Hey, Sister, Can You Spare Some Social Change? Archive

0February 5, 2012
Newt Continues To Misuse History & Americans To Motivate Against America

Newt Gingrich continues to use the names of dead men inaccurately. Just as his faulty “recollections” Ronald Reagan are continuously used as a battle cry of “Republican Hero”, Newt’s now…
3January 24, 2012
Signs Of The Times, 1945

A vintage photo, taken by photographer Joseph Jasgur, of Earl Carroll’s Vanities pin-up girls picketing in front of a Los Angeles movie theater — a staged publicity event “against” the…
0January 6, 2012
The Good, The Sad & The Ugly (A Link Round-Up)

The Good: A Washington state proposal would require private insurers to cover abortions. The Sad: The incredible photographer Eve Arnold has passed away. The Ugly: Losing Ground on Women’s Rights:…
2December 10, 2011
Busted! As Good As “Our Bodies, Ourselves”

Continuing my talk with Ali Cudby, author of Busted! The FabFoundations Guide To Bras That Fit, Flatter and Feel Fantastic. (Enter to win a signed copy of the book here!)…
5December 9, 2011
No More Crying In The Bra Fitting Room!

Few things excite me this much. Few contemporary things, that is. But I’m all giddy about a book that’s just been released: Busted! The FabFoundations Guide To Bras That Fit,…
0October 27, 2011
Signs Of The Times: 1969 (Or, Men At Work?)

In light of the recently released Congressional Budget Office report on income inequality, I found this cover of the August 1969 issue of Fortune relevant — especially the The Time…
0October 17, 2011
What I’ve Been Reading Link Round-Up

Come explore with me! Beware Pinkwashing at The Girlie Girl Army: All about how unhealthy and manipulative buying “pink” for breast cancer awareness &/or research can be. At Sociological Images,…
0October 4, 2011
A Chilling Cold War Reminder Of The Freedom Of Media

Making Democracy Work & Grow: Practical Suggestions For Students, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Community Leaders, from the Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, Bulletin 1948 No 10, Oscar R. Ewing,…
1September 15, 2011
In Which Gardasil & I *Almost* Make The News (Or, Ethics In Medicine & Media)

Last week I watched The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library. I found myself astounded by the fact that these people with limited intellectual reasoning, if not limited intellectual functioning,…
0August 24, 2011
Kitsch Slapped Link Round Up, Slappin’ It Feminist Style

Let’s walk — and read — shoulder to shoulder, my sisters… The first two posts that rather address a backwards feminism post at HuffPo: One at BUST and the other…
0August 21, 2011
“Unsolicited Advice To Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth And Pink Hair”

I absolutely adore this piece by Jeanann Verlee: Unsolicited Advice To Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth And Pink Hair When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the…
0August 15, 2011
The “Cherry Bomb” Bomb: An Ignorant Hetero Midwest Girl Reviews The Runaways Film

Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, back in the days when they were Runaways. I don’t ever claim to be first with the reviews (I deal in old stuff, so why…
0August 11, 2011
Crunk, Talking Genitals & Childish Fashion Crimes (or, A What I’ve Been Reading Link Round-Up)

Just a good old fashioned link round-up — yee-haw! 1.) At The Crunk Feminist Collective, a thought provoking post on self care for the feminist or liberal activist: Talk about…
0August 10, 2011
Resist, And You Are Called Confrontational. Or Mentally Ill.

Remember the Nirvana song Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle? Here’s Kurt Cobain’s response to, “So why was Frances Farmer such an inspiration?” (Melody Maker, August 28th, 1993)…
0August 7, 2011
Sign Of The Times 1932

Wanted Urgently a strong rope to hang myself alternatively unfurnished accommodation for my wife unborn child and myself Photograph of an unknown man during the Depression, circa 1932; via, via.
0July 28, 2011
Sign Of The Times: 1922 & Today

Message in Washington, D.C., July 28, 1922; message to Washington, D.C. today. Don’t let the tea party-ers or republicans fool you: the hold-up on the debt ceiling has nothing to…
0July 13, 2011
The Vow: For You, Not I

While most people have been talking about the horrible misrepresentation of slavery and other racist notions, Vyckie Garrison, of No Longer Qivering, notes the other sinister side, the sexist side,…
0July 8, 2011
Think Global, Act Local

“Think Global, Act Local” is more than an old saying or mantra; it’s a philosophy. Thinking globally while acting locally is a way to take huge problems, like racism (as…
0July 7, 2011
Suffering A Man In A Dress For Suffrage

On the front of this 5 3/4 X 3 1/2 “snapshot,” which the seller says is circa 1915, someone has printed “AN ARIZONA SUFFRAGETTE.” As I cannot handle this photograph,…
0June 21, 2011
How To Dress For Success: Suffragette Edition

In The Washington Post, November 1, 1909, an unidentified “London fashion designer” gets bitchy and judgmental about how suffragettes dress. Yes, even though I don’t know if this possibly fictitious…
0June 15, 2011
Rethinking Pink (Or Girls Don’t Need Pencils)

Speaking of suffrage colors… A news clipping from the New Brunswick Times, October 15, 1915, about Miss Ellen Murray who threw an anti-suffrage party: The house was decorated in the…