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— ComicBook NOW! (@ComicBookNOW) January 11, 2016

If we’re tiring of Jennifer Lawrence’s “cool girl” persona, it’s because we turned it and her into a monster. [HuffPo]

In the age of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Michael Brown The Cosby Show‘s moralising and respectability politics are irrelevant. [HuffPo]

The funny side of intimate partner violence. This is a harrowing but important read. [The Cut]

Having a parent in prison can be a struggle, but sometimes their release is just as hard. [Fusion]

Why are we so transfixed with the idea that sex says something profound about us?

To touch or not to touch on live TV. [TV Tonight]

In praise of the dick clip (SFW). [The Cut]

What is disability appropriation? [Daily Life]

When you realise your success makes you more of a Gwyneth than a Winona. [Medium]

The patron saint of single ladies. [NYTimes]

If you’re after even more reads check out the 92nd Down Under Feminists Carnival in which some of my previous work is featured. [Hoyden About Town]

January 9, 2016

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged Beyonce, Bill Clinton, Bitch Flicks, Broadly, Cageside Seats, Chris Gayle, cultural appropriation, Daily Life, Erin Riley, Fusion, Jem & the Holograms, Jessica Jones, Jezebel, Junkee, Matter, mental health, Ms. Magazine, New Matilda, New Statesman, NYTimes, professional wrestling, rape, selfies, sexism, sport, The Cut, The Spectacle of Excess, WaPo, World Wrestling Entertainment ¶ Leave a comment

I’m getting straight back into it in the New Year, with pieces about abuse in Jessica Jones, what World Wrestling Entertainment can learn from Jem & the Holograms‘ flop and why its spate of injuries might be a good thing for other wrestlers. [Bitch Flicks, The Spectacle of Excess, Cageside Seats]

On selfies. [Matter]

Forget the manbun. The latest in men’s hair styling are manbraids. And they’re cultural appropriation. [Ms. Magazine]

Why is there a statute of limitations for rape and sexual assault? [NYTimes]

Erin Riley kicking goals (mixing metaphors, I know) with her piece on the Chris Gayle incident being a symptom of a much larger problem with sexism in sport. [Daily Life]

Mens mental health is important but not at the expense of the women and children they abuse and kill. [Daily Life]

There’s been plenty of coverage of Cole Miller’s death by one punch, but what about Indigenous man Trevor Duroux’s death of the same? [New Matilda]

The history of glitter. [Broadly]

The history of toplessness. [Broadly]

And the history of the crystal ball. [Broadly]

2015 was the year of interracial relationships on TV. [Fusion]

Has Clive Palmer had a feminist awakening? [Junkee]

Even teaching a course on Beyonce doesn’t guarantee job security. [WaPo]

Why we need to talk about the sexual assaults in Germany over New Years—and the race of the attackers. [New Statesman]

Should wives be held accountable for their husband’s bad behaviour? [The Cut]

And what about Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault of a woman in 1978? [Jezebel]

It’s great that you want to read books by more diverse authors, but do you have to tell the whole world about it? Just do it. [Jezebel]

November 21, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged #ParisAttacks, Attn:, Broadly, Brocklesnitch, Charlie Sheen, Daily Life, Fusion, HIV/AIDS, misogyny, NYTimes, porn stars, Ravishly, Rebecca Shaw, shoes, The Atlantic, The Drum, Vocativ, Vulture, Woman Against Feminism ¶ Leave a comment

High heels help to differentiate women from the relative equality they’ve achieved with men. [Attn:]

Gay male misogyny: “To assert you love dick doesn’t mean you have to feign disgust at women and their bodies.” [Broadly]

“Why Writers Run.” [The Atlantic]

America is fascinated by the amateur but hate their jobs. [NYTimes]

Women reject men’s unwanted advances with the boyfriend excuse because men’s property is more respected than women’s wishes. [Daily Life]

Tweeting about TV during #ParisAttacks. [Fusion]

NBC’s interview with Charlie Sheen about his HIV-positive status was unethical. [ABC The Drum]

And before you go blaming his frequent sex with porn stars for his status, adult performers are one of the most tested populations on the planet and can’t perform if they have a positive test. [Vocativ]

In entertainment, the American dream is Latino. [Vulture]

Rebecca Shaw—aka Brocklesnitch—is Woman Against Feminism. [Ravishly]

Image via Vulture.

November 7, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged Annabel Crabb, baking, Broadly, children, Daily Life, Harper's, Hollywood, Kitchen Cabinet, Melbourne Cup, Michelle Payne, New Matilda, The Guardian, Tim Kail, witches, Work of Wrestling, wrestling ¶ Leave a comment

Women and baking: from social capital to comfort. [The Guardian]

Witches rode broomsticks, yes, but differently than they are traditionally depicted. [Broadly]

Equality vs. liberation in the wake of Michelle Payne’s Melbourne Cup win. [Daily Life]

Why does it always come down to the question of children for professional women? [Harper’s]

Annabel Crabb’s Kitchen Cabinet counter-intuitively attempts to make the people who dehumanise our most vulnerable people more human. [New Matilda]

My story about wrestling fandom and armchair criticism features on Tim Kail’s Work of Wrestling podcast.

ICYMI: “The Dark Side of Hollywood.”

Image via Bitchin’ Lifestyle.

