Archive: Identity Issues
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May 24, 2010
No CommentsA Feminist By Any Other Name
Feminists. Speak up, and act out. Did you read those first lines as a definition, observation, or call to action? Did you think of yourself as the intended subject? Are you reluctant to call yourself a feminist? What is feminism, anyway? Feminism enables you and I to publicly act and discuss ourselves as meaningful, valid centers of experience....
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Apr 20, 2010
No CommentsPlaying a Part: How Do We Express Womanhood?
On the Feminist Lab Facebook page, we asked you to share some of the ways you perform your experience of living as a woman. Some further discussion of the motivations behind this request seems needed. An obvious assumption behind the Wall topic is that people identified as (or identifying themselves as) women do something to encourage or perform a...
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Apr 09, 2010
4 CommentsI Don’t Know Tiger . . . or the Kardashians
Is it possible to argue that the “culture of celebrity” encourages us to believe that we know these strange and mythical Titans, the Celebrities? Are we encouraged to think about them as familiars, as peers? Does seeing celebrity faces paper the halls of popular media enable us to think that a face is a person? ...