Alex Interviews Taya

Alex interviews Taya — the circle is complete! :)

AlexNovember 17, 2021Taya, Taya Christianson

10 Movies for Feminists to Watch This Halloween

Boo! It’s spooky season.

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Political Satanism and Abortion Rights

Undergirding anti-abortion politics is the idea that abortion is an act of evil in the eyes of God; apparently, pro-choice politics is Satan’s domain.

(Image: Georgia Bulletin)

The Norplant: Eugenics and the State’s Appropriation of Contraceptives

(Image: RCNi Journal)

alexAlexMarch 15, 2021norplant, eugenics, forced sterilization, norplant contraception, involuntary contraception, involuntary sterilization, reproductive justice, alex, norplant history

In Defense of Mrs. Bennet's "Nerves"

“You take delight in vexing me.”

Image: Jane Austen Film Club

What's the Hyde Amendment?

“Henry Hyde teaches us the hard way that, historically, the barometer for abortion access has been set to what the most privileged can access; this was true before Roe, and it is true in 2020.”

#RepealHyde #JusticeforRosieJimenez

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Vote Anyway

Feminist solutions aren’t on the ballot; we are not off the hook for political action if we cast our vote. So what actually is on the ballot? What is at stake when we do or don’t vote?

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alexAlexSeptember 20, 2020feministpolitics, feministvote, vote, election2020, elections, electoralpoltiics, electoralpolitics, feministelection, alex

Feminist Sounds: Speculation and Specters in Rhiannon Giddens’ Music

“Giddens’ music speaks back to multiple erasures, appropriations, and traumas in order to recover a musical aesthetic that opens a portal to the past and future.”

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alexAlexAugust 15, 2020alex, rhiannongiddens, Blackfolkmusic, CarolinaChocolateDrops, OurNativeDaughter

"Bad Blood": The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

“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)

alexAlexFebruary 21, 2020tuskegee, tuskegeesyphilis, tuskegeesyphilisstudy, tuskegeesyphilisexperiment, badblood, misseversboys, missevers, syphilis, untreatedsyphilis

Heroes: Ana Mendieta

“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.”

alexAlexJanuary 27, 2020alex, heroes, anamendieta, feministphotographer

Links to Visit as a Settler on Thanksgiving, and Throughout the Year

A variety of online resources gathered just for you!

alexAlexNovember 27, 2019thanksgiving, decolonizethanksgiving, decolonization, indigenousresistance, indigenousvoices, indigenoussovereignty, decolonizethisland, stolenland, alex, indigenousfeminism

Five “Feminist” True Crime Podcasts

“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]

alexAlexSeptember 29, 2019alex, truecrime, podcast, feminist true crime, true crime feminism, intersectional feminist true crime, alex white true crime, feminist podcasts, true crime podcasts

“Instruments of Death, of Mutilation, of Disease”: the Lessons of the Dalkon Shield

The violent history of IUDs you never knew.

alexAlexJune 27, 2019alex, contraceptives, dalkonshield

Feminist Sounds: "Tommy Genesis" by Tommy Genesis

“From her position as a queer/bi woman of color, Tommy absorbs, rather than deflects, objectifying discourses and infuses them with her desires until they are entirely her own.”

alexAlexMay 21, 2019alex, feministsounds, fe, tommygenesis

“Jellyfish Babies”

On Colonialism, Environmental Degradation, and Reproductive Toxicity in the Marshall Islands

alexAlexApril 22, 2019nucleartesting, marshallislands, environmentaljustice, alex

Black Deaths Matter: #BlackLivesMatter and True Crime Storytelling

“True crime stories are bound up in the white supremacist narratives of innocence and guilt that allow the murder and imprisonment of black and brown folks every day.”

Thumbnail gif by @LauraSalaberry

alexAlexFebruary 13, 2019alex, truecrime, blacklivesmatter