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Fighting for the Right to Go Topless

Politics post by Jordannah Elizabeth on May 22, 2013 - 5:08pm; tagged body image, criminal justice.

Holly Van Voast, shirtless in New York

This past week, the news broke that New York City began to instruct its police officers this winter that to make sure they act accordingly to legality of women going topless in public. It’s easy to dismiss this law with a punch line, but the truth is that instructing all of New York’s police force to leave topless women alone is groundbreaking and part of a long running movement lead by women who have fought for topless equality.

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Star Trek Into Feminism: Three Ways the Sci-Fi Series Needs to Change

TV post by zach on May 22, 2013 - 3:02pm; tagged LGBT, Race, Sci-Fi, Star Trek.

Uhura wearing a tiny red dress

Star Trek has a reputation.

For almost fifty years, the disempowered and the marginalized and the outcasts have held up Star Trek as a show that said, “This is what we can aspire to: a humanity that has evolved beyond inequality and oppression”. The show presents a vision of Earth that has moved beyond racism and classism, beyond ableism and sexism and homophobia. As a life-long Trekkie, it is tempting to agree with this reputation. Me and Star Trek, hand in hand, running through fields of wildflowers on a soft-focus sunny day while I gaze upon them longingly. Oh Star Trek! So progressive! So feminist!

But this reputation is not reality. 

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Oh Joy Sex Toy: The Fleshlight

Comics post by Erika Moen on May 22, 2013 - 12:36pm; tagged Oh Joy Sex Toy, sex, sex toys.

comic: We're the anal safety snails, reminding you to start slowly

Read on for a thrilling NSFW sex toy review comic in the Oh Joy Sex Toy series. 

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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

News post by Hannah Siobhan ... on May 22, 2013 - 8:42am; tagged 'illegal immigrant', Facebook, feminist porn, rape culture, teen pregnancy.

It's Wednesday again! Here's some feminist news to start your day.

  • The San Francisco Chronicle recently picked up on the fact that no human being is illegal and officially dropped the term "illegal immigrant" [Colorlines] 
  • It's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month and ad campaigns are further stigmatizing the very people they seek to serve. [Policymic] 
  • Feminist porn! Read all about it! [Policymic]
  • For those who've been following the rape culture on Facebook outrage (#FBrape), Women, Action, and Media just published an open letter to Facebook requesting that its moderators remove hate speech that glorifies violence against women. [Salon, The Feminist Wire]
  • Just the podcast you've been waiting for! On present day practices of anarchism, buddhism, and feminism, and how they all interrelate. [Center of Gravity]
  • Here are some thoughtless things one writer has heard while in a wheelchair, and her list of 10 thing never to say. [Mobility Resource] 

Stay tuned!

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Disability on TV: Where's the (Real) Representation This Fall?

TV post by Caitlin Wood on May 21, 2013 - 4:09pm; tagged blair underwood, crip drag, disability, ironside, michael j. fox.

Michael J Fox show cast

TV networks announced their fall programming schedules last week and the slate of new shows is both (kind of) good and bad news for portrayals of people people with disabilities.

The good news is that there is a meager improvement in the representation of disabled characters in starring roles. By “meager” I mean out of seventeen new shows debuting on NBC, (only) three main characters have physical disabilities.

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Five Jokes About Feminism (That Are Actually Funny)

Women Aren't Funny post by Gabrielle Moss on May 21, 2013 - 1:40pm; tagged Comedy, Margaret Cho, rape jokes, women in comedy.

Well, gang, there’s some good news and some bad news. The good news is that feminist comedians and feminist critiques of comedy have been all over the news lately! Woo! Yay!

The bad news is that this is, in large part, because there are a bunch of people who think that they have a constitutionally enshrined right to tell rape jokes and then never have to hear any criticism about them. Boo! Blerg!

There have been a lot of great recent critiques of this sadly evergreeen controversy (you can find some here, here, here and here) and also some awesome round-ups of rape jokes that don’t undermine or disempower assault survivors (some examples can be found here, here, and here).

But while challenging rape jokes specifically is an important way to show that comedy belongs to everyone, we can also draw attention to comedians who tell jokes that embrace women’s lives and experiences--rather than reducing them to blank canvasses for punchlines--showcasing the fact that comedy embraces women far more often than it acts shitty and hostile to us.

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The Race of Khan: Whitewashing in the New Star Trek Film

Movies post by Hanna White on May 21, 2013 - 11:21am; tagged Race, Sci-Fi, Star Trek, whitewashing.

Star Trek: Into Darkness came out this weekend, and like any good Trekkie, I was eager to see the film. And although I came away from doing so feeling satisfied, there was one thing that stuck in my craw.

 

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