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Blog: Is Annie Lennox Right About Beyoncé’s “Lite” Brand of Feminism?

Blog: Is Annie Lennox Right About Beyoncé’s “Lite” Brand of Feminism?

The following exchange between Annie Lennox (previously of the Eurythmics) and an interviewer can be found on Pridesource.com: So what do you make of someone like Beyoncé? She recently performed on the MTV Video Music Awards and proclaimed herself a “feminist” during her set. I would call that “feminist lite.” L-I-T-E. I’m sorry. It’s tokenistic to me. I mean, I...

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Blog: Beyoncé Beyond the Partition

Blog: Beyoncé Beyond the Partition

I’ve been thinking a lot about Beyoncé lately. She doesn’t put out the kind of music I generally listen to, but she’s hard to avoid these days—not only in the popular media and on the radio, but on the feminist blogs I read. So I decided to look a bit more closely and see what she’s all about, particularly because she’s generally received a lot of praise from those feminist blogs, which initially ...

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