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Bella DePaulo’s Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After

There’ll be no one to claim the body or your pitiful estate. 

Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After by [DePaulo Ph.D., Bella]
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

A very specifically lesbian world.

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by [Bechdel, Alison]
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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

Fred just happens to be Frederic Jameson, one of the most influential theorists of postmodernity.

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Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“Yasmin Nair: Eat This!” Or: How to Leave Comments Without Going up In Flames

The classic method used to silence a woman: question her mental health and then drag her through what you fondly imagine is the mud of her sex life.

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The Kids Aren’t All Right: The Gay Marriage Movement and its Manipulation of Children and Youth

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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Nikki Patin’s body language

Nikki Patin is a Chicago-born performance artist and activist, who has appeared on HBO’s Def Jam.  Her work combines burlesque, spoken word and music to address the themes of body image, race and class.  Patin will be touring New Zealand and Australia from the end of February through April, and is hosting a series of fundraisers in town to pay for the upcoming trip.  She will be signing copies of her book “The Phat Grrrl Diaries” at these events.  Windy City Times spoke to Patin.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Barefoot and Pregnant in the White House: Sarah and Bristol Palin

Let’s not forget that a woman’s right to have an abortion has everything to do with citizenship and power and can’t be dismissed as irrelevant.

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Ready AND This Common Secret

Excerpt: The ability to reproduce and the ability to cease reproduction are mired in a complex entanglement of access and privilege.

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Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rape: The T-Shirt

Excerpt: We have privatized victimhood and are now privatizing criminalization.

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Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl

“It seemed you ought to be able to aim desire like a lens, and pass your longing straight through it.  Maybe I was simply out of range.”

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