My latest column for BitchBuzz was inspired by a random confluence of things — or, if you don’t believe in coincidence, a surprising (to me) confluence of wyrd. Love the image from the Gagosian exhibit on J.G. Ballard’s Crash, Douglas Gordon‘s Self-Portrait of You and Me (Jayne Mansfield) from 2007: Somehow a weird collision of…
Category: feminism
The 11th Carnival of Feminists
Drop by the 11th Carnival of Feminists and see me there as one of the revelers writing about BitchBuzz, blogging and gender! Read all the entries and leave comments so folks know they have been heard. Thanks! Working on my syllabuses today: revising one, creating the other out of whole cloth. Now where are all…
BitchBuzz: Julie & Julia & one unfortunate part
Yes, it’s Thursday so my latest column for BitchBuzz is up, a piece on Julie & Julia, the film about Julia Child and the blogger Julie Powell, which I saw with my pal Peg last weekend. I went with a girl friend to see the new film Julie and Julia which was just about what…
Kazoo Round-up
Just back from my meeting with the VP and the Dean, where I formally accepted the position of Coordinator of Women’s Studies. What was that I said about only suckers taking up administrative positions? 😉 Let’s consider it the first step in my plan for World Domination or perhaps as a new hat (we all…
BitchBuzz: 21st C Women’s Studies
Check out my latest piece for BitchBuzz where I try to focus on the duties I’ll be taking on as coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at my college. It’s going to be a challenge to revitalise the program as we had an off-year last year for a variety of reasons. My thought…
BitchBuzz: Terminated
Check out my latest piece over at BitchBuzz, about how the cancellation of the Friday night Fox double-header of Terminator and Dollhouse will doubtless be taken as more evidence that “chick shows don’t sell” rather than “not so good shows with little support or worthwhile writing don’t gain much of an audience.”
Review: King Kong Theory
See my brief review of Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory over at BitchBuzz. Be sure to check out all the other fun pieces at the mag, too. I’d like to write a longer and more thoughtful review of the book, which it deserves. Despentes comes to the topic of women today from very disparate experiences:…
K. A. Laity 