Australian feminism and some recent stuff
Hey, so apparently I’m one of Australia’s up and coming feminist icons! No really, in all seriousness, thank you to SBS for including me in their…
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Thinking about Our Shared Common Ancestry–Pausing to Reflect Back on My Career as an Africanist
Honored to have an interview I recently did with Dallas Tatman (an MA student in African Studies at the U of Illinois) unexpectedly show up, to my surprise,…
Critical thinking: Who’s up for it?
Petition diversifying Philosophy By Georgette Veerhuis A month ago on Thursday 21 January 2016 I attended the symposium Diversify Philosophy at the VU. It sounded mysterious. Why does…
Cologne: Why cultural explanations are dangerous for feminism
The sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve will long be remembered in Germany and in Europe more broadly. What a pity that each time…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part II
By Emma Louise Backe Part I of the series can be read here. The genre of horror is one that is not overtly concerned with gender, and yet…
Damsels & Demons: Women in Horror Part I
By Emma Louise Backe Each culture suffers from its own hauntings. We perform ceremonies to guide the ghosts back to their graves and lay out offerings of food…
Rula Ghani: Preaching for Christianity, Israel and Empire
In the name of liberating Afghan women several American feminist organizations joined forces with various American Zionist groups (including the Zionist “neocons”), manufacturers of weapons, and other…
Experimental Education in Feminist Anthropology
With students sprawled out on the lawn, a passer-by stopped to listen to the workshop as we sat in a circle under the sun and a participant or two…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
Teaching Feminism to Teenage Boys
I have had a desire bubbling inside me for some time now to sit my male teenage relatives down and give them a crash course on feminism and…
Teaching Feminism to Teenage Boys
I have had a desire bubbling inside me for some time now to sit my male teenage relatives down and give them a crash course on feminism and…
Teaching Feminism to Teenage Boys
I have had a desire bubbling inside me for some time now to sit my male teenage relatives down and give them a crash course on feminism and…
Teaching Feminism to Teenage Boys
I have had a desire bubbling inside me for some time now to sit my male teenage relatives down and give them a crash course on feminism and…
Donald Trump vs. Blood Magic
Donald Trump has revived old stereotypes in claiming that Fox News commentator/Republican debate moderator Megyn Kelly was ruled by her hormones (“bleeding from her wherever”) when she cri…
Geeks Gone D.I.Y.: A Quick Guide to Zines
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
New Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein Documentary on Birth Control
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the duo who brought us the ever popular Business of Being Born, are back together. They are planning a new documentary called Sweetening…
Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy: A talk from the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair
Below is a talk I gave at the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair earlier this month, Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy. It’s ‘notes toward’ because it is not…
Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy: A talk from the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair
Below is a talk I gave at the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair earlier this month, Notes Toward a Critique of Autonomy. It’s ‘notes toward’ because it is not…
Anthro in the news 6/15/15
Obama’s Trans-Pacific trade agreement may be tanking KFOXTV (El Paso, Texas) commented on the defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives of President Barack Obama’s global trade agenda.…
Sexy Hot Damn Anthropology: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism
It’s true that I often get excited by anthropological theory, but it’s rare that I am this excited and impressed. If you haven’t yet come across…
Sexy Hot Damn Anthropology: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism
It’s true that I often get excited by anthropological theory, but it’s rare that I am this excited and impressed. If you haven’t yet come across…