The NY City Council is voting to ban smoking in all city parks, marinas, boardwalks, AND Times Square. And I’m baffled. I’m not pulling out pom-poms to be like, “Smoking Yay!” and claim that it’s this wonderful thing folks should be allowed to do. Of course it’s bad for you. Duh. But it’s still legal.… Read More Smokin’ Aces
Bitch Magazine recently named their list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. After a few dissenting comments and e-mails (the ol’ “the lurkers support me in e-mail!” argument), they yanked three books off the list for being inappropriate and triggering: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, and Living… Read More Must be the season of the Bitch!
I spent entirely too much time last night thinking about Charlie Sheen. War is raging all over the world, political dissent brought down the Internet in Egypt, and I was thinking about Charlie Sheen. That speaks, obviously, to my own entertainment-oriented consciousness, but it also, to me, is indicative of how our culture is so… Read More Idoling at the curb: Charlie Sheen, media and what matters
I feel like I never have to look very far to be reminded that a “post-racial” society is still very much a pipe dream. In this case, I only have to look as far as my own neighborhood. It’s been hard hit by the recession, with businesses on the main thoroughfare closing left and right.… Read More There goes the neighborhood…
I remember being a kid, sitting in the back seat of the car, with my mom whimsically singing “Jolene,” by Dolly Parton up front. Off-key, accented, her “Jolene, Jolene, don’t take my man!” was pretty much my only association with the song for years. I didn’t hear the real version until I was an adult.… Read More I cannot compete with you, Jolene
How is it nearly 2011?! These past 12 months just seemed to fly by! Now, with year’s end upon us, it’s time for a Best and Worst post. (Here’s last year’s entry for reference.) As usual, this hinges only on things I actually experienced. Any oversights are accidental, and this is just meant to be… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up: Best, Worst, and WTH!
Is there a woman out there who is actually 100 percent fine with her body? Or are we all, particularly in the West, hard-wired — thanks to media messages and peer pressure — to find constant fault with ourselves? I ask, because I don’t go a day without disparaging how I look. It’s an exhalation… Read More I sing the body eclectic
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