By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

Men Who Trust Women

Everywhere you turn these days, people are talking about reproductive freedom.

From the uproar over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation pulling its funding from Planned Parenthood to the GOP frontrunner warning of “the dangers of contraception,” a lot of people in America are talking about a woman’s right to decide if, when and with whom she has a baby.

A lot of those people believe that a woman should not have the right to make that choice. And a lot of them are men.

In the past few weeks, women’s voices have been glaringly absent from the conversation about women’s health. When the House Committee on Congressional Oversight convened a hearing to talk about the fact that the ...

Everywhere you turn these days, people are talking about reproductive freedom.

From the uproar over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation pulling its funding from Planned Parenthood to the GOP frontrunner warning of “the ...
By The Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Commons • 12 years ago

LGBTQ Advocacy Project in Top 15 of White House Campus Challenge

Fairfield University’s Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Commons (GSSC) is the only LGBTQ advocacy group in the Top 15 finalists of the White House & MTVU Campus Champions of Change Challenge. It is currently up to a public vote to decide the Top 5. Top 5 winners will be invited to an event at the White House and featured by mtvU and MTV Act. GSSC is a small grassroots student initiative working within a private Jesuit university in need of student and institutional support to continue their mission of supporting the LGBTQ community and combating issues relating to gender and women.

Please help GSSC reach more people by voting for The Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Commons! 

Fairfield University’s Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Commons (GSSC) is the only LGBTQ advocacy group in the Top 15 finalists of the White House & MTVU Campus Champions of Change Challenge. It is currently ...
By Vanessa • 12 years ago

Memo to Billy Crystal

Blackface is not okay. Ever.

In case you missed it, the actor and comedian decided to don blackface as he did a Sammy Davis Jr. impression in his opening sequence for the Oscars last night. Despite the fact that this impression was apparently a popular bit when Crystal was on Saturday Night Live back in the day, frankly I don’t think it matters. It’s still a historically racist act that’s been practiced in theater and film as a way to stereotype black people — and regardless of comedic intentions, that history and hurt it’s caused the black community trumps. The Academy should have known better than to allow it.

As the media shitstorm develops around this, I ...

Blackface is not okay. Ever.

In case you missed it, the actor and comedian decided to don blackface as he did a Sammy Davis Jr. impression in his opening sequence for the Oscars last night. Despite the ...
By Courtney • 12 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: In Wonderland

For far too long, surrealism has been associated with solely male minds. Exhibit A: Wikipedia’s accounting of the infamous crew: Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy.

Notice anything? Yeah, not a lot of ladies in the house. But in fact, as this powerful new collection proves, female artists in the movement were a powerful force–delving deeply into their own subconscious and dreams. In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, edited ...

For far too long, surrealism has been associated with solely male minds. Exhibit A: Wikipedia’s accounting of the infamous crew: Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger ...
By Miriam • 12 years ago

Guest Post: Why I’m rooting against Bridesmaids at the Oscars

By Silpa Kovvali

History will rightly view Bridesmaids as an important milestone in more ways than one. It was a female-driven comedy. It was a box office hit. And despite the ensemble of women at its center, its raunchy humor was characteristic of producer Judd Apatow. But as director Paul Feig suggested, Apatow-esque vulgarity is important for the underlying human sentiment it reveals. In buddy comedies that revolve around friendship between men, for example, characters want their friends to loosen up or to have a good time, however misguided their efforts. When a man acts in a passive-aggressive manner toward his buddy, his behavior stems from very real fears that the relationship will fade away and he’ll get left behind. ...

By Silpa Kovvali

History will rightly view Bridesmaids as an important milestone in more ways than one. It was a female-driven comedy. It was a box office hit. And despite the ensemble of women at its center, its ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 12 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader


Gif via Jessica. Watch this frat boy Virginia legislator tell his bros fellow state representatives about how his wife totally wouldn’t bone him thanks to the state’s transvaginal ultrasound bill.

A video compilation of some of the women-directed films that were passed over by the Academy for an Oscar this year.

Gaby Dunn’s scary and infuriating story of being harassed while performing at a comedy show.

In defense of Liz Lemon: “We all know this has always been the goal: enough female funny out there that each one doesn’t have to hold the banner quite so high.”

An interactive map of government benefits.

Oh good. DSK is back in the news after ...


Gif via Jessica. Watch this frat boy Virginia legislator tell his bros fellow state representatives about how his wife totally wouldn’t bone him thanks to the state’s transvaginal ultrasound bill.

A video compilation ...
By Anna • 12 years ago

The Feministing Five: Maya Dusenbery

Maya Dusenbery is another one of our amazing new contributors here at Feministing. My interview with Maya comes after my past interviews with Zerlina and Eesha, allowing our readers to get to know the growing Feministing gang better.

She is based out of San Francisco (with Jos and I!), representing for the West Coasters of Feministing. Maya was born and raised in Minnesota where she attended college at a small liberal arts school, majoring in political science and international relations. After graduating, she moved to New York City to intern at the Sexuality Information and Education Council where she got really involved with the reproductive rights world there. She spent two years working at NARAL Pro-Choice New York ...

Maya Dusenbery is another one of our amazing new contributors here at Feministing. My interview with Maya comes after my past interviews with Zerlina and Eesha, allowing our readers to get to know the growing Feministing ...
By Miriam • 12 years ago

What We Missed

Via Andee Cornell on Facebook.

Crunk Feminist Collective, Quirky Black Girls and FAAN Mail have launched a Feminist Care Packages project. Love this:

Feminist Care Packages are public offerings for healing and justice, invitations to survivors, perpetrators, and community to create a new narrative for the world we want. They include a letter to the person and a list of resources that may help them on the road to resilience. These are open outpourings of hope and possibility.

Amanda Marcotte on why we shouldn’t judge Rhianna.

Many people on twitter supported Sandra Fluke during her testimony at the birth control hearing yesterday that was held in response to the male-only hearing she was originally barred from speaking at.

Via Andee Cornell on Facebook.

Crunk Feminist Collective, Quirky Black Girls and FAAN Mail have launched a Feminist Care Packages project. Love this:

Feminist Care Packages are public offerings for healing and justice, invitations to ...

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