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Douchebag Decree: Disney's Grab for Dia de Los Muertos and Half-Assed Apology

Douchebag Decree post by Emilly Prado on May 8, 2013 - 2:24pm; tagged cultural appropriation, Disney.

DOUCHEBAG DECREE logo

Oh, Disney.  We don’t always want to hate on you. Sometimes we even debate whether your princesses have gotten better over the years. But now you want to trademark the phrase “Dia de los Muertos”?!

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I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: An Interview with Child-Free Comedian Jen Kirkman

Women Aren't Funny post by Gabrielle Moss on May 8, 2013 - 2:12pm; tagged books, Comedy.

Comedian Jen Kirkman promoting her new book

Traditional family life has long been fodder for stand-up comedy—but jokes about life as a child-free woman are a less-charted terrain.

Luckily, we have comedian Jen Kirkman to lead the way. Kirkman, a writer and regular performer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and “After Lately,” recently released a New York Times best-selling memoir, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids.

Though I Can Barely Take Care of Myself covers Kirkman’s entire life—including her Boston childhood and long comedy career—and zeroes in with especially sharp wit on the experience of being an adult without children.

Kirkman took a moment out of her current tour in support of the book to discuss what inspired her book, why some people think child-free women will change their minds, and what happens when an elementary schooler attends a sleepover party while dressed like Groucho Marx.

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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

News post by Sarah Mirk on May 8, 2013 - 8:54am;

Oh hello. Here's all the feminist news I'm reading today.

• A video of Charles Ramsey, the black neighbor of three kidnapping victims in Cleveland, went viral yesterday—it's remarkable not just because the neighbor helped rescue three imprisoned women, but because he points out issues of rampant racism. [Salon] 

* Delaware legalized same-sex marriage! [Autostraddle] 

• A judge blasts the Obama Administration's decision to keep fighting against Plan B access for young girls. [RH Reality Check]

• Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison for tax evasion, even though she paid off the back taxes. She compared the tax system to slavery, saying: "I was put into a system I didn't know the nature of.... I'm a child of former slaves. I got into an economic paradigm and had that imposed on me. I sold 50 million units ... now I'm up here paying a tax debt. If that's not likened to slavery, I don't know what is."

• In much better news, the guy in charge of Girls Gone Wild is also going to jail—he was convicted of false imprisonment and assault. [Salon] 

• Sexual assault in the military is not going away. In fact, it seems like 90 percent of military assaults are never reported. [Mother Jones]

• Do hospital bills make any sense? Survey says: No. A recent study found wildly differing charges for the same procedures, leaving the cost of healthcare dependent on the whims of each hospital. [New York Times] 

• Writer Sady Doyle emailed prolific rape-joke-maker Sam Morris and sinerely asked him why his routine is so heavy on hating women. He finally replied with, well, what you'd expect. [Global Comment] 

• 21 things making you fat right now: A list of the ridiculous things junk science has reported make you fat. [xoJane] 

• What do you desire? The new issue of n+1 has an interesting personal essay about one woman trying to figure out what she wants from sex and relationships. [n+1]

What are you reading? Add your links to the comments. 

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Teen Sex is Safer than You Think

Media post by R. Danielle Egan on May 7, 2013 - 3:38pm; tagged Parenting, sex, teen sex.

Vintage book cover: Teen vice!

Over the past several months, I have found myself increasingly depressed and enraged by what seems to be endless stories about sexual and physical violence directed toward girls. There is something that tends to haunt our culture’s thinking about girls: suspicion.

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Interview with Author of New Book "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"

Reverse Cowgirl post by Ashley Wells on May 7, 2013 - 2:15pm; tagged books, horses, women.

anton disclafani and horse

Anton DiSclafani's new novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (coming out on June 4 from Riverhead books), tells the Depression Era coming-of-age story of Thea Atwell, a complicated and willful 15-year old girl who is exiled to an equestrienne boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for her role in a mysterious family tragedy. Thea is a nuanced character whose relationship with horses and riding lends a sense of power and steadiness to life as she confronts what it means to be a young woman of her time.

Anton Disclafani herself is a horse-lover herself and was gracious enough to take time off from her writing, teaching, and caring for her horse, Val, to speak with me about her new book and what horses mean to young girls. 

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Go See SPIRIT: A Showcase of 100 Years of Queer Asian Activism

Art and Design post by Devyn Manibo on May 7, 2013 - 1:31pm; tagged asian-american artists, celeste chan, qpoc, queer, queer artists, queer people of color, queer rebels, san francisco.

An image of Tina Takemoto in black and white wearing a baker's outfit, holding a rolling pin

For queer people of color, art making is survival.

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Oh Joy Sex Toy Comic: Queens of the Pole

Comics post by Erika Moen on May 7, 2013 - 9:26am; tagged Oh Joy Sex Toy, sex.

comic preview with erika being excited over pole dancers

For the second installment of my comic series on sex, I attended a Disney-themed pole dancing event. Yep. You read that right. 

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