by Dahlia | Feb 16, 2016 | Journal
Last night, Lady Gaga donned a bright red wig, a hell of a lot of makeup, and partnered with Intel to bring a David Bowie memorial medley to the Grammys. The only thing seemingly left out of a show complete with forty years of Bowie iconography was Bowie, himself. I...
by Dahlia | Nov 12, 2015 | Journal
One of my friends has been battling breast cancer this year. First she lost her hair, and then she lost her breasts. She commented on how the loss of both forced her to redefine (to re-find) her femininity, since what defines a woman’s sexuality–her very...
by Dahlia | Oct 5, 2015 | Journal
Much has been written about the plight of adjuncts… On how the use of part-time faculty, with no job security or benefits or a liveable salary, has grown in the United States over the last thirty years… On how, in 1975, only 30.2 percent of faculty were...
by Dahlia | Aug 21, 2015 | Journal
[SPOILERS AHEAD!] Back when Basic Instinct premiered in 1992, it was met with massive outcry by many in the GLBT community who alleged that it portrayed lesbians as violence-prone killers and deviates. Rita Addessa, executive director of the Philadelphia Lesbian and...
by Dahlia | Jun 5, 2015 | Journal
Mark Ruffalo’s delightful response to the “I Am Not a Feminist” phenomenon, in which he castigates the current trend of women (and maybe also men?) to distance themselves from the feminist label (“You’re insulting every woman who was...
by Dahlia | Jun 1, 2015 | Journal
In honor of Marilyn’s birthday (and she is always Marilyn to us, never Miss Monroe), an essay from my archives: Six weeks before she died, Marilyn Monroe did a photo shoot with Bert Stern for Vogue magazine. These photos show a Monroe more natural,...
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