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A friend told me the other day that because her boyfriend is her same height, she doesn’t like to wear high heels so that she doesn’t look taller than he. I think this is a fairly common sentiment, but it got me thinking. If we’re restricting what we wear because of a man, what other [...]
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As Webmistress, I have been working hard to pull together Fringe’s much-anticipated Ethnos issue (which will go live March 1). Though I had read each piece separately, it wasn’t until I set the contributor page for the issue that I noticed we’ve got an all-female contributor list this time around.
When I made the realization, I [...]
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Here it is ladies, evidence of a drastic advance in gender equality…guyliner.
Before you know it, we’ll be making 100 cents on the dollar.
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In the search for my own engagement ring and an ethical diamond, I came across a peculiar trend: the right hand ring. Ads and websites urge women to “celebrate your success” with a diamond ring worn on the right hand. (Now single women can join in the fun of owning a diamond [...]
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Before Harry Potter took over as Ultimate Hit of Summer 2007, there was a very popular movie called Knocked Up, comedically chronicling two young people deciding to keep the baby. All of a sudden, these stories are everywhere: Glamour has hired a 26-year-old single mom-to-be to blog about her experience (and here’s what Gawker burped [...]
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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 [...]
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I’m a big fan of all things noir, but even though my father lent me this movie close to three years ago, I’d put off seeing it. I can’t really say why, other than the unappealing cover photo, and the billing that it was the movie the Wachowski Brothers made before The Matrix.
I [...]
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About six weeks ago I returned home from a long day of thesis work to find Stacey Richter’s Twin Study in my mailbox. It was my very first review copy, and its receipt made me feel like I am a real publisher, a feeling I don’t have often due to the surreality of printing [...]
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