Hot off the press, the call for nominations for the Carnival which will be on Bitch | Lab on June 21 (next Wednesday). I’ve put an abbreviated version below, but do check out the link, particularly if you don’t know what happened to Hypatia…
Suggested themes:
1. Given what Carol Hanisch originally meant by the phrase, “the personal is political,” how to you see your work as a continuation of what Hanisch and our early second wave foremothers envisioned?
2. The virtues of being mouthy, talking back, refusing norms of politeness, etc. The philospher Hypatio was appointed to the highest academic position in Alexandria. When sexually harassed in her classroom she got mouthy and flung the 5th century version of a sanitary napkin at him, exclaiming that the joys of sex rather than those of philosophy were what was on the student’s mind….
3. Finally, it wouldn’t be a party at Bitch | Lab if there wasn’t some talk of sex positive feminism.
The deadline is June 20, only five days away … so GET NOMINATING…! (On the Blog Carnival form, or through carnival@pulpculture.org.)
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