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Yay! Kiri Davis + more “Hey Shorty”

July 10, 2007 in girlpowering | No comments

Kiri Davis
So, to begin, let’s follow-up on my previous post on “Hey… Shorty,” a film made by a group of girls at Brooklyn’s GGE (Girls for Gender Equality).

According to NPR, you can get copies of the film by sending an email to info@ggenyc.org, or by calling Girls for Gender Equity at 718-857-1393.

E-mail. Sent.

NPR’s Michele Martin also has a nice post on the film, and the comments that follow make a good read, particularly on the question of whether the kind of harrassment the girls are talking about is just a matter of boys being boys.

But most importantly, Martin also did an interview with the filmmakers. Hooray!

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Can’t wait: “Hey…Shorty”

June 23, 2007 in feminism, gender violence, girlpowering | 3 comments

Chloé A. Hilliard has a nice story in this week’s Village Voice, about five girls who are interns at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn. They’ve made a video, inspired by Maggie Hadleigh-West’s War Zone (which is totally interesting and should be checked out as well!) Their video is titled Hey…Shorty, and is part of their larger campaign to get boys to recognize their own potential relations to gender violence and oppression–i.e. figure out that girls don’t like be yelled at on the street, or having shit thrown at them when they don’t respond…

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x like a girl; Or, don’t ever be sorry

June 18, 2007 in Althusser, Girlfight, Iris Young, Madonna, Michelle Rodriguez, apology, body image, gender, gender violence, girlpowering, interpellation, martial arts, nature:culture, passing, race, women's boxing | 1 comment

Christina Olivares has a pretty fabulous post over at Cypher&Syllable titled “On Boxing,” in which she takes us through an afternoon as a novice boxer. Her post got me thinking about my class on girlpower just this past semester, and how I would go on these tangents about how boxing, like many other contact sports, fundamentally affects women and girls’ relationship to their bodies, and how transformative that can be. Such activities change one’s relationship to one’s body because it makes more opportunities for being experience the self as a subject rather than as an object, as able to make and take blows– rather than only subjected to blows.

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Sheehan quits; cites failure of the two-party system

May 29, 2007 in Cindy Sheehan, Iraq, american democracy, effective mothering, girlpowering, political action, war dead | 1 comment

Speaking of dreaming for a better world, and how hard the world makes dreams: Cindy Sheehan has announced that she will no longer allow herself to be the face of the anti-war movement. Here is the beginning of her letter, reproduced here from her online diary @ Daily Kos
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working out loud

May 20, 2007 in Jessica Valenti, books, feminism, girlpowering | No comments

I thought my waning girlpower class might find this book interesting. It’s called Full Frontal Feminism, and it’s written by Jessica Valenti. There is an interview with Valenti on Feministing.org, and our own mw at Objectify This has a great post concerning the book’s cover. (Tween Scene, you might also be interested in mw’s post, as it takes up some of the concern you had with your post on Cindy Crawford’s daughter.)

I actually don’t have so much to say, because I haven’t read the book yet! I do want to say, however, that reading her interview made me think about how, after a semester of watching y’all emerge as public intellectuals, Read the rest of this entry »

“Live” from the UN…

April 19, 2007 in United Nations, gender violence, girlpowering, guest posts, human rights, politics | No comments

[I have friends hopping all 'bout the globe, doing creative, legal, and educational work on women's and race/ethnicity issues. Every once and a while I'll be posting dispatches. This one is from one of my old college roomates, Supriya Pillai. We lived right here. Anyway, below please find her impressions on this March's meetings held by the UN Commission on the Status of Women. I wonder, Eyes on Hillary, First Wives Club Contenders, Politicas, and Are We Ready? has there been anything from any US candidates on any international women's issues?]

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by Supriya Pillai

I’ve been in the basement of the UN for all of last week and I’ll be there until the end of this week. The Commission on the Status of Women meets every year to discuss government’s various commitments to a particular theme having to do with women. General, I know and, annoyingly, pretty non-binding, but the theatre I have been witness to has really been something. Watching world politics unfold in one room as people comb through language and text, the silent fights become more vocal. Diplomacy is just a nice way of fighting. Like, when most delegates take the mic, they respectively thank their other delegates, the chair and then they proceed with their “fuck yous”– but ever so gently.

This year, the theme is the Girl Child. Interesting to note, there are no international treaties, documents, etc that indicate that girls can express their human rights. Rather, there are places where girls are protected (i.e. by their families), but in and of themselves, they are not entitled to inalienable human rights. Read the rest of this entry »

CosmoGirl films: don’t forget to vote!

April 12, 2007 in girlpowering, nappiness, videos | 1 comment

When you have a moment, don’t forget to vote for the CosmoGirl.com film award.

I have a post below on Kiri Davis’ A Girl Like Me, which I feel is especially in the midst of this terrible Don Imus/Rutgers moment. And if you are at all interested in Read the rest of this entry »

The Question of Female Power

April 11, 2007 in art, girlpowering, guerilla girls, the question of power | No comments

Apostropha, I thought you might enjoy this, and it speaks to the larger question Girlpower has been building to all semester.

“The Estrogen Bomb” from the Guerrilla Girls:
guerilla girls; estrogen bomb

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Kiri Davis’ “A Girl Like Me”

April 5, 2007 in girlpowering, videos | 1 comment

Carmen van Kerckhove at Racialicious just posted that Kiri Davis is up for a CosmoGirl.com film award.

I thought both classes would find her film interesting. Passing people may have seen it alongside the Bill Cosby video we watched earlier in the semester, and Davis also references the black doll/white doll thing, as mentioned in class today.

It would be pretty cool for Davis to win the scholarship, but all three videos are interesting, and particularly relevant to you girlpower people.

Maybe you should vote!