February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
Aliens, Schmaliens.
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
4 posts
What becomes a serious lady most? A Nobel Peace...
Cindy Gallop, I want to make love (not porn) to your two-tone t-straps and your crepe-de-chine shift dress.
September 2011
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August 2011
3 posts
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July 2011
9 posts
Sandra Cisneros
We like Sandra’s accessories, iconographic boots, and her Buddhalupe tattoo.
We thank Ms. Cisneros for introducing middle school students across America to the construction of female sexuality and fragmentary subjectivity with her summer reading classic The House on Mango Street. Oh, and congratulations for getting LAUSD to name a learning academy after you!
June 2011
5 posts
“We must not allow people to think of Vogue as a really frivolous periodical,...”
– Condé Nast, founder of three international editions of Vogue, in 1941. (via literarypiano)
May 2011
11 posts
ELIZABETHWARRNOHSNAP.GIF
celebraterickysargulesh:
Look! I made an animated GIF of Elizabeth Warren! From today’s hearings when she was accused of lying!
Betty Parsons, artist and first gallerist to rep...
(from theartstory.org) Once referred to as “the den mother of Abstract Expressionism,” Betty Parsons was an early advocate of the great Abstract Expressionists, including Pollock, Rothko, Reinhardt, Still and Newman, long before they all achieved notoriety. Her midtown gallery, which opened in 1946 (and closed every summer so that Parsons could focus on her own art), gave the...
Orchestra conductors usually get photographed with baton in hand, looking like some demented Howgarts professor. Not so Marin Alsop! The first woman to be appointed conductor of a major U.S. Symphony, Alsop goes so glam in snakeskin that I’ll give her a pass on the Eddie Izzard makeup…
Sustainable Development, Rule of Law, and the... →
Sandra Day O’Connor at Cornell Law School
Women have always played a critical role in the functioning of societies. More recently, however, the public, private, and non-profit sectors have recognized women’s contributions and potential as engines of sustainable development and growth. As a result, investing in half the world’s population is viewed not only as the right thing to do, but the...
April 2011
20 posts
“I’m so tired of them playing vaginal politics that I could just vomit.”
– Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, interviewed at The Root, on legislators trying to limit abortion rights. (via jessicavalenti)
