Hi, everybody! It’s Friday, August 31, and Halloween is exactly two months away. We’re back for another season of costuming, with some cool new designs and lots of fun stuff coming up. Last year was amazing. We had 5 million page views the week of Halloween, our server spontaneously combusted, and we were covered by […]
(UPDATE November 1, 2011: Make that “almost 5 million page views.” When I checked our server stats last night, we’d racked up almost 4.8 million page views in the past week.) Happy Halloween, everybody! When we launched this site last year, we garnered a lot of attention—links in the Washington Post and several high-profile feminist […]
Tomorrow is Halloween, and if you don’t already have your costume together, you’re probably freaking. Relax! We’re here with some de-freaking advice on how you can pull together a last-minute outfit: If you have a sheet: Come on, everybody has a sheet. As long as you have a sheet that doesn’t have Hello Kitty or […]
I just did a pre-recorded interview with the very nice producer for Q, the daily arts & culture show on CBC Radio One. Unfortunately, I was so sleepy that I’m really not sure what I said. Probably gibberish. Check the Q website for showtimes and podcasts so you can listen to me make a complete […]
I know that most of you reading this are amazingly cool and awesome. But you may have friends who, um, aren’t. Maybe you have a white friend who thinks dressing up in blackface or yellowface is hilarious and completely appropriate for Halloween? I hope not. But if you do, shoot ’em this link. The campaign […]
We knew we wanted to get one more Halloween costume up this year, and originally we were thinking of going with Rosalind Franklin or the goddess Freya (assuming we could find a replacement source for one of the Freya costume items we were having trouble with). But a funny thing happened in the past few […]
Reader Paola Eisner writes: Hey! I heard about your site through reddit. In light of traffic spikes (yay Halloween :) would you like to start a blog post that would allow viewers to post additional ideas for powerful/interesting women? Your images are fantastic, and a few of them make me think of a few more […]
Welcome, new people! We are having another massive traffic spike right now, so you may have trouble seeing all the images on our pages. You may have trouble seeing the pages, period! Sorry about that—just refresh the page if you need to. We’re here.
(This post is part of the 2011 Love Your Body Day Blog Carnival.) Thanks to the good folks at NOW, October 19 has been designated Love Your Body Day. The way things are going with Halloween, I think October 31 should be called Patriarchy Day. It’s reached the point that unless you’re a size 2 […]
Hey everybody — if you’re seeing this, congratulations! We’re enjoying a massive traffic spike right now, and so you may have to refresh some pages to see all the images.
Here’s the press release we sent out earlier this week: Feminists Take On Halloween October 4, 2011 — You won’t find costumes for Ada Lovelace or Hatshepsut in the Halloween stores this fall. But you will find them—or at least instructions for them—at a website called “Take Back Halloween.” Launched in 2010, the site is […]
PRESS RELEASE Feminists Take On Halloween FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2011 — You won’t find costumes for Ada Lovelace or Hatshepsut in the Halloween stores this fall. But you will find them—or at least instructions for them—at a website called “Take Back Halloween.” Launched in 2010, the site is now in its second year […]
