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And That Can Break YouMystery Meat is a sound collage podcast based in Charlotte, Asheville, and New Orleans. Each episode is made up of audio submitted by listeners. Anything within your rights to submit is welcome. From that they create monthly collages meant to challenge, delight, and encourage the audience to listen to their environment in new ways. Mystery Meat is, by its nature and relationship to its audience, a chance operated podcast and a conversation between the listener and the editor. They also manage a mail art campaign, create sound design for theatre and film, and create installations and events which explore the act of listening. Find out more or contact them through mysterymeatpodcast.com. Click here to listen.The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Anti-Abortion Group Wants 'Day of Tears' CommemorationRICHMOND – An anti-abortion organization called Day of Tears is urging the Virginia General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring a day of mourning to mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Advocates for Rape Survivors Applaud Grant By Tyler Woodall Capital News Service QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: This is great news for Virginia, and we hope that it will someday be advocated on a national scale. Want to help out or need to talk to someone? Contact RAINN or another trusted nonprofit or local organization. General Mark R. Herring RICHMOND – Organizations that help rape survivors see benefits from Virginia receiving a $2 million federal grant to improve the commonwealth’s handling of sexual assaults.
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Megyn Kelly, Melania Trump, and the Rise of Bipartisan SexismI am a staunch liberal and have spent over half my life reading, writing, and discussing politics, particularly women’s issues. I have voted blue in every election I have been eligible to vote in and was writing think pieces on the Bush administration when I was in middle school. That said: we need to have a discussion about the Left’s seemingly get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to blatant sexism addressed at women on the Right. We’ve seen it time and time again, as self-proclaimed woke liberal feminists repost progressive think pieces on social media while simultaneously critiquing the bodies of women that have been deemed in Vogue to hate. How dare the Right create a scandal about Michelle Obama’s bare arms, but hey look guys, Melania Trump posed naked—what a classless whore! Don’t you dare talk bad about Elizabeth Warren, but goodness what on earth is wrong with Kellyanne Conway’s face? The first criticism I heard against Megyn Kelly when she announced she was leaving Fox News for NBC wasn’t on her 12-year-long career that has been supported by racist, sexist, and xenophobic rhetoric; it was a blanket statement calling her a cunt and criticizing her haircut.
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Magic's in the MakeupBy Amy Joyce I was in Target the other day in the beauty aisle, as I’m wont to do, browsing for either face powder or a makeup brush, when I overheard a small child’s voice warbling, “Girly girl, girly girl, if you’re not careful, you’re gonna turn into a girly girl!” He was maybe 4 years old, young enough to be strapped into the child’s seat of a shopping cart. His sister, the aim of his teasing, was old enough to be holding a third child on her hip, and mature enough to ignore her brother. It wasn’t quite clear what she’d said or done to earn his provocation, if anything at all.
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Girls And Dolls: Navigating A Childhood ObsessionThere were (and maybe still are — childhood is nebulous turf these days) two types of girls while I was growing up: those who owned American Girl (AG) dolls, henceforth dubbed AGirls by yours truly, and those who didn’t. On paper, I totally should have belonged to the AGirl category: I came from a solid middle class family, I was an unapologetic girly-girl but with a penchant for adventure, and I loved reading books about plucky girls getting up to shit in eras where corsets were still de riqueur and less Dita Von Teese. (Love you all the same, lady.)
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Rage Against the Dairy MachineBy Leah Mueller QuailBellMagazine.com Let's get it straight right off the bat: Milk products are bad for you, especially as you age. I know, you love the hell out of French cheese, and you'd never give up pizza or ice cream. Put that aside for a moment, and consider: Milk comes from nursing cows. Whether it's a happy, organic pasture-fed cow or one confined to the stockades and artificially inseminated, the fact remains: You're consuming a product specifically manufactured for bovine babies.
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My Non-existence Under the Trump AdministrationEditor's Note: This piece was previously published in English Kills Review. When my mother patted the black tufts of hair on my head and gazed into my dark eyes for the first time, she was not a U.S. citizen. But, in my newborn pinkness, I was. The year was 1988 and it was an unseasonably warm day in November less than one week after Halloween. I was experiencing the world outside of my mother’s womb in healthy, even breaths that would not have been possible had it not been for my mother’s emergency C-section. With my umbilical cord wound around my neck, my birth was almost my undoing. My tiny mother was exhausted but relieved to welcome all eight pounds of me—alive!—with my American father by her side.
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xoJane Just Died -- But All My Sassy-est Dreams Came True There were plenty of websites that were smart, funny, and feminist — but I couldn’t stay away from xoJane, for better or worse. It was the next step in the evolution of Sassy and Jane. It was Jane Pratt.
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Distillation InstallationSeventeen years of living in a three-bedroom Astoria apartment distilled into one art installation: so much lost and gained; so many things dismantled and recreated; so many memories... I lived and worked in every room of that home. Beginning in the front room with my first guide dog and the boyfriend whose munificence allowed me to remain long after us, to the back room where I came into being as a blind person and an artist. Once I looked out the window to fire escape and cherry tree, the identical buildings across the yards, but, upon my departure, I saw only a pixilated rectangle of light.
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Winter in Wynwood
By The Quail Bell Crew
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Wynwood is Miami, Florida's bustling arts district and a treasure trove of one-of-a-kind restaurants, boutiques, galleries, and murals. Our founding editor had a chance to visit over the holidays and take a few photos. Here are some of our favorites. Check out more on her Instagram.
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The NipMystery Meat is a sound collage podcast based in Charlotte, Asheville, and New Orleans. Each episode is made up of audio submitted by listeners. Anything within your rights to submit is welcome. From that they create monthly collages meant to challenge, delight, and encourage the audience to listen to their environment in new ways. Mystery Meat is, by its nature and relationship to its audience, a chance operated podcast and a conversation between the listener and the editor. They also manage a mail art campaign, create sound design for theatre and film, and create installations and events which explore the act of listening. Find out more or contact them through mysterymeatpodcast.com. Click here to listen.The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
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It's A Wonderful LaunchI’m not boldly charting any new territory when I say 2016 bit the big one and didn’t let go. That’s true for almost everyone who’s not a white supremacist or gifted character actor Mahershala Ali. Through most of The Great Fuckyear, however, I had one big thing to look forward to: I’d secured the publication of my debut novel, Judith, a feminist crime thriller, and it was set to finally see the light of day in December. Eager to celebrate with my friends, who’d helped the project become a reality, I decided to arrange a launch party for the book in one of our favorite Washington, D.C., hangouts.
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