I recently came across Leah Zoller’s criticism of a review of an all-female exhibition at Tochigi Prefectural Museum in Japan, which she wrote for Feministe. I was so irked by the original review, by C.B. Liddell for The Japan Times, … Read more →
I’m sure by now many of you are aware of the sexual assault charges against students at Connecticut’s Torrington High School, which I attended for two years. Many of the details of the case have not been released, but the … Read more →
One hundred two years ago today, a devastating fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. Within 18 minutes, 146 people were killed, most of them young immigrant women. The factory bosses locked the fire doors to … Read more →
On the heels of the Steubenville trial, another sexual assault case has risen to national attention, presumably due to its similarities: football players and nasty comments made about the victim on social media. Two 18-year-old men–and at 18, they are … Read more →
This is my post about Steubenville. Lots of people have written lots of intelligent things. Dan Wetzel wrote cogently about the case for Yahoo Sports, which isn’t the sort of place where you would normally see discussions of rape culture. … Read more →
Whee, another fun historic newspapers blog! (Also check out The Hope Chest.) As usual, many of the topics are pretty grim, but I do love some good old-fashioned reportage. This snippet from 1860 is pretty exceptional: MEN’S RIGHTS. The married … Read more →
Brava, Jessica Chastain! Apparently, some media outlets are attempting to manufacture a feud between Chastain and her fellow Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence. Catfight! Chastain responded to the rumors on her Facebook fan page, which I’m going to quote at length … Read more →
Laura Murphy, a parent from Fairfax County, Virginia, is lobbying her school board to remove Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved from their curriculum. Evidently her high school senior son had nightmares after reading the book, and she decided it wasn’t appropriate … Read more →
So…there’s this anime show called Princess Tutu. It’s one of the most profoundly odd things I’ve ever seen. I haven’t seen much anime, so I’m probably ignorant of genre conventions, but it’s so odd. Not necessarily in a bad way, … Read more →
I recently attended a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Talk to Her (Hable con Ella). It made me really angry, and some of the responses to the film have made me even angrier. I haven’t seen any other Almodóvar films, so … Read more →