About
Feminist Fatale observes and comments on the cultural environment from a feminist perspective. It aims to locate and give voice to individual experience in the media maelstrom while providing a space for community dialogue and activism.
 MELANIE KLEIN, FounderMelanie Klein, MA is a writer, speaker and Associate Faculty member at Santa Monica College, teaching Sociology and Women’s Studies. She attributes feminism and yoga as the two primary influences in her work. She is committed to communal collaboration, raising consciousness, media literacy, facilitating the healing of distorted body images and promoting healthy body relationships.She has worked with the new citizen journalists of the LA Academy of Global Girl Media and the peer-educators of J.A.D.E (Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating) on ways to tap into the power of their own voice. She is an expert contributor in the areas of media literacy and body image issues for Proud2Bme, a NEDA project. She is the adviser of the Santa Monica College Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the founder and co-coordinator of WAM! Los Angeles and on the alliance board for Brave Girls Want!. She founded FeministFatale.com and is a contributor at Adios Barbie, Elephant Journal, Intent.com,  MindBodyGreen and Ms. Magazine’s blog. Her essay on yoga, body image and feminism appears in Curvy Voices and her extended chapter on the same topic is included in the anthology, 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice. She is featured in the forthcoming book, Conversations With Modern Yogis and she is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology on Yoga and Body Image. She has been featured on HuffPostLive, KPFK’s Feminist Magazine and The Point on The Young Turks.Follow her on Twitter @feministfatale. |
Just stumbled on the this site randomly and I’m very happy I did! I’m an Australian women’s and gender studies student and feminist and always feel encouraged by websites like this one! Very cool 🙂
Comment by sophie — May 13, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
I was looking for Kate Makkai suggested by a psychotherapist who promotes her practice and beliefs on Facebook. Kate’s piece, via video was presented as “slamming” in poetry form, “Pretty” and deconstructing it.
Like sophie from Australia, I too just came across this site, thinking it had something to do with Katie Makkai.
Can a feminist over 30, be a part of this website??
Comment by Carol Harrison — October 29, 2010 @ 6:42 pm
@Carol, I sure hope so. I hope men who support feminism can as well.
Comment by Tony — January 2, 2011 @ 8:44 pm
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First off, I would like to say this is a very impressive site. I stumbled across it after a google search, bookmarked it, and have been reading different posts (and the comment sections) ever since. I definitely love the opinions and food for thought.
I’m a black male, and frequent a black women’s forum that talks about many of the kind of subjects/topics on this site. The posters on that site have really helped to open my eyes to male privilege and feminist theory in general. One point they did bring up that caught my eye was that feminism, historically, has not been very inclusive to the plights of women of color (or more specifically, black women.)
They (posters on the forum) talked about how feminism (and excuse me if misusing terms) has been more focused on middle class white women, and they used examples of Slut Walks where some women were using the N Word. The main point that I took from this criticism was that they felt they were fighting racism within feminism.
I’m curious about how the authors of this site feel about race and feminism.
Also, with a focus on a cultural environment from a feminist perspective, do you feel it would be beneficial to have a black woman as a contributor for the site?
Comment by Dorian — November 4, 2011 @ 10:31 pm
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I love the letters to your younger selves do you allow non contributors to send in letters for your blog?
Comment by milly — September 4, 2012 @ 1:05 pm
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Hello,
I am a former student of Melanie Klein! She is an AMAZINGGGG teacher and truly shows passion for what she teaches. Professor Klein if you could please email me at this email I have a Question/Favor to ask of you. I lost the email you gave us before in class. My email is reyes1489@yahoo.com or aracely.reyes938@myci.csuci.edu
Thank you!!!!!
Comment by Aracely — March 13, 2013 @ 5:40 pm
Hi Melanie,
I read your essay in the “21st century yoga” book and loved it!
I referred to it in a blog I recently wrote about body image on the website of the yoga teacher’s collective that I’m a part of. Please check it out and let me know what you think!
https://www.englishyogaberlin.com/im-no-barbie-girl/
Cheers!
Juli
Comment by Juli Saragosa — May 27, 2014 @ 7:55 am