Women's eNews

Apr 19

Bad advice books for women are “upsetting unless you read them aloud to mock them.” On Brooklyn’s Bad Feminist Reading event and the women who run it.

Aug 24

Women! You don’t owe prettiness to anyone.

Aug 14

Panelist Silvia Augsburger, a socialist former congresswoman, said the “classic idea” of men as the primary wage earners without family responsibilities is no longer viable in Argentina.

Jul 16

“We can’t move too quickly over the important cultural (and deeply political) feminist work that younger women are leading, largely online. All this work is rapidly building into a platform that has the power to force big policy changes, and that’s exciting.” Erin Matson of NOW closes out this great intergenerational convo at In These Times with feminist rock stars Katha Pollit, Sady Doyle, Susan Douglas, and Jenn Pozner. (via vanessavalenti)

Jul 10

“and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past” Ani Difranco, from the song “32 Flavors”, off the album Not a Pretty Girl (1995)

“It is not your penis we have been envying all these years, but your freedom” Sue Kedgley, 1972 (via feministquotes)

Jul 2

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Your Feminist Movie Rundown for July!

July Movies Offer Steamy Romance, No Heat Relief

By Jennifer Merin

WOMENSENEWS)— Expect unlikely romance on the big screens this July. These steamy stories of unusual couplings are challenging, unconventional and opening one after another in relentless progression throughout the month.

They’re summer escapes, but not heat relief.

Topping the list are two costume-clad love stories, both opening July 13. While thoroughly entertaining us with romantic adventures in other times, other realms, they provide compelling considerations of apparently eternal issues: class conflict and exploitation...Read more

Jun 28

big fat feminist: #KeepItReal: Or, How I Learned To Love My Body And Why Other People Still Haven't

bigfatfeminist:

I am 21, and I have learned something important over the past couple of years: most men my age don’t understand what I’m really offering them when I offer them myself.

There’s no way to articulate years of being a punchline, being a punching bag, being invisible. There is not a single sentence I…