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That's What My Daddy's Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" Videos

I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]

'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture

The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]

You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.

Right.  So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]

DIY: How (And Why) To Make Your Own T-Shirt Dress

Right, so I’ve been going on about agency for months, and I’ve never talked about the important of being active or being an activist in your own life. I took this amazing class called Fashion Matters, which actually got specifically made fun of by name by some of my friends in one of our on-campus [...]

Fly Sex… and I was a Twentysomething Feminist

Another reason (here‘s the first) that I quit the biology major came from a lovely misogynist Professor of Biology. This man is not misguided; he is mistaken. He believes that women were born to be objectified. I’m not kidding. When I was a sophomore, I made some bank by TAing the introduction to evolutionary biology [...]

Rape, Love vs. Sex, and Using Nuns to Sell Beer as Medicine

1) Painful Truth: Rape Theory: Ann K. Ream wrote this article in the Chicago Tribune about the application of the sexual double standard to the Duke rape case. Semantics: A Nebraska Judge bans the word ‘rape’ from his courtroom — oh, it’s that easy to make it go away? Consequences: Oh, and someone start shopping [...]

The Jessica Valenti Rapport

So last night, the guest on the Colbert Report was none other than Feministing.com‘s executive editor, Jessica Valenti, talking about her new book, Full Frontal Feminism. Read the rest of this entry for video of Jessica on Colbert. Sorry so grainy.