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What a tremendous woman, most definitely a Ladyting. Ladies and gentlemen: Diana Nyad! Courage, she haz it.
Hillary delivers the best response to yesterday’s attack on Planned Parenthood
Total BAMF in action. Hillary Clinton, you are my personal hero.
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‘Currently screening at Sundance: Miss Representation, a documentary about how women are represented in the media, which features feminist critics alongside celebrities like Katie Couric and Margaret Cho.’
Positive representation of women in the media FTW!
Via Jezebel.
From the Trish Keenan (of Broadcast) facebook fan page:
Before she went to Australia, Trish sent me a mix CD of bonkers pop music she compiled, I never thanked her. Its called Mind Bending Motorway Mix and I want to share it with you, please pass the link on, share it far and wide, its a little tribute to a (as a friend referred to her today) exhilarating woman, we’re all thinking about you James.
DOWNLOAD & REBLOG
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Eight minutes with Alison Bechdel on her motivations, insecurities, and more:
What motivates me? Deep insecurity. I do think to some extent it is an incompleteness or a neurosis on my part… [H]onestly that’s why anyone pursues any avenue of creativity — it’s because they’re trying to get something that they’re missing.
See also Bechdel’s feelings on seeing a finished copy of Fun Home for the first time (” I’m deeply pleased, but not elated, for some reason. I feel a bit like Mr. Earbrass…”), her discovery that “the actual documentary truth” recorded in the childhood journals she consulted while writing the book “was almost always richer and more surprising” than the way she remembered things happening, and her validation of your internet addiction.
A wonderfully candid interview with American cartoonist Alison Bechdel. The part about her dad really touched me, I love that illustrations of them all working on separate pursuits in their home, kind of reminds me of how my family is.
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"Village Voice: What do you say to people who accuse MSNBC of “glamming up” your image? Rachel Maddow: I wear just as much makeup as the other guys on MSNBC."
girlfriend is a homo: Rachel Maddow, Reluctant Sex Symbol
I have a huge crush on Rachel Maddow.
(Source: villagevoice.com)
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SUCCESS BARBIE!
Two ladytings in one video. It’s so nice to see Nicki Minaj doing so well, that girl is so talented.
Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com
Got a girl crush on: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
“Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.”
Sit at the table. Make your partner your real partner. Don’t leave before you leave.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offers some really great advice in this video. As a recent graduate entering the working world I see her advice to negotiate for myself to be invaluable (no pun intended). I’m a university degree holder, now I just have to start believing I deserve to be compensated as one.
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BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our own ways.
BECAUSE we wanna make it easier for girls to see/hear each other’s work so that we can share strategies and criticize-applaud each other.
BECAUSE we must take over the means of production in order to create our own moanings.
BECAUSE viewing our work as being connected to our girlfriends-politics-real lives is essential if we are gonna figure out how we are doing impacts, reflects, perpetuates, or DISRUPTS the status quo.
BECAUSE we recognize fantasies of Instant Macho Gun Revolution as impractical lies meant to keep us simply dreaming instead of becoming our dreams AND THUS seek to create revolution in our own lives every single day by envisioning and creating alternatives to the bullshit christian capitalist way of doing things.
BECAUSE we want and need to encourage and be encouraged in the face of all our own insecurities, in the face of beergutboyrock that tells us we can’t play our instruments, in the face of “authorities” who say our bands/zines/etc are the worst in the US and
BECAUSE we don’t wanna assimilate to someone else’s (boy) standards of what is or isn’t.
BECAUSE we are unwilling to falter under claims that we are reactionary “reverse sexists” AND NOT THE TRUEPUNKROCKSOULCRUSADERS THAT WE KNOW we really are.
BECAUSE we know that life is much more than physical survival and are patently aware that the punk rock “you can do anything” idea is crucial to the coming angry grrrl rock revolution which seeks to save the psychic and cultural lives of girls and women everywhere, according to their own terms, not ours.
BECAUSE we are interested in creating non-heirarchical ways of being AND making music, friends, and scenes based on communication + understanding, instead of competition + good/bad categorizations.
BECAUSE doing/reading/seeing/hearing cool things that validate and challenge us can help us gain the strength and sense of community that we need in order to figure out how bullshit like racism, able-bodieism, ageism, speciesism, classism, thinism, sexism, anti-semitism and heterosexism figures in our own lives.
BECAUSE we see fostering and supporting girl scenes and girl artists of all kinds as integral to this process.
BECAUSE we hate capitalism in all its forms and see our main goal as sharing information and staying alive, instead of making profits of being cool according to traditional standards.
BECAUSE we are angry at a society that tells us Girl = Dumb, Girl = Bad, Girl = Weak.BECAUSE we are unwilling to let our real and valid anger be diffused and/or turned against us via the internalization of sexism as witnessed in girl/girl jealousism and self defeating girltype behaviors.
BECAUSE I believe with my wholeheartmindbody that girls constitute a revolutionary soul force that can, and will change the world for real.
Kim Gordon reads the Riot Grrrl Manifesto at the Kathleen Hanna Project. Via Tavi.
