I LOVE EVERYTHING about this photo of a multi-tasking mama — an unknown photo researcher in Paris — hard at work in 1982.
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Sana Javed discusses why she stopped wearing the hijab in 2009
I AM ENDLESSLY FASCINATED by trans-cultural feminism. This is in part because being reminded of the tenuousness of my convictions always makes me feel alive. (A bit dramatic, I know.) So naturally, the intersection of Western media, Muslim women, and feminism is a place of exhilaration for me. [click to continue…]
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I AM LUCKY ENOUGH to have become good friends here at graduate school with a bonified Jane Austen nerd. (Hello, former English majors!) When I am a mess over school or weepy about love sagas, this friend of mine always listens to my gripes and then pauses thoughtfully, before saying something to the effect of: “It sounds like you need some more Jane in your life.” (Yes, this is her proposed remedy for everything.) [click to continue…]
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THIS FIVE YEAR-OLD HAS it all figured out! I’m a bit envious of her clarity on life’s heavy subjects. And I’m completely charmed by her passion. I love when she says “If he comes running out…”
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TOMORROW MARKS THE 38th ANNIVERSARY of the supreme court’s Roe v. Wade decision. I’m so grateful to have been born into a country where sisters (and brothers, too, of course) before me fought for women’s right to choose! So how are you celebrating? Need ideas? [click to continue…]
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Jamie sports Style Council's recommended cutoff sweatshirt look.
LATELY I’VE BEEN LOVING The Seventeen Magazine Project, a social experiment and blog from 18 year-old high school senior, Jamie Kelles. The project guidelines require that Jamie live strictly according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine for 30 days (from May 21 to the day of her high school graduation, June 21), in order to investigate further “the role of beauty/fashion magazines in society.” Her findings? Well, nearly to the end of this mad sociologist experiment, Jamie has blogged witty insight on all kinds of teen fem issues. Here are some of the highlights: [click to continue…]
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THIS IS ALSO kind of old news. (Sorry friends.) But surely it’s not too late for me to express my deep sadness over the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in downtown Manhattan after serving the public for 160 years. St. Vincent’s was the only hospital in NYC that supported home births, and since closing, it is now be illegal for more than half of New York City’s licensed midwives to deliver babies at home. [click to continue…]
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EW, WHY DOES Sex and the City keep betraying their awesome roots by making horrible movies that involve living happily ever after whilst traveling to foreign lands? (Did you see the first movie? Will you see this one?) [click to continue…]
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WOULDN’T YOU RATHER die a bingo-playing spinster than be subjected to this kind of stupid ridicule? This detergent ad from 1936 starts, “Isn’t it natural for every girl to want popularity, romance, a devoted husband? What a pity, then to see lovely girls like those above losing out because they are careless about perspiration odor in underthings.” Poor Hildegarde over there on the right. At 27, she’s practically a cadaver.
(image via Jezebel)
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QUESTION: IS THE COMMERCIAL for HPV prevention that keeps repeating “what if?” (like some nightmare anaphora poem) ruining anyone else’s life? No? Well it makes me have a near panic attack every time it comes on Hulu. What commercials are driving you nuts these days? Dish it. And speaking of scary ads, here are some vintage gems.
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