Music “When I didn’t appear in public, I wasn’t a recluse. I was just living my life.” Marine Girls’ and Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn tells The Guardian.
Pixable via Gif allows us to see how many men and how few women will be playing at a music festival near you this Summer. Disappointing to say the least.
Yoko Ono’s “Woman Power” is #18 on Billboard’s dance charts! Listen to it now.
Check out this conversation with Sleater-Kinney.
If you’ve been living under a rock, then you might not know that Boston declared April 9th “Riot Grrrl Day.” Check out Francesca Lewis’ exceptional essay about it in Curve.
Grace Jones’ The Disco Years gets reviewed over at The Quietus. You might want to get your tickets to see her at the Hollywood Bowl this September. Just sayin’.
The L.A. Weekly thinks that Carol Kaye is one of the greatest musicians you’ve probably never heard of.
Get ready for NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES!
Words NPR says that Fun Home on Broadway has passed the Bechdel Test.
Mallory Hellman reminds us of the “power of hate speech.”
One writer’s take on “why we should all be spinsters.” I’m down.
Listen to what makes Roxane Gay a “bad feminist.”
Congratulations to both brilliant poet Bernadette Meyer and one of my personal literary inspirations, Alison Hawthorne Deming, for being awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
What does it mean to be a “critic’s critic” and a “feminist’s feminist”? “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” discusses queer theorist, Lauren Berlant’s The Female Complaint.
One of my favorite literary critics, Laura I. Miller discusses Heidi Julavitz‘ latest work over at Bustle.
Toni Morrison’s “radical vision” in the New York Times: “Because, me? I’m not going anywhere soon.”
“Yes, we can rattle off a list of women writers who’ve killed themselves and yes, we may conjecture that their status as women in the societies in which they lived contributed to the depressive and desperate state that caused them to do so. But it isn’t the unifying theme. You know what is? How many women wrote beautiful novels and stories and poems and essays and plays and scripts and songs in spite of all the crap they endured.” – Cheryl Strayed “on how to write like a motherfucker.”
Over at Good Magazine, poet Azure Antoinette asks us to write a poem and share it… now.
Thank you, Everyday Feminism, for “5 books written by queer and trans women that set me free.”
If you like comics, this “queer 50s high school girl gang webcomic” is a must read.
Rebecca Solnit asks us to abolish high school.
Ever wonder what Kim Gordon thinks of Iggy Azalea? Or how Tavi Gevinson felt graduating High School AND premiering a play? Well, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE to find out! RADAR Productions is having a feminist writers’ DIARY AUCTION to benefit its 2015 programming!
Check out a poem by Weird Sister contributor Becca Klaver in the latest issue of Fence. And watch a video about the new book, The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop featuring WS contributor Morgan Parker–who has two events you should check out this weekend if you’re in D.C!
Film The New Yorker’s “Recreating a Feminist Revolutionary” discusses Elizabeth Subrin’s 1997 film Shulie, which focused on radical feminist Shulamith Firestone.
If you’re in Brooklyn, you may have caught “Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film” which screened Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II The Terrordome, the first feature film ever directed by a black British woman. If you missed these films, maybe it’s time to seek them out.
Fearless feminist film producer and writer Laura Goode writes an epic treatise on making movies by and for women. And for more on feminist filmmaking, check out this interview with Meera Menon over at The Mary Sue.
Herstory Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president.
The White House now has a gender-neutral bathroom.
Ann Friedman reminds us that “women can’t end the wage gap on their own” over at New York Magazine.
Smoothiefreak gives us a quick lesson in intersectional feminism… USING PIZZA!
Sex Positivity Go here to support a feminist sex toy shop in St. Louis.
Molly Crabapple illustrates “how police profile and shame sex workers.”
One of my all-time favorite websites, Tits and Sass reposted an excerpt from a piece called “Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Workers.”
Visual Art Go here to see “15 feminist artists respond to the censorship of women’s bodies online.”
Japanese artist, Megumi Igarashi is on trial arguing that her artwork modelled on her genitalia is not obscene. Meanwhile, Syreeta McFadden believes that “the lack of female genitals on statues seems thoughtless until you see it repeated.”
Hyperallergic breaks down race and gender demographics in the new Whitney Museum‘s Inaugural Exhibition. I’m rolling my eyes at you, Whitney Museum.
We Remember The Nation paid tribute to “The Immortal Judith Malina,” who co-founded The Living Theater. Feminist and lesbian activist and writer Sydney Abbot passed away this week.
Events If you’re in L.A., check out the Women’s Center for Creative Work Member’s House Warming Party. Also upcoming in L.A. is the Book Release Party for Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts!
Upcoming in Philo, California, there’s a Women of Color Herbal Symposium happening next month.
If you’re in Tucson, take a feminist-positive sex writing class taught by writer and certified sexologist Kati Standefer.
Lady Boss is throwing an event for New York women in creative industries “looking to kick more ass at work.”
Hey Writers, Submit! Brevity is currently accepting essay submissions on “the experience of gender.” Hurry and get your pieces in.
What did we miss this week? Tell us in the comments!
