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The Queering of Feminism

A few recent headlines from EverydayFeminism.com: Let Them Eat Cake: On Being Demisexual — Cara Leibowitz, Feb. 10 5 Ways to Stand Up to Toxic Messages and Accept Yourself as a Bisexual Person — Erin Tatum, Jan. 25 Powerful Photos Fearlessly Redefine What It Means to Be LGBTQIA+ — Sarah Deragon, Jan. 25 How to […]

‘Queer Youth of Color’

Verónica Bayetti Flores (@veroconplatanos) “has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants’ rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, […]

Fear and Loathing of the Penis

“All women are prisoners and hostages to men’s world. Men’s world is like a vast prison or concentration camp for women. This isn’t a metaphor, it’s reality. Each man is a threat. We can’t escape men. . . . “[H]eterosexuality doesn’t exist and our ‘urges’ to bond with [men] emotionally or sexually aren’t natural drives […]

Common Man-Hating Feminism

“I’m so tired of masculinity. And male aggression. And male voyeurism. And male arrogance. And male mediocrity. And how we’re conditioned to normalize it.” — Zuriya at Tumblr.com What inspired that declaration? That 24-word anti-male outburst was published on Tumblr a week ago and has already acquired more than 3,000 likes or reblogs. The young […]

The Low-Hanging Fruit of Feminism

Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes) used to be a pro-life Christian, until she went to college: “Suddenly: I was the dirty, filthy slut. I was the horny bitch.” By 2009, she had apparently contracted human papillomavirus (HPV) which resulted in cervical dysplasia — “atypical squamous cells” — a potentially pre-cancerous condition that required $5,000 in treatment. This […]

Does She Deny Being a Man-Hater?

A curious omission in this Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal article: When Ariel Friedlander decided to start a feminist club at her high school last year, some boys dismissed her as a man-hating lesbian and one girl threatened to excommunicate her friends if they dared to join. A junior at the Cab Calloway School of the Arts […]

Queering Valentine’s Day

Two years ago, self-proclaimed “Queer Feminist” Sara Alcid complained about the heteronormativity of Valentine’s Day: “Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples. . . . “It’s not hard to […]

The Tragedy of Lesbian Divorce

Whatever happened to old-fashioned lesbian family values? Rosie O’Donnell and her wife, Michelle Rounds, have split, and O’Donnell will leave “The View” next week to concentrate on her family’s well-being, Page Six can exclusively reveal. Sources close to O’Donnell told us that she and Rounds, her wife of three years, have been living apart for […]

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