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Amelia Harnish commented on the blog post The problem with the Bro-Choice campaign 3 weeks, 6 days ago · View
I agree with you. I hate the idea of “bro-choice”… it’s frustrating on a lot of levels that any issue tagged “female” still for so many young men is at best deemed “not a concern of mine” or at worse deemed “only for pussies.” It’s also pretty cheesy, a lot like during October when people [...]
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Amelia Harnish commented on the blog post A short list of ways white people can be less oppressive 2 months ago · View
I too am a white woman aware of my privilege, but I don’t claim to understand it. I am constantly trying to figure out how white privilege has affected me, and how to handle it. I’m not at all saying “ohh its so hard to be white and deal with that” I’m just saying, as [...]
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Amelia Harnish commented on the blog post Announcing the 2013 Denim Day Op Ed contest! 2 months, 1 week ago · View
can you enter if you’re in grad school? I know the perfect person for this! (not me)
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Amelia Harnish commented on the blog post What happened in the last episode of “Girls” was not “uncomfortable sex” 2 months, 1 week ago · View
holy fuck. I’m actually shocked with myself because I didn’t even recognize this scene as rape at first, and I’m a rape survivor. I totally felt like ew gross, and that Adam had ruined the relationship. But nope, didn’t want to call it rape. I’ve been trying to write this comment for a while, writing [...]
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Amelia Harnish wrote a new blog post: The Kate Bolick Show Gets Picked Up by CBS 9 months ago · View
A SYTYCB Entry The TV show adaptation of Kate Bolick’s stir-causing Atlantic cover story “All The Single Ladies” sold to CBS yesterday, Deadline Hollywood reports . While The Lives of Independent Young Women has recently become a full-on pop cultural meme thanks to shows like Lena Dunham’s Girls, no mainstream television show has yet attempted to take on the “rom-com [...]
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Amelia Harnish wrote a new blog post: A rape survivor’s open letter to Rep. Todd Akin 9 months ago · View
A SYTYCB Entry When Rep. Todd Akin said that pregnancy cannot occur after a “legitimate rape,” I lost it, as any decent person would. I saw it first on Twitter, and immediately started tapping out the first of what I thought would be a series of very, very aggressive tweets to @RepToddAkin. But I never hit send. I [...] -
Amelia Harnish became a registered member 9 months ago · View




