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Feminist Intersection: Ke$ha and the ongoing cultural appropriation and sexualization of Native women

Music post by Jessica Yee, March 20, 2010 - 11:46pm; tagged american idol, cultural appropriation, Feminist Intersection, Ke$ha, racism.
Several of you saw the ultra cultural appropriation performance of performances from Ke$ha on American Idol last Wednesday night - who decided in all her infinite wisdom to come out half-way through her "blah, blah, blah" song in a headdress and her version of "war paint" (I think).

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It's obviously racist, ignorant, and beyond silly, but it's also an interesting statement (that I definitely won't give Ke$ha credit for knowing) about mainstream society's imagery of Native women. Not that it's her first time donning Native gear - apparently it's something she does on the regular with different pieces.

In 2008 I wrote about Juliette Lewis and her continued decision to "dress up like an Indian" with her band and what this means in her attempt to appear strong, raw, and yes even "savage" with her music. There are some particular intersections to address when we see women dressed up like this - and it has nothing to do with the fact that these people are of course getting our actual culture, traditions, and teachings all wrong.
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Crip Drag No More?

TV post by Sara Reihani, March 20, 2010 - 11:39pm; tagged crip drag, disability, Glee, social commentary, TV, wheelchair users.
Are you counting down the days until Glee returns for a second season (23!) or are you groaning at the mere mention of a show you hoped would be wiped from the national memory once American Idol came back on the air and satisfied the public urge to see young people engage in petty competition and sweaty vocal gymnastics? Whichever camp you fall into, you may remember the amount of controversy surrounding Glee's use and attempted subversion of various stereotypes, which was covered in some detail by our very pithy Transcontinental Disability Choir guest blog back in November.
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Raising Trouble: The Pink and Blue Project

Social Commentary post by Liza Featherstone, March 20, 2010 - 7:34pm; tagged children, female artists, gender, pink is for girls, pink or blue, political art.


Artist JeongMee Yoon was inspired to create “The Pink and Blue Project” when her five-year-old daughter only wanted to wear pink, and to play with pink objects.
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I Can Has Feminizm?

Humor post by Kelsey Wallace, March 20, 2010 - 7:30pm; tagged Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen, feminizm, Glenn Beck, I Can Has Cheezburger?, I Can Has Feminizm?, LOLCats.
File it under "Where have you been for the past 26 years?," and cross-reference it with "How on earth do you have a career in news?" (you have files for both of those, don't you?): Glenn Beck came out this week as being decidedly against Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". Apparently, the song doesn't send the patriotic message he's always thought it did. Really, Glenn Beck? That song came out in 1984. You have had plenty of time to listen to the lyrics whilst hosting your tea parties and singing along at douche rallies (Sorry, Boss, but I think they play your music at their rallies). Well, we're pretty astounded by your incredible lyric-deducing abilities, and so is this kitteh:

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Raising Trouble: Is My Four-year-old a Budding Hate Criminal?

Social Commentary post by Liza Featherstone, March 19, 2010 - 6:49pm; tagged boys, gender identity, gender variance, Princess Leia, violence.
“I want to shoot Iggy*,” Ivan often tells me. He and his friends want to shoot Iggy, he says, because “we don’t like princesses.” Iggy is a boy in my son’s preschool class who wears dresses to school – often bringing several, as he may want a new look by midday -- and likes to play princess with the girls.

Why does my son have violent fantasies about this kid? It’s disturbing, to say the least.
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The Biotic Woman: What the Hell is a Femivore?

DigiBitch post by Brittany Shoot, March 19, 2010 - 6:39pm; tagged chickens, femivore, food politics, language use, reappropriation of language, this is feminism?, urban homesteading, veganism.
I mentioned over the weekend that I was a little too miffed after reading the terribly myopic piece in the New York Times Magazine last weekend, "The Femivore's Dilemma," to write about it then. The internets move quickly, but I figure a few days late is better than never. Since my time here is quickly drawing to a close, I figured I’d revisit the piece because it really deserves some ecofeminist deconstruction.

First, the obvious: "Femivore" is a dumb word. Why? Because it implies a diet of women.
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Reproductive Writes: Sexed Up: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

Social Commentary post by Holly Grigg-Spall, March 19, 2010 - 6:27pm; tagged female sexual dysfunction, Flibanserin, Leonore Tiefer, Reproductive Writes, sexual disorders, The New View campaign, Viagra.
Leonore Tiefer is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with an international reputation as a lecturer, author, activist and theorist in the field of sexuality. She has written widely about the medicalization of female sexuality and heads up the New View Campaign, which is a grassroots network challenging the distorted and oversimplified understanding of sexuality promoted by the pharmaceutical industry as a means to profit. In this interview she talks about her work and the race to produce a 'female Viagra.'
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Bitchtapes: Cover to Cover

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson, March 19, 2010 - 3:39pm; tagged BitchTapes, covers.

Wrap your work week up with an *extra special guest Bitchtapes!* Misty, a Bitch mag reader and winner our subscription contest last month for a Bitch goody bag and a shot at Bitchtapes, has handpicked a great selection of covers side-by-side with their original. Here's Misty's mix in her own words:
My choices are 5 original songs and 5 covers (though as I created this playlist, I saw some songs that I thought were originals were not, so there may be versions of even these songs from way back when). As I have no talent for music, I have always found it interesting how one musician can put out a song and another artist takes it and really makes it their own. With instantly-recognizable classics, a musician must possess a self-confidence in their abilities to take a song that so many people relate to or love and put their mark on it. Though I wouldn't describe all these originals as timeless classics, I like how each of the covers are so much more than just repeated lyrics.

Check out Misty's track list below and enjoy this reader-deejayed Bitchtapes!
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Heather Cassils in Out: Kissin' Gaga and Pushing Envelopes

Music post by Kjerstin Johnson, March 18, 2010 - 7:36pm; tagged Heather Cassils, Lady GaGa, Performance Art, queer.
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While the blogosphere is still wrapping their head around the epic Telephone video, Out Magazine got a hold of Heather Cassils, whose prison-yard smooch with Gaga is one of the most talked about portions of the video. A long-time performance artist, Cassils went to the "Telephone" audition on a whim, and the kiss she and Gaga shared was completely unscripted. While her interactions with Gaga are worth a read, Cassils also speaks about her art ("I use the fact that the image is live to try to capture and transfix people, because people can walk away from a painting.") representation ("binaries are dangerous across the board"), about the co-option of queer identity for pop stars. ("That's been going on since the dawn of time.")
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Douchebag Decree: DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN EDITION

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace, March 18, 2010 - 6:20pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, Erick Erickson, Margaret Wente, showdown.
Someone should make a bumper sticker that reads So many douchebags, so little time. I'd buy it. Every week when the Douchebag Decree comes around, there are too many douches and it's almost impossible to determine who deserves the honor most. This week, we have two very strong contenders, which is why we need YOU to vote for your (least) favorite in a DOUCHEBAG SHOWDOWN. Two douches enter, one douche leaves!

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In one corner: Erick "Ugly feminists return to their kitchens" Erickson! The fightin' feminist-hater!

In the other corner: Margaret "Blogs are a guy thing" Wente! The super cybersexist!

Ladies and gentlemen, place yer bets!
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Andi is the co-founder of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. A longtime freelance writer and illustrator, Andi's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers.

She passes her non-Bitch hours watching television and embroidering portraits of dogs, often simultaneously. Her other interests include painting, walking, candy, Scrabble, and the interrobang.

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Atlas Sound // Logos
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Favorite books: Wanderlust (Rebecca Solnit), Ozma of Oz (L. Frank Baum), Orlando (Virginia Woolf)

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Music: Miles Davis, The Who, Gabriel-era Genesis, Podcasts: The Bugle, RadioLab

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Favorite movies: Raising Arizona, The Life of Brian, Hope & Glory

Favorite TV shows: Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, I'm Alan Partridge, The Sopranos, 30 Rock

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What I'm listening to:

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cop/legal/FBI dramas on TV, geopolitical hypertext thrillers, uncomfortable/inconvenient documentaries, movies based in/about Boston (Good Will Hunting, Gone Baby Gone, The Departed, etc.), & a mess of TV shows on DVD: Twin Peaks, Seinfeld, Rob & Big, My So-Called Life, Big Love, Taxi

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Graduate school and the Internet have relegated me (and my attention span) to the land of short stories. It's a nice place to be, especially when Lorrie Moore and George Saunders are there.

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Arrested Development, The Twilight Zone, Mad Men, 30 Rock

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The Pursuit of Harpyness

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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen, Strangers in Paradise series, Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Peep Show, 30 Rock, the Critic

What blogs I like:

What Is This Light

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contributing writer, The Nation

Journalist, author, teacher, mom

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Why Not Socialism? By D.A. Cohen. Latest issue of The Baffler. The Averaged American, by Sarah Igo.

What I'm listening to:

as always, stuff that MAY have been considered cool three years ago (e.g. Vampire Weekend) or was never ever cool (e.g. Beyonce). On the feminist tip, recently enjoyed a performance of Bach's Coffee Cantatas.

What I'm watching:

The Daily Show, Project Runway, Rachel Maddow

What blogs I like:

Radical Mothers for Peace and Sleep

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On the Map Blogger

Mandy Van Deven is a freelance writer, the founder of the Feminist Review blog, and the Associate Editor of GirlFuture. She's worked as a community organizer and nonprofit administrator for ten years in Brooklyn and Atlanta on issues such as educational equity for low-income girls of color, reproductive and sexual health, safety, queer rights, and economic inequality. Mandy is the co-author of Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment in Schools and on the Streets and a contributing writer for the Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism, both of which will be released later this year.

What I'm reading:

Best Sex Writing 2010 (Kramer Bussel), Committed (Gilbert), Tunnel Vision (Minhas), Nine Lives (Dalrymple), 250+ blogs and news feeds in my Google Reader

What can I say? I like to read.

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What I'm watching:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Lost, House, Grey's Anatomy

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