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Sexy Spring

Love / Shove post by Debbie Rasmussen on February 25, 2009 - 3:25pm; tagged body positivity, conferences, diy, kink, reproductive health, sex education, Sexy Spring.

not sure why this is Sexy Spring's image!?

Heads-up that the dates for the sixth annual Sexy Spring conference have been announced. Mark your calendars for June 5th to June 7th and make your way to Minneapolis for this radical, sex/body positive, sex education skill-share and conference.

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Rush Limbaugh Asks, What Do Women Want?

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on February 25, 2009 - 3:00pm; tagged radio, ridiculousness, Rush Limbaugh, women's summit.

I know this week's Douchebag Decree doesn't come out until tomorrow, but I thought we could take a minute to prepare for it by discussing an O.G. Douchebag who has made some new gender waves over the past few days: Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh (a.k.a. Sir Douche-yness) has noticed a (gasp!) gender gap in his approval ratings as of late, and is planning to host a women's summit in order to figure out what he can do to get some ladies in his corner (you know, where he can better explain our shortcomings to us). An actual quote from rushlimbaugh.com:

I want some of these women to start telling me what it is I must do to close the gender gap -- or, if not what it is I must do to close the gender gap, what it is I've done that has caused the gender gap... What could I do to attract a higher favorability rating among more women in America? I own the men, and what must I do now to own women? And who better to ask than women? Including some of those who may agree that that I'm unfavorable. So stand by for that.

I know you are standing by right this minute with suggestions for good ol' Rush on how he might go about "owning" more women, so read on for more info and to pitch in your two cents!

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Buzz issue preview and web article feedback!

Love / Shove post by Kjerstin Johnson on February 25, 2009 - 2:20pm; tagged bitch magazine, issuu, magazine, MSNBC, online publishing, publishing, Rachel Maddow.

The first box-o-Buzz (our spring issue!) arrived in our Portland office yesterday! It was so exciting we felt bad holding out on our readers, and have posted a sneak peek of our 43rd issue! But read on...we want your feedback!

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Diablo Cody Takes on a Zombie Rom-Com, Makes More Room for Women in Horror?

Movies post by Tammy Oler on February 24, 2009 - 8:26pm; tagged Breathers, Diablo Cody, feminist horror films, horror, horror films, Jennifer's Body, Karyn Kusama, Megan Fox.

So Variety has reported that Diablo Cody (Juno, The United States of Tara) is joining forces with Fox Searchlight to develop a film adapation of the upcoming zombie romance novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, about a recently undead man who finds love at a zombie support group. Cody won't be writing or directing the film, but she will be producing.

This is the second horror project that Diablo Cody has recently taken on and it makes me wonder: will she make more room for women in the genre?

More after the jump...

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Virtual Insanity

Love / Shove post by Kjerstin Johnson on February 24, 2009 - 3:40pm; tagged gaming, media, new york city, rape, rapelay, video games.

The Japanese video game Rapelay (which encourages players to rape women and then force abortions upon) that Amazon.com recently pulled from its online shelves has not only hit high on the barf-o-meter and broke the WTF Scale, but has elicited reactions from a variety of sources. Although I first read about the game on Feministing, the Curvature had a great in-depth feminist response, and girl-gamer Leigh Alexander from SexyVideoGameland had an intriguing two cents as well. (Google result/bad political-metaphor-maker Kevin McCullough not so much). Most interesting was the very much non-blogsphere event of the New York City Assault Alliance Against Sexual Violence calling a news conference yesterday morning specifically denouncing any US video distributors from carrying the game. Any New Yorkers hear about it or attend it? Anyone else want to weigh in on the various responses to the story?

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What's more punk than drag?

Music post by Danny Hayes on February 24, 2009 - 3:17pm; tagged gender-bending, punk, queercore, The Cramps.

I'm a little late with my Lux Interior tribute post, but better late than never. For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Lux was the lead singer of the Cramps- a super rad, super trashy, super gay punk band that was active from the early 70s up until Lux's death earlier this month.

Adventures in Feministory: Madam CJ Walker

History post by Kelsey Wallace on February 23, 2009 - 8:19pm; tagged Adventures in Feministory, hair care products, Madam CJ Walker, millionaires.

Given the current economic crisis (and the fact that Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up at last night's Oscars), it seemed high time we dedicated the Adventures in Feministory segment of the blog to a woman who was all about the Benjamins. We could all use a little financial inspiration these days, right?

So stop clipping those coupons, put off your dumpster diving until the weather gets a little warmer, and read on to learn more about Madam CJ Walker, the first African American woman to become a self-made millionaire. Let's hope that her entrepeneurial spirit and skill at crafting hair care products for black women (her specialty) will inspire some of us to follow in her feministory footsteps.

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