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Times They Are A Changin’ 29 Sep 2012 | 04:37 pm
So it’s been a busy couple of months in the Clutterbuck-Cook household! Hanna and I got married, all legal and everything, two weeks ago at one of our favorite neighborhood cafes. The morning ceremony...
Booknotes: The End of Men 11 Sep 2012 | 05:00 pm
Back in July, I unexpectedly scored an advance review copy of Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men; and the Rise of Women (Riverhead Books, 2012) through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. It arrived las...
Quick Hit: s.e. smith on the Dangers of Justifying Abortion 10 Sep 2012 | 10:08 pm
The incomparable s.e. smith @ Tiger Beatdown: Every time a progressive justifies abortion, one of those horrid ‘lamenting the preborn killed by pinko commie scum’ websites gets another set of animated...
Poetry Saturdays: Tina Chang 26 Aug 2012 | 05:17 am
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Tina Chang was born in Oklahoma in 1969 and raised in Queens, New York. She was elected the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn in 2010, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College...
On Helen Gurley Brown, Traitor to Womanity 14 Aug 2012 | 05:15 am
Helen Gurley Brown died today, at age 90, after a short illness. In Gurley Brown’s obituary in the New York Times, Margalit Fox wrote: Ms. Brown routinely described herself as a feminist, but whether...
Quick Hit: Junk Science Snark FTW 13 Aug 2012 | 12:24 am
Hanna found this gem of a post by Sophie Collins at the Guardian on the recent pop psych “study” that is reported to have discovered that stressed-out men prefer heavier women. Do you like beards? I l...
More Olympic Awesomeness from Women’s Boxing 12 Aug 2012 | 12:33 am
Amazing performances for women in women’s boxing event, including this tremendous gold-medal performance by 17 year old middleweight Claressa Shields of Flint, Michigan. ESPN called it: “A performance...
Poetry Saturdays: Beau Sia 11 Aug 2012 | 10:43 pm
Beau Sia is a Chinese-American performance poet. In her history of the New York poetry slam movement, author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz wrote: Beau Sia took Maggie Estep’s pop culture reference-heavy wo...
Poetry Saturdays: Kwame Dawes on the Olympics 4 Aug 2012 | 09:02 pm
From the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog: Throughout the 2012 London Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day’s action...
Women in the Olympics: Some Coverage I’m Reading 3 Aug 2012 | 11:19 pm
The Crunk Feminist Collective on gymnastics “smile politics” and the racist dismissal of Gabby Douglas. The New York Times on Wojdan Shaherkani, the first female Saudi Olympian. The Washington Post o...
