He Likes Guys
Directed by Various DirectorsWolfe VideoAs a member of my college cinema club, I would show a film a couple of nights every month. Usually, the featured movie would be preceded by a surprise short...
View ArticleWalking the Precipice: Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
By Barbara BickThe Feminist PressA deluge of books on Islamic fundamentalism had swamped the world's bookshelves following the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Some 100 books and 5,600 articles were written...
View ArticleCompulsion
Directed by Sarah HardingNesrine Malik’s scathing review of the ITV drama Compulsion got me thinking a lot more about modern day adaptations of pre-twentieth century literary works featuring ethnic...
View ArticleRace, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
Edited by Sherene RazackBetween The LinesInstitutional racism: we all know it exists, yet many deny it does. In this book, Sherene Razack, author of Looking White People in the Eye, edits a set of...
View ArticleThe Mosque in Morgantown
Directed by Brittany HuckabeePBSReading the official synopsis of The Mosque in Morgantown, I quickly got the impression that it was a documentary film that revolved around the battle between...
View ArticleWomen of Color and Feminism
By Maythee RojasSeal PressIf many postmodern feminists would have it, colour or “race” wouldn't be of primary concern in theorising oppression; a woman would be seen as much more than her race, class,...
View ArticlePrivilege: A Reader
Edited by Michael Kimmel, Abby L. FerberWestview PressA historian once said that the more one can know about something, the more you can control it. Michel Foucault was specifically talking about the...
View ArticleAquila
Edited by Jelte ten HoltFor those familiar with women’s “lifestyle” magazines, the call to be “sexy” in some way or another is not new. We women need to have “sexy” everything: attitude, legs, skin,...
View ArticleBody 2 Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology
Edited by Jerome Kugan, Pang Khee TeikMatahari BooksBody 2 Body is the product of Malaysia’s young, hip and well-connected who’ve banded together to compile a collection of short stories and essays on...
View ArticleThe Rey Chow Reader
Edited by Paul BowmanColumbia University PressNot many theorists would re-imagine Jane Eyre as a Maoist. However, postcolonial thinker Rey Chow does and with great aplomb. Furthermore, it's not in the...
View ArticleThe Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures
By Susan HekmanIndiana University PressThis is a book for the post post-modernist thinker. Written by professor of political science, Susan Hekman, The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures seeks...
View ArticleOrgasm Inc.
Directed by Liz CannerChicken & Egg PicturesThe orgasm. Feminists laud it, good lovers work hard to give it, pharmaceutical companies make it a business model. The inability to experience an orgasm...
View Articlefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
By Ntozake ShangeScribnerThere is something quite redemptive about the 2010 edition of Ntozake Shange's experimental “choreo-poem,” For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is...
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