June 2011
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May 2011
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally →
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When Heroes Fall in Love Under Wacky... →
Blame it on Shakespeare
When you’ve seen as many movies as I have — and I’d strongly caution against doing so — you start to notice the patterns. Through sheer repetition of stock characters and plot threads, Hollywood perpetuates a lot of myths about modern living that are not exactly true. Many of them are downright ridiculous. We Were Promised Hoverboards is a weekly series in which I...
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Fun Fan Art →
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The Psycopath Test: A Journey through the Madness... →
“You’re four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of a corporate ladder than walking on the street.” (via ayellowhouseonjuniperlane)
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25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names →
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The Triumphs and Failures of Ms. Oprah Winfrey →
…In many ways, we have lost a great, truly populist laboratory for learning and a rare instructor. Rebecca Traister wrote: “When we lose Oprah from daytime network TV, we lose a figure who has been bringing issues of race, gender, body image, power and class to the American people daily for 25 years. And I wish that that were more commonplace, but it just isn’t.”
…I’m less...
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WatchDocumentary : Sexy Girls Have It Easy Broadcast on Current TV
In which things we already know are true are reiterated
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“That’s why her hair is so big, it’s full of secrets.”
– Robespierre on Marie Antoinette (via historysaidwhat)
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“Usually when a black woman is attacked we find some way of making it her fault....”
– Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as Violence « The Crunk Feminist Collective
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Seeing Through Transparency: On WikiLeaks →
…If a classified document falls on the internet, and it doesn’t get debated on CNN, does it make a sound? Little of what the major media outlets have reported about the WikiLeaks story has to do with the actual content of the leaks, which anyway haven’t been that surprising. Instead they ask: Have the leaks endangered our country? (Not much.) Is WikiLeaks legal? (Almost certainly.) Is...
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WatchShort Film of the Week.
Duck - directed by Jakob Daschek; part of a collection of 8 new shorts, produced by Ridley Scott, in a collaborative effort with USA Network, titled The Character Project.
Synopsis reads: Emmanuel isn’t like other ten-year-olds — he can’t play with them, he can’t focus at school, and he can’t even bear to be hugged by his mother. Manny’s crippling fear of being touched...
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How to Write Your Own Kate Hudson Romantic Comedy →
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Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All... →
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“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– a comment cited in The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating: How the Food Culture War Affects Black America (via idlesong)
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White Privilege Diary Series #1 - White Feminist... →
…My observation, in these situations, is that when white feminists come face to face with their prejudices, they feel bad about them. They talk about their realizations as if their lives have already changed by the mere fact of their recognition. They tell stories to show each other how “bad” they have been, and are consoled by their peers, who describe similar mistakes. The...
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Why Tumblr? →
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Corsets, Cleavage, Fishnets - NYT →
… The networks have picked up an extraordinary number of shows by and about strong, modern women — vehicles for Christina Applegate, Zooey Deschanel, Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Maria Bello, Chelsea Handler, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kristin Chenoweth and Whitney Cummings. In addition, ABC ordered a new Tim Allen sit-com, “Last Man Standing,” about a man who feels threatened in a world ruled...
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For Hire: English Major and Creative Writing... →
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Email Valedictions: The Ways We Say Goodbye →
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Micro-Aggressions, Cat-Calling, And Triggers, Oh... →
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This project spanned the borders of cat-calling and went into the micro-aggressions of my daily interactions, my work environment, documenting all things that triggered me. While they might be “different” in intent or verbage, they all lead back to the same idea, the same problems, the same old shit. While my experience can only offer a glimpse at a larger problem, I implore more women,...
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WHAT MAKES A BODY OBSCENE? →
…Explaining why it is legal for men to be shirtless in public but illegal for women to do the same, most Americans would probably refer to the fact that women have breasts and men have chests. Breasts, after all, are… these things.They incite us, disgust us, send us into grabby fits. They’re just so there. They force us to contend with them; they’re bouncy or flat or pointy or pendulous...
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“Tell you what? You can have all that stuff back AND we’ll throw in White...”
– Mis Jenkins on Is being white racist? (via darkjez)
This is the most perfect of perfect things I have come upon! Bless this post!
(via liquornspice)
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Jewish Groups Get Court to Block Anti-Semitic... →
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Run the World Girl: In Defense of Beyoncé →
…Much of the criticism I’ve seen of “Run the World (Girls)” has been about how girls do not, in fact, run the world. This is true, of course. Girls don’t run the world, and girls and women are oppressed all over the globe. However, this line of criticism also employs a literal interpretation of a pop song, which, unless you’re willing to claim that Lady...
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jsmooth995:
Who would’ve thought Beyonce was set to become this month’s Controversial Artist Who Sparks a Million Think Pieces? Hopefully the end result is Tyler the Creator goes into a jealous rage, and switches to writing pop-feminist Girl Power anthems so he can get his spot back.
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You, too, can’t have a body like this →
…He has the body and looks that epitomise what men (and women) have come to perceive as the pinnacle of masculine attractiveness. Part of the allure is that this Adonis-like beauty is seen as somehow attainable through hard work and a sensible diet. While female models are criticised for fuelling the rise in eating disorders by looking underweight, their male counterparts have largely...
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“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself. No one is teaching me. I’m just...”
– Octavia Butler on flying (viadream hampton)
