When Wired magazine set about compiling their recently released “101 Signals” list of the “best reporters, writers and thinkers on the Internet – the people who understand what’s happening,” they included many valuable sources of insight and…
Author Archives: charitythomas
Thin Women: I’ve Got Your Back. Could You Get Mine?
Let’s just get this out of the way right up front, everyone: Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to bulk up.
Ah, patriarchy.
Conceptions of Beauty across Cultures
See on Scoop.it – Media Literacy
Tags: bodies , culture , emotion/desire , gender , multiculturalism , sex/sexuality , social construction , cultural relativity, ideal beauty, 06 to 10 mins Year: 1997 Length: 9:56 Access: YouTube…
Identifying Trends In Black Cinema From 1990 To The Present – An S&A Project Launch
See on Scoop.it – Film and Television
To summarize (expect a longer post on this project later; consider this a tease), Vanessa and myself have been working diligently on creating a sortable database of all the “black films” that have been