Gigantic news: The FCC approved net neutrality rules this week, reclassifying the internet as a public utility—a HUGE victory for a free, open internet, and essential for the future of feminist online media.
“If among feminists, black women are always asked to do the uncompensated labor of educating white women about how they have effed up, is this also not a form of wage inequality?” — Read Brittney Cooper’s awesome, incredibly important response to Patricia Arquette’s Oscars speech.
In literary news, Jenn Marie Nunes talks about her forthcoming first book, AND/OR, the winner of Switchback Books‘ inaugural Queer Voices contest, in this great interview with Room 220.
A public service announcement on how not to write misogynist literature.
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“We believe that poetry (& any art form, for that matter) is at its most electric, irreverent, & intimate when it exists outside institutions.” Check out the Indiegogo campaign for POETRY JAWNS, a poetry podcast from Emma Sanders & Alina Pleskova.
The last episode of Parks & Recreation aired this week (though some of us are in denial and still haven’t watched it.). Look back on some of Leslie Knope’s greatest feminist moments on the Ms. blog.
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Speaking of Ms., HBO is making a mini-series about the creation of Ms. Magazine—omg. And we of 90s childhood (and the name Marisa with one ‘s’) could not be more delighted that Marisa Tomei is playing Gloria Steinem.
Oh Joy Sex Toy looks at the BDSM practices of 50 Shades of Grey alongside those of Secretary.
And last but defs not least, check out Women, Action & the Media’s first-ever WAM! Entertainment Guide for feminist movie, book, and other media recommendations.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
