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I reviewed Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Night Moves:’ http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/95368696496/night-moves-2014 and chose 5 weekend links: http://film-nut.tumblr.com/post/95631964231/the-weekend-5
I love Kelly Reichhardt! Thanks for making me aware that a new film is out … I’ve been swamped lately, and therefore largely out of it!
Last week at Bitch Flicks… What’s Happening Now in Ferguson and ‘The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975′ ‘Lyle’ is a Lesbian Take on ‘Rosemary’s Baby’? Yes Please! Morello’s Fractured Relationship with Romance in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Maybe She Could Rescue Him: How a Time Traveler Saves 1950 in Showtime’s ‘Masters of Sex’ Waiting in the Wings: Why Hollywood Should Make More Comic-Based Films ‘Violet & Daisy,’ ‘Sucker Punch,’ and Poe’s Law Working My Way Through Feminist Film History: Art and Intimacy in ‘I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing’ Seed & Spark: Perspective ‘The One I Love’ and the World’s Strangest Marriage Retreat Family, Friendship, and Getting By: The Two Mrs. Harts of ‘Reba’
I wrote about an Ottawa food bank that is refusing certain ‘unhealthy’ foods and the bigger issue of people having to consistently rely on food banks. Food Banks, Nutrition, KD and the Social Safety Net
Did you know that some STDs can more than double your chance of acquiring the virus that causes AIDS if you’re exposed to it sexually? By causing open sores or changes in your immune system, certain STDs can make you more vulnerable to HIV. STD prevention is HIV prevention! And if you’re in search of more links, check out our latest fortnightly reprojustice headline roundup.
While walking in a graveyard I found a monument to an unconventional love, 2 men and the woman who linked their lives. Did these three create their own blessed isle in the stormy times after the Civil War?
Last week, I wrote about some of the lessons we need to remember after Ferguson, from not letting other topics distract from racist violence to looking at that violence as a feminist issue.
Have you seen the comic claiming Captain America is perfect BECAUSE he’s a white aryan dude? Yeah, I have some serious problems with that argument
Gender Dysphoria Is A Good Problem. It’s a problem with a path to recovery, crooked though that road may be.
The feminist blogosphere tends to skew young, but guess what? No one is young forever. In The year of living agerously, I find the downside but also the upside of becoming a woman of a certain age.
I did a short watercolor-comic piece about men and women. “Maybe Flowers Will Help” at my comic site http://www.bjduvall.com
This past few weeks on Kiss My Wonder Woman: Recaps of Outlander 1×01 and 1×02 Guardians of the Galaxy is silly and fun and not trying very hard to be deep. And that’s okay. On Little Brother and inherently subversive media Why you should never be the smartest guy in the room… A Princess for Christmas and the fairy tales we wish were true Strong Female Character Friday, with Reign‘s Queen Catherine The importance of Dora the Explorer What’s on my pull list? (a look at current comics) Les Miserables and the problem with adaptation Tune in this week for more Outlander, a review of Pretty Deadly, and more!
This week on the blog, I wrote about how we talk about disability depends on the setting: The contextual language of autism.
Is Taylor Swift’s video racist? In 2013, 72% of anti-LGBT Homicide Victims Were Transgender Women This Is Why I Use the Facebook Check-In Tool And You Should Too TW: 17 Year Old Trans Male Student Dies By Suicide in Eastern PA My thoughts on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Lots of stuff on the blog this week. Latest installment on my series on achieving life goals, and curbing procrastination. A PSA about drunk driving. [CN – obviously kind of a downer and discusses death] A more light-hearted video in review of a useful product.
I’m launching a blog on how to build an online business (or offline). I noticed there are tons of male-run online business blogs (like startup bros and the like) but none for women. Hope to see you there! http://www.shegoesceo.com