By JESSICA COLE
September 27, 2010
The children could be given to a grandmother, a neighbor, an uncertified stranger whose basement is crowded with cribs. They could be playing near open sockets or sharp table edges. Many of them could …
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By PRESCA AHN
September 22, 2010
Director’s Note
By now there are several documentaries about Yale: To Be a Man (1966), Bright College Years (1970), Coeducation (1970), Black at Yale (1974), Boola Boola (1990), Queer at Yale (2003), and my film Arrival …
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September 22, 2010
I am a progressive and politically correct feminist, to whom social justice is important. Thus, I should despise the “Bed Intruder Song,” the Auto-Tuned reinterpretation of a bizarre news story from Huntsville, Alabama, about the aftermath …
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By READ MY LIPS
September 21, 2010
According to my mother, my manicures and (Brazilian!) bikini waxes, thongs, and especially my navel piercing would have been thought of as “really uncool” when she was growing up. The women of my generation, …
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September 21, 2010
Freshmen, welcome to Yale, and upperclassmen, welcome back! Schedules are all turned in, and hopefully your maneuvers to get into that fascinating seminar were successful. Now that you’ve had to settle on just …
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September 15, 2010
Female genital cutting (FGC) is defined broadly by The WHO as “procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” However, the term FGC covers a range of practices that …
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By TAJA CHEEK, SAMUEL HUBER, CHLOÉ ROSSETTI, and ERIN VANDERHOOF
September 13, 2010
Often, we Femmusic Directors have heard said that “all the best frontmen are…well, men.” There does appear to be a common sentiment about …
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September 11, 2010
The opening images in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” are tableaus of mothers and daughters. Startlingly, this becomes the thesis of the entire show: pictures by women are …
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September 6, 2010
May 1968 is the figurative (as well as literal) date assigned to the Parisian student revolution. These students used the slogan “Pris La Parole!” This particular segment of the generation of ’68 included …
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