March 2009
10 posts
Re: Feminism
Many have asked if my online alias ‘superfem’ means that I am a ‘super feminist.’ Not exactly.
In today’s clime where most of women’s struggles are for social equality (rather than, say, suffrage), feminism is a tricky movement. It is sensitive and defensive, frequently at odds with itself — an exclusive and pejorative struggle for inclusion.
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“The family of Gawker sites has become at once a publishing success and part of...”
– The Financial Times, kicking some old school cred our way.
“Writers, I learned, are one of nature’s most unconfident species, in...”
– William Zinsser, professional matter-of-fact mincer of prose, in an unusually poetic moment. (via YAM)
“I wanted to be a woman with a man’s life in a woman’s body.”
– Diane von Furstenberg: real life ballbuster. (via WSJ Magazine)
“That’s why the MP3s are free. Because they’re a shadow of the overall...”
– Bob Lefsetz on the end of fixed recordings as the flagship products of the music industry.
“There has been an increase in the number of people expressing no religious...”
– Well thank God for that. More from WashPo and CNN.
“A clever piece of nonsense that somehow hints at something really profound.”
– Vanity Fair on the title of David Byrne’s latest album - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.