Best Practice, Feminist Practice

This is a cross-post of a guest post for Ashley at Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks
The theme of this series, Teaching Feminism, is near and dear to my heart. I recently graduated with my master’s in English, and I spent much of last and this year researching feminist pedagogy to write my master’s thesis. In [...]

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Kanazawa Strikes Again: Evo-Psych Zombie Edition

You may recall my personal nemesis, Satoshi Kanazawa, from this longwinded bit of commentary I did in 2007 in response to his ridiculous article, “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths about Human Nature.”
Well, Kanazawa is back! And not a minute too late, as I was starting to forget the bullshit that is evolutionary psychology! Without this reminder, [...]

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A Mixed Bag: A Straight, White, Feminist Woman’s Take on “Bruno”

There will be spoilers for the movie Bruno in this post. Consider yourself warned.
Speaking of movies, interpretations, and feminist critiques, I finally saw Bruno last night. I do realize I’m a bit late on the subject (even though the movie was officially released in the US only a week ago), but I wanted to share [...]

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Guilt-tripping and the Art of Critique

I know: Just a couple days ago I said I couldn’t be bothered to blog. Well, that has changed, because I remembered something that bothers me  and that prevents a lot of people from listening to and considering feminist perspectives.
Let me illustrate this something with an anecdote.
Earlier this year, I went to see [...]

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Meta-Talk

So, I’m sorta changing the format of things around here.
As you’ve all likely noticed, I don’t really blog anymore — I just can’t be bothered, I guess. But I still have the urge to share things I read. While it was open, the forum met those needs. Since I shut it down, I’ve tried sharing [...]

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