Size Matters: Just One Last Donut
The majority of my life has been spent inhabiting a body deemed too fat. While I spent my early childhood and elementary years as a “normal” sized child, I soon started the upward climb towards “fat”...
View ArticleMusic Matters: (Not A) Typical Girl
Ari Up is dead. That just seems wrong to type. She should've been too badass to die. She was, really. I wrote about Riot Grrl earlier this week, and the Slits were one of the bands without which Riot...
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B-Sides: Iceland
Iceland has been called the most female-friendly country in the world, and Scandinavia is world-renowned for producing perfect popacts, so it was only a matter of time before my obsession radar brought...
View ArticleIconography: Jane Austen, a Contemporary Kind of Lady
Jane Austen has quite the hold over the contemporary imagination. Not only are her books still bestsellers almost 200 years after her death, but there’s a veritable industry around adapting and...
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The Long Goodbye: What's it like to work for Oprah?
On 1.1.11 Oprah launched the Oprah Winfrey Network (or, OWN), which promises to be a "24/7 cable network devoted to self-discovery, to connecting you to your best self and to the world." OWN takes over...
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The Long Goodbye: Oprah's Mark on Pop Culture
This week, after 25 years on the air, we say goodbye to the Oprah Winfrey Show, a juggernaut that has shaped the popular culture landscape perhaps more than anything else on TV.As an enthusiastic...
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Fertile Ground: Heartland Institute Pulls "Unabomber" Climate Change Billboard
If this proves anything, it’s that voices matter. The conservative organization Heartland Institute pulled a billboard recently featuring a photo of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, with his supposed voice...
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In Classic Western Films, Cowboys Wander While Women Stay at Home
The classic image of a cowboy is of a wandering man. Symbolically, the American Cowboy has come to represent large, abstract values: freedom, honesty, bravery. In these stories, cowboys meander and...
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Why Are There So Few Female College Presidents?
Women make up a majority of college students, but at the top of the academic ladder, the percentage of women wanes: only 26 percent of college presidents are female. Why is this?The percentage of...
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Interview with Author of New Book "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"
Anton DiSclafani's new novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (coming out on June 4 from Riverhead books), tells the Depression Era coming-of-age story of Thea Atwell, a complicated and willful...
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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Good morning! Here's all the feminist news on our radar this fine Friday.• We all know that women are capable of writing about anything. Why is it, Roxane Gay wonders, that anything beyond personal...
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