Guest Shiv and Alex discuss failed masculinities and the non-human in Star Wars. Alternatively titled: “Jar Jar Twink,” “Stop Kink-Shaming the Sith,” or “Daddy Dark Side.”
(Image Credit: Wikipedia)
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Tourmaline is a filmmaker, artist, trans studies scholar, educator, and organizer… and our April 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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Greta and Alex talk with Bachelor Gaytion.
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Rebecca Gomperts is a doctor and artist whose career is centered around providing abortion services and reproductive healthcare education to those with limited or no access… and our March 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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“As a high school club soccer player, I would enter into a lifestyle full of convoluted social education about what gender, sex, gender roles, and sexual identity all meant.”
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“The moment that I try to make sense out of this composition, I become responsible for what I see; there is so much in front of me that everything I name is a choice, even without me realizing.”
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Saidiya Hartman is one of the most influential Black scholars alive today, who has made pivotal interventions in the historicization of U.S. enslavement… and our February 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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“Tuskegee tells us how the Black body figures into medical discourse and medical knowledge, specifically as it props up globalized narratives of American exceptionalism and materially benefits white health.” (Thumbnail image: The New York Times)
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Greta answers a question about herpes.
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Zitkála-Šá (aka Red Bird) was a prominent Dakota/Yankton Sioux writer, activist, editor, teacher, and musician in the late 19th and early 20th century… and our January 2020 Feminist to Know in The Provocateur.
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“Most of Mendieta’s work strikes the viewer as surreal, magical, jarring, out of place. Mendieta creates new worlds in her images rather than attempting to approximate or reflect worlds that already exist.”
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Greta introduces her new blog series “Allie Has Questions.”
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See what we read and chose for the Uterish Book Club corner of The Provocateur each month of 2019!
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A variety of online resources gathered just for you!
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Alex and Greta love YA novels, so they enlisted guest writer Michael Waters to help make a list of the best ones.
(image from the Claremont Public Library — the very library that Alex and Michael have visited together in search of YA novels.)
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“Navigating true crime as a feminist is a complex experience, but I do it!”
[Thumbnail image from http://operationtubetop.blogspot.com, image quote from My Favorite Murder]
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Learn more about the prevalence and history of obstetric violence.
[Thumbnail Image by Noa Snir for Quartz]
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The United States created a school in Latin America that graduated dictators, authoritarian leaders, and terrorists. Greta begins to answer why.
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“The reality is that there’s really just one, maybe two, ways that society expects boobs to look, and that expectation leaves the majority of people with boobs feeling alienated in their bodies.”
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The violent history of IUDs you never knew.
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