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(02/07/13 4:37pm)
In a weird way, it’s hard to define something that happens all the time. I want to just list a definition of slut shaming here, one that will be thorough and perfect and will help everyone understand just what I want to say. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Slut shaming can be a slippery thing to define, because it happens so often and takes so many different forms. I want to start with an example of slut shaming from my own life because I’m just as guilty of doing this as anyone else.
(01/22/13 5:00am)
Like all great ideas, This Koozie Sucks began with a problem — this time, it was one that is all too often encountered in college towns across America. On this fateful night Trent Jacobs, an ASU graduate with a degree in business, was pre-gaming for a party. When he stepped into the shower, taking his beer with him, he met an unpleasant reality — no matter how carefully he attempted to balance his beverage while showering, he could not keep it from falling in, or worse, getting watered down.
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(10/10/12 4:00am)
I have the least healthy diet of anyone I know. I've never liked eating fruits or vegetables, and I just can’t bring myself to go more than a few days without some form of fast food. While this is not necessarily a problem for me right now – my metabolism is fast, and fast food is cheap — I know that I can’t eat like this forever.
(09/18/12 4:00am)
It is another 100-degree afternoon as swarms of girls — all wearing the requisite tank tops and shorts — file up several flights of stairs and into the Old Main. Once inside, each girl will find out whether she has made the cut and will be accepted into her sorority of choice.
(09/10/12 4:00am)
While filing tax returns can be stressful, the process hardly calls to mind a zombie apocalypse. However, that’s exactly what ASU professor Adam Chodorow’s first thought was when he saw Occupy Denver march straight into an ill-timed zombie walk that was headed down the same street. “Being a tax person,” he says, “I wondered whether zombies are considered dead for tax purposes.”
(04/22/12 4:01am)
I have to make a confession: I cannot ride a bicycle. Back in the day I used to be able to ride around the block with the best of them, but now I haven’t been on one since the first grade. It’s never seemed urgent, seeing as how I have two good feet to walk on, but I will admit that I feel a little bit like I’m missing out when people start talking about their fancy, no-brakes bicycles. The thing is, I’m not very coordinated in the first place, so probably the last thing I need is a fast-moving contraption with two wheels and no brakes.
(04/18/12 4:01am)
Last month, I visited an exhibit featuring Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett’s steampunk inspired book, Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. This week, I got to see steampunk’s sci-fi update of Victorian aesthetics at Alwun House’s Intertemporalist Steampunk Exposition. Alwun House is a fitting home for the exposition, as it’s no stranger to Downtown Phoenix’s whimsical side -- the 102-year-old house was Phoenix’s first art gallery, and has housed everything from multimedia theatre production “Games I’ve Played While Waiting for the Messiah” to Baba Don Gong meditations.
(04/15/12 4:01am)
Last week, I talked a little bit about how frustrating it is to hear people say that women aren’t funny. Well, this week I found living, breathing proof that women are funny (in case Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and company aren’t proof enough) when I went to “Feminism in the Modern World,” a talk given by Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Samhita is executive director of the wildly popular blog Feministing, and author of the book Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. She’s laugh out loud funny, and is also – gasp -- a self-proclaimed feminist at the same time.
(04/11/12 4:01am)
Sarah Buel knows about activism. A clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at ASU, she’s been working with women and children for more than 30 years. She founded the Harvard
(04/08/12 4:01am)
What’s awesome about being an arts and culture blogger is that I get to talk about people and events that a lot of people don’t know about, but sometimes I get to talk about things that are really popular too! One of these things is the Tempe Festival of the Arts, which you may have missed but you’ve most likely heard of. Lucky for you, below are my top four finds from that weekend, so now you can pretend you were there too.
(04/04/12 4:01am)
Feminism has been good to me. In high school, it gave me the guts to do simple things like question what I was hearing in my Catholic school’s marriage classes and shut down idiots who said women weren’t funny, and in college it’s inspired me to demand the best for myself and others, often by getting involved more seriously in efforts to end violence against women. The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking first play, is a combination of all of these things. Chances are you’ve heard of it, as it’s performed about 3500 times around the world every year and has given birth to V-Day, a movement to end violence against women and girls globally.
