Kathryn Bigelow: Feminist pioneer or tough guy in drag? - Film Salon - Salon.com

Kathryn Bigelow: Feminist pioneer or tough guy in drag? - Film Salon - Salon.com

Trailer to Hurt Locker.

Music video: Why Feminism is still relevant.

Required for 5/3: Degendering Dance

Watch this video, Tightrope, by Janelle Monae, featuring Big Boi:

Degendering Dance… and Some History » Sociological Images



How is this a great example of how dancing doesn’t have to be sexualized or gendered by movement or attire?

Remember to sign your full name.

Required for 4/26: (Sign your FULL NAME--P L E A S E--EVERYONE) Love Your Body: 2010 Poster Contest Winners

Click on this link to look at Love Your Body Day poster winners:

Love Your Body: 2010 Poster Contest Winners

Which of the 4 posters shown ON THE LINKED PAGED (not here--these are just some examples from this year and years past) would you have picked as winner for 2010? Now, click here, and decide which poster you like best out of the winners from the last 10 years.

What is it you like about the posters you have chosen?

1 of 2 options required for 4/19: Et tu, Gaga? SIGN FULL NAME

Gaga sends mixed message: use contraception, but still women can't be strong and independent AND have lots of sex, as men can. Read the article, then comment.

Et tu, Gaga?

Susannah Breslin: Certifiable Asshole

What are "trigger warnings?" Answer is here:

Susannah Breslin: Certifiable Asshole

A first step in a feminist direction: The Healthy Media for Youth Act

This is really cool.

A first step in a feminist direction: The Healthy Media for Youth Act

Watch Louise Erdrich read her poem, "Advise to Myself"

Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS

To hear only the poem, fast forward 21 minutes in:
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS


She also discusses being a mom and trying to write, and having had her early work rejected a lot.

Paid internship

RCRC - Programs

This is a paid internship for an African-American woman.

1 of 2 options required for 4/19: PinkShirtDay.ca |

For you post: first find out about Pink Shirt day, then discuss the ways that women are bullied that men are not (sexist jokes told in front of women, for example). What can we do to stand up to the bullying that's directed only at women?


PinkShirtDay.ca | 

Thanks to the class for giving a heads up on this one!

Required--another option for 4/19: Designers in Paris Veil Models in Protest of Proposed Burka Ban.

Designers in Paris Veil Models in Protest of Proposed Burka Ban.

Think back to Satrapi's protest about her college administrators complaining that women's veils weren't long enough and their pants weren't straight enough, and how she criticized them for never restricting men's dress. Should the French government outlaw Burkas? Or leave it up to women to decide how they should dress?

Required: 1 or 2 options for 4/12 (Sign full name): Art21 Uncut: Julie Mehretu Painting at Goldman Sachs on Vimeo

Here is a link to a short video of Julie Mehretu's recent and very large permanent painting in the new Goldman Sachs building in Manhattan. Mehretu is an Ethiopian-American artist. While at first the painting looks very abstract, it actually has a theme--geography and the movement of downtown Manhattan. In this class we usually look at women's art related to identity politics (often, prejudices based on race, class, and sex), but Mehretu is a woman artist concerned about other themes. Here is the link:

Art21 Uncut: Julie Mehretu Painting at Goldman Sachs on Vimeo

1 of 2 options required for 4/12: Ellen Page Rocks Our World

Read this short bit about actor Ellen Page:

Ellen Page Rocks Our World

Have you seen Juno and/or Whip It? What do you think of her willingness to say she's a feminist?