My friend, Dr. Gina Barreca, talks about trying on swimsuits at TJ Maxx on this YouTube video. It’s HILARIOUS!

In this clip, she was delivering a keynote at the National Speaker Association in 2007 and redefining what it means to be a feminist. Needless to say, she is available for speaking engagements.

Dr. Gina is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. Her books include They Used to Call Me Snow White, but I Drifted; Perfect Husbands and Other Fairy Tales; Babes in Boyland; and, with Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, I’m With Stupid.

She’s written or edited other books on vice, Victorians and sex, American humor, the erotics of instruction, The Sopranos, women’s humor, and Italian-American literature. She blogs about teaching, sex, humor, money, publishing, ambition, books, marriage, envy (professional and personal), politics (professional and personal), aging, and cartoons here.