Desire and Consent: Discussing Recent Rape Apologies
by: Rachel Luban Trigger Warning: discussion of sexual assault and victim-blaming follows. By now you may be acquainted with the firestorm set off by the Good Men Project’s publication of […]
Category Archives: Response
A Clearly Confused Paglia: Examining Her Latest Critique of Popstars
by: Mariann Devlin Camille Paglia, in a piece for the Hollywood Reporter, slammed both Taylor Swift and Katy Perry for lacking the kind of gritty eroticism as their pop-music colleagues […]
Feminism For Everyone: A Response to Taylor Swift
by: Mariann Devlin “I’m not a feminist, but I believe in equality.” We’ve all heard those words before, by skeptics of feminism who are almost as frustrating to me as […]
Musing on the Huffington Post’s Transnormative Coverage of Lana Wachowski
by: ellie june navidson In October of this year, the Human Rights Campaign awarded Lana Wachowski with their “Visibility Award.” And as problematic as that organization, or even the name […]
The Last Stall On the Right: An Open Letter To Roseanne Barr
by: Lindsey Dietzler Dear Roseanne, I grew up watching your television show. In fact, I have probably seen every episode of Roseanne, at least three times, no joke. Your politics […]
Guess What: Rape’s Not Funny When the Victim is a Man, Either
by: Miriam Mogilevsky I know Jezebel is low-hanging fruit, but I can’t resist picking apart their new “Sexytime Dilemmas” column and its endorsement of sexual assault, which apparently is okay when […]
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Steer Clear of Apartheid!”: On the Cancellation of “Invisible Men” at the Chicago International Social Change Festival
by: Alex Cachinero-Gorman This Sunday, October 7th, the Chicago International Social Change Festival was set to screen the Chicago premiere of Yariv Mozer’s documentary, Gvarim Bilti Nirim (The Invisible Men), […]
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Dear Drake: 3 Reasons Why I Don’t Trust You To Produce Aaliyah’s Next Album
by: Catherine Puttmann Given the fact that the 90’s urban pop goddess Aaliyah is still revered in the 2010’s, the world of pop culture was thrust into quite a tizzy […]
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It’s a Unicorn, Not a Throuple
by: David Chastity Guys we need to talk. Specifically, about this really terrible word everyone has suddenly decided they love: “thruple.” (Or is it “throuple?” God, I don’t even want […]
The Perils of Not Being “Cute”: A Response to “Deconstructing a Diminuitive Stereotype”
by: Kathryn Spindler Mimi Nguyen and I are friends. When I read her essay, “The Problems With Being Called ‘Cute’: Deconstructing a Diminutive Stereotype,” I thought about it a great […]
