Real-Talk Recommendations

Who is this girl? Why should I believe her recommendations besides the fact that I intuitively feel she has excellent taste?

YOU SHOULDN'T!

Go listen to, read, and examine these things yourself. I give you my lady-word that they will rock your socks.

Podcasts

Call Your Girlfriend - This is my number one podcast and it's only fault is that it comes out every two weeks and not every hour! Two hilarious long-distance best friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman,  cover everything from breaking news in Period Science to Pop Culture happenings with lots of knowledge, sharp humor and the kind of priceless riffing only two besties can produce. 

Throwing Shade - Self-claimed "Feminasty" Erin Gibson and "Homosensual" Bryan Safi explore Feminist and LGBTQI issues "with much less respect than they deserve" (according to their intro) - meaning the irreverent humor you would expect from two professional comedians exploring the completely absurd world we live in. 

Songs

"Reflections" - MisterWives 

Starts off a little slow, but soon you will be scaring everyone on the street with your self-assured strut!

"My Garden" - Kat Dahlia

A dark, lush sound for a thinly veiled sexual allegory. She does use the word, bitch, but I can't throw rocks at someone's reclamation of that word. On the other hand, I have to admire the lyrical way she explores her desire and challenges ideas of (ugh) "purity"

Reading Materials

Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 

This Marvel comic, as I explained in my welcome post, is one of my new favorites! She is funny, eccentric, and admires her sizable booty/secret squirrel tail in the mirror with body-love and sass. Not to mention she literally saves the world....

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

This small book from 1973 explores how seeing is not as innocent a process as it seems. Berger makes brilliant insights about how women are transformed into images and alienated from themselves by the way they are forced to observe themselves and make themselves picturesque. His writing style is easy to read and every sentence will change the way you see seeing, vision and how women are imaged in art and advertising.

I hope you enjoy the recommendations - have a safe, fun, feminist week y'all!

~UCG~

Welcome Everyone

Hey y'all!

I want to welcome you to my blog, Unbeatable Curl Girl!

My title is based off the Marvel comic series Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, about an unlikely superhero who uses her wits and furry friends to pull off unthinkable victories in the name of Justice. She is kind of the unofficial mascot for this blog as she stands for what I will deal with in these posts. She is a young woman who refuses to be put down by society or told she is ridiculous or trivial. She lives her life according to her own rules and is proud of it - from her unconventional friends, to her bodacious non-conforming bod, to her social awkwardness. She's not perfect, but she is strong, brave and kind - a real hero.

This blog will be mostly about feminism and its intersection with art, literature, comics and pop culture. I will recommend things that I find to Feminist-Friendly and constructively critique the things I find not so Feminist Friendly from podcasts to art exhibitions to comic books. I will also be using this blog as a way to explore some of the issues young women face in today's world like, body image, the professional world, tense social interactions and more!

I don't claim expert status - I have been a Feminist since I can remember (thanks, sis!) and have used my education as a way to delve into these issues, learn as much as possible and form my critical approach to the world and all its complexities. I am always learning more and I believe that any good feminist or any thinker, really, always should be.  I write from my theoretical knowledge, experience as a woman and what I learn from my peers, friends and family. Objective Truth Claims NOT welcome! Let's be real - everything is a social construct, including this blog - so let's have fun!

Always in the name of laughing and learning,
Unbeatable Curl Girl