December 2011
34 posts
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
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DASHIKI MAXI DRESSES
1998 —> NOW, AGAIN, AND FOREVER
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dandy Prof: Feminist Archiving Rules, Okay? →
dandyprof: Feministing interviews Kate Eichhorn: ”Women of my generation have always been deeply committed to imagining what might be gained by returning, if only provisionally, to the partially completed social transformations of the 1970s and 1980s, and feminism’s ‘scrap heap’ is one site among many…
Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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WHY I DO WHAT I DO
An inspiring email exchange with my favorite college professor from my sophomore year, retrieved from the bowels of my Yahoo inbox (R.I.P). Dear Professor X, One quick question: The instructions on the British Fiction essay assignment clearly states an 8 page limit. I was wondering how SEVERE this restriction is. If, for example, my paper is nine pages (as was granted to me in the postco paper!)...
Dec 17th
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SHY BODIES THAT MATTER TOO
I just fell into a Lemonheads-on-daytime-television k-hole, and found a hidden gem inside an otherwise banal video from 1992. Click ahead to 3:00 for the cuteness to begin: a just-having-released-Hey Babe Juliana Hatfield does her patented shy person backup vocals.
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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SHY BODIES THAT MATTER
Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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A REPRESSED MEM'RY
This one time, when I lived on 5th avenue in Brooklyn with a cat and a Yumi, a Thai/Japanese fusion restaurant opened on the next block. At this time in my life, fine still now, I was overwhelmingly pleased to be existing in a place where my every human and/or first-world need could be answered by a walk that spanned one block or less. You know how it is when you grow up in deep suburbs, where...
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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SOME ADVICE FROM 1892
“Don’t permit a half-moon of dirt to gather under your fingernails. There are people who judge character by fingernails. Besides, if you should happen to scratch someone’s flesh with them, blood poisoning might result and you would be a murderer.” -“Aunt Jane,” advice columnist to working women.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
ANTM Juicy →
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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SEVEN THOUGHTS ON MY TWINN, FOR SHIRLEY
When Aristotle wrote that “a friend is another self,” so similar in thought, feeling, and social status as to be nearly indistinguishable from the self, I’m pretty sure he had My Twinn dolls in mind. Oh, what? Never heard of it? My Twinn is a custom-built doll that is painted and dressed to match really existing human girls, whose parents have sent their photo (and a check) to a...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Am currently accepting tickets to the Broadway... →
The show begins this spring, coincident with my Doctorness. However, I promise to act as childishly excited as always.
Dec 2nd
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PERSONAL POLITICS →
Janet Weiss articulates my theory of life: What kind of cultural expectations were you trying to challenge with this [Wild Flag] record? JW: I just feel like it’s very difficult for women to be heroes. When you think about the heroes in our culture, most of them are men. I just want to be allowed the space to explore the idea of being heroic and causing people to fantasize, to dream...
Dec 2nd
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