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Bon Appetit! 100 Years of Julia Child

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on August 15, 2012 - 12:49pm; tagged feminist icons, food, Julia Child.
Today would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. Though the legendary cook, author, and pop culture personality died in 2004, her delicious (feminist!) legacy lives on.

Julia Child in her kitchen in 1970
Happy Birthday! Photo by Arnold Newman/Getty Images
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Push(back) at the Intersections: How About Some -isms with Your Feminism?

Social Commentary post by s.e. smith on August 18, 2010 - 12:06pm; tagged ableism, feminist history, feminist icons, Push(back) at the Intersections, racism within feminism, transphobia.
What do Mary Daly, Margaret Sanger, Nellie McClung, Martha Griffiths, Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro, Julie Bendel, Robin Morgan, Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffreys, and Beth Elliott have in common?

You were going to tell me they're feminist icons, weren't you? Awww, how cute.

That's actually the wrong answer.
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