"The women of Bikini Kill let guitarist Billy Karren be in their feminist punk band, but only if he's willing to just "do some shit." Being a feminist dude is like that. We may ask you to "do some shit" for the band, but you don't get to be Kathleen Hannah."--@heatherurehere


Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Received my copy of The Big Feminist But the other day, and finished it up last night. It's a consistently good comics anthology, and covers myriad topics of interest to feminist folks of various stripes (and polka-dots). One of its strengths is its inclusion of a few comics (and an afterward) created by feminist men.  I was going to do a write up of Barry Deutsch's piece, "How to Make a Man Out of Tin Foil", but it turns out that Bitch mag has already done that for me, and includes the entire piece here!  (Also, they review another piece, here.)

I highly recommend this book--it was a Kickstarter, but it looks like you can still pick it up here.  If you don't, at least try to borrow it from a friend!

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Dating While Feminist: Okcupid Sadface

 From an okcupid profile:

-also, don't message me if you are a cis-dude who is a self-proclaimed feminist and has ideas about what "feminists" should and shouldn't think.
I get why some folks say this, but it still makes me sad.  Ah well, it's a small little balsa-wood cross that male feminists have to bear...