In Colorado, the Mesa Valley School District sent out emails to parents encouraging them to send their daughters to see a media presentation called, ‘Wake up Sleeping Beauty: Worship at his Feet’.  The idea behind this is that young girls should strive to be ‘pure’ in mind and spirit in order to be worthy of becoming a good wife.  The clear implication: the only proper role for females in society is to be subjugated in the home, subordinate to patriarchal rule. (more…)

During the holidays, we cook and drink and laugh and argue and drive to gather in the warm homes of folks that we call “Friends and Family.” Kids play and fight over toys and video-games. Adults cook and drink and argue politics in the kitchen and at the table. Unequivocally, we touch. (more…)

Filmmaker Jessica Newsom has made an important documentary titled, The Mask You Live in.  It’s a powerful examination about the troubling straight  jacket of expectations young sboys as staddled with as they grow into men.   When we say, ‘Be a man’  Exactly what does that mean,  and has society put expectations on young  that perpetuate the ugly, male dominant paradigm that has prevailed in human society since the beginnings of agriculture and permanent settlements, more than 10,000 years ago.

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Go for it! Don’t be afraid. That’s the message from four women filmmakers, who travelled the US, interviewing exceptional women, who have found great personal success in their chosen careers. (more…)

Lizzie Lewis is a belly dancer, a stripper, and an all-around nature girl.  She is been ‘Mom’ to a brood of happy, free-range chickens for the past sex years.  (more…)

It happens every year; holiday music creeps in to my ears in the latter weeks of November, saturates my existence throughout December, and disappears for another ten months after the first of January. So it’s no surprise that I’m suddenly reminded every eleven months how much I loathe the lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

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Filmmaker Spike Lee’s new theatrical movie, Chi-Raq, focuses on gun violence on the streets of Chicago. The story is an adaptation of Lysistrada, a play written 2400 years ago by the Greek playwright, Aristophanes.  (more…)

Huffpost Women just released a new video  48 Things Women Hear in a Lifetime (That Men Just Don’t)    Worth a Look

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Margaret Cho became famous telling jokes at comedy clubs.  Before that, she spent time as a sex worker. It’s a part of her life for which she feels no shame and has no regrets. (more…)

Ivory Frost is a stripper, a musician, an actress, a web designer and developer, and a serious navigator of the social media.  She is also one of the leaders of the Citizen Slut Media Project. (more…)