After longing to be a sex-symbol as a child, Shannon Lell grapples with a lifetime of self-objectification.
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Posted inArts & Culture, History, Unapologetic Women
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List
The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Reading List
Joss Whedon and the Feminist Pedestal: A Reading List
A guided reading list on feminism, fandom, and fidelity for Buffy enthusiasts.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports, Unapologetic Women
Serena Williams on Returning to Tennis and Embracing ‘Power’
Williams plans to defend her Australian Open title just three months after giving birth.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Femme (Fashion) Fatalities
“We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that.”
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I Choose My Pearls: On Feminism, Disneyland, and Fashion
“‘We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that,’ said the woman next to me waiting to board Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.”
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Manspreading Writ Large: Rebecca Solnit on Space
In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?
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Occupied Territory
“But equal space and equal security should not be considered rewards for virtue; they are rights in and of themselves, unrealized in innumerable ways as yet.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair and Elizabeth Wurtzel discuss the sexism they each are seeing everywhere.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Quotes, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
(Re)Merchandising NASA as a Feminist Act
“I took the NASA shirts from the ‘boys’ section from where they were prominently displayed, and put them little kid eye level next to tank tops in the ‘girls’ section 20 feet away.”