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  • Sunday Singalong: Salt n Pepa

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    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

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    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 ›

  • 10 rules for women blogging about their relationship woes

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    Before beginning your rant, and it will be a rant because you’re a woman writing this, always start that post with an apologetic, introductory paragraph about how truly nice your partner is and how he (and he will be a… Read More ›

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Quick Hit: Splitting the Bill

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    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

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    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

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    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?

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    “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?

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Friday Hoyden: Emmy Noether

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    Emmy Noether – the greatest mathematician you have probably never heard of.