By Courtney • 15 years ago

Theater Discount for Friends and Fam of Feministing


Hey crew, I’ve been asked to do a talk back after Neil LaBute’s play, Reasons to be Pretty, on Tuesday, June 10th and the nice folks over there agreed to give feministing readers a discount if anyone wants to go. He’s done a lot of controversial stuff, including 2005’s Fat Pig and, prior to that, was kicked out of the LDS Church for a one act he wrote that starred CaIista Flockhart. Who knows what feathers he might ruffle this time around. Info below:
$35 tickets Tue, Wed, Thu eves; Sat, Sun matinees
$45 tickets Fri, Sat eves (regular $59)
Click here and use code FEMI.
OR call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 and use ...


Hey crew, I’ve been asked to do a talk back after Neil LaBute’s play, Reasons to be Pretty, on Tuesday, June 10th and the nice folks over there agreed to give feministing readers a ...
By Courtney • 15 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Salvage

We’ve got a great guest review from Chelsey Clammer this week. Chelsey is a feminist, queer, and disability rights activist living in Chicago with her partner who wants credit for the ideas in the last sentence of this review. You got it, Marie.
In her debut novel, Jane Kotapish puts the fun back in dysfunctional. The story opens with an unnamed narrator explaining the eccentricities of her childhood: “I named my dead sister Nancy and talked to her in the privacy of my closet for eleven years.� Emerging from the delusion of her best friend/worst enemy/dead sister/imagined ghost relationship, the narrator eventually grows into a generically successful New York City woman. But not all is right in adulthood. In ...

We’ve got a great guest review from Chelsey Clammer this week. Chelsey is a feminist, queer, and disability rights activist living in Chicago with her partner who wants credit for the ideas in the last sentence of ...
By Ann • 15 years ago

Hey student activists!

Mother Jones is conducting a survey on the state of campus activism:

We want the lowdown on student activism, past and present. Been arrested and regret it? Would your school win the prize for silliest student protest? Was student activism way better when you were in school? Is your cause unique?
Help us put together our best student activism roundup yet. It’s our 15th annual! Answer a few quick questions and you could win some cool prizes.

Click here to weigh in. (It takes about five minutes.)

Mother Jones is conducting a survey on the state of campus activism:

We want the lowdown on student activism, past and present. Been arrested and regret it? Would your school win the prize for silliest student protest? ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Support girls voices!

Many of you already know that I’m involved an incredible organization called Girls Write Now, which pairs at-risk high school girls with professional women writers as mentors and writing coaches. If you’re in New York, they’re having a reading on June 8 at 4pm at the Barnes and Noble in Tribeca. You can find all the information here and the invite here.
Here’s a taste of the amazing writing you’ll be hearing…

See more GWN videos here. I hope to see you at the reading!

Many of you already know that I’m involved an incredible organization called Girls Write Now, which pairs at-risk high school girls with professional women writers as mentors and writing coaches. If you’re in New York, ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Quick Hit: Still awaiting justice in Jena

My friend and colleague and (hero and rockstar writer) Jeff Chang spreads the word on the fate of the Jena 6 and the case that is being mishandled and more so as the mainstream media fails to pick it up. There have been new developments and we must get the word out.

This Friday, special judge Thomas Yeager will consider a motion made on behalf of the Jena 6 to remove Judge J.P. Mauffray from their cases. Mauffray had previously denied motions by 5 of the defendants to recuse him from their cases. But last week, the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeals appointed Yeager to preside over this unusual hearing in Mauffray’s own courtroom.

We have touched on

My friend and colleague and (hero and rockstar writer) Jeff Chang spreads the word on the fate of the Jena 6 and the case that is being mishandled and more so as the mainstream media fails ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Iran cracks down on women’s rights websites

By Roja Bandari.
A few days ago we hit a new low in systematic filtering of women’s rights websites in Iran. Along with the website Change for Equality, 11 other sites and blogs belonging to local branches of the One Million Signatures Campaign in several cities or regions in Iran (Arak, Rasht, Mashhad, Esfahan, Shiraz, Zahedan) were blocked simultaneously. The list of blocked blogs included Men for Equality, set up by male activists in the campaign and those of a few Iranian immigrant populations in other countries (Kuwait, Cyprus, Germany, and the US). Campaign websites in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan had been blocked in April 2008.
Change for Equality ...
By Roja Bandari.
A few days ago we hit a new low in systematic filtering of women’s rights websites in Iran. Along with the website Change for Equality, 11 other sites and blogs belonging to local ...
By Vanessa • 15 years ago

Happy Birthday, Miriam!


Today is quite the special day for Miriam, our newest (and youngest) member of the Feministing family. This kick-ass woman has achieved a helluva lot in the 24 years of her life: writer, blogger, doula, activist…and she’s only going up from here. We are very lucky to have her.
Happy Birthday, Miriam!!!


Today is quite the special day for Miriam, our newest (and youngest) member of the Feministing family. This kick-ass woman has achieved a helluva lot in the 24 years of her life: writer, blogger, doula, ...

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