- 1. Madison Butler Disrupts Gender Pay Inequity For Black Women, With Her Black Speaker Collection, a Database Full of Voices That Need To Be Heard
- (Feminism)
- ... Is it possible that people’s deeply ingrained perceptions of what a professional speaker looks and sounds like are rooted in linguistics? It’s a possibility.This is a level of implicit bias that affects ...
- Created on 25 March 2022
- 2. What's in a Pronoun? France Muses Over The Idea of Adding Gender-Neutral Words to the French Language, But Many Wonder If That's Even Possible When So Much of The Language is Male or Femal
- (Feminism)
- ... so complicated to work with gender non-conforming identities? I did my research, and linguistics has a big part in it. For all of those who don’t know anything about the French language, there is one ...
- Created on 20 October 2021
- 3. “Brag Better” Author Meredith Fineman Wants You To Advocate For Yourself: BUST Interview
- (Books)
- ... And I catch myself not doing it. [Bragging is] a lifelong skill, it’s hard to do all the time, it affects everyone. Even if you’re not shy about it, it’s something you can refine from a linguistics and ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 4. "Wordslut" is Smart, Hilarious, And Challenges Standard Language ...
- (Books)
- Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language By Amanda Montell (Harper Wave) In Wordslut, journalist and linguist Amanda Montell introduces the subject of sociolinguistics—where ...
- Created on 15 July 2019
- 5. How “Crazy Rich Asians” Star Constance Wu Is Using Her Platform To Change Hollywood
- (Movies)
- ... better than you.” But at one point in her career, Wu considered quitting acting. “I was a little beat up and tired of it, so I studied linguistics and speech language pathology at Queens College,” she ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
- 6. 11 Women's Rights Activists Arrested and Jailed in Saudi Arabi
- (Feminism)
- ... herself driving and for trying to cross the border. Eman al-Nafjan, an assistant professor of linguistics and mother of four who runs the blog "Saudiwoman." Walaa Al-Shubbar, an activist in ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 7. One-Sentence Reviews Of Every One Direction Song
- (Music)
- ... sing it at the top of my lungs in the shower. "Better Than Words" — Check back in for my forthcoming dissertation, “Better Than Words: The nihilistic power of pop song linguistics in the modern age.” ...
- Created on 12 January 2018
- 8. Arrival's Political Message Is Surprisingly Prescient: BUST Revie
- (Movies)
- ... and it’s really a shame. Additionally, because I have no knowledge of linguistics, it seems like the script glosses over the actual process Louise uses to learn the alien’s language in order to further ...
- Created on 11 November 2016
- 9. Why Are We Policing Women's Voices—And Not Men'
- (Feminism)
- In Terry Gross's NPR interview with writer and editor Jessica Grose, professor of linguistics Penny Eckert, and speech pathologist Susan Sankin, the subject on the table was the policing of young women’s ...
- Created on 27 July 2015
- 10. 10 Books That Made Our Dregs Of Winter Reading List
- (Books)
- ... linguistics, literature, and oral history to bring them to life. The ancient Greeks were responsible for glorifying Amazons in Western culture but also for their bad rap as man-eating, one-breasted terrors. ...
- Created on 17 February 2015
- 11. Movie Review: Still Alice
- (TV)
- To begin, she forgets the word “lexicon.” Renowned linguistics professor, wife, and mother of three grown children, Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) grapples with losing her words to the cruel chaos of ...
- Created on 17 December 2014
- 12. Museum of Femoribilia: '50s Dictionaries for Girls
- (General)
- From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, it was common practice for publishers to put out little dictionaries specifically edited and designed for preteen and young teenage girls. Their vinyl covers featured ...
- Created on 09 May 2014
- 13. Places Where it's Still Cool to Say "Vagin
- (Feminism)
- Now that it's not copacetic to throw the V-word around in the realm of American government, I decided to go ahead and make a short list of places where it is okay to use the word "vagina." Feel free to ...
- Created on 19 June 2012
- 14. Ever Wonder How "Dames on the Giggle Water" (That's Flappers!) Used to Tal
- (Feminism)
- Flappers knew how to get dolled up and keep it copacetic in the 20s, and today we love them just as much as they would have wanted us to. Besides partying and staying in style, these ladies created a ...
- Created on 19 June 2012
- 15. Inventing Womanhood
- (Feminism)
- Navigating gendered vocabulary can be tricky. I use the term “guys” to refer to just about anyone—men, women, children, even the elderly—but every now and then my poor vocabulary has led to confusion ...
- Created on 23 May 2011
