Ok, I went in to this expecting to find an actually non-biased documentary about the adult entertainment industry. I was sadly disappointed. I’m not entirely sure I can finish watching it. First off, the film-maker’s “study” consisted of three people, one of whom either dropped...
I had gotten mixed reviews on America the Beautiful 2 from other folks in the Body Acceptance movement who watched it when it first aired, and then I kind of forgot it existed until it popped up on on my “You might like…” listings on Netflix. So I sent the husband off to gaming and...
This collection of essays edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti and published by Seal Press, is excellent. I highly recommend it to women of all ages. If you are old enough to make your own decisions about your sexuality, you should read this book.
The authors in this book discuss the need to...
OK, I need a break from all the bitching about assholes and stuff. So I’m going to tell you about a book that made me laugh until I cried while I read it. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess. Some of the stories in the book have been...
Released in 1997, The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg was groundbreaking in its conception, a history of girls through the words in their diaries and in interviews with girls and women in the 90s. In one way the fact that this was so ground-breaking is kind of ridiculous, but as any historian can tell...
Sorry about the radio silence. As I said over on another blog, I thought I could keep up my blogging schedule while we moved, and I was delusional. Yeah, I’ve spent most of my waking time, not at work, unpacking, sorting through crap, and trying to decide what to get rid of. You collect a lot...
