How Babies Get Made — 1970s-style!
eBaum’s World calls it: The Most Traumatizing Kids Book Ever. Which I think is really misleading. It should be called: The Most Awesomest Kids Book Ever! For starters, my own 5th-grade Sex Ed...
View ArticleThe Stick Ladies: A Love Story
I was first introduced to the Stick Ladies through artist Claudia McGill, who included them as part of a portrait series on her blog back in August. Even though many stick lady friends had gathered for...
View ArticleEven Funnier Than Ads for Douching with Lysol
Every now and then, I like to remind myself that this is a real thing that exists in the world. And then I laugh. [Oh, and about those Lysol ads? Turns out they’re less funny — though no less...
View ArticleA True Friend Brings Her Own Machete
Ours is a love affair born in the foetid swamp of Facebook and nurtured on its violent shores of commentary. Christina Pettersson. We Are No Longer in the Land of Kings. 2008. graphite on paper. My...
View ArticleIn honor of Halloween, a shout-out to my homie Pat Robertson!
Alice:Running a quick review of my to-do list from last year, appears I’m still slacking off in the same area. Tsk tsk, Alice. Gotta do better by next October! Originally posted on coffee and a blank...
View Articlethe (un)funny feminist falls in love: Man who has it all
What to get, this holiday season, for the feminist in your life who already has it all? BELLY LAUGHS. [Music plays softly, then rises in a swell. A voice begins to sing.] Some enchanted evening, you...
View ArticleA Truth About Alice
Because I feel like we’re good friends — and we’ve achieved a real state of trust between us — I think now is an appropriate time to reveal something vulnerable and true about myself. Feel free to...
View ArticleMy love life, in a nutshell
Anybody know of a good OkCupid site—but for, like, pissed-off queer feminists who are Just So Over It, and also single? An OkFreyja site, if you will. image via
View Articlethe (un)funny feminist crashes an OB/GYN convention: Vaginal Imperialism
[EDITOR NOTE: It has been brought to this unfunny feminist’s attention that during an earlier attempt at sharing this story, the Interwebs themselves were so entertained that they completely snarfled...
View ArticleIn Which Alice Flirts with her New Crush!
The evening started harmlessly enough, psyching myself up for the inevitable horror that will be the third and final presidential debate the way any normal gal does: drinking wine and tweeting quotes...
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