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Film Whips It Good
This is our third guest blog from Revolution, although now she’s better known as K-Y La Jelly. (Check out 1 and 2) Whip It was not only a directorial debut for Drew Barrymore, it was a debut of … more →
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Film Whips It Good
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buckingthewave wrote 1 week ago: This is our third guest blog from Revolution, although now she’s better known as K-Y La Jelly. … more →
Flashback to Feisty Females in Film: Ocean Girl
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emilycd wrote 4 weeks ago: Feisty Female: Neri aka Ocean Girl Year We Got to Know Her: 1994 Best Known For: Super strength, tel … more →
The Girls Who Went Away: Discuss!
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buckingthewave wrote 1 month ago: It’s taken me far too long to compose my thoughts about this book. Mayhem has been ever-so-pat … more →
Woman of the Week: Juliette Lewis
buckingthewave wrote 1 month ago: WOW: Juliette Lewis Why Now?: I finally saw Whip It (which I recommended last week in our FFFF) and … more →
Flashforward to Feisty Females in Film: Whip It
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buckingthewave wrote 1 month ago: Feisty Female: Bliss Cavendar Year We Get to Know Her: 2009 She’s Hyped For: Becoming empowere … more →
Fall books to read!
buckingthewave wrote 1 month ago: Happy autumn everyone! Have the leaves started to change for anyone? The death heat of DC has finall … more →
Woman of the Week: Diablo Cody
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buckingthewave wrote 1 month ago: WOW: Diablo Cody Why Now?: Her most recent film Jennifer’s Body premiered last weekend, the C … more →
Badvertising: the Case of Guitar Hero
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buckingthewave wrote 2 months ago: Cross-posted to Virginia NOW blog The problem with some advertising campaigns is that they aren … more →
Flashback to Feisty Females in Film: Cathy Palmer / Rebecca Ryan
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buckingthewave wrote 2 months ago: Feisty Female: Cathy Palmer aka Rebecca Ryan, flawlessly portrayed by JoBeth Williams Year we got to … more →
Woman of the Week: Emma Watson
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buckingthewave wrote 2 months ago: WOW: Emma Watson Why Now?: Emma arrived at Brown this week! Huzzah for higher education this side o … more →
Flashback to Feisty Females in Film: Millie Dillmount
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buckingthewave wrote 2 months ago: Feisty Female: Millie Dillmount Year we got to know her: 1967 Best known for: Why, she’s a Mod … more →
Woman of the Week: Imogen Heap
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buckingthewave wrote 2 months ago: Welcome to our latest challenge: a weekly post, Woman of the Week (WOW)! Each week, we will spotlig … more →
Sexist Pig Competes on Top Chef!
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buckingthewave wrote 3 months ago: Mike Isabella. Current Executive Chef at Zaytinya restaurant in DC has revealed to the world that h … more →
Hell Hath No Fury Indeed
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buckingthewave wrote 3 months ago: Well, readers- this would be the part where the judge says: “Time for closing arguments” … more →
Wartime Women: HHNF
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buckingthewave wrote 3 months ago: Let me begin by saying that this book was not what I expected. I think I was looking for more narrat … more →
Fighting Words: HHNF
buckingthewave wrote 3 months ago: Whilst reading Hell Hath No Fury, I was happy to notice that some of these women had as much fire in … more →
Transformers 2, File Under: "No Sh*t Sherlock"
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buckingthewave wrote 3 months ago: Here is my most basic conundrum regarding T2: Rise of the Fallen. Much has been made about the racis … more →
Maya Rudolph & Away We Go
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buckingthewave wrote 5 months ago: Women are funny and Maya Rudolph is underrated. There I said it. After reading this short but sweet … more →
The Ladies of Television
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buckingthewave wrote 5 months ago: Television may rot your brain, and hulu may be hastening our cultural demise, but I’m going to make … more →
