Sunday, December 6, 2009
Feminist Holiday Gift Guide
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If you're gift-giving this holiday season, here's your Feminist Gift Guide to go by. Use it to find the perfect present for the feminist(s) in your life, or put what you like on your wishlist for you to enjoy. Feel free to comment with any other feminist gift suggestions!
For the feminist newbie:
For the sexually empowered:
For the vagina-lover:
For the bookworm:
For the movie/TV show addict:
For the feminist newbie:
- Newbies can learn about everything from patriarchy to Alice Walker in Cathia Jenainati's book Introducing Feminism. The perfect introduction for any person interested in joining the movement!
- The Black Feminist Reader will introduce them to writings by bell hooks, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, and many more.
- Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology can give them a crash course in queer studies.
- Help any new feminist learn about the modern feminist movement by getting them a subscription to the cutting-edge Bitch magazine.
- And now that they're feminists, it's time to shout it from the rooftops. Give the feminist n00bz in your life "This is What a Feminist Looks Like" gear from Feminist.org, or a poster of the classic feminist icon, Rosie the Riveter.
For the sexually empowered:
- Who wouldn't love an Orgasm in a Box? Only 18 bucks at Babeland! Depending on who you're buying for, get the kit geared towards pleasure for someone with a vagina, or for someone with a penis.
- For your couple friends (or for your own significant other for the two of you to share) check out the We-Vibe Couple's Kit.
- Babeland also has great stocking stuffers. Some of my favorites are: the Bullet Buddies for $13, the Naughty Bedroom Dice for $13, and the Lube Sampler for $6.
- And, of course, make sure your sexually active loved ones are protected with male condoms, female condoms, or dental dams.
For the vagina-lover:
- Literally anything in the VulvaLoveLovely shop will make any vagina-lover giddy. Check out the "Happy Uterus" pouch or the menstrual cramp ease kit.
- Also check out VivaLaCraft's adorable pocket menstrual calendar for only four dollars!
- Get Cramps Be Gone herbal tea for the women you love so they don't have to be in too much pain during period time.
For the bookworm:
- No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle Freedman
- We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists by Melody Berger
- 105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation by Kami McBride
- Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael Murray
- How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page.
- He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti
- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
For the movie/TV show addict:
- Teeth (an ordinary girl learns she has a toothed vagina that is not afraid to bite anyone who mistreats it)
- Iron Jawed Angels (follow Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they fight for
votes for women) - Daughters of Afghanistan (a documentary about women in Afghanistan struggling to put their lives back together after the removal of the Taliban)
- Death Proof (bad ass women get sweet revenge)
- Sugar Rush (a hilarious British TV series about a 15 year-old lesbian in love with her best friend)
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