October 9, 2015

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By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged #MasculinitySoFragile, Amber Rose, Broadly, Caitlyn Jenner, Daily Life, Down Under Feminists Carnival, Go Fug Yourself, gun control, HuffPo, Kim Kardashian, Opinions @ BlueBec, pregnancy, rap, sexism, SlutWalk, The Cut, The Kardashians, The Root, US Cosmopolitan ¶ Leave a comment

On U.S. Cosmopolitan naming the Kardashian’s “America’s first family”:

“If our first family is supposed to be an accurate representation of the American people, who’d be a better choice than this absurd, problematic and inexplicably wealthy crew of bad-rapper-enabling Instagram mavens from Hidden Hills, Calif.?” [The Root]

But where’s Caitlyn? [Go Fug Yourself]

Amber Rose’s SlutWalk changed the game for women of colour. [HuffPo]

Reproductive coercion in rap music. [Broadly]

Why do we decry artistic women for being “fake” but praise male artists for the same thing? [The Cut]

White #MasculinitySoFragile is the cause of so much gun violence. [HuffPo]

Why Kim Kardashian West’s pregnancy admission is revolutionary. [Daily Life]

And for more links from Aussie and NZ feminists, including yours truly, check out the latest Down Under Feminists Carnival. [Opinions @ BlueBec]

Image via Time.

September 18, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged Cageside Seats, Daily Life, Diva Dirt, misogynoir, porn, racism, sex, sexism, Spook magazine, Straight Outta Compton, Tupac Shakur, Vocativ, World Wrestling Entertainment, wrestling ¶ Leave a comment

I wrote about misogynoir in Tupac Shakur’s music and Straight Outta Compton, and whether we can reconcile that with their contributions to culture. [Spook Magazine]

I’m also over at Cageside Seats asking which World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars would do better on the indies.

Porn’s inherent racism. [Vocativ]

Australia needs revenge porn laws. [Daily Life]

We need to stop talking about sportswomen in relation to their male partners. (This article focuses on WWE Divas, but extends to women in sport in general.) [Diva Dirt]

There is such a thing as racial sexual preferences, but let’s not use it as an excuse to be racist. [Daily Life]

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September 11, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged abortion, beauty, Bitch magazine, colonialism, Cosmopolitan, Daily Life, Down Under Feminists Carnival, Electric Literature, Erica Jong, feminism, Hazlitt, Jezebel, Junkee, Kesha, MariNaomi, masturbation, Matt McGorry, Miley Cyrus, MTV VMAs, Olivia Bension, Pitchfork, racism, rape, Roxane Gay, Spook magazine, The Bachelorette, The Guardian, The Verge, Transcendancing, true crime, Tyler the Creator, WaPo ¶ Leave a comment

Roxane Gay and Erica Jong discuss feminism, illustrating its generational, cultural and racial divides. [The Guardian]

Speaking of illustration, MariNaomi did just that for their talk! [Electric Literature]

Why aren’t we talking about Kesha’s rape case? [Bitch Magazine]

What it’s like to be harassed outside an abortion clinic. [Junkee]

Separating the man from the art: Tyler, the Creator edition. [Jezebel]

What Olivia Benson’s status as favourite female TV character tells us about viewers. [WaPo]

Miley Cyrus’ MTA VMAs hosting gig made her come off “as more of a cool mom than a youth culture avatar”. [The Verge]

“The 13 Best Pop Songs About Women Masturbating.” [Pitchfork]

Matt McGorry’s feminist journey. [Cosmopolitan]

We need to stop romanticising colonialism. [Daily Life]

Why is The Bachelorette so white? [The Guardian]

What women as consumers of true crime can tell us about being potential victims of it. [Hazlitt]

And can we forgive the men who victimise them after they’ve publicly apologised? [The Guardian]

Long hair and its ties to femininity. [Spook Magazine]

More links can be found in the latest installment of the Down Under Feminists Carnival. [Transcendancing]

Image via Electric Literature.

September 4, 2015

On the (Rest of the) Net.

By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in On the (Rest of the) Net, On the Net ¶ Tagged #givedivasachance, Broadly, Daily Life, disability, Fusion, HIV/AIDS, How to Get Away with Murder, Junkee, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, N.W.A., pedophilia, Rolling Stone, SlutWalk, Spook magazine, Straight Outta Compton, Talking Points Memo, The Cut, The Guardian, The Root, This Ain't Livin, trans rights, Tyler Perry, Uproxx ¶ Leave a comment

Kim Kardashian’s Rolling Stone cover story:

“… [The Kardashians] also exhibit an attitude toward their bodies that can only be called revolutionary. Women have long asked for fair vagina representation in media, for their vaginas not only to be sexual objects but to smell and bleed and pop out babies, and on their show, Kardashian vaginas do all that and more, which is very different than other pop-culture vaginas.”

Speaking of Kim, is she becoming more political? [Fusion]

And Kanye West could actually be the best president the United States has ever seen. [The Guardian]

How SlutWalk Melbourne has evolved in the past four years. [Spook Magazine]

HIV on HTGAWM. [This Ain’t Livin’]

“I Feel Bad About My Nose.” [Broadly]

“How Political Was N.W.A., Really?”

“When asked if racism existed outside of Compton by SPIN magazine in 1990, Eazy-E replied, ‘The black police in Compton are worse than the white police. Chuck D gets involved in all that black stuff, we don’t. Fuck that black power shit; we don’t give a fuck. Free South Africa; we don’t give a fuck…We’re not into politics at all.’” [Talking Points Memo]

You can’t decry Straight Outta Compton for its misogynoir while also consuming Tyler Perry products. [The Root]

Move over #DivasRevolution: WWE is in the midst of a black revolution and it’s been right under our noses this whole time. [Uproxx]

Disability advocacy campaigns need to be inclusive of the people they’re claiming to help, not pitying of them. [Junkee]

Is Justin Bieber’s new song a pro-consent anthem? [The Cut]

In praise of gender-neutral public bathrooms. [Daily Life]

Women can be pedophiles, too. [Broadly]

Image via Rolling Stone.

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