April 2011
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“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if...”
– Jean Paul Sartre’s 1961 preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
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Who Watches Movies? - Sociological Images →
It must be a cliché that American movies are, overwhelmingly, made for 17-year-old white boys. Goodness knows that there is plenty of evidence on this website to back up the cliché. In light of this, I am surprising floored by the actual data showing who goes to movies. It’s not that I didn’t know that women, people of color, and grown-ups went to movies. It’s just that seeing it in...
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goldnlead-deactivated20120528 asked: I enjoy the consciousness of your blog!! thanks !
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Banana Art/Sculptures →
This is simultaneously awesome and gross/creepy
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WatchAmerica Needs to See Obama’s Report Card - The Colbert Report
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Privileged Musings: 40 Things People Need to Stop... →
Due to the nature of blogging and the tenacity of isms, conversations have a tendency to be repeated in this space. No matter how many times the regular contributors, regular commenters or myself, point out harmful tropes, they have a tendency to keep popping up. This is because some people jump into conversations before getting their 101 on. Let’s have a look at some of the most common...
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To... →
NPR’s pop culture blogger Linda Holmes takes a moment to “reflect on being ‘well-read,’ and on the fact that the smartest thing you can do as a consumer of culture is admit that you’ll never know everything”
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On Obama Basically Getting Pulled Over for... →
*Snap snap* This is a great explanation of why I tweeted earlier: “…still salty that #POTUS engaged this.”
….this piece/blogger is obviously a lot more eloquent than I am….
crunkfeministcollective:
Beyond my sarcasm, though, I think the president has set a horrible precedent. I mean, on a grand scale, he just got pulled over and asked to show papers proving his...
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Anonymous asked: Heya, do you or any followers know of good books/articles surrounding, discussing and/or criticising issues in Black media,struggle for production, Black roles as main actors, why Blaxplotatian was empowering/an issue... ect? It'd be really helpful if any of you did know. Thank you very much!
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Shit-Faced: A Brief History of the Word - Slate →
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Charles Murray and Shiftless, Lazy Whites -... →
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“Is the world made of anything else but our forgetfulness and hyperinflated...”
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new wave feminism: Attn: Black Feminists on tumblr... →
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newwavefeminism:
Hey all!
I have a project I want to do, and it involves tumblr.
It’s for a class called “women writing against the grain” - It basically examines how we construct counter narratives against dominant & normative forms of thought/literature/idologies etc…
We already know that feminists, as a…
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Oh Hey There New Masculinity [Video] →
There is a great meme on YouTube right now featuring videos of straight couples in which the dude is putting on his partner’s make-up, some of which are hilarious in all the expected ways and many of which are really very sweet. They are often intimate and frequently moving; some of the guys talk about watching their partners getting ready in the mirror; some of them say they didn’t...
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Side Eye Headlines: Black Town Stripped of Power... →
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The Best of Anthony Weiner [Video] →
The link provides a video montage of Anthony Weiner’s general badassery. Why can’t all congresspersons be like this?? Why does no one call people out anymore??
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Rape is Rape: Take Action! - Feministing →
CHANGE the definition of rape
The FBI’s definition of rape – “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will” — was written more than 80 years ago and is the basis for their Uniform Crime Report statistics on rape. That definition excludes victims of forced anal or oral sex, rape with an object, statutory rape and male rape.1
Many police departments...
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Michelangelo’s “The Hand of God” made out of...
The colourful piece featuring the Italian artist’s work from the Sistine Chapel took more than 400 hours to make by a dedicated team of 11 puzzle fans. Incredibly, the team had to individually adjust each Rubik’s cube by hand to give it the exact colours required to recreate the masterpiece. Cube Works Studio, who are behind the creation, spent half the time making blueprints with a computer by...
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Cinema Smackdown: After Racial Criticism, Tyler... →
…filmmaker Tyler Perry responded to director Spike Lee’s consistent criticisms of his movies by saying this: “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that,” Box Office Magazine reported on its website.
Perry’s heavy-set matriarchal alter ego, which he made famous through his series of movies and stage plays, has never been one to mince words. But Perry...
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“Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This...”
– toward the queerest insurrection (via eastofethan)(via sexisbeautiful)
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Endangered White Men: The Saga Continues! -... →
In a Newsweek article more accurately described as a lamentation on the possible loss of privilege, Rick Maren and Tony Doukopil explore the plight of the “Beached White Male.” More specifically, they continue the ever popular myth of “the endangered white man.”
…See, the endangered white man myth does not solely rest on the zero-sum argument that white men are increasingly...
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Side Eye Headlines: Law Student Feels Oppressed by... →
…Today, students at Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis received a very curious email. It purported to be from a fellow student who claimed that large pictures of African-American male law students, on banners in the school’s common area, were unrepresentative of the school and created an unwelcoming environment for white people and non-black minorities. Here’s the crux of the...
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A Neurological, Sociological, and Psychological... →
Interesting read, though the evolutionary psychology bit was kind of eh. In the end, I couldn’t quite make out whether this “Benign Violation Theory” is a useful concept…
[McGraw] has devised a simple, Grand Unified Theory of humor—in his words, “a parsimonious account of what makes things funny.” McGraw calls it the benign violation theory, and he insists that it can...
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California Senate Approves Bill Requiring Teaching... →
This week legislation was introduced in Tennessee to forbid the mere discussion of homosexuality in schools, but today California took steps to require it. The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, which mandates teaching social studies lessons on the contributions of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, passed in the California Senate, 23-14. Sen. Mark Leno of...
