Click on Page: 5 Questions w/ Awesome Women! New interview with awesome singer and musician Molly Shea from the Brooklyn band Acrylics. They just released their new album Lives and Treasure. She gives us her perception about women in the music industry, her personal experience and inspirations! Thanks Molly! Check out their new album: http://www.myspace.com/acrylicsnyc
How many times have we all heard this used nonchalantly; as a term of endearment, a denigration, a judgment, or used for its actual denotation, female dog (not often). I cringe every time I hear it, but then accidentally say it when I’m driving and get a bout of road rage. The thing is, that… [Read more…]
You may have heard this story already but if you haven’t, please check it out: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-19/opinion/velez-mitchell-gang-rape_1_underage-girl-younger-boys-underage-boys/2?_s=PM:OPINION http://bookmaniac.org/how-to-help-the-11-year-old-girl-in-texas-who-got-gang-raped/
w/ Patricia Park, an established artist from National Museum of Women in the Arts! Check it out on the Page – 5 Questions w/ Awesome Women!
I sometimes get in trouble for interrupting others. I interrupt others more than I probably should, and it is something I plan on working on. Yet, when I started paying more attention to my own actions (and I do interrupt a good amount), it brought up another clear pattern: the gentleman, who had recently pointed… [Read more…]
Click on photo to make them much larger, trust me, it’s worth it! While shopping with my daughter, I came to a well-rounded realization that little girl toys have gone too far, way too far. It seems evidently that Evangelical Chauvinist Ignorant White Men also propose ideas for dolls and little girl toys. And now… [Read more…]
Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to… [Read more…]
An increasingly disturbing issue and becoming a media sensation… teenage girls fighting or bullying each other in public while friends record the acts and subsequently post on YouTube for other’s entertainment. I’m not a huge fan of the media most of the time but this is one troubling issue they have responsibly brought to the… [Read more…]
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March 28, 2011 by Kiki
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