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Way back when, almost ten years ago, I found Bitch Magazine sitting tucked behind women’s glossies on the top-most shelf of the bigbox bookstore. It was love at first page flip, finding a magazine that addressed real concerns (e.g., the challenges of working mothers vs the latest celeb diet) and whose politics where [...]

Americans Who Tell the Truth
Artist Robert Shetterly has painted portraits of over 100 individuals who have impacted the US political scene throughout history up to the present day. The website features an image of each portrait along with a short biographical sketch of the person. The portraits and biographies have been made into [...]

On a whim The Partner and I stopped by the city library after dinner this evening and lo! they were having a book sale! A $1-A-BAG book sale. I love local book sales as university professors donate their books, which means you can often find great academic nonfiction, which the nerd/geek in me [...]

Banned Books Week is September 29 through October 6. You can find an online catalogue of banned and challenged books at The Forbidden Library, either arranged by title or by author.
Or you can head over to your own public library. My city library has a display devoting several shelves to banned and challenged [...]

One of the seven books I’m reading right now is Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Jaggar and Bordo (1989). If you like feminist theory, cultural studies, and philosophy, this text is for you. I’m juggling other books at the same time, so I’m only near the end of the [...]