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  Re: One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

  Collaboration

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 9:09 pm

  I've not much to add to Christine's comment, but yes, I'm impressed by the political intensity of the song, Lizzo's activism behind the scenes, and the collaborative performance of vocalists/dancers/DJ. (This reminds me of Christine� ...
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  Re: With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

  Thank you! Yes, the Austen

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  Friday, January 29, 2016 — 6:41 am

  Thank you! Yes, the Austen comment is telling, as Shosh is both distancing herself from the formality of an earlier era (and the artificiality of the beach weekend) but also signaling the way in which modern texts like "Girls" draw from much old ...
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  Re: With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

  Thanks for your comment. Yes,

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  Friday, January 29, 2016 — 5:36 am

  Thanks for your comment. Yes, it's hard to know how to read "Girls." I do think we need a corrective to television's glamorized portrayals of friendship, but the portrayal of women as rivalrous seems to undermine Dunham's purporte ...
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  Re: ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Feminist Friendship

  I really enjoyed this post.

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  Friday, January 29, 2016 — 5:19 am

  I really enjoyed this post. The video to me represents the limitations of Swift's brand of feminism and corporate girl power; it is ironic that the posse is enlisted to take down another woman, when the song's lyrics could easily be about a wayw ...
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  Re: Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

  Really compelling analysis

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 3:54 am

  Really compelling analysis and example! I am struck by your observation that "it is still a potentially radical act for women in pop music to dream, work, and create together." I have noticed that even forward-thinking female pop artists often h ...