Who likes pop art?

I do, I do!
Check out these modern interpretations of Wonder Woman.
Yay for artists keeping it real.
Which one do you like best? My favorite is Sam Kennedy’s (pictured here). But did you notice that not one of these drawings was made by a woman? If you have your own drawing to add, post it here.

A Great Loss – Author Grace Paley Dies

It saddened me greatly to hear that Grace Paley, a talented writer and social activist who championed women and anti-war movements among other things, died yesterday at her home in Vermont at the age of 84.
Ms. Paley’s short stories, for which she won much acclaim, focused on women’s lives – not glamorous portrayals of the [...]

Mary Gordon and Speaking One’s Mind

Deborah Solomon’s interviewee in her August 5th weekly New York Times Magazine column was the writer Mary Gordon. When asked, “Are you a Hillary Clinton supporter?” Gordon replied, “I think no woman is electable in America.” She kept going, but reading that line, I remember thinking, “Wow, this woman has guts. Thank goodness someone [...]

Feminism Obsolete, Says Journalist

In his Herald Blog today, Teddy Jamieson announced that feminism is dead:
“How often, after all, do you hear the word feminism these days outside the Guardian women’s page? We have, it seems, moved on. Indeed, according to a press release for cultural commentator Laura Kipnis’s new book, The Female Thing, these days we are living [...]

NARAL Debate 2008 Video

NARAL created this hilarious, if disturbing, video to discuss the 2008 republican presidential candidates’ views on abortion. If it wasn’t so true, I might laugh.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, legislators have proposed a bill which would make it compulsory for the “father of the fetus” to give permission for a woman’s abortion. If he doesn’t give permission [...]

Farm Bill/Fat Bill and Hurrah for India

A few headlines for social justice…

Are farm subsidies causing obesity? Yes. US farm subsidies mostly go to big corporate farms that grow corn, making unhealthy food cheaper. Kim O’Donnell of the Washington Post suggests that we subsidize fruits and vegetables. Sounds like a good idea to me. I know, Nancy Pelosi already signed off on [...]

Anti-Feminist Line of the Day

My day job requires that I fill out a lot of forms for college students, including verifications of good student status for insurance companies that have good student discount programs. I rarely read the eligibility specifics past the part that pertains to me, but it was a slow day, so I skimmed through and [...]

The Girls Next Door, A Guilty Pleasure

In general, I’m not susceptible to reality TV (unless it involves cooking), but I have to admit that even though I don’t make a point of watching E!’s show The Girls Next Door, I find myself flipping to it during commercials with shocking frequency.
The show is “reality” fare that follows Hugh Heffner’s three girlfriends’ lives [...]

Teeth, feathers, girls, boys

A good poem from Jeannine Hall Gailey on Verse Daily this morning:
The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife.
On her blog, Jeannine says: “This is one of the few persona poems where I tried to write in a male voice, so it was a little risky for me.”
I reckon it’s good—potentially good for the [...]

See Jane Fold

Word in the fishbowl is that Jane magazine is folding. Jane was founded by Jane Pratt who also founded the defunct Sassy Magazine–a cult favorite among 80s teens. If Sassy was the edgy, sarcastic girl who developed before all the other 8th graders at the sleepover, Jane was the equally sarcastic, slightly jaded, tell-it-like-it-is [...]