2012 January - The Pursuit of Harpyness

Let’s Talk Images: Health = Succes...

Posted by annajcook in Let's Talk Images on 01 19th, 2012 | 7 Comments

I’ve decided to inaugurate a new occasional feature, “Let’s Talk Images,” in which I post an image seen somewhere in the world, make a few observations about why it struck me as a good candidate for analysis, and then open the floor to y’all as an opportunity to use your...

Quick Hit: TED talk on SOPA/PIPA...

Posted by annajcook in Thoughts on 01 18th, 2012 | No Comments

Via my sister Maggie.

Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been R...

brought to you by the Pond family Hanna found this awesome fanvid celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. There were tears in our household, so consider yourself warned. Sarah Seltzer @ AlterNet | The Bloody, Twisted, Inverted World of Twilight. The subtitle of this piece is “Violent...

Retiring Your Old Bras…For a Good ...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 01 16th, 2012 | 3 Comments

After my post about Brallelujah bras—in which I confessed I’d be ditching my tired old bras—I got an e-mail from a reader, Jennifer, telling me that if I hadn’t tossed the bras already, she’d be happy to have them for Quilts for the Homeless, which recycles old bras. I pledged...

Poetry Saturdays: Anna Akhmatova...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 01 14th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Anna Akhmatova was a Russian modernist poet. Born during the czarist era, she was widely admired in both the USSR and the West, although her later work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she was under constant scrutiny and forced to burn or suppress some of her work to guarantee...

Friday Fun Thread: What’s In A Nam...

Posted by BeckySharper in Friday Fun Thread on 01 13th, 2012 | 16 Comments

From MSN I picked up a thought-provoking blogpost based on an article that originally ran in the Daily Mail (your reliable source of “news”, confessionals, fluff, and not-so-subtle misogyny). But this one caught my eye because we’ve talked about our names and naming trends before, and...

Help Me Harpies!: What Would a Pro-Choic...

Posted by annajcook in Help Me Harpies! on 01 12th, 2012 | 53 Comments

On the last Tuesday Teasers, I encouraged folks to participate in Blog For Choice 2012, the theme of which is “What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?” Commenter Jenn_smithson wrote in response: The chosen theme this year has irritated me because in response I ask WHAT prochoice...

Booknotes: Deviations...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 01 10th, 2012 | 2 Comments

find table of contents here For the past couple of months I’ve been making my way through Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Duke University Press, 2011), an anthology of writings by anthropologist and feminist theorist Gayle S. Rubin whom I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t actually...

Fighting Religious Fanaticism With Dance...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 01 9th, 2012 | 14 Comments

From Israel, a terrific flash mob of women dancing in Jerusalem’s Beit Shemesh neighborhood. Beit Shemesh has been in the public eye recently after the press picked up the story of girls at an Orthodox religious school being harassed, spat on, and called “prostitutes” by neighborhood...

Poetry Saturdays (Uh…Sunday): Eliz...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 01 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Born in New England and raised in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Bishop was one of America’s greatest 20th century poets. She served as Poet Laureate of the US, and won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for poetry. One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem...

Thursday Night Trivia: How Many Women Ca...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought, Harpy Cinematical Society, Thursday Night Trivia on 01 5th, 2012 | 20 Comments

plus did I mention the steampunk visuals? On Monday, Hanna, Minerva, and I went to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. It was, like, the first movie we’d seen in the theater in over a year, since most of the shows we’re tempted to see on the big screen these days come out in 3D and hello,...

Friendship and Feminism: A Discussion...

Posted by The Harpies in Discussion Time on 01 4th, 2012 | 11 Comments

From Harpyness commenter Mackey: Sociological Images recently had a small segment about the importance of friendships called “Do Friends Matter? A Feminist Defense of Friendship“, I found myself nodding my head a lot as I read it. The gist of the talk was that within the mainstream American...

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