Pop Culture Feminists besides Pink?

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I am doing a little introductory presentation to my seminar group (I'm a mature student) this week on feminist literary and cultural theory. I have started chronologically with Mary Wollstonecraft, then Virginia woolf, then Kate Millet and finally (so far) Germaine Greer.

I have been inspired by the thread on here today about Pink, so will include the Stupid Girls lyrics. Any other feminist contemporary figures I can refer to, to keep the interest of the kids?

I am putting two images on my handouts this one and the one at the bottom of this blog page

Diablo Cody - who wrote Juno.
Ellen Page - starred in Juno.
Alice in Tim Burtons version of Alice.

I feel depressed that one of those is a fictional character and I am struggling yo think of any more. :(

Lyra from Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Which makes Philip Pullman a feminist I think? Mariella Frostrup did a great programme recently about feminist literary heroines, I'll see if I can find it.

Joss Whedon YES! a great writer for women's roles.

M.I.A?

Ooh MIA is a good call for the yoofs.

Ellen Page is also in Hard Candy - there's a film for feminist analysis! Very good.

"Not sure about Lily Allen. "it's not fair" makes me scream at the radio, if he's so bloody lovely ( ringing lots sounds creepy to me)educate him in the sex department."

..or, alternatively, write a song complaining about it, and humiliate him. It's the gift that keeps on giving

Lauren Laverne is good. I like her on that friday night live programme on C4 - surprised I haven't seen threads about that programme actually, seems right up MNers' streets. I'll have a look for one.

Oops. 10 O'Clock live I mean. On Thursdays.

I'm still a bit about 10 o'clock Live

LL seems to be there as a bit of window dressing, and to sort of present the (male) comedians and take a bit of a back seat herself

no fair, I think.

Lea Michelle who is the main character in Glee has spoke in quite a few interviews about feminist issues. She mentioned in one about getting very angry at being labelled a diva as she is a woman who knows what she wants. She said if she was a man she would have been labelled 'powerful' etc.

Oh really? OK. I only saw a bit of it last week as DS was still up and kept changing the channel. She came across well in the bits that I saw, but might not have been representative.

I love Lea Michelle