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“Little Horribles” a great new web series by Amy York Rubin and Awkward Black Girl creator Issa Rae

Amy York Rubin and Awkward Black Girl creator and executive producer Issa Rae debuted the web series “Little Horribles” this week. The first episode titled “Sexual Activity” explores the world of Amy as she makes less than stellar dating decisions and suffers through painfully awkward, yet hilarious, moments after she has sex with someone new. The web series has been dubbed “Lesbian Girls,” because of these all-too real-scenes and the unpolished dialogue.

Check out the first episode below (Warning: Video is (mildly) NSFW):

Via Little Horribles:

Written and created by Amy York Rubin, “Little Horribles” is a darkly comedic web series following the poor decisions of a self-indulgent lesbian. The series chronicles all those things that really aren’t that big of a ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 12 years ago

Friday Feminist Fuck You: Hunter Moore

This is Hunter Moore. When he was broke and sitting on his parents’ couch in Sacramento, he founded the now-defunct site Is Anyone Up so he and his buddies could “post pictures of girls we were fucking at the time.” It grew to be an infamous “revenge porn” site where users submitted nude photos of their exes before shutting down amid legal troubles earlier this year.

Now he’s back with a new site that is basically the same–but worse. While the user-submitted photos on Is Anyone Up included the person’s name and links to social media profiles, the new site will also include a field for exact address.

In case it was at all unclear that the point of this new feature is to ...

By Samhita • 12 years ago

Quick hit: Very few ladies in the Daily Beast/Newsweek Digital Power index

Your morning dose of sexist #realtalk comes from a new list at the Daily Beast/Newsweek media conglomerate that tries to map out digital power. According to their digital power index–women have almost none. It must be because so few of us even know what an internet is. Oh, wait.

Notable:

Zero women are digital visionaries, builders, innovators, angels or virologists.

Let’s start our own list–who are some ladies that you would nominate as having mega-digital power?

By Chloe Angyal • 12 years ago

What is SOPA? Or, what’s up with the internet today?

SOPA is the Stop Internet Piracy Act, also known as HR 3261. It was introduced late last year and it aims to fight online trafficking of copyrighted material. So, you know that episode of Downton Abbey that you watched on Sidereel last week? If you’re in America, SOPA would make it illegal for Google to help you find that, and for your internet service provider to let you access it, and would fine the site for streaming it. But, anti-SOPA advocates fear that it amounts to censorship, that it will make it harder to access information that is now readily available online and that it will threaten whistle-blowing and other acts of free speech and transparency. Opponents of SOPA claim ...

By Miriam • 13 years ago

Quick Hit: Wikipedia Feminism Project

Perhaps in an attempt to address the issue that Maya wrote about earlier this year, the lack of women editors contributing to Wikipedia, there is a Wikipedia Feminism Project: Wikiproject Feminism.

It looks like an incredible resource both for information about feminism, but also for feminist users of Wikipedia.

Via Deanna Zandt

Perhaps in an attempt to address the issue that Maya wrote about earlier this year, the lack of women editors contributing to Wikipedia, there is a Wikipedia Feminism Project: Wikiproject Feminism.

It looks like an ...

By Jos Truitt • 13 years ago

The feminist blog revolution will be paid

Courtney published a vital article in The Nation yesterday about the feminist internet’s money problem. I highly recommend giving it a read if you’re at all interested in the future of feminist organizing.

Online organizing is like the “women’s work” of the feminist movement – it takes an incredible amount of time and energy, it’s necessary work (if we want to win!), but we don’t put a monetary value on blogging.

Feministing is a labor of love – we all have the equivalent of full time jobs in addition to our blogging duties. This shouldn’t have to be the case. Online organizing needs to be sustainable so we can continue to be impactful, and that means we need blogging ...

Online organizing is ...

By Lori Adelman • 13 years ago

The Wednesday Weigh-In: Right to surf edition

Last year, Finland became the first country in the world to make internet access a basic right for its citizens.

Since then, the country had made good on its promise to keep Internet access affordable to all Finns, with more than 85 percent of Finns currently able to access to the Internet. This makes Finland rank among the world’s Top 10 most wired nations.

And this summer, a report by a United Nations special rapporteur declared that internet access is a basic human right. According to the report, disconnecting people from the Internet – which happened across the Middle East and North Africa during the protests this spring – constitutes a human rights violation and is thus against ...

Last year, Finland became the first country in the world to make internet access a basic right for its citizens.

Since then, the country had made good on its promise to keep Internet access affordable ...

By Chloe Angyal • 13 years ago

The Feministing Five: Feminist Hulk

If you spend any time in the feminist Twittersphere, you are probably familiar with Feminist Hulk. And if you aren’t familiar with Feminist Hulk, you are missing out on the hilarious anti-sexism goodness that Feminist Hulk portions out, 140 characters at a time. For example:

HULK SMASH UNDER HOT JUNE SUN! PATRIARCHAL DEBRIS MELT IN HEAT, FORMING PUDDLES OF SEXIST SOUP AT HULK FEET. SHOWER NOW.

and,

HULK SEW POCKETS IN TINY PURPLE SHORTS. NOW HULK HAVE SOMEWHERE TO PUT THE ANTI-HEGEMONIC POEMS HULK COMPOSE POST-SMASH!

Feminist Hulk has become something of a Twitter sensation, with over 40, 000 followers and a growing public profile. It helps that Hulk has an excellent sense of humour, as evidenced by this interview with ...