2012 May - The Pursuit of Harpyness

Captcha Comments Fixed (We Hope!)...

Posted by annajcook in Housekeeping on 05 29th, 2012 | 3 Comments

(image via www.thefrugalgirl.com) Thanks to your feedback, we recently became aware of issues with the Captcha comment plug-in we installed about a month ago on the recommendation of BlueHost. We put out a call for help among the Harpies and foureleven’s fabulous spouse poked around in the back...

Booknotes: Joining the Resistance...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 05 29th, 2012 | 3 Comments

Psychologist Carol Gilligan is something of a controversial figure in feminist circles. Her work on young women’s psychological health (In a Different Voice) is widely read and widely criticized for dramatizing adolescent girls’ experience in unhelpful, alarmist ways; I once had a Women’s...

Poetry Saturdays: Emily Dickinson...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 05 26th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. She lived a solitary life in her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, where a cache of her poems were discovered by her sister after her death. She is now considered one of America’s most significant...

“Curvy Girls” Virtual Book T...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 05 23rd, 2012 | 5 Comments

Welcome to today’s stop on the Curvy Girls virtual book tour! I had so much fun interviewing Donna George Storey for the last virtual book tour Rachel Kramer Bussel invited me to participate in, that when she asked if I’d host a stop on the tour for her latest anthology Curvy Girls I said...

Poetry Saturdays: Andrea Gibson...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 05 19th, 2012 | 3 Comments

I was lucky enough to see Andrea Gibson perform at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York this week. Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist whose poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, and the struggles queer people face in today’s society. She also works with a group called Vox Feminista...

The Always-Eloquent Jay Smooth on Obama ...

Posted by annajcook in Thoughts on 05 17th, 2012 | 1 Comment

I started out the week with a two-day migraine, so I don’t have the post I was planning to put up today even remotely sketched out. In its place, have Jay Smooth talking about the take-away lessons from President Obama’s recent statement in support of marriage equality. via Feministing. Have...

Tuesday Teasers: Stuff I’ve Been R...

Posted by annajcook in Linkaround on 05 15th, 2012 | No Comments

brought to you by wee reading ninjas In preparation for my wedding, I’m live-blogging Tim and Beverly LaHaye’s The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love (Zondervan, 1972) which is a classic Christian sex manual. In the wake of Obama’s coming out in support of marriage...

Poetry Saturdays: Dorothea Tanning...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 05 12th, 2012 | No Comments

Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was an American painter, poet, and memoirist. She was also married to the German artist Max Ernst. Graduation He told us, with the years, you will come to love the world. And we sat there with our souls in our laps, and comforted them.

Suffragists Meet Lady Gaga...

Posted by annajcook in Culcha Vulcha on 05 10th, 2012 | 3 Comments

A friend of mine sent me this historically-minded music video that a student of her husband’s brought to class recently. While I don’t follow Lady Gaga’s career all that closely, I’m fascinated by the visual details in this production. They were clearly based on some of the photographs...

Minimalist Wedding Planning: The Basics...

Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought on 05 8th, 2012 | 4 Comments

While I loved to dress up and play princess or flower fairy in my babysitters’ hand-me-down prom dresses as a child, I don’t remember having much of a thing for weddings. Even my princess games tended toward the “orphan princesses run away to the magic forest to set up housekeeping...

Poetry Saturdays: James Wright (in honor...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 05 5th, 2012 | 1 Comment

A love poem by James Wright, in honor of the engagement of our harpy sister Anna and her beloved, Hanna: A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two Indian ponies Darken with kindness. They have come gladly out of the willows To...

Booknotes: The Straight State...

Posted by annajcook in Harpy Book Club on 05 3rd, 2012 | 1 Comment

Modern-day campaigns for civil rights and equal citizenship for queer folks tend to conjure up a progressive trajectory from exclusion to inclusion: from a dark past when the homosexual was excluded from equal citizenship (or forced to live closeted) to a not-yet-realized future in which one’s...

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