Becky Blab

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I have been meaning to write a post on this movie for a while, and I’ve decided to try to do a regular Film Friday feature. It’s called Le Beau Mariage–not sure if it’s at all based on a play called Un Beau Mariage but I don’t think so. Somewhat randomly, it was playing in [...]

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My recent post on UltraViolet:
I VOLUNTEERED TO HELP at the Jaipur Film Festival and one of the films I liked most was UnLimited Girls by Paromita Vohra, which is being touted as India’s first feminist film. UnLimited Girls humorously explores engagements with feminism in contemporary India and is a must-see for those participating in this [...]

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“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” –Margaret Fuller f(rom the Sunday TOI)

I don’t recall ever having heard of Fuller, but apparently she was the 1st Feminist in the US (her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work [...]

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Two recent articles from the New York times have grabbed my attention. From Monday, My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors discusses how one blogger has traded his lucrative career in medicine to focus full-time on his equally lucrative hobby blog.

But the prestige is not distributed equally among the genders. Blogging’s [...]

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