Do you identify as a girl? Are you into feminism? And do you blog?
If the answer is yes, then you could participate in a research/book project about girlhood, feminism, and blogging. This research is being done by Jessalynn Keller, an extremely awesome student at the University of Texas at Austin. It will form her PhD dissertation and then be transformed into a book about girl feminist bloggers and contemporary feminisms, with an anticipated a publication date sometime in early 2014.
I thought I would share this amazingly-made video, a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” about the battle for women’s suffrage.
You can watch the video and read the lyrics here:
I thought I would share this excellent video, called Not Up for Debate, which was made through the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).
According to an email sent to me by Danielle Jackson, an extremely awesome woman at the NWLC, “The attacks on women’s access to reproductive health care are increasing at an alarming rate, and the ability of women to obtain the health care they need has never been at greater risk. If the past few weeks are any indication, the relentless assaults on women’s health care will continue unabated. We can’t stand by and wait to see what their next attack brings. Through our new campaign we’re encouraging our supporters to tell our leaders – My Health is Not Up for Debate.”
Ever since the 1960s, feminists have stressed the importance of gender-neutral speech. More recent research has proved that using non gender-specific language actually impacts how people think.
GaySocialites’ own Jonathan Warman will direct Nicole Pandolfo’s one-woman show, Love In The Time Of Chlamydia as part of the Frigid Festival from February 23 through March 4, 2012. It tells of one woman’s search for love in a world full of absent dads, dirtbag boyfriends, and premature ejaculators. “Once in the hot tub, we take the leftover vicodin Amber has from getting her wisdom teeth removed, wash it down with some Mad Dog 20/20, and pass a joint…” Nicole Pandolfo’s paean to the perils of sex and booze takes her from suburban Jersey basements to Manhattan barrooms, and from morning-after despair to chemically induced ecstasy on a funny, poignant, empowering journey of self-discovery. Love In The Time Of Chlamydia boldly goes there: awkward adolescence, flying bodily fluids, underage drinking – way underage. Aided by projections (and beer), this wickedly funny one-woman bender takes on frat boys, revenge fucking, venereal disease and Valentine’s Day with the comic insight of someone who knows…better.
For tickets, click here.
For more about Jonathan Warman’s directing work, see jonathanwarman.com.
For more reviews and interviews by Jonathan Warman, see his blog Drama Queen.
