August 2011
52 posts
“[Q]uit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them….If you want to fix the male literary crisis, here’s your solution: Become a feminist.”
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Saundra Mitchell (via ladiesmakingcomics)
This.
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The Mary Sue: NY Times to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly →
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There’s much that’s wrong with Lipsyte’s screed about gendered stories—starting with the fact that insisting that readers occupy a gender binary leaves no room for transgendered and gender neutral readers, or readers struggling with gender identity—but the most inherently offensive to me, as a…
YES, PLEASE DO! :D *is an Aja*
AWESOME ARTICLE. We approve.
“In the end, The Help is not a story about the millions of hardworking and dignified black women who labored in white homes to support their families and communities. Rather, it is the coming-of-age story of a white protagonist, who uses myths about the lives of black women to make sense of her own. The Association of Black Women Historians finds it unacceptable for either this book or this film to strip black women’s lives of historical accuracy for the sake of entertainment.”
—The Association of Black Women Historians issues an awesome statement about The Help. Whole statement here. Fuck, yeah.
