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The ecstatic, exuberant, crotch-grabbing ways of the late great Michael Jackson may have caused some controversy in their time, but that hasn’t stopped innumerable musical artists since from adopting the iconic move and making it their own. There’s Lil’ Wayne (at right), for instance, who seems to be doing it out of reflex more than [...]

Looking over Jezebel’s listicle of 20 Feminist TV Characters (thanks Dana!), we’re starting to think that there’s something to the TV format that makes intelligent, empowered female characters more interesting and compelling than, say, their movie counterparts. After all, the list is pretty impressive, including Maude Findlay from Maude, Murphy Brown, 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon, [...]

National Women’s History Month is almost over, and though there’s been a marked lack of mainstream news coverage devoted to related events, many outstanding blogs and online outlets have done more than their share covering conferences, conventions, symposia and the like. For daily doses of women’s rights and women’s issues year-round (not just during NWHM), [...]

As January 30th marked the 10th anniversary of Britney Spears’s “… Baby One More Time” reaching number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, n+1’s Emily Gould has compiled a 10 track mixtape of recommended second-wave feminist listening for the disaster-prone superstar.
The listicle is nice and all, but isn’t it awfully heavy on the folk-rock for an [...]

Here at Listicles, we’re very much in favor of new beginnings, fresh starts, re-inventions and re-definitions (did you notice we re-vamped our logo about a month back, huh, isn’t it new, sexier and therefore better?). That said, we’re also very much not in favor of being given something packaged as “new” that is in fact [...]

The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

What am I supposed to be buying exactly?

Alex Leo, feminist and media-savvy blogger for 23/6 and The Huffington Post, offers this critical listicle (cristicle?) on her blog: 5 Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can’t Shake. We’ve all seen them (been persuaded by them?), now let’s think about them:
Bondage
Sex sells, violence sells, sexy violence is [...]