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Why “woman” doesn’t equal “feminist”
Emma Watson, the UN’s “He for She” spokesperson It seems that every week there’s a new feminist celebrity in town. You definitely know the drill by now: Beyoncé dancing in front of a flashing...
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Feminist Utopias and Battling Cruel Optimism in Ghostbusters
This is not a drill When I first heard about the new Ghostbusters, I was bursting with anticipation. But when the trailers started coming I quickly tuned out. Like a child who has peeked at their...
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Review: Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl
Last night I was lucky enough to see Clementine Ford launch her book Fight Like a Girl at Melbourne’s Athenaeum theatre. I was keen to hear what Ford talk, to come down from my ivory tower in the...
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This Jumpsuit Won’t Save Your Life
The logo of RDS Sometime last year I stumbled across the “Rational Dress Society“—a Chicago-based fashion/art duo, whose claim to fame is the production of a jumpsuit that promises to help “reject the...
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Katy Perry Does Critical Theory
Illuminati realness, or reference to Guy Debord’s ‘Society of the Spectacle’? You decide. There is little doubt now that we are living in a strange time, a time where Teen Vogue talks Black Lives...
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Review – Jessa Crispin’s Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
Jessa Crispin Spoiler alert: Jessa Crispin is a feminist. So, if you’re one of those people who insist on holding signs up on the Internet to the effect of “I’m not a feminist because I like doing the...
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Give Drag a Chance
Priscilla, queen of my heart When I was a little girl, I loved drag queens more than anything. It was back in the days when video stores were still around, and my babysitter asked me which film I...
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Review: Jamila Rizvi’s Not Just Lucky
Jamila Rizvi’s recently released book Not Just Lucky is basically a very long riff on the old saying, “carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”. This is a very useful adage, which...
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Why Trans-Exclusionary Feminism is Anti-Feminist
Isn’t it so disappointing when you realise just how problematic your favourite [celebrity/feminist/commentator/Lena Dunham] is? The most recent of these wake-up calls came when I read UK columnist...
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A Theory of Femininity
Released with Routledge January 2018 In January of 2018 my first book (based on my PhD research) Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism, and the Politics of Presentation was published with Routledge....
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