Since Eve first realized she was naked and scrambled to cover her shame with fig leaves, feminists have been divided over the question of how to return dignity and humanity to the female body. It was apparently a fraught decision for the avid bell hooks reader, but after a bit of back and forth the […]
It’s 2015, and I’d like to know why we still believe that a woman can’t be both smart and desirable. It’s late January and while navigating a sea of new course syllabi, doctoral applications, and conference research, I haven’t been the best at keeping up with recent news. What little media trickles through the stacks […]
In a country where women’s bodies are regularly legislated, it should come as no surprise that we legislate what’s on them too. If any female feels she needs anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. – bell hooks It is 1994. […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. The most compelling argument in favor of rough sex is also a feminist one. Amanda is a tall, slender musician, whose sweet countenance and nerdy glasses belie the filthy things that come out of her mouth at times. “I’ve never felt as strong and alive and […]
Little girls aren’t taught to be brave, leading to fully-grown women having dreams far bigger than their sense of agency can execute. You’ve seen Nymphomaniac, right? Art cinema is slow in arriving to the small Colombian mountain town where I live, but even I have managed to (start) watching Volume 1 of Lars von Trier’s […]
