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Tenth Annual Women’s History Month Conference

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Tenth Annual Women’s History Month Conference
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (20 minutes from midtown Manhattan)
Black Power, Black Feminism: Black Women’s Activism and Development of Womanist/Feminist Consciousness in the Era Black Power.
This Conference is FREE and open to the public.
Register at:http://www.slc.edu/womens-history/conference/index.php
Traditionally scholarship on the Black Power era has [...]

January 22, 2008   1 Comment

women of color in manga and comics — nyc/nj event

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Women of Color in Comics and Manga.
This November 12, DigitalFemme will be moderating a fantastic panel attended by three wonderful women cartoonists that you should know about.
Alitha E. Martinez, who has worked on Marvel’s Thor and Iron Man, will be on hand to discuss her time at Marvel and her latest independent project Yume [...]

November 8, 2007   No Comments

Infantilizing women’s bodies

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“Your hands are so cute and little! I wish mine were like that. I have big old hands.”
I can’t count how many female friends and acquaintences have told me this over the years. What’s interesting is that having cute little small delicate hands is in my opinion closer to a problem than something to be [...]

July 23, 2007   9 Comments

These new multi-size models…

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We’ve heard in recent months about retailers adding models of sizes other than zero to their advertising lineups. This is a pretty neat idea, but I still have some questions. Will they also include women:

Whose calves are "too big", thanks to natural muscle you’d have to surgically remove to alter?
Whose legs are "too short", according [...]

June 27, 2007   6 Comments

Retailer John Lewis to use models of several sizes

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British retail shop John Lewis is going to start featuring a variety of body sizes in the models they use to advertise clothes. They will not stop using very slim models entirely, but will simply incorporate other sizes and shapes to offer a better representation of "what British women really look like." They cite Dove’s [...]

April 28, 2007   1 Comment

Men look at faces, not just T&A

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A recent study has found that when men and women were shown sexy pictures, researchers were faced with the opposite of what they’d expected to find:
Men looked female faces first, and then the genitals, while women’s eyes went pretty much straight to the male genitals.
Could this be why "pornface" was invented - you know, those [...]

April 17, 2007   2 Comments

Women: it’s your duty to remove body hair

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Since YouTube absolutely refuses to let me sign up this blog for posting I’ll just link to this post from Faux Real that contains a video of British talk show hosts Richard and Judy interviewing a woman who’s decided to grow her damn body hair instead of spending thousands of pounds removing it every year.
Salient [...]

April 7, 2007   16 Comments