Rachel Funari
bikinis
Some of you will be aware of my feelings about bikinis from a previous lip blog. I wanted to share this quote from Susan Brownmiller, from her book on femininity, the chapter about bodies and fashion. Having described the history of the corset and girdle, and making the point that it is only recently that [...]
And just to prove that women are objectified in ways that men arent….
Check out this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/ 2009/03/02/apatow_nude/index.html I posted to the lip blog when the original Vanity Fair cover came out. You can find a picture of it at http://stereogum.com/img/scarlett_johannson_nude.jpg. This also shows how unoriginal women’s sexuality is these days; would you have known that was Scarlett Johansen?
The pole thing
I would like to open a discussion about pole dancing, in light of the article in the current issue. Pole dancing may be a cliched, trite and easy imagining with which to simplisticly infuse post and radical feminist dichotomies, but as a feminist leaning towards the radical, and wary of the significance and acceptance of [...]
Obama is what a feminist looks like
There’s been a bit of feminist furore over Ms. magazine’s new cover (http://www.msmagazine.com/) - Clark Kent-Obama revealing his ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ t-shirt. Some are angry that Ms. put a man as ‘Superman’ on the cover – as if women need rescued. Some think it betrays Hillary. Some are angered by the patriarchal [...]
In Dialogue with the New Issue: to Zoya
Hello lip team and congrats on a lively new issue. I’ve been reading my lovely hardcopy on the tram and am tired of talking to myself. Thought I would share some of my responses to a few articles, but one at a time, hey? Zoya: It’s funny how no one wants a gal to have [...]
abstinence article
Following is a link to a great article on an abstinence club at Harvard. I’m posting this not only because of the subject but because I think it is an example of excellent journalism. Randall, the journalist, makes his own subtle argument throughout the article by the order in which he chooses to relate parts [...]
To work or not to work
‘Teenage unemployment is still at an unacceptable high of 18.5 per cent and above 20 per cent in four out of 10 regions across Australia. In one in three regions over the past year teenage unemployment has actually increased.’ I pulled this out of Labor’s Social Inclusion policy document because it seems to be based [...]
mailed my absentee ballot today
There may be more important decisions in life that I should devote this level of agonising to, but deciding whether to vote for Hillary or Edwards in the primary race for Democratic presidential candidate occupied my little mind for months. A few New Yorker articles convinced me that Edwards was the Leftiest, Obama too religious [...]
image ideas to ensure abortion remains fully accessible in VIC?
Want an opportunity to get your design work seen by women Victoria-wide and help ensure abortion rights? lip is helping out a coalition of VIC and national reproductive rights organisations to ensure the best outcome for abortion law reform in Victoria. Abortion will be taken out of the Crimes Act and what is lawful and [...]
Congratulations to Australia!!!
Yesterday was a great day. It was my first opportunity as a new Australian citizen to vote. I have a thing about voting. I love it. It makes me feel powerful. It is such a concrete way of taking control of the conditions of one’s life. For someone who doesn’t pay as much attention to [...]
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