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Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth, Culture and Social Crisis
Punk, hardcore and alternative rock music scenes have been for years the almost exclusive realm of teenagers and youth in their 20s. Not only have they been areas of creative expression, but such subcultures have given young people a place to challenge beauty standards, political boundaries and cultural norms.
Continue reading...Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
9. May 2010
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The position of women as organizers seems under continuous scrutiny. For women of color, the clashes they face are compounded by questions of loyalty as well as privilege and struggling within communities that have been subjected to historic miseducation and troubles.
Continue reading...Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and their Allies
2. April 2010
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…we are animals, and aren’t able to decide not to have feelings. Just like the earth, we are going to quake if sufficiently shaken. We don’t get to choose whether or not traumatic events will damage our psychic infrastructure.
Continue reading...Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book
12. November 2009
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Ballerina's with wrenches, a stubborn Miss Muffet and high heel cloning projects are just 3 of the 27 gender bending scenarios in Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak's Girl's are not Chick's coloring book. A yellow front and back cover is filled with multi-colored stars, the front featuring an upside down chick and on the flip side, a broken shell with the following definition
Continue reading...Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
12. August 2009
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This is a novelized true story by Ann Hansen describing vividly the rise and eventual downfall of the Canadian urban guerrilla group Direct Action. The book is engaging from the start, opening with a dramatic police ambush.
Continue reading...The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women
12. April 2009
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Though you might not know it judging from the tenor of "post-feminist" discourse, young women's positive conceptions of themselves and their futures are the result of the first- to third-wave feminist movements. Such is the blessing and curse of many a successful campaign -- gains are so positive, people can take them and the organizing, fearlessness and sacrifice that got us here for granted.
Continue reading...Become A Friend
29. July 2010
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