2012 March - The Pursuit of Harpyness

The Work/Vacation Balance...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 31st, 2012 | 5 Comments

There is sachertorte mit schlag in my future. Dear Harpies: How I’ve missed you! A quick update: the new job is going swimmingly. In fact, it’s going so swimmingly that I’m completely wrung out and my free time in the evenings is down to whatever hour or so I can carve out at the end...

Poetry Saturdays: Adrienne Rich...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 31st, 2012 | 3 Comments

From the New York Times: Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse and kept it there for nearly...

Anger on Another’s Behalf: On Femi...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought on 03 29th, 2012 | 18 Comments

I think it was my mother, whose relationship with her parents was contentious, who first told me that it’s often at the moment when an adult child begins to parent themselves that they suddenly look back at their own childhood with new (parental-perspective) eyes, and name what used to just be...

When Your City Ignores The Problem....

Posted by Marie Anelle in You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 03 27th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Guys, it’s not even April yet and Winnipeg is having a rough year. Out of 7 homicides, 3 are victims of domestic violence. The latest death occurred last weekend in the form of a murder suicide. The couple was new to Canada. She was 28 years old. Their 3 year old daughter was there and...

Booknotes: Straight...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 03 27th, 2012 | 4 Comments

Until I fell in love with my partner, Hanna, I generally conceptualized myself as “mostly straight.” This was because, despite the passionate friendships I formed with female friends and the way lesbian sexual fantasies made me go all squishy with excitement, I didn’t feel I was queer...

Poetry Saturdays: Anne Sexton...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 24th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet known for her highly confessional verse, particularly about her mental illness and relationships with her friends and family. To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wings on, testing that strange...

Thursday Night Trivia: What Makes Sex Go...

Posted by annajcook in Help Me Harpies!, Thursday Night Trivia on 03 22nd, 2012 | 1 Comment

On Tuesday, I had the chance to sit down over lunch with author Rachel Hills (you might know her from her blog Musings of an Inappropriate Woman) to talk about sex, identity, and relationships in preparation for her forthcoming book The Sex Myth (Simon & Schuster, 2013). A couple of months ago, I’d...

In Which I Declare A War With My Governm...

Posted by Marie Anelle in Thoughts on 03 20th, 2012 | 24 Comments

This is a letter I have just submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office. Full of bile and incoherent as always, but spread the word and agitate. The women of Canada need to be Hmmmm.......Nope, this is all I got. FUCK YOU Harper. heard and he needs to know that women elsewhere are listening. Prime...

Chicago History Museum’s ‘Ou...

Posted by annajcook in Culcha Vulcha, Harpy Cinematical Society on 03 20th, 2012 | No Comments

The Chicago History Museum’s exhibition, Out in Chicago (open through March 26th), highlights LGBT activism in the Windy City: For more than 150 years, a complex community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Chicagoans has been at turns surviving, struggling, and thriving, often...

Poetry Saturdays: W.B. Yeats...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 17th, 2012 | No Comments

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, playwright, and politician. He won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature for what the Nobel Committee called his ”inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” Dedication To A Book Of...

“How Women’s Studies Mattere...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought on 03 15th, 2012 | No Comments

On 6 March I participated in a panel presentation/discussion at my alma mater Hope College in celebration of twenty-plus years of women’s studies at the institution (the interdisciplinary minor was formally established in 1992; students had been forming “contract” majors and minors...

Kill the Haters with TMI...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 03 14th, 2012 | 9 Comments

Today Daily Kos reported that Virginia State Senator Ryan McDougle recently found himself on the receiving end of some serious vagina-related TMI from enraged women. Why? Well, Recently, McDougle attacked reproductive rights as hard as he could, including supporting a bill that would force women seeking...

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