One) International Porning Day for Podfic. Make podfic. Sexually explicit. As many languages as possible. (via
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Momentum Con Making waves in sexuality, feminism, and new media. It's in Silver Spring (at the Con.txt hotel, actually) and it's going to have panels on porn, relationships, blogging, sex work, sexual health, sex education. Looks like it should be informative, could be fun, and might be a way to meet the sorts of people I might like to meet who are ( Read more... )

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Ausiello's Fall TV cheat sheet came out a few days ago. The show I'm most looking forward to is Terriers, because I've had a soft-spot for Donal Logue since he starred in Grounded for Life. (I am also one of the three non-tv critic people in the U.S. who enjoyed Knights of Prosperity. Anyway, he and that guy who played Rene on True Blood are ( Read more... )

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT: An Other Fashion: Claiming America through Dress

Resistance: ‘You’re Just Looking For Something To Get Offended About’. Resistance is a series I’m starting to examine common responses to pop culture critiques rooted in a social justice perspective. These responses pop up all the time, and I thought it might be useful for ( Read more... )

So, bitch has added a zine to its library called White Blackbirds, about woman who choose to be unmarried This sounds cool and fascinating (save for the queer Catholic woman who is waiting until she can get married in a Catholic church; I suspect that cool is not the adjective she would use for her story ( Read more... )

Drop Dead Diva is a Lifetime channel show that combines a lawyer work place comedy with a mild sprinkling of fantasy and a fat-positive, female-positive perspective. I enjoyed the beginning of its first season, then lost track of it, so I mainlined the second half of the first season in preparation for last Sunday's season two premiere.

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My theory on why this year's American Idol won: ( spoilers for the outcome )

NBC's new strategy for a decent season? spend money on quality programming. (from
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So, geekfeminism pointed to a blogpost by the NPR ombudsman on the disproportionate absence of women as on-air sources in NPR news programs (Only one of twelve high frequency paid commentators is female, only twenty-six percent of on-air sources were female, in a "constructed week" survey of on-air voices. The study looked at number of speakers, ( Read more... )