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Feminism

Crimes of Fashion,* Part 1 in a 2-part series

Submitted by mkhaupt on Mon, 2008-04-14 10:28. | |

A couple of t-shirt designs have ignited discussion in the interwebosphere of late, and since they represent the extremes of feminism (i.e., radical feminist to decidedly NOT feminist), I thought it would be interesting to put them in conversation with each other, especially under the rubric of what constitutes "free speech" and "visual rhetoric."

First is the "I was raped" t-shirt masterminded by Jennifer Baumgardner, the poster woman for radical third-wave feminism:

i was raped t-shirt image

This is what a feminist looks like

Submitted by erinhurt on Tue, 2008-02-12 23:54. | | | |

On Feministing the bloggers who write for the site have started vlogging (video blogging). These first vlogs feature several of the website's various writers explaining how they came to be involved with the site.


Skin = Liberation?

Submitted by erinhurt on Mon, 2008-02-04 20:36. | | | |

Recently on Muslim Media Watch , a blog post discussed what the author termed "Veil Fetish Art" (full disclosure: I found a link to this article while I was reading Feministing.com ).

A painting by Makan

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