Archive for 'bodies'
On Bleeding for Seven Days Without Dying(Or Prince Charles)
As a little girl, I eagerly anticipated getting my period. But not as much as Prince Charles does. Dave Barry once wrote that “When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Anya, Aunt Flo, Dave Barry, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, HPV, Lybrel, Lysol, Mr. Burns, Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, Prince Charles, big business, birth control, bleach, bodies, cancer, cervix, chemical, corporate greed, dioxin, estrogen, feminine hygiene product, human papilloma virus, menstrual cup, menstrual period, menstrual sponge, menstruation, pad, period, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, pregnancy, safety, sex, sex education, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, sexual responsibility, tampon, testosterone, the pill, women's health.
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!Feliz Cumple, Frida Kahlo!
Yesterday was exactly one month short of Frida Kahlo’s 100th birthday. (Maybe if I weren’t nearly nocturnal, you would have found out about this twelve hours ago.) Celebrate by reading up on her, checking out her art, or watching Julia Weiss’ fabulous ficumentary, Frida. Some interesting trivia from The Arizona State Museum at the [...]
Posted: June 6th, 2007 under Andre Breton, Arizona State Museum, Diego Rivera, Female Sexuality, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Leon Trotsky, Mexcan Artists, Paris, University of Arizona, art, bitch, bodies, divorce, femininity, injury, mexico, nocturnal, socialism, surrealism, surrealist, taboo.
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Carrie On: Sex and the College Sex Column
College is a place where people talk about sex. Most have sex, too, of course, but everyone talks about it: sex in general, their friends’ sex, the sex presumably causing the moaning that they can hear through the flimsy wall. The talk about sex is sometimes writing about sex. After Sarah Jessica Parker’s portrayal of [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2007 under abs, adolescence, agency, blogging, bodies, casual sex, college, cross-dressing, jack rabbits, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm, sex.
Tags: abs, adolescence, Adonis, agency, blogging, bodies, bondage, Carrie Bradshaw, casual sex, college, column, Cornell, Cornell Sun, Cornellingus, crossdressing, Harvard, Heather Grantham, jack rabbits, Lena Chen, Manolo Blahnik, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm, Sarah Jessica Parker, sex, Sex and the City, Sex and the Ivy, sex columnist, slut, vibrator
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8 Year Old Held For Mutilation, Burial of Barbie Doll
When I was a little kid, I had a love- hate relationship with Barbie, and in one of our relationship’s lower moments, I cut her hair off. Turns out that almost everyone loves to hate Ms. Perfect, at least according to this article from the Onion from nearly a decade ago. It’s okay – it’s [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2007 under Barbie, Blondes, Female Sexuality, Sex Roles, abuse, adolescence, agency, bodies, doll, doll experiments, hate, love, mental health, mutilation, psychology, self image, symbolism.
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