Category: Body Image Musings
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Mid-Week Musings: feminist sci-fi, new music videos, toplessness, and Nina Hartley
The past few weeks I’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by all of the stuff that’s pertinent to this blog, and that’s a great thing! There are a lot of very public conversations going on about things that are important to me, mostly in the arena of sex-positivity, body-positivity, street harassment, and feminism in general. Hooray!
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My New Neighbor (likes to be naked by her window, and I’m conflicted about it)
She continued walking around her apartment for a good twenty minutes in various states of undress…I was mesmerized the entire time. I let myself think that she had seen me watching her, and it’s entirely possible that she did, at some point…But… I don’t have her explicit consent, you guys! Am I being a bad…
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Quick Thoughts on Pop Culture from Your Grumpy Neighborhood Feminist
A few big pop culture items have crossed my radar this week, which is remarkable given that I’ve been sick and grumpy and menstruating and it’s cold and rainy outside. Frankly, I think it’s marvelous that I’ve managed to do anything aside from eat Doritos in sweatpants and watch Supernatural, marathon style, on Netflix. Some…
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New York Comic Con: Post 2 — Boobs are OK, but not BOOBS
What is it that makes the display of the female body for consumption permissible, so long as nipples and pubic hair are not specifically shown? Why is it that women’s bodies can be sexual, so long as they’re never shown actually having sex? Why can’t we own our bodies and do what we want to…
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Thoughts on Celebgate: why are nipples such a huge issue?
When we find out that there’s an image of a nip slip on the internet, why is it that we click the link immediately? We’ve seen nipples before. It’s unlikely that these particular nipples are going to break the mold somehow. Besides a general question of size and color, they’re not going to blow our…
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Less Serious Links and Videos for Your Nude Weekend Coffee Sipping. Or Whatever.
Well this week’s return to the world has been pretty tough on me, so here are some awesome, bizarre, ultra-bizarre, and heh-worthy links and videos for you to enjoy and feel less-serious about as you sip coffee in the nude on your fire escape this weekend. I mean. That’s what you do on weekends, right?…
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Luna Luna: Sex & Dance & Drunkenness at ‘Diaghilesque’
I wrote about my experience at “Diaghilesque” in April, a night of burlesque and ballet and genderfuckery and much nudity presented by Kinetic Architecture and Faux Pas le Fae. It was a wild experience and it got me really, really thinking about bodies and art and sex. To whit: “Perhaps the deepest impact of dance…
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Um, Y’all Need to See This
This Map Shows Which States Have the Longest (And Shortest) Sex in America. Looks like some of us need some practice, n’est-ce pas? Better get to masturbating, folks. Oh, and by the way, Salon just did an interview with the indomitable Carol Queen, one of the masterminds behind International Masturbation Month. Her take on doing…
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Bodies: some personal musings
I’ve had a lot of people ask me, over the years, why I don’t try performing in porn since I’m so interested in it. My answer is usually something along the lines of, “That’s just not my style.” And that’s true. In theory I have no problem with it, and I salute people who perform…
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Using My Brain While Menstruating
I am sitting here in front of my computer and my brain is telling me I should be blogging. I have been staring at the screen for a while, telling myself I’m certain I have something–SOMETHING–to type about. And I do have somethings. They’re in there. They flit across my consciousness, one after the other,…