2012 February - The Pursuit of Harpyness

Booknotes: Nearly-Vacation Round-Up...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 02 28th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Once again I’ve managed to pile up a whole stack of books that handwriting’s on the wall I won’t make the time to properly review. Either I don’t have enough to say about them, or the thoughts are too disparate to form a coherent narrative, or I’ve had to return them to...

In Which I Wait Two Menstrual Cycles...

Posted by Marie Anelle in Thoughts on 02 27th, 2012 | 13 Comments

So, I had an abortion! After my last post I was off to find out if it was fully evacuated. Unfortunately it wasn’t. I had to go through another round of misoprostol which resulted in some further cramping which was more intense than the first round of cramping (but still not at keel over...

Poetry Saturdays: Martín Espada...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 02 26th, 2012 | 2 Comments

I’ve posted Espada’s poetry before, but this one seems so appropriate for the current election cycle. Revolutionary Spanish Lesson Whenever my name is mispronounced, I want to buy a toy pistol, put on dark sunglasses, push my beret to an angle, comb my beard to a point, hijack a busload of...

Quick Hit: Gay Men and Feminism...

Posted by annajcook in Culcha Vulcha on 02 23rd, 2012 | 8 Comments

It was a happy day yesterday when my latest issue of Bitch magazine (no. 54: “The Frontier Issue”) arrived in the mail. While I get so much of my “feminist response to pop culture” on the Internets these days, there’s something truly pleasurable about curling up every few...

Books: When More is More...

Posted by BeckySharper in Culcha Vulcha on 02 22nd, 2012 | 21 Comments

Gentle readers, I’m pleased to announce that for the first time in years, I finally have a chance to do nothing but read books. I’m currently in between jobs (the new one starts March 6), leaving me with free time and a chance to finally tackle all the books I’ve wanted to read but...

A Real Thing in the World: “Sexual...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought, Let's Talk Images on 02 21st, 2012 | 18 Comments

Image Description: Image is a full-page magazine ad depicting a white, hetero couple in underwear only making out on a bed. Across the top third of the ad is the text “He’ll Scream Your Name. He’ll Forget His.” The images of the couple run across the middle third of the ad, in...

Poetry Saturdays: Ada Limón...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 02 18th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Ada Limón is a California-born poet who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Crush Maybe my limbs are made mostly for decoration, like the way I feel about persimmons. You can’t really eat them. Or you wouldn’t want to. If you grab the soft side with your fist it somehow feels funny, like you’ve been...

Movienotes: The Price of Pleasure...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought, Harpy Cinematical Society on 02 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Note: This is part two of my series of posts related to a screening of The Price of Pleasure and discussion about pornography that took place at the Boston University School of Public Health on Friday, 10 February 2012. Part one can be found here and my discussion of the post-screening debate can be...

Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been R...

Posted by annajcook in Linkaround on 02 14th, 2012 | 1 Comment

brought to you by a bottle of lavender ink Any Midwestern Harpies interested in feminism and library science? “Out of the Attic and Into the Stacks” : Feminism and LIS : the Unconference : March 9-11, 2012 in Milwaukee is registering participants. If you attend, or know someone who does,...

Discussion Time: Media, Academia and Com...

Posted by The Harpies in Discussion Time on 02 13th, 2012 | 9 Comments

From commenter Mackey: In Australia a couple of academics are gathering a media library of images that show our curvier brothers and sisters living their lives, to counter the oft used negatives images of their depiction in the media. For once there isn’t the ridiculous neck to knee shots of our...

On Whitney Houston...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 02 12th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Today the phenomenally talented, and phenomenally troubled Whitney Houston died in Los Angeles at the age of 48. The cause of death is still undetermined, but it’s almost certainly related to her well-documented history of substance abuse. Of course, the internet and the 24-hour news cycle lit...

Poetry Saturdays: William Carlos William...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 02 11th, 2012 | 1 Comment

William Carlos Williams was a 20th century American poet and physician. He sought to invent an entirely fresh-—-and singularly American–—poetic, written in unadorned language, whose subject matter was centered on the every day lives of common people. Après le Bain I gotta buy me a new girdle. (I’ll...

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