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Audrey Bilger
Audrey Bilger is an associate professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College and Faculty Director of the Center for Writing and Public Discourse. She also teaches gender studies, and occasionally yoga. Her latest book, which she coedited with Michele Kort, is Here Come the Brides! Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage (Seal Press, 2012). She is also the author of Laughing Feminism, editor of an edtion of Jane Collier’s 1753 satire An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, and a frequent contributor to Bitch magazine. Her work has been featured in The Paris Review, Rockrgrl, the Huffington Post and the Women's Media Center.
Website: http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/academic/faculty/profile.asp?Fac=5
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Audrey Bilger's Posts
Score One For Marriage Rights–Federal Court Strikes Down Prop 8!
February 7, 2012 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
Back in the good old days of 2008, same-sex marriage was legal in the Golden State of California for 143 days, and during that time 18,000 same-sex couples legally tied the knot. The existence of those 18,000 is why Proposition 8–which made same-sex marriage illegal later that year–is unconstitutional, according to today’s ruling by the [...]
Top Three Lessons from the Prop 8 Trial
December 9, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 3 Comments
California’s gay marriage ban, Prop 8, was back in court this week for what is likely to be the last of the many appeals hearings. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals weighed two matters: First, whether the video tapes of the trial’s proceedings could be made public (Prop 8 supporters want them deep-sixed) and second, [...]
BREAKING: Prop 8 Ruling Is Both Bad and Good News for Same-Sex Marriage
November 17, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
It’s been 470 days since Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, the California constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. But rather than immediately restore legal same-sex marriages, the decision has remained in legal limbo due to an appeal by the marriage ban’s proponents. And here’s the latest: Today the California Supreme Court ruled [...]
One Step Closer to Repealing the Federal Gay Marriage Ban!
November 11, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 in support of the Respect for Marriage Act [PDF], a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) banning gay marriage and end 15 years of discrimination against same-sex couples. The vote fell along party lines, with Democrats in favor. Senator Diane Feinstein, who introduced the [...]
5 Questions To Ask Defenders of DOMA
November 3, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 4 Comments
Opponents of marriage equality have grown so accustomed to parroting the same arguments over and over again that they don’t seem to notice the ground shifting under their feet. Such is the point of a brief (PDF) filed at the end of last week by the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), a New [...]
Complementary Loin? The Latest Argument (and Bill) Against Gay Marriage
September 14, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 5 Comments
At just the time that the national tide seems to be turning in favor of same-sex marriage, North Carolina wants to make doubly sure that it’s banned in the state. Yesterday, the North Carolina Senate voted by a margin of 30-16 in favor of a bill that, if approved by the state’s electorate, would amend [...]
Who’s Behind the Mask of Feminist Hulk? Only the Ms. Blog Knows!
August 22, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 11 Comments
In comic books, superheroes always have secret identities, and only a handful of people ever get to know the person behind the mask. But readers are insiders, knowing all along that Batman is really Bruce Wayne and Superman is Clark Kent. (Less well-known, except to avid comic readers: Catwoman is Selina Kyle.) In the online [...]
Respect Marriage, Repeal DOMA!
July 20, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · Leave a Comment
The past 24 hours have been exciting ones for supporters of gay marriage rights. If the President and progressive members of the Senate get their way, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is on its way out. At a press conference yesterday, White House press secretary Jay Carney released word that President Obama supports the pending [...]
Obama Administration Says Marriage is Between a Woman and a Woman
July 6, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 1 Comment
Karen Golinski has a wife. She and Amy Cunninghis have been legally married in the state of California since August of 2008. And now, even the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially recognized the validity of that marriage, emphatically stating that it is unconstitutional for the federal government to deny same-sex couples the [...]
FEMINIST HULK MEET MS. MAGAZINE: THE SEQUEL
June 20, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 11 Comments
When we last checked in with our big green superhero friend, Feminist Hulk, in his first-ever interview last June (one of the most viewed posts on the Ms. Blog 0f 2010), he was just learning to flex his muscles in the Twittersphere. But his feminist superpowers were mighty and growing stronger ever day. Now, with [...]
