, a marketing campaign for the new film Suffragette showed the (all-white) cast — including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan — wearing tee…
Read on“You piss someone off? Stand behind it.”
Read onWE 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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