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The Feminist Critic: July 2013
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Last Tuesday, we loaded up the camper and took off for the 23rd Annual Grassroots Festival. We didn't read any newspapers. I left my iphone in my camper top drawer merely so I could hear if I got a text from someone local, usually asking if we needed anyone to pick up beer or ice. We saw some great music. My top three include Driftwood. As I drank my coffee Tuesday morning a...
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The Feminist Critic: Miley Cyrus: A ReCap
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, September 4, 2013. Miley Cyrus: A ReCap. I'm not much of a television watcher these days. Partly because I am getting ready to dump my cable that has gotten too expensive and partly because our TV lost the color red and everyone is green so we have to watch this tiny flat screen meant for our workout area. Thus, I did not see the VMA's. And here is another:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (At...
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The Feminist Critic: August 2013
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Solidarity is for White Women: A Re-cap. This past week, via Twitter, originally started by blogger Mikki Kendall, the hashtag "solidarityisforwhitewomen" trended as a statement that white feminism leaves out women of color. (History behind solidarity is for white women hashtag). It means I'm not supporting the arts with my dollars. I'm picking and choosing what shows ...
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The Feminist Critic: Scandal
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. The ABC Series, Scandal,. Now in it's second season, is a must watch for any feminist supporting television watcher. I will provide you with three reasons you really should watch this show. First, Kerry Washington, the lead actor, who plays Olivia Price, is the first female Black lead on a major network since the 1974 show Get Christie Love. The third reason you should w...
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The Feminist Critic: September 2013
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Thursday, September 26, 2013. It's probably cheating, but I am one of the group of amazing feminists blogging for Soapbox now and did my first one last week on the Educating for Change conference coming up this weekend. I have had no time to blog at all the past two weeks, so I post this in case you missed it! My first blog post with Soapbox! Links to this post. Labels: Educating for Change. Then we ...
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The Feminist Critic: Two Axes to Grind
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Thursday, August 22, 2013. Two Axes to Grind. Two things on my mind this week. Well, three actually. First, feeling guilty that I didn't write a blog last week. It's strange how I have to be motivated, pissed off, or concerned about a topic to cover it here. Kind of like now that I'm in my 40s, I can't go in the pool unless I am really hot. And we buy these men's t-shirts in the name of cost-savings&...
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The Feminist Critic: March 2013
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Friday, March 29, 2013. It's so Easy to Hate the Media. S rape case, which did affect the judicial process to the detriment of the victim in that case, and women as a class. Those proceedings deserved tons of petitions from women's rights groups, but got none" (Murphy, Women's ENews). Sure, that's fine! The rapper, Rick Ross, who is also a Reebok spokesperson,. Molly" is a popular street drug similar...
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The Feminist Critic: Solidarity is for White Women: A Re-cap
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Solidarity is for White Women: A Re-cap. This past week, via Twitter, originally started by blogger Mikki Kendall, the hashtag "solidarityisforwhitewomen" trended as a statement that white feminism leaves out women of color. (History behind solidarity is for white women hashtag). It means I'm not supporting the arts with my dollars. I'm picking and choosing what shows ...
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The Feminist Critic: Policing Women's Sexuality
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Providing weekly critiques of theatre, film, books, politics and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. I left this day thinking a lot about these two women who have been socialized by our media saturated society to honestly believe that if they are kissing a guy that means they have to give it all the way up. Whatever happened to the bases analogy? If we allow for a certain body part to be sexualized, then yes. When The Vagina Monologues first cam e out, everyone was...