I can't remember exactly how old I was when I first heard the word feminism(女权主义), but I became interest-ed in it at a very young age. I remember asking my dad if it was better to be feminist or feminine(娇柔的), and his an-swer is something.I still hold on to:"Why can...
In your head, was that an answer to my question? Tell me the question again. You didn't understand the first time. Tell me again. Yeah, I got it. Tell me one more time. If you don't understand the meaning of what someone's saying, you could ask, another way of saying that woul...
Those who were finding inspiration, or a foothold, in feminism were dreaming, questioning, self-actualizing in the same ways Joni Mitchell was within "Blue." Women in her songs had names, jobs, hobbies, non-romantic needs. While Mitchell might not have wanted to be the glamorous bard of ...
The first clue that she was looking outward as well as inward is in the 90-word poem she chose as the album’s title: When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ’Fore He Enters...
Who created the word floccinaucinihilipilification? Lingusitics sources trace “floccinaucinihilipilification” back to works published as long ago as 1741, in a letter by William Shenstone, who was credited bySir Walter Scottin 1826 as the inventor of the word. ...
I stayed professional, Len soon moved on and we got the job done. However, it was a reminder to me that women's place in photographic cultures and industries as technicians and image-makers has typically been peripheral to men. Despite a rich history of influential female pho- tographers,...
The exchange has been lodged in my mind ever since, though, due to my visceral, real-time reaction to that video. It was an emphatic inner voice saying, “Yes. I could be that person but no thank you.” There was a time in my not-too-distant past when I might have received that...
Three years later, Maryland passed a similar law. It required a private interview between a judge and a married woman to confirm her approval of any trade or sale by her husband of her property. So, while a woman may not have technically been allowed to own property, she was allowed to...
Well, the core wounds that derived from our childhood traumas were a natural part of growing up. As young children, there was a point where we began to understand our powerlessness and limitations and the power that our elders (parents, older siblings, caretakers, etc.) had over us.That ...
Can you hear the revolution? When talking about pop feminism, the first associations that pop into our minds might look something like this: loud, rhetorical, shiny, pink, depoliticized, devoid of meaning, shallow. Especially from an academic point of vi