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Life Perspectives

My Life in Burlesque: On Swagger, Sparkles and (Han) Solo

“I’m just not used to wearing pants!” So said I backstage at a performance of Boobs on Endor: A Return of the Jedi Burlesque (otherwise known as, You Can’t Make This Shit Up). That night I was Han Solo, who in our show is played by a broad in a bra. And really tight, ass-flattering pants that I was […]

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Books

Reading Beyond the Canon

Over at xoJane this week, author K.T. Bradford posted about her efforts to read only works written by women or people of color or LGBTQ authors and challenged her readers to take up a similar goal for year. As this is the internet, it was not terribly surprising that the comment section of the post was filled with […]

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

We’re falling for Dispatches this week.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This week’s Dispatches are not a size 000.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

I put these links together before the Hobby Lobby decision, and I’m sure much will be written about it this week. We’ll start off with Ginsburg’s dissent and then move on to the ladyblogland that was before SCOTUS made us all cry tears of rage.

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Op Ed

When “Not Interested” Isn’t Enough

Last September, XOJane published an article titled “Stop Saying ‘I Have a Boyfriend’ To Deflect Unwanted Attention” that’s been making the rounds again this week.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Live through this week and you’ll get some extra special ladyblogland finds.

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Generation XX

We Found a Jane Magazine from 2001

Before there was Jezebel, there was Jane, and before there was Jane, there was Sassy.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

If you learn nothing else this week, remember this: It’s time stock up on purple. Why? Read on to find out.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

While you’re in a food coma this week, enjoy these reads from ladyblogland.

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Mental Illness

Caregiving: A Response To xoJane (Fueled By Chocolate And Biscuits)

If I may first make a very personal point: I am, at this moment in time, rather sleep deprived. Little Juniper is teething. This has led to some interesting nights of “sleep is for the weak” combined with the disruption that is the clocks going back. But back to other endeavours.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches from Ladyblogland: I Love the Internet

I am in love with the Internet right now. Yeah, there are some terrible spaces for women, but there are also amazing people calling it like they see it and making us think.

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You Complete Me Internet

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

From rape in Bolivia to Doctor Who, ladyblogland delivered.

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You Complete Me Internet

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This week’s ladyblogs made me say, “I frakking love the Internet!”

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You Complete Me Internet

Dispatches from Ladyblogland

I spent the weekend exploring Baltimore and I found a lot to love in charm city. Equally as lovely is this week’s roundup of everything weird and wonderful in ladyblogland.