All posts by Heather Laine Talley
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The Trouble with "Flip-flopping"?
Newt has taken to apologizing, but not for cheating on his wife as she was violently ill or participating in the Clinton witch hunts which...
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TFW Editorial Collective Forum on Mentoring
By Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper Here we are, deep in the throes of the holiday season. Many of us are surrounded by...
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Good and Proper Affect in a Broken World: Heartbrokenness as Feminist Practice
On the night Troy Davis was murdered by the state of Georgia, I watched a girl, who appeared to be about twelve years old, cry....
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The Myth of “Gay Marriage,” The Reality of Gay Hate: Dispatches from New York and North Carolina
The recent ruling in favor of gays and lesbians in New York has had unintended consequences. And I don’t mean that the global wellbeing of...
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Food is a Feminist Issue
Recently the United States Department of Agriculture announced that new public health campaigns would abandon the food pyramid. The USDA food guide pyramid was originally...
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Thoughts on Feminist Critique (Real and Faux): An Addendum to “Faux Feminist Men”
Due to the high readership, commentary on, and sharing of “Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)” by TFW collective member Heather Talley, we...
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Faux Feminist Men and Other Figments (Real and Imagined)
Last spring, I offered a “Feminist Theory” course, and a startling thing happened. More men signed up for the class than women. When I saw...
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The Banality Of Dehumanization: The Case of Infant Gendering
Target is now in the business of selling sex toys or, to be more precise, cock rings. I know this because on a recent trip...
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Be My (Feminist) Valentine
In her book All About Love, bell hooks makes a startling claim. Her parents did not love her. They gave her enough food to eat, books...