Monthly Archives: April 2011
Vintage STD prevention posters are the best/worst
Vintage sex ed alert! The San Franciso Department of Public Health (um, coolest local government agency in the country? I think so!) brings us 100 years worth of STD prevention posters. On Twitter, Tracy Clark-Flory described them as “awesome(ly awful).” Some are just plain awesome though. This one is my favorite. These days, when some [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: So Much Pretty
So Much Pretty is about a small, poor town in central New York state that is rocked by the disappearance of a young woman and by another act of gendered violence, both of which turn the town and the women involved into household names. It’s told from a number of perspectives, many of them belonging [...]
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Quick hit: “You look great! Have you lost weight?”
At Shakesville, Amber Leab writes about how being too sick to gain weight – and too sick for life-saving surgery – changed her perspective on that ultimate compliment, “you’re so skinny!” For Leab, being skinny was dangerous, even as the women around her envied her for it. She observes that the culture of thinness is [...]
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The FBI’s “forcible rape” definition
While the GOP tries to redefine rape and exclude survivors in their anti-choice ventures this year, it looks like the FBI has been way ahead of the game on that front. Yep, the definition of rape used in the bureau’s Uniform Crime Report is pretty damn vintage. And not vintage like 70s vintage — this [...]
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