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Poetry Saturdays: Tina Chang...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 25th, 2012 | No Comments
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Tina Chang was born in Oklahoma in 1969 and raised in Queens, New York. She was elected the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn in 2010, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Duality Perhaps I hold people to impossible ideals, I tell them, something is wrong with your personality,...
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On Helen Gurley Brown, Traitor to Womani...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 13th, 2012 | 36 Comments
Helen Gurley Brown died today, at age 90, after a short illness. In Gurley Brown’s obituary in the New York Times, Margalit Fox wrote:  Ms. Brown routinely described herself as a feminist, but whether her work helped or hindered the cause of women’s liberation has been publicly debated for decades....
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Quick Hit: Junk Science Snark FTW...

Posted by annajcook in Culcha Vulcha, Morning Snark on 08 12th, 2012 | No Comments
Hanna found this gem of a post by Sophie Collins at the Guardian on the recent pop psych “study” that is reported to have discovered that stressed-out men prefer heavier women. Do you like beards? I like beards. But I know plenty of women who don’t. Most adult men I know don’t...
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More Olympic Awesomeness from Women̵...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 11th, 2012 | No Comments
Amazing performances for women in women’s boxing event, including this tremendous gold-medal performance by 17 year old middleweight Claressa Shields of Flint, Michigan. ESPN called it: “A performance worthy of Cassius Clay, Joe Frazier, Oscar De La Hoya and every American Olympic champion...
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Poetry Saturdays: Beau Sia...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 11th, 2012 | No Comments
Beau Sia is a Chinese-American performance poet. In her history of the New York poetry slam movement, author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz wrote: Beau Sia took Maggie Estep’s pop culture reference-heavy work to the next level, bouncing across the stage, frenzied and electrified. His work was...
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Poetry Saturdays: Kwame Dawes on the Oly...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 4th, 2012 | No Comments
From the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog: Throughout the 2012 London Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day’s action, with a particular focus on the Jamaican team. WE ARE HERE i Ms. Gabriella finally speaks her mind First...
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Women in the Olympics: Some Coverage I&#...

Posted by BeckySharper in Linkaround on 08 3rd, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Crunk Feminist Collective on gymnastics “smile politics” and the racist dismissal of Gabby Douglas.  The New York Times on Wojdan Shaherkani, the first female Saudi Olympian. The Washington Post on Kayla Harrison, who overcame years of sexual assault by her first coach to win gold in...
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Dog Days of Summer [Urban Stay-cation]...

Posted by annajcook in Housekeeping on 08 1st, 2012 | 1 Comment
It’s August 1st (can you believe it?)  And I’ve decided it’s time to give myself a quasi-vacation from the ‘net. Teazle napping with Hanna Given that I’m online for eight hours daily at work, total blackout isn’t really a possibility — or something...
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