Alternate Explanations and Other Considerations
From a discussion of why scotch smells like Band-aids (hint: look at the phenols!) to a very timely exploration of the bacteria living on the vagina (am I allowed to use that word here, or will some Republican politician come at me for being vulgar?), this week has shown itself to be a particularly good one for science articles. But …
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Race and Young Children
Susan recently wrote a piece about American-Americans and color-blindness that gave me ~*feelings*~, and it made me think, “How do we teach our children about race?” Let me begin by saying that children are not stupid. Related Posts: Writing Prompt: Who Lives Here? Best of Etsy: Valentine’s Day Cards Pinterest Will Rule the World Book Review: Detroit: An American Autopsy …
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Takedown: American-Americans
Oh man oh man oh man. This week’s takedown is a trickster. Related Posts: Writing Prompt: Who Lives Here? Book Review: Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff Pinteresting Projects: Orange Candle
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News Appetizers: Girl, I Do Not Like What I See Out There
Welcome back, poodles, for another roundabout recap of all the news that proves that this dear country is headed to hell in an embroidered handbasket. Will we make it through the week with a forced smile on our faces, or will we grimly gather round the old television and lament the very forces that make all things seem ever so …
Read MoreWhite Whining: Student Takes Affirmative Action to the Supreme Court
I’m sure everyone here has heard of the demon known as affirmative action, and its henchman, the dreaded quota. For those who haven’t, affirmative action’s mission is to damn the Great White River and let all those brown folks take over universities and work places. The quota is the number of said brown folk needed to accomplish the mission. Ooh, …
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I’m Confused About How I Feel About Chris Brown
I recently read some anti-Chris Brown playing the Grammy posts, most notably “I’m Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at the Grammys and I’m Not Sure Why You Are“ on Hello Giggles. I can’t say I disagree with anything stated in the article, because I really don’t. The article is mostly on-point. But my retort to this question is “Why Do …
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Fall’s “Women-Friendly” TV Lineup: To Which I Say, What The Fuck?
“Whether fictional or quasi-real, TV’s women occupy a world of placation and sublimation through cupcakes and extreme couponing and physically impossible jujitsu. It’s Bravo’s ‘Housewives’ threatening to ruin one another, egged on by fans. It’s a false sense of outspoken independence, shackled by beauty myths and the pretend liberation of promiscuity.” – Hank Stuever, Bunnies, Babies and Broads: What Is …
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Persephone Pioneers: Tami Winfrey Harris
Persephone Magazine: You are the founder, owner and creator extraordinaire of What Tami Said, a blog dedicated to race, pop culture and all the intersections in between. Can you talk about why you started your blog and what your expectations for it were? Related Posts: Kickstartables: In This Together Media Crosspost: Interview with Malinda Lo Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Girl Power …
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Ladyblogs You Should Be Reading
Is it already that time of the week? Boy, that went fast. Welcome back, kids! Here we are again at Ladyblogs You Should Be Reading, a well-balanced part of a Persephone-inspired reading breakfast. Related Posts: Dispatches from Ladyblogland Love Science Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Girl Power Dispatches from Ladyblogland are Back from Vacay Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Where Are You From? Kickstartables: …
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My Problem With “The Help”
I started reading The Help for a few reasons: because it was sitting in the living room when I came home for the summer, because Emma Stone is in the upcoming movie adaption, and (more importantly) because I had noticed quite a bit of criticism being written and linked to regarding The Help on some of my favorite blogs. I …
Read MorePersephone Pioneers: Hana Riaz
I first came along Hana Riaz’s work by absolute chance: a tumblr quote on my dash that left me thinking, “What rock have I been under to not know who this is?” A relatively new blogger, yet long time writer, Hana Riaz is no stranger to deconstructing the messy intersections of social justice, race, pop culture and sexism. Related Posts: …
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Badass Ladies of History: Jackie “Moms” Mabley
“Wouldn’t y’all vote for me to be president? That’s right, I can’t make it no worse! If Elizabeth can run England, I can run America. What has she got that I didn’t use to have and can’t get again, that’s what I want to know.” – Moms Mabley Related Posts: Listen to Your Mother: Listen to Yourself Friday Night Discussion: …
Read MorePersephone Pioneers: Latoya Peterson
Latoya Peterson is a certified media junkie and a hip-hop feminist, turning pop culture on its head with spot-on anti-racist and -sexist criticism. She’s an in-demand writer whose work has been featured in The Guardian, The Root, Bitch Magazine, and Slate’s Double X, and she has contributed to books like Feminism For Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism and Yes Means …
Read MoreFeeding the Hunger
Or, “How Katniss Everdeen Climbed Out of Her Book and Ignited a Real-Life Conflict.” Related Posts: Middlemarch Madness III: Round Three, Vote Three Action Ladies Wanted Middlemarch Madness III: Round Two, Poll Four Five Shakespearean Characters Who Ought to Be on Once Upon a Middlemarch Madness III: Your Top 32
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How Science can be Biased
Yesterday, Psychology Today posted the article “Why are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive than Other Women, but Black Men are Rated Better Looking than Other Men?” by Satoshi Kanazawa. It’s easy to tear this article apart (and I will), but the bigger picture take-away message that I want to hit home is that while we all know we can …
Read MoreBadass Ladies Of History: Melba Pattillo Beals
With recent school cuts and the continuing onslaught on education in America, one can always be reminded of how much we still need to work towards the intended goals of 1954′s Brown v. Board of Education. Related Posts: The Attitudes of Emma, Lady Hamilton Fateful Symmetry: The Marriage of Oscar I of Sweden and… Book Review: The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s… …
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