July 2010
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What A Feminist Looks Like
Shelby Knox is the brazen 23 year-old who has been speaking out for comprehensive sex education since she was 15 and living in the ultra-conservative, deeply-religious town of Lubbock, TX. She is the star of the award-winning documentary “The Education of Shelby Knox,” and travels the country promoting sex education, women’s rights, and youth empowerment. In our podcast, Shelby...
“I wonder if the snow wants to be black
If the soil thinks she’s too dark...”
– “Being Human” by Naima of Climbing Poetree
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Parenting: Joy or Horror?
I read the New York Magazine issue with the cover story “I love my children. I hate my life,” accompanied by a photo of a sad looking woman holding a baby, but I didn’t give it too much thought.
The parents were surveyed in the thick of parenting. If you survey anyone in the thick of anything enriching (finals during college, standing in line for security in order to travel, even falling...
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Guyland
Last week, Shelby Knox, the brazen 23 year-old who has been speaking out for comprehensive sex education since she was 15, moderated a Paradigm Shift talk with world renowned Gender Studies scholar Dr. Michael Kimmel. Dr. Kimmel is a feminist consultant for Mad Men and the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Every word of the talk was illuminating. Seriously. It was one...
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“Men are the single beneficiaries of the biggest affirmative action program in...”
– Dr. Michael Kimmel, Author and Sociologist
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Husband Confronts Abortion Clinic Protestors After... →
People that truly care about children know that minutes wasted protesting an abortion clinic are minutes that could be used to help the millions of children in the world that lack healthcare and education. These protestors don’t care about children, or women, or the true responsibilities of their faith.
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WatchThank you, Mattel, for making us all feel so good about ourselves.
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Women Are Taking Over?! Not So Fast...
Photo by uncorneredmarket.com
I don’t read articles about the “progress” women are making and get excited. I read them and feel discouraged that things are not moving faster. I read them and think, if this topic is still newsworthy it’s too early to celebrate. When reading Newsweek’s, “Women Will Rule the World,” I didn’t take it at face value. I read between the lines and did some...
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The Type of Anti-Rape Ad We Need in the States →
In our rape culture it is not on men not to rape, it is on women not to let themselves get raped.
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“I didn’t know this at the time, but you needed to be too cool for school....”
– Adrianne Frost, former Daily Show correspondent, on working in late night comedy
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My Interview with Jay Kallio
I tracked down Jay Kallio, who left the now famous “Go live as a man for one week” comment on Nancy Bauer’s “Lady Power” piece in The New York Times, and spoke to him about being a transgender man in our society. As a former woman who presents as a man, Jay has rare insights into what life is like on the other side.
Listen to my interview with Jay Kallio