Rants on Our Accepted Roles
In Hightstown, New Jersey my Mom, brother and I lived on the corner of Center Street and Second Avenue. Our next-door neighbor’s were the Pepp’s. Shawn Pepp was a year older then me and I hated him. He was like a demented Pee-Wee Herman without any of the goofy charm. He was dark and mean […]
The first five things I will do to get over you: 1. Make a mixtape of songs that I love that remind me of you or us or whatever this is and was. I will listen to it over and over until they are just songs again. 2. Delete all your text messages and pictures […]
Right now we are alive and in this moment, I swear, we are infinite. I always think it’s exciting when books I love are turned into films because it signifies that someone else understands how powerful, beautiful, poignant and amazing this book is and they want to share it with an audience. While I realize […]
Superstar has just become available on Netflix Watch Instantly. If you have never seen it, please, do yourself the favor of watching one of the most hilarious films in the Saturday Night Live canon. Molly Shannon is at her comic best channeling the spirit of 16-year-old catholic schoolgirl Mary Catherine Gallagher – one of the most […]
Originally posted at Rebellious Woman Magazine A few years ago, I was lamenting over my love life – I think I had just broken up with my last serious boyfriend – and my friend, Sabrina, said to me, “You are a different kind of person, living a different kind of life, and you’re going to […]
Cross posted at Love YA Lit “And she was adored, as much for her defiant spirit as for her beauty.” This is the Snow White story I have been waiting for! Though it barely passes The Bechdel Test this is my favorite feminist film of the year, so far. If the classic Disney fairy tale […]
Cross posted at Feminist Dating and Solo in the Second City. Ugh, I hate dating. Really, I just hate the beginning. Not all of it, of course. When you are newly starting out with someone all you have is possibility and that’s exciting! Plus, the making out is awesome. But, you also haven’t developed trust yet […]
This movie kind of pissed me off because it put me in a bind that I often find myself in: Story about a teenage girl – awesome! And her relationship with her single, working mom – yes! Directed by a woman – boom! Unfortunately, just like my last relationship, everything looks great on paper but […]
There is an awesome new magazine that recently launched in Chicago – Rebellious Magazine for Women. Just a bunch of motivated ladies, frustrated by the publishing industry and their day jobs so they decided to start their own thing. Beautiful. I had the good fortune of bumping into Senior Editor Claire Bushey on the Brown […]
The following things happened this week: A 30 year old girl, who is a well known and liked celebrity, testified against the man accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew. The man is her sister’s husband and a person the woman has known since middle school. He has a history of jealousy and violence. […]
