January 2010
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90swoman celebrates the grammy's
alanis morissette vs. taylor swift smackdown
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is ‘tik tok’ the feminist party anthem of 2010?
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marisa will be reading from her book about... →
cool events on archiving at nyu →
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next level queer archiving →
“Between 2006 - 2008 Montreal-based artist Kirsten McCrea undertook the task of painting the portrait of every single person named in the Le Tigre song ‘Hot Topic’.”
one of those people is spivak, who jon and i were discussing last night while sitting at a table with kathleen waiting for some performance art to start. ada and i had just discussed lady gaga mainstreaming...
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awesome things radical feminists did in the 60s
proposed that all women wear a uniform that looked like a mcdonalds uniform, except it had a woman power sign embroidered instead of the “M”
formed “truth squads” to confront the sexist husbands and boyfriends of women they knew
embraced “amazon virginity,” in which “you have sex but don’t take it real seriously”
developed a female...
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the feminist art i most want to see
last season it was tracey emin “only god knows im good.” this season it is elisabeth subrin “her complusion to repeat” at sue scott gallery through february 26.
mikki has been encouraging me to see shulie (that’s a shot from the film) for years and im not sure how i havent seen it yet, given that nyu has a copy and that shulamith firestone’s the dialectic of...
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Hall & Oates - One On One (via fuckyeah1980s)
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“Basically, men, you look like creeps. I have no... →
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“At the conclusion of the panel, Neal will do a recreation of the controversial...”
– i literally cannot wait for our panel on pre-internet teen bedroom culture at this years emp with ada, marisa, and neal. and i cannot believe that this is my life.
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Feminism + Lipstick Lesbian - homosexuality = Us →
hahahahaha. also: its really good!
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BECAUSE we are angry at a society that tells us...
thanks bananafishsticks for posting the always-inspiring riot grrrl manifesto
i still remember standing in the kitchen of the house i grew up in and reading this particular quote in newsweek during my junior year of high school and thinking i could not wait to meet girls like this once i got out of buffalo. which i did! jessica hopper chaired a panel i was on at emp. the first time i met kathleen...
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I’m like, “Those Sex & the City girls should read...
ada, im like that, too.
dealing with Important Issues at 90swoman:
Someone buy Carrie Bradshaw the Communist Manifesto
What if Sex and the City Were Radicalized?
if only bridget jones read susan faludi and naomi wolf
who cares about 90s feminism?
Bridget Jones: 90s Woman Extraordinaire?
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totally amazing feminist art tumblr →
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this makes my day, too. i love adrienne rich.
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kathy acker, proto-riot grrrl
“gritty scene, mostly male and white” is perhaps the most feminist nyt headline ever. the piece rightly calls out the fales library for the lack of women in its archive and in “downtown pix” (its new show, through april 3). but i am psyched that nyu is ameliorating this, a bit, with its expanding riot grrrl collection. and i am psyched for this show, which features artists...
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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– i love when people post favorite quotes from my youth on tumblr. especially if those quotes are from the bell jar, the book that changed my life when i was 12. emo.
Sylvia Plath (via merricat) (via billiedoll) (via suicideunderground)
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“To truly understand the Scorpio man, just study a really ‘butch’...”
– ophi and tali in the astrotwins’ love zodiac, surely the only book of horoscopes written by third wave feminist astrologers. bonus: lots of kurt cobain references.
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le tigre fake french
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You Are Nothing Without Feminist Art →
dream shirts!
(via fuckyeahfemmes)
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“wait, i can’t remember, did you do sex work in the 90s?”
– 90swoman ada calhoun, to me, during an interview with a reporter. note to my parents: no.
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“do you have a barrette? because if you had a barrette, you would be done.”
– 90s expert neal medlyn on how i could look more like a 90swoman
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what every woman wants to hear
“last night was so fun! i loved your turtleneck.”
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remembering teen lust: 80s and 90s edition
B: ah, high school girls bedrooms
K: i know.
B: comfy beds. stuffed animals. nice smells.
K: yes to all of that
always a lot of stuffed animals
lots of pink
B: champion sweatshirts or benetton sweaters?
Benetton sweaters, obviously.
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when feminist writers who like clothes and...
i tried really hard not to use the same tumblr theme as marisa—i mean, already half of my posts are reblogs of hers—but it is sort of like how we read the same books, buy the same dresses, etc. in honor of our years of mind meld, here are some best-ofs email subject headers:
i hate boy auters
you there? i have gossip
lesbian art!
in case you are wondering who graduates from history of...
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someone gets really 2010
meltzer:
Jon, between “the evanescent thrill of truth telling” and using your real name on Twitter and outing yourself as totally OCD at The Awl (and commenting!), I am really into your 2010. Kara and I might actually have to make our imaginary WWJCD t-shirts and sell them at our imaginary Etsy shop. (Other t-shirts we’d sell: “JUDY! [with photo of Judith Butler],” “LIVE YOUR TUMBLR,” “IT’S...