Perhaps it is a relic of growing up in Northern California, compounded by asexuality: I really don’t get the big fuss about unclothed bodies, no matter their shape, size, or ability status. This is one of those cultural differences I struggle to wrap my head around and often fail at, because it’s so alien to […]
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Get Your Antifemininity Out of My Feminism
It’s sometimes said that the voices within a movement can be the movement’s worst enemy, and that certainly holds true of feminism, where there are all kinds of structural problems with the way that feminists, particularly prominent ones, engage (or rather don’t engage) with issues like disability, race, and class. There’s been an uptick of […]
Faking It
I recently saw something which referred to some tools of gender performance as “fake.” It was a list of things which people were supposed to add up to determine their percentage of “fakeness,” from wearing lipstick to getting plastic surgery. It troubled me. A lot. It bothered me when I first saw it and I […]
Tattooed Women: Not Actually What You Think They Are
I’ve noticed an uptick lately when it comes to stereotyping tattooed women, and at first I couldn’t figure it out where it came from. Then I realised that the latest celebrity scandal revolves around, you guessed it, a tattooed woman. In addition to feeding our prurient need to pick celebrities apart for entertainment, this has […]
Best Dressed/Worst Dressed and the Tyranny of Fashion
It is, as we all know, awards season. I follow awards season loosely, in the sense that if a site I read has a feature on it, I will read it, but I don’t breathlessly wait for results or glue myself to the screen for red carpet events. I am often woefully behind on what’s […]