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Laverne Cox: Loving Trans People is a Revolutionary Act
Laverne Cox was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Creating Change conference, appropriately introduced by Beyoncé’s ***Flawless. “In the face of so much injustice, we are a resilient people,” she...
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Bush Tunes Fight For Bush Rights Too
Up until now Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” was good for blasting on days when you feel bitter about a break up. But thanks to a recent cover compilation of Bush’s greatest hist, the song also...
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Piers Morgan Interviews Janet Mock: How Not to be an Ally
After receiving backlash from a recent interview, Piers Morgan’s claim that he has fallen victim to ‘cisphobia’ is not a satirical response from an Onion article, but a startling display of how not to...
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Beyond the DJ Booth: Locating the Politics of Gender in Dance Music
Usually when a musical genre receives criticism for being sexist, it’s rap, hip-hop or sometimes R&B (a heavily flawed discourse—but that’s a conversation for another time). But last year, when...
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My Shanghainese Mama
This article was originally published in Issue 3 of Bluestockings Magazine. 1990, Ji-Ji, beginning a new life in Toronto Dedicated to Zhang Qian (1964 – 2008), my mama’s best friend, who passed away...
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The Radical Performance of the Carefree Black Girl
The Carefree Black Girl (CFBG) in its most simple definition is user-produced and circulated portraiture of black women being happy. This concept and practice has its roots in Tumblr and has been...
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Mentalism and Romanticism in Tumblr Grunge-Girl Culture
Elements of a hip “teen girl wasteland” culture saturate the tumblr dashboards for many young millennials. Posts promote a blasé attitude in conjunction with a carefree yet curated style. However, some...
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The Feminist and Women’s Media Festival
Maggie Hennefeld and Beth Capper are PhD candidates in the Modern Culture and Media department at Brown University. They have organized a Feminist and Women’s Media Festival, with three other graduate...
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Some Thoughts on the Failure of White Mainstream Media
And just like that, we have transitioned into the post-Macklemore phase of the “post-racial era”. Most of us are way over talking about The Grammys, but racism has a way of remaining utterly relevant....
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The Feminist and Women’s Media Festival: Part II
This is the second part of an interview that Bluestockings conducted with Beth Capper and Maggie Hennefeld, two of the organizers of the Feminist and Women’s Media Festival in Providence. The FWMF is...
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Humanizing Stereotyped Roles on Television: Laverne Cox, Aasif Mandvi and RJ...
“That’s the tricky thing about this system [capitalism and Hollywood]. It’s not about replacing bodies. It’s about changing narratives” – Laverne Cox Tonight, we saw Laverne Cox, Aasif Mandvi and RJ...
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The Heterosexual Virgin: Expectations of Women in Guatemala City
It was 5am and I didn’t feel like arguing at the moment, so when my father asked me to change my shoes before we left for the airport, I didn’t question his request, I just did it. After a cup of...
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Lost in Translation: On the Language of Consent
When we think of consent, we think of dialogue, communication, and a proactive stance on discussing our desires and boundaries when it comes to sex. It requires that we both be able to consent or...
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An Interview with Cristy C. Road: On Zines, Publishing, and Capitalism (Part...
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American zine-maker, writer, illustrator, Green Day fan, Gemini and all-round bad-ass. She has published several illustrated books—Indestructible (2006), Bad Habits: A Love...
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Prozac and the Proles (In the Spirit of Semiocapitalism)
Untitled by Andrea Crespo In Bernard Stieglers’s For A New Critique of Political Economy, he introduces the pharmakon as a way of understanding “the proletarianization of the life of the mind” under...
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The Hill and the Man: Questioning Masculinity in the Richie Incognito Incident
This article was originally published in the 3rd Issue of Bluestockings Magazine. Richie Incognito & Jonathan Martin There is a hill that lies down the street from my home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is...
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All Play and No Trouble: Gender in the ‘Switcheroo’ Photo Series
Remember that J.Crew ad of a woman painting her son’s toenails caused a moral panic in 2011? That this could become a controversy was a bleak reminder that a lot of people are still heavily invested in...
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Behind Bars for Being Trans*: On the Carceral Consequences of Cisnormativity
No Justice For Islan Nettles Cisnormativity: the pervasive assumption that gender and biological sex are one and the same; that cisgender and cissexual identities, where gender and sex align, are more...
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From Green Day to the Homewreckers: Cristy Road on Creating QWOC Spaces in Punk
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American zine-maker, writer, illustrator, Green Day fan, Gemini and all-round bad-ass. She has published several illustrated books—Indestructible (2006), Bad Habits: A Love...
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Muff Wiggler: Sexism in Audio Cultures
Despite the fact that women have been working with audio technologies (and more broadly electronics and computing) just as long as anyone else, an air of masculinity has taken on a sense of...
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