"Romancing the necromancer" is an enjoyable episode on paranormal #romance by #feminist#podcast Breaking the glass slipper with author Alice James as a guest. Her series on a female necromancer with questionable romantic taste sounds great, have to look into it. The hosts & guest discuss tropes in paranormal romance, its special appeal and also sexist patterns in romance.
Amy Levy's lat C19th photo-#feminist (?) novel, The Romance of a Shop (1888/2021) offers a story of the struggle of #women to stay independent in Victorian #London. While perhaps this has a touch of Zola in its telling, the four sisters' #photography business, an interesting plot element, sadly gets subsumed into the more general social tale of courtship in the middle-classes. Its a breezy, short read but ultimatley disappoints a little @bookstodon
"Labor struggles can't be reduced to banal workplace demands. To remain relevant, #unions must continue broadening their scope beyond parochial concerns of single workplaces to all of civil society; unions thus must be antiracist & antifascist, center #feminist values & the abolitionist opposition to carceral society, & be decolonialist. #Intersectionality is the rocket-fuel that will make labor/class issues salient for whom those issues matter most."
All the negative and bigoted views on trans people that J K Rowling has are deeply #feminist.
When people rightly reject her views and what she does, they are taking an #antifeminist position. They will deny that ofc.
Why don't they reject the movement outright?
Why do so many people need to believe in the fiction of a benign feminism?
She also, consistent with feminism, has bigoted views of boys and men as evidenced in her "Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues" post on her blog
NEW this fall from yours truly and Pink Narcissus Press: THE FINAL DAYS OF KOBOLD KODY'S FRONTIER EXPOSITION AND TONIC SHOW
Cursed with clairvoyance, only Andra knows that the end is near for her employer and his traveling show. Can she save her costars? Can she even save herself?
Only if she can learn in time that not everything is what it seems
@ Music Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz
"We are particularly interested in scholars/practitioners with lived and professional experience in Hip Hop who champion perspectives from the #BIPOC, #queer, #trans, #womanist, and #feminist communities."
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange looks back on the work of one of the most important Black feminist writers of all time.
Good news about #Jezebel!
"Mr. Jackson said his hope for Jezebel was “to bring all of the best things from all of the eras” of the website. He referred to its original tagline (“Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth.”) and said one of the first things he wanted to bring back was “with teeth.”
I want them to push the boundaries. I think there are advertisers out there who have the courage to go to where the audience is.” Gifted article