REVIEW: The Girls' Guide to Rocking

Here's the review I did of Jessica Hopper's Girls' Guide to Rocking for Maximum Rocknroll (issue #318, November 2009).

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The Girls’ Guide to Rocking
Jessica Hopper
288 pages
Workman Publishing
http://www.workman.com/

The Girls’ Guide to Rocking is just that, and that’s what makes it totally radical. The first time I saw Jessica Hopper speak she read an inspiring piece about being a grunge poser in her teens, and it was the greatest thing my ears had ever heard. She ended on the note that Bikini Kill taught her to be herself and that she could do whatever she wanted -- incidentally, this meant playing music and touring and becoming one of the freshest music critics currently writing.

FEMINISM IS FOR LOVERS

I spotted this today on Bedford Ave. between North 4th & North 5th Streets (in Williamsburg). Whoever's making these totally rules!

[11/07 Note: These folks found me on Flickr, and apparently FEMINISM IS FOR LOVERS is a movement!]

REVIEW: Gender & the Sectional Conflict

And now for something... not so totally different! I began pursuing my Master's degree in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College in September. I've been writing weekly papers, but recently, I was assigned a book review for my Visions & Revisions in U.S. Women's History class.

Gender & the Sectional Conflict
Nina Silber
The University of North Carolina Press
http://uncpress.unc.edu