Pop-Culture | Posted by Audrey S on 03/31/2011

For All Feminists Looking Forward to “On The Road”

Undoubtedly, many of you will want to see Walter Salles’ forthcoming cinematic re-telling of On The Road. It’s also inevitable that your younger sisters will also want to see it since Kristen Stewart co-stars. This may leave you with the task of having to explain On The Road, and if so, here’s some advice.

Ever since I started teaching and writing about Jack Kerouac I have constantly been asked how I, as a feminist, could I possibly stand Jack Kerouac’s depictions of women in his novels. How could I possibly get past all the sexist language he used and scenes he wrote? To which I gave my now very practiced response: I can’t, I don’t, and what’s more, I wouldn’t even think to try.

Because, when it comes to …

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 07/8/2009

Robsten? Stewpat?

So here are all the rumors floating around about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (that wasn’t obvious from the title of the post??) because I feel like it’s important to have all the Twilight rumors in one place.

1) Kristen Stewart is pregnant with Robert Pattinson’s baby!!!

LA Times reports:

  The Aussie tab’s insider says, “When [Stewart] worked out she was late, she obviously started to thinking that she could be pregnant. And because of the timing, she thinks Rob could be the father.” The gossip mag also reports she had a friend buy a home pregnancy test for her and that she is “very nervous about the whole situation.” As evidence, the mag ran a shot of Stewart with a small round belly on the set of her upcoming film, …

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