Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 10/23/2010
Originally embedded in Rose M’s post, this video about Dr. Robyn Silverman’s book Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls & How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It should not be missed.
Creative | Posted by Hannah S on 10/22/2010
I can see your accusing eyes
I can hear your insults behind my back
Don’t you know the world is telling you lies?
They’re telling you that I’m fat
They’re telling you that you’re not good enough
They’re telling you to wear your hair long
That to be sexy you need to own a thong
That you’ll hear a way to find love in this song
That if you buy this your troubles will be gone
And it’s all lies
Look into my eyes and tell me what you really feel
Deep inside, they ate away at you
Played their games with you
Now they’re done with you
Oh but they came back for you
And you don’t know what to do
They tell you to eat this pill
Then …
Awareness | Posted by Julie Z on 10/21/2010
This year in school, I’m taking a really amazing English elective called Gender, Culture, Power (SURPRISE! It’s taught by the same awesome teacher who handed me Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism). Basically, some of the coolest, smartest, classiest girls (and one brave guy) get together almost every day to discuss gender…culture…and power. It’s bliss. And while we’ve had our fun dissecting everything from KFC advertisements to the Handmaid’s Tale thus far, we just embarked on a far more serious, yet completely enthralling, topic: the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
My class researched the conflict, and here’s a rundown of what we found:
History: In 1960, the DRC became independent of Belgium, which had colonized the African country in 1877. Soon after, violence broke out between different factions …
Awareness | Posted by Liz P on 10/20/2010
October isn’t just Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it’s also Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Instead of sharing statistics that you can easily find online to show how prevalent domestic violence and interpersonal violence is, I’m going to share a story:
Last spring, my university’s chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance co-hosted the Clothesline Project. The Clothesline Project raises awareness about interpersonal violence by physically showing how many people have been affected as represented by t-shirts. You can decorate a t-shirt for yourself, for someone you know, or for someone you don’t know. Our event happened to be the same week that a senior girl had been tragically murdered by her ex-boyfriend, so we got a lot of her friends coming by to make t-shirts. Sadly, it brought the project …
Pop-Culture | Posted by Steph on 10/19/2010
“What is Justin Bieber doing out of the Kitchen?”
“It is an offence that we need to share the same gender as Justin Bieber”
“If Justin Bieber was a woman…oh wait, never mind”
“Leave Justin Bieber alone, stop making fun of HER!”
There’s more like this. Whether or not you like Justin Bieber’s music, you have to agree that there’s something wrong with the above facebook groups. Every single group that I listed at the start of this article has over five hundred members. That’s five hundred people who, if they don’t actively believe that, say, Justin Bieber should ‘stay in the kitchen’, felt that it was at least funny enough to become a fan of it on facebook.
What does it say that these groups are so popular? More …
Feminism | Posted by Rose M on 10/18/2010
There isn’t exactly a “name” for this topic so, here, i’ll try to spell it out for you. It’s a topic that affects me personally and deeply, but also something that is very rarely talked about in the eating disorder community (both on blogs & in treatment or with mental health professionals, and even with friends). Is Anorexia Nervosa a more serious, deadly, scary, real, or traumatic illness than Bulimia Nervosa or ED-NOS?
I’d be interested in what people’s gut-reactions are to this question.
I don’t mean the well-formulated answers that people think of, I mean the feeling that comes, the spark of thought that enters the brain or heart when this question is posed. (or when it is presented to your face- is there an image that comes to mind …
Pop-Culture | Posted by Brian C on 10/17/2010
The Pipettes are a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton. The group has released two albums, We Are the Pipettes, and Earth vs. The Pipettes and released numerous singles to support it; the most successful being “Pull Shapes” which peaked at #26 in the UK Singles Chart.
Originally comprising Julia Clarke-Lowes, Rose Elinor Dougall and Rebecca Stephens, at the time of their debut album Clarke-Lowes had been replaced by Gwenno Saunders. In 2008, Dougall and Stephens also left the group. As of 2010, the line-up is Saunders and her sister Ani, and their next album release, “Earth vs. The Pipettes” was released on 6 October 2010 in the UK.The female members are backed by all-male band, The Cassettes, which at present includes Monster Bobby, the Falcone …
Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 10/16/2010
Recently, Annie Barr from The [i4c] Campaign – an interactive campaign that seeks to create a better tomorrow by supporting change-making entrepreneurs – interviewed the awesome duo Tegan and Sara (check out the FBomb’s SWAS on them here). I personally think they’re great, and their answers to the question “what do you foresee in a better world?”
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