Culture

Sunday Singalong: Salt n Pepa

By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-08 • ( 2 )

Salt n Pepa’s hip hop songs were filled to the brim with feminist messages about self-respect and sexual autonomy from “Let’s Talk About Sex” to “Ain’t Nuthin But A She Thing” and their songs were sooo catchy.

Actually, fairytales weren’t always so sexist

By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-07 • ( 14 )

What modern mother hasn’t cringed at the pink and passive fairy tale princesses served up to her impressionable girl? The Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel are heroines of such vapid foolishness one wonders how they… Read More ›

Quick Hit: Splitting the Bill

By Mindy on 2012-04-04 • ( 9 )

What one man’s refusal to listen when she asks to pay for her meal tells a woman on a first date.

Back from MICF tomorrow

By tigtog on 2012-04-03 • ( 8 )

Here are just some of the shows I’ve seen in the last week at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I got a good day’s rest yesterday (most performers don’t do Monday shows, so it’s a chance for everybody to catch… Read More ›

Sunday Poet: Adrienne Rich

By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-01 • ( 4 )

These are the words that made me love Adrienne Rich’s work: This is what living with children could be – without school hours, fixed routines, naps, the conflict of being both mother and wife with no room for being simply,… Read More ›

Giveaway: Why Study Women’s History?

By lauredhel on 2012-03-31 • ( 10 )

“Working with college students, I often recall myself as a sophomore at Barnard College in 1966. I wanted nothing to do with women’s movements or women’s history. When my advisor, Annette Baxter, suggested that I enroll in her course on U.S. women’s history, I had the nerve to reply that I would rather study “real” history.”

In 1-3 paragraphs, how would you have responded to the young Ms Freedman, and to women like her?