marinelli's miscellany
Victoria Marinelli • Richmond, VA
Welcome to my Medium sized blog! A plus-sized version, Southern Discomfort, is also available.
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Email: vmarinelli(at)gmail•com.
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Grrrls! Can you believe the bullshit results I’m getting after searching Life.com’s image archive for feminism?
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Nation & World | Rape redefined for FBI to include male victims | Seattle Times Newspaper
1. Yay, but also
2. How in the hell was this not already policy?
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Here, from my stack of ancient Ms. Magazines, I give you the goofaliciously adorable cover from September 1980 documenting the rise of women in pop music of the era (Cris Williamson in the same article with the B-52’s? Really?)
You can read the whole article here, or as embedded below (may only be visible at this post’s permalink, not in Tumblr dashboard).1
I was a few months shy of ten when this issue was published. Also of note: the month before, Pat Benatar (also featured in the article) came out with Crimes of Passion, containing among its tracks Hell is for Children.
That song got me through a lot.
Thanks, all you brave ladies who went before the furious, chiefly punk-leaning lot of us.
1980_09 Ms Magazine - The New Woman Sound Hits the Charts
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1Please don’t be mad at me, Ms.! Here, I’m including a link so people can remember to support you in your present incarnation! Also, I am a subscriber - you can totally check! (A gift subscription from @MsNovember, who rocks.)
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Kyriarchy - a neologism coined by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and derived from the Greek words for “lord” or “master” (kyrios) and “to rule or dominate” (archein) which seeks to redefine the analytic category of patriarchy in terms of multiplicative intersecting structures of domination…Kyriarchy is best theorized as a complex pyramidal system of intersecting multiplicative social structures of superordination and subordination, of ruling and oppression.
— When I first encountered this word, I thought Kyriarchy? Now you’re just making shit up.” But all language is in some sense “made up,” and this conceptualization makes lots more sense than the inflexible dualisms (e.g. “patriarchy”) from which this notion evolved. Word of the Day: Kyriarchy « Feminist Philosophers -
Southern Discomfort / Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court (or Secretary of State)? Hell yes.
From my main blog.
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Friday Feminist Fuck You: Anti-Choice Pharmacists (via Feministing)
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How forgotten is Kate Millett? When I stop by my local bookstore to pick up a copy of “Sexual Politics,” it doesn’t occur to me that I won’t find her seminal work, the one that all but launched the second wave of the women’s movement. It’s worth noting that this is not a chain, where a militant feminist author of the 1970s might not be missed…
“Let’s see … Kate Millett,” she taps at the computer and stares at the screen, searching the store’s database and, it appears from her puzzled expression, her own. “Wasn’t she a feminist?”
“Yes,” I say, and as if delivering an eighth-grade book report, I add, “Millett was very famous 30 years ago; a revolutionary…”
How is it that the great Kate Millett has nearly vanished from the collective consciousness?
—Salon People | Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist
[Note: If you wish, see also this article about her which was the cover story for Time Magazine three months before my birth, in 1970, the cover of which appears below, and/or these photos from 1992, when I first met Kate: Kate Millett’s Art Colony for Women - a set on Flickr]
Happy 74th birthday, Kate.