(04/01/12 5:27pm)
I love spring break just as much as the next stressed out college student, but too much sitting around drives me nuts. Three days of doing nothing is usually my threshold, and then I have to get out before I become a danger to myself and others. That’s why I headed out to Downtown Phoenix’s Art Detour 24 on March 17 to browse galleries for stuff to decorate my room with, and get out of my family’s hair for a while. Art Detour is a two-day, self-guided tour of downtown’s many and varied art venues organized by Artlink Phoenix, a volunteer-run arts organization dedicated to enhancing First Friday’s art walk and organizing events and fundraisers for the arts throughout the valley. Below are three galleries that I had to share.
(03/28/12 4:01am)
On March 15, University of Chicago professor and public intellectual Martha Nussbaum came to ASU to talk about women's and human rights, a fitting topic given the current hysteria among the GOP’s presidential candidates surrounding women’s reproductive organs. Surprisingly, this was barely something that Nussbaum touched on. She instead focused specifically on the burqa bans that are currently sweeping Europe, and used them as a complex example of how religious discrimination and sexism can collide to oppress people in unexpected ways. Her deconstruction of the five major arguments that proponents of this type of legislation typically use has a lot to teach everyone:
(03/14/12 4:01am)
Sometimes, I’m selfishly finding out about things that I’m interested in when I realize that they’re too good not to write about. I’ve had tattoo artists on my brain lately, as I’ve been vaguely interested in getting my first tattoo (don’t freak out, mom). In the course of asking around I kept hearing the name Electric Haven, which turned out to be a classic tattoo parlor and barbershop just off campus run by two very talented tattoo artists. I decided to ask the shop’s K.C. Lange a few tattoo-related questions out of curiosity, and if his answers don’t make you want to go get tattooed right now, well, maybe you’re not as impulsive as I am.
(03/11/12 5:01am)
Being a creative writing major is mostly awesome, but sometimes I have to admit that it’s downright terrifying. When I get asked what my post-graduation plans are, part of me cringes. Poets without borders? Professional homeless person? My opportunities are slightly more limited than, say, an engineering major’s. But on the bright side, I get to spend every Tuesday night in class with the legendary Norman Dubie, and I really love what I do. That’s why it makes me happy to meet writers and other creative people who’ve managed to make a living doing what they’re passionate about; it gives me hope that I’m not destined to become a hobo.
(03/07/12 5:01am)
Sometimes, it seems like I’m too critical for my own good. The world just presents me with so many problems to point out! I’ve come to accept that viewing the world through a critical lens will always be more difficult, but ultimately more rewarding as well -- calling people out on their problematic views and depictions of the world is the first step in changing the way we see it. So, when I talk about the Phoenix Fringe Festival play “Playing Games,” I can’t ignore its more cringe-worthy aspects. That’s not to say it was all bad -- there were a lot of real, hilarious moments in it that made it well worth seeing -- but like anything, it wasn’t perfect.
(03/04/12 6:31am)
I realize that food is a big part of everyone’s lives (it kind of has to be), but it’s a bigger deal to me than most people. I’ve been obsessed with food for as long as I can remember, and not the healthy stuff either. This isn’t bragging -- my friends have bets going on when I’ll have my first heart attack -- it’s just a fact of life for me. I shudder at the thought of eating a salad, and the whole “broccoli as baby trees” thing never worked for me. It’s gotten to the point where I can bond with just about anyone over food: Adele didn’t have my heart until I heard her say, “I love food and hate exercise,” and “I don’t want a Caesar salad with no dressing. Why would I do that?” Preach, girl.
(02/29/12 5:01am)
A few weeks ago, I blogged about bell hooks and her inspiring keynote address on race, gender and why The Help shortchanges the very people it seems to be most concerned with. For me, this raised the question of how best to tell the stories of groups that have been (and still are) marginalized, in the United States and abroad. Now put that thought on hold while I bring you up to speed on what I did this week -- I promise, this will all come back around again.