Jennifer Lawrence and the “Cool Girl” phenomenon. [Buzzfeed]
I’m Lip Magazine‘s Feminist of the Week.
Reading while female. [In These Times]
PETA: Cutting off their feminist nose to spite their animal rights face. [A Room of Our Own]
The history of Cosmo‘s most infamous sex tip: a donut around the penis. [Slate]
In defence of Barbie: encouraging children to engage in safe, imaginative play about sex, sexuality and sexualisation. (Also this.) [The Cut]
I wrote about the power of work/life balance in Charmed. [Bitch Flicks]
Yet another piece in defence of Sex & the City. [Daily Life]
What happens when feminism becomes trendy. [Jezebel]
The unsexy reality of centrefolds: behind the scenes of Playboy (NSFW). [Beautiful Decay]
Elite feminism. [The Nation]
On-screen abortion is portrayed as more dangerous than it actually is. [Bitch]
“Interview with a Pregnant Porn Star.” (SFW) [The Hairpin]
Barbie is #unapologetic about her Sports Illustrated swimsuit photo shoot. [Barbie Collector]
On behalf of child molestation survivors, Cate Blanchett, don’t accept the Best Actress Oscar. [Thought Catalog]
Vintage Valentines Day cards that glorify intimate partner violence. [Sociological Images]
The Stella Prize’s 2014 longlist is out and the Australian Women Writers Challenge has a compilation of reviews of the finalist, including two of mine.
Woody Allen responds to the 20-year-old accusations that he molested his daughter, while Vanity Fair has 10 facts from the case that put the he said, she said in perspective. [NYTimes]
Down syndrome on Ryan Murphy and Brad Fulchuck’s Glee and American Horror Story. [Bitch Flicks]
Marnie’s pretty girl problems. (Also this.) [LA Review of Books]
I’m writing about female friendship in For a Good Time, Call… [Bitch Flicks]
One of the things that struck me during my trip to New York was the abundance of women of colour caring for white children. The movies would have you believe that most nannies are white (The Nanny Diaries, Uptown Girls, Mary Poppins) but I don’t recall seeing any. Ellen Jacobs’ photo series documents these women and their charges. [Slate]
I Kissed a Girl: Rihanna and Shakira’s faux, male gazey lesbianism. [Jezebel]
Meanwhile, Russian lesbians shouldn’t be seen. [Feminist Times]
The “coward’s punch” is far more rampant than violence against women, or so the current furore surrounding male street violence would have you believe. [Daily Life]
Move over Beyonce, 2013 was Miley’s year. [Village Voice]
If porn stars could speak in schools, this is what they’d say. [New Statesman]
Yet another attempt to unpack the consumption of art created by abusers. [Bitch Flicks]
How Aussie Girls relate to their Lena Dunham-created counterparts. One of the best think pieces I’ve read about the show. [Kill Your Darlings]
Why we shouldn’t joke about incest in the wake of Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic remake. [Here There Be Dragons]
Speaking of Flowers, is it anti-reading? [The New Yorker]
What if we spent as much mental energy worrying about homeless women as we did celebrities? [Jezebel]
Was Sixteen Candles the blueprint for the Steubenville rape? [Bitch Flicks]
How Hannah Horvath’s eBook would read IRL. [Nerve]
@ModernClueless makes a cameo at the Val party! While you’re following them, head on over and follow me, too. [Twitter]
Can we separate the art from the accused-pedophile, Woody Allen? [The Onion]
Beyonce blogged about gender equality. [Mother Jones]
Sexualising violence against women. [The Guardian]
And while we’re on the topic, check out Yolanda Dominguez’s photo series of real women in model poses. Ridonculous!
Stop calling yourself a feminist if all you’re really interested in talking about is how hard it is out there for the menz. [The Guardian]
Being a woman on the internet. [Pacific Standard]
Navigating teen witchdom. [The Lifted Brow]
Fat on film: Brodie Lancaster muses on how it makes her feel when fat characters are the butt of the joke. [Rookie]
What it’s like to have a partner behind bars. [Vice]
I critique dick pics. [The Hairpin]
What Beyonce and Michelle Obama’s friendship tells us about feminism. [Daily Life]
On radicalism and porn. I fall somewhere in between the spectrum of questionable, debased porn for freedom of speech’s sake and alarmist anti-porn rhetoric. Where do you your views sit? [Deep Green Resistance News Service]
Dissecting the unreality of Her. [NPR]
The 68th Down Under Feminists Carnival is here, with lots of great year-end articles, and some from me, as well. [Ideologically Impure]
A trans man weighs in on the “boys will be boys” debate. [Rookie]
What Will Ferrel’s career shows us about men and masculinity. [Think Progress]
Cleaning is still women’s work. [New Republic]
Is Jennifer Lawrence really as body-positive as she’s made out to be? [Sweaters for Days]
Unpacking the dissolving friendship between Meredith and Cristina on Grey’s Anatomy. [Vulture]
When intimate partner- and anti-choice violence intersect. [Seattle Times]
Can you decipher the blurred lines between fashion and porn? (NSFW) [Nerve]
The “50 shades of cray” of Twitter feminism. [Feminist Current]
I’ve probably linked to this before, but in the week Beyonce secretly releases her musical (and video!) feminist manifesto, unpacking her views on women’s equality—and our views on her—seems particularly pertinent. [Bitch]
But can we really take advice about sticking it to beauty ideals from a woman who chucked a tanty over unflattering SuperBowl photos and curates her Instagram feed to within an inch of its life? [Double X]
In defence of the single girl. [Double X]
On being a “bad feminist”. [The Virginia Quarterly Review]
How can we expect abortion ban exemptions for rape when so many rapes are deemed deserved in the first place? [The Atlantic]
Yet more musings about American Horror Story: Coven and its uncomfortable attitudes about race: is it all about white guilt? [In These Times]
I wanted to cut and paste the whole paragraph on Rihanna’s “Pour It Up”, sexual and creative agency and slut-shaming, but since it’s a lengthy portion of the article, head on over and check the whole thing out for yourself: “‘Slut-Shaming’ Has Been Tossed Around So Much It’s Lost All Meaning”. [Jezebel]
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