Results for: Feel good
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More Than Words: Notes On (A-)Camp
Sideways oxen, promiscuous Protestants, Susan Sontag and now us.
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More Than Words: Amped For Camp
Are all camp-related words fun to say? Maybe.
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Rebel Girls: Consider This Your Women’s Herstory Month Syllabus
I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!
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Rebel Girls: Mapping Power, Privilege, and Oppression
In which we learn about matrices, intersectionality, and why oppression only works in one direction.
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More Than Words: More Words, Then!
How to further evolution — with just your brain and your tongue!
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Rebel Girls: Defining Privilege, Oppression, and Everything In Between
In which we learn about the basics of privilege, oppression, and what they have to do with each other.
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Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
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More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls
What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.
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More Than Words: Mansplaining
You don’t need me to tell you what this is.
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More Than Words: Gay Pt. 2 — Gay Cats
Come on, you knew there’d be cats involved.
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More Than Words: Tomboys R Us
“Is all your delite and joy in whiskying and romping abroad like a Tom boy?” This post is for you.
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More Than Words: The F-Word, Pt. 2: Feminists(??!??)
“Melaine Randall has said that “the day we start defining feminism, it has lost its vitality.” I’d parry with “the day we start defining feminism, we get an enormous headache and end up subjecting readers to like 1500 words of confusion, because it is impossible.”
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More Than Words: Which Witch is Which?
“[No one can break] the spell laid by language on this word.” Happy Halloween, witchez.
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More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 3 – They Said/Ze Said
The grammatical is political.
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Idol Worship: bell hooks Was Right
After the Trayvon Martin verdict, one particular (12-year-old) bell hooks quote blew up the Internet. It’s not the only part of her philosophy that still makes sense.
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More Than Words: The F-Word (Pt. 1) — Féministes
The first self-defined feminists, boobs, and a lemonade ocean.
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More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
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More Than Words: Queer, Part 2 (Growing Pains)
From Queer Nation to queer theory to alphabet soup and umbrellas and the always-dicey process of reclamation.
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More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 2 — Dyke Dynasty
In which some Dykes on Bikes take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Start your engines.