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Donald Trump and Rape Culture

October 19, 2016 • by Matthew Filner

“This was locker room talk.” So began Donald Trump’s response, in the Second Presidential Debate, to being questioned about his sexual assault boasts in the now infamous Access Hollywood tape. Trump immediately moved to talking about what he called “more important things”: the danger of ISIS, and what he would ...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit

October 15, 2016 • by Lisa Aslanian

It has taken me a few days to figure out why Hillary Rodham Clinton makes me a little giddy. I have always enjoyed watching her run for office. She is the smart girl who does her homework. She aims to get the job by earning it. She is tireless and ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

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How to Effectively Ban Abortion

On the Polish Black Monday Strike and its Consequences

October 6, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

This week saw a massive mobilization of women in Poland (and elsewhere) against a proposed total abortion ban in the country. On Monday, women refused en masse to go to work or school, striking both economically and socially, in order to stop the proposal, which would have refused abortion to ...

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Records of Planetary Suicide

September 13, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. As Beatriz (now Paul) Preciado keenly points out in “The Principle of the Auto-Guinea Pig,” the centralization of information into human memory, stone, paper, and, recently, digitally readable circuits carved into silicon chips, subjects information to an ineradicable vulnerability. ...

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I Love Dick

August 25, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

My prayer to the TV gods when the pilot of I Love Dick screened was “please, let it not suck!” My concern was mostly for the author of the book of the same name on which it is based – Chris Kraus. I want people to read her books. ...

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Why I Support Hillary Clinton For President: A Letter to My Friends on the Left

July 26, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I support Hillary Clinton’s election unreservedly, and intend to work for her election, though I have no illusions about her character or her politics. My primary motivation is my absolute opposition to the candidacy of Donald Trump, who I regard as a danger to liberal democracy. Liberal democracy is a ...

Why I Support Hillary Clinton For President: A Letter to My Friends on the Left

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Hillary: It’s Not About Trust, It’s About Power

July 12, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

For months now I’ve been listening to the pundits and the polls that say people don’t trust Hillary Clinton. It’s a very popular topic and has been for years. These feelings aren’t about trust. They are about power. They are a mask for people’s basic discomfort with a woman having a ...

Hillary: It’s Not About Trust, It’s About Power

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The Importance of Losing ‘Virginity’

July 5, 2016 • by Kayla Heisler

I first questioned the concept of virginity’s validity when I was eighteen. I had just watched a Laci Green video entitled ‘Let’s Lose Virginity,’ and it depicted ‘virginity’ as a harmful myth created to oppress women. Reading Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex,’ a text that demonstrates why the myth ...

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Muhammad Ali, Brock Turner, and the First Woman Nominee

Past Present Episode 38

June 15, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

On this week's episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the legacy of Muhammad Ali, the aftermath of the Brock Turner trial, and America's first woman nominated to the presidency by a major party. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Muhammad Ali died last week at the ...

Muhammad Ali, Brock Turner, and the First Woman Nominee

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FEMINISMS OF THE LEFT: Politics and Strategy

June 10, 2016 • by Nancy Holmstrom

There is a long and confusing collection of names for those who are both leftists and feminists: Marxist feminist, socialist feminist, materialist feminist, black feminist, feminist socialist, anarcho-feminist... and so on. And straddling the line between socialist and liberal feminists, would be social welfare feminists. In the 1960s and 1970s ...

FEMINISMS OF THE LEFT: Politics and Strategy

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Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

June 7, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. While getting ready for classes one morning, I caught myself singing along to a Nicki Minaj song and nailing the rap part quite well. What caught my attention even more was that memorizing these lyrics gave me a boost ...

Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

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Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

June 6, 2016 • by Tiago Lima

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Despite their differences, various authors of feminist theory have been mobilized by a similar question regarding the subject of feminism -- more precisely, what kind of theory of the subject is most productive for the feminist debate? Ever since ...