by Julia This evening, the French Embassy in Washington, DC, along with L’Alliance Française, hosted an event honoring the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s watershed feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex. The appearance of the translators, Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, drew an incredibly well-dressed crowd. On the first real fall evening in DC (finally!!), [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dc’
Demythifying The Second Sex
Posted in Books, tagged constance borde, dc, feminine, feminism, feminist, femme, french, gender, howard m. parshley, Jean-Paul Sartre, other, production, reproduction, semicolon, sheila malovany-chevallier, Simone de Beauvoir, the second sex, translation, women on 09/11/2010 | 1 Comment »
Tab Dump
Posted in tab dump, tagged 1L, anarchy, Baltimore, dc, feminism, feminist, gulag, GWU, internet meme, kitteh, ladies night, Orioles, police, prison, rape, russia, Stalin, terry jones, the new yorker on 09/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia Oh hey! It’s been a while. Since we last posted, Elizabeth and I have both moved to DC (living separately, but meeting up for at least a happy hour once a week). We’ll try to update on our newish lives – working at an awesome non-profit for Liz, surviving 1L for Julia – [...]
Tab dump
Posted in tab dump, tagged 90s, billboards, BP, Caitlyn Flanagan, crystal castles, cupcakes, dc, DC intern, discovery, feminist, film festival, jill filipovic, law school, oil spill, om nom nom, overheard in DC, Rosslyn, Sady Doyle, summer, SWPL, tab dump, The Atlantic, the guardian, World Cup on 06/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia Liz and I will probably be blogging more over the summer as she job hunts and I mentally prepare for law school in the fall. Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading. Happy June, readers! Caitlyn Flanagan’s piece in The Atlantic has generated a ton of controversy. We’ll most likely respond in [...]
Tab dump
Posted in tab dump, tagged back to the kitchen, bureaucracy, capitalism, classism, communication, dc, gender stereotypes, immigration, Latino politics, local food, lyricism, parenting, presidents, relationships, single ladies, tab dump, unpaid internships, wall street on 04/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia Apologies for the slow posting as of late. Elizabeth and I have been quite busy with travel, work, decisions for post-college, and enjoying our senior years. This means, however, that I have a ton of tabs saved up for y’all. With the local food movement in full-swing, it is pertinent to examine the [...]
Tab dump: Snowpocalypse 2010 Edition
Posted in tab dump, tagged dc, equality, feminism, jersey shore, muppets, olympics, patriarchy, really?, sexism, skins, snomgasm, snowpocalpyse, Super Bowl, vessels on 02/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia I’ve spent the past three days snowed in following an epic 30 inches of snow here in the DC area. This translates to lots of movies, food, alcohol, and reading. Here are some highlights: Epic snowball fight on McKeldin Mall here at UMD. DCist has lots of pictures from Snomgasm 2010 in the [...]
Tab Dump
Posted in tab dump, tagged brit hume, dc, education, g-spot, jill filipovic, keynes, mary daly, the new yorker on 01/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia – A bunch of creationist, anti-global warming men interview some women and deem the g-spot a myth. mmk, sure. – California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes a constitutional amendment that would guarantee higher education more funding than state prisons. Seems like a no-brainer. – The New Yorker’s John Cassidy reports on the proven (see: [...]
2010′s First Tab Dump
Posted in tab dump, tagged activism, dc, feminism, food, media, tab dump, umd, weekend on 01/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Julia First tab dump of the new year = a retrospective on the past year. A graphical representation of topics covered by the media in 2009. Of note: Israel vs Gaza coverage…surprised that Balloon Boy isn’t bigger (seriously, as I recall, the media talked of nothing else for a few weeks this summer.) Front [...]
