by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux I like to read reviews after I see movies. Mostly this is because I fear spoilers, but also because too many films have been ruined by badly pitched expectations (Napoleon Dynamite? Not funny, y’all). So when I stepped into a theater last weekend to see The Kids Are All Right, I had [...]
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July 29, 2010
The face of the war: thoughts on TIME Magazine’s controversial cover
by Conor Gannon Earlier today the managing editor of Time, Richard Stengel, proleptically announced the cover to this week’s issue, at right. The woman is Aisha, and she lost her nose and ears at the hands of her husband; her crime was flight from his abuse. Fearing the outrage that has previously met photojournalists who [...]
July 28, 2010
Lesbians in the Media
By Katie Rodriguez Lesbians in the media always seem to get the short end of the stick, no pun intended. It’s still somewhat of a novelty to see lesbian characters in films and television shows, and when we do see lesbian characters, we see them as lesbian characters, not characters who happen to be lesbians. [...]
July 27, 2010
Movie Review: The Kids Are All Right
By Emily Rutherford Spoiler Alert Watching the trailer for Lisa Cholodenko’s movie The Kids Are All Right, you could be excused for thinking that you were getting a lesbian movie. The trailer does, after all, advertise a family headed by two women, Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), who conceived their children via sperm [...]
July 26, 2010
Rape in Prison is Still Rape
By Alison Thurston Trigger Warning Last month, the Department of Justice missed its deadline to formalize standards set by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission in 2009. These standards would, if enacted and enforced, work to end sexual assault in prisons and detention centers in the U.S. The commission is comprised of advocates, prison rape [...]
July 22, 2010
Quick Hit: Fashion Industry Win
By Elizabeth Cooper For once, I applaud the fashion industry. Usually, when I think of fancy magazines and runways, I want to cry or yell to express my frustration at their generally limited portrayal of beauty as white and skinny. But recently, I had something to smile about. Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci cast his transgender personal [...]
July 20, 2010
I Hate This Movie: Woman of the Year Edition
by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux I just watched Woman of the Year (1942, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) and hated it so much and for so many reasons that a) I wanted to share and b) am currently not capable of articulating anything beyond quoting directly from the film’s third act and giving my own summary [...]
July 18, 2010
Lady Gaga, you can put your clothes back on now if you want
by Nick Cox This is the second in a series of articles on women in popular music today; the first was about Ke$ha. A common lament in the wake of Michael Jackson’s death last summer was that, at his peak, he had achieved a level of universal popularity that would be impossible today because of [...]
July 14, 2010
EW Reader
There have been so many relevant news articles in the past couple of weeks. Here are some of them! (Thanks Laura for finding all of these great articles!) Stoning too excessive a punishment for adultry? How about hanging? Scary and icky: hacker remotely searches women’s computers for homemade sex tapes and naked pictures, and tries [...]
July 13, 2010
Obama’s new AIDS strategy curiously omits youth
by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux President Obama’s new strategies have a way of taking on epic proportions, even when their proposals are actually pretty modest (inadvertent pun – no, not that kind of “modest proposal”). Such is the case with the new National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), which was unveiled today. The NHAS is the product of a [...]
