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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

News post by Kjerstin Johnson on May 7, 2013 - 8:49am;

May the seventh be with you! Here's what we're reading...

  • A woman in Ontario has spent six years fighting for her right to wear a niqab while testifying against her abuser in court. Farrah Khan discusses the dangerous implications this case may have in terms of sexual assault, victim blaming, and Islamaphobia. [Shameless]
  • Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 in 2002, recently told a Johns Hopkins audience that abstienence-only education leads to abuse survivors feeling like they are worthless and not of value. (Link contains descriptions of abuse.) [Think Progress]
  • The official in charge of the U.S. Air Force's sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping. Yeah. [NBC]
  • Author Jamaica Kincaid talks to The American Reader about her new book, her style, and how critics often perceive her because she is a black Caribbean female writer. [The American Reader]
  • After a widespread protest started by ColorOfChange, FOX has not renewed the long-running show Cops for its problematic depictions of law enforcement and race. [Colorlines]
  • Skateboard brand Supreme appropriated the aesthetic of iconic feminist artist Barbara Kruger, and another artist copied them. Kruger isn't happy about either. [Atlantic Wire]
  • Indian Country profiles WNBA and international basketball star Ryneldi Becenti about her career, the rise of Jude and Shoni Schimmel, and more. [Indian Country]

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Some Problems With Princesses

Media post by Aya de Leon on May 6, 2013 - 5:10pm; tagged Disney princesses.

 

ariel, jasmine, and pocahantas all skipping
Back in March, I wrote about my frustration with reading Disney's princess books to my daughter. Instead of reading her the actual words of the Snow White tale, I've taken to freestyling an alternative storyline where Snow White is an empowered dance instructor who also loves fresh fruit. A lot of people responded that they were also annoyed by the all the helpless princess storylines, but others noted that the princesses have evolved. “Disney princesses have come a long way in the 70 years since Snow White," wrote one reader.
In some ways, this is true. In other ways, the princesses are worse now than they were in 1940.
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Why Feminists Should Care About the FBI's Hunt for Assata Shakur

News post by Jordannah Elizabeth on May 6, 2013 - 3:42pm; tagged Angela Davis, Black Panthers, Race.

assata's mug shot

Last week, the FBI named former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur as the first woman on its Most Wanted Terrorist List. This dubious milestone occurred 40 years to the day after she was, as she describes, unfairly convicted of shooting and murdering State Trooper Werner Foester in New Jersey on May 2nd, 1973.

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Mad Men Season 6 Episode Recap: For Immediate Release

TV post by Andi Zeisler on May 6, 2013 - 12:13pm; tagged Mad Men, recaps.

Don and Roger sit uneasily in a hallway

Welcome back to our weekly recap of Mad Men. This one had everything we love about the show—gripping office drama, hilarious fantasy sequences, righteously angry women, and Pete Campbell incurring bodily harm. Kelsey couldn't join us this week thanks to a wedding in Arizona, but we've got plenty to say regardless. So grab a drink—sorry, Bert, we don't have any spirits of elderflower—and settle in.

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"Seeing Like a Feminist" Book Should Be Required College Reading.

Lady in the Ivory Tower post by Lakshmi Sarah on May 6, 2013 - 11:43am; tagged academia, academics, books, India.

Some books are easy to read, yet stay with you long after you've finished the last chapter. Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin/Zubaan, 2012) is a timely work that explains a complicated subject without over-simplifying it.

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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

News post by Sarah Mirk on May 6, 2013 - 8:15am;

Hello Monday! All of these articles are ones worth reading. 

• Sexism and the Single Murderess: Frank Bruni attacks the rampant and obvious sexism of the case against Amanda Knox. [New York Times] 

• Pregnancy Resource Centers are part of a missionary movement that markets itself as saving black babies. [Colorlines]  

• One hundred angry, hundred men are still on hunger strike in Guantanamo. Will the US ever shut the prison down? [New Yorker] 

• GLAAD awarded Bill Clinton the honor of "Advocate for Change"—pretty strange for a man who passed DOMA and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. [Atlantic] 

• Politicians are always demanding an end to violence in video games. Researchers made a giant graphic of how much gun violence is actually in games. [Guardian] 

• What do people see as "consent" in sex? Check out this scene of maybe consent in The Vampire Diaries. [Sociological Images] 

• A fan jumped onstage during a Kitty Pryde concert and started going down on rapper Danny Browne. People aren't treating it like  a sexual assault, but they should be. [Feministing]

• Race in Iron Man 3: Who is this villainous Mandarin? [Racialicious] 

What are you reading? Add more links to the comments!

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BitchTapes: Songs for Public Transit

Music post by Sarah Mirk on May 3, 2013 - 4:30pm; tagged BitchTapes.

Public transit gets a lot of hate.

It's high time for a playlist celebrating buses, trains, subways, and taxis. The fine DJs at OPB Music put together this public transit playlist just in time for your Friday commute. 

Songs For Public Transit from BitchTapes on 8tracks Radio.

Also, did you know that OPB Music is way better than Pandora? They play ad-free, independent music all day every day. Some of it is even not songs about buses. Tune in!

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How "The Great Gatsby" Fears the Flapper.

Movies post by Lisa Hix on May 3, 2013 - 2:13pm; tagged books, fashion, history, The Great Gatsby.

Flappers of different races at a football came

Have you heard? There’s a new swell in town named Gatsby, and he’s bringing flapper flair back into fashion.

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Meet Reductress: The Women's Magazine Parody We've Been Waiting For

Media post by Sarah Mirk on May 3, 2013 - 1:27pm; tagged Comedy, gossip blogs, The Reductress, women's magazines.

This morning in the doctor’s office waiting room, I leafed through a copy of Ladies' Home Journal and landed on an article called,“The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Cleavage.” The article pairs tips for covering up your cleavage with a sidebar of celebrity’s “buzzworthy boobs.”

This is a real article. And it would be perfect fodder for the new women’s magazine parody website Reductress. Just launched last week, Reductress takes aim at media stuffed with “buzzworthy boob” profiles the way The Onion spoofs 24-hour newspapers. 

Among all the comedy online, Reductress stands out as genuinely fresh and funny.  Just look at these headlines:

 

Reductress headlines: "Loreal launches line of anti-bullying makeup for young girls."

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Remembering "Titters": The Complicated History of "The First Humor Collection by Women."

Women Aren't Funny post by Gabrielle Moss on May 3, 2013 - 9:25am; tagged Saturday Night Live, women in comedy.

a parody image from the 1976 comedy anthology "Titters"

When I first heard about a book called Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women, it could be conservatively stated that I just about lost my frickin' mind.

Published in 1976—smack in the middle of the both the height of second wave feminism and the golden years of “Saturday Night Live”-- Titters collected parodies, comics, and humorous writing from some of the biggest female humorists of the era, like “Saturday Night Live” performers Radner and Laraine Newman, “Saturday Night Live” writers Rosie Shuster and Anne Beatts (who also served as the book’s co-editor), satirist (and other co-editor) Deanne Stillman, comic artist Aline Kaminsky, comedian Phyllis Diller, columnist Erma Bombeck…the list went on and on.

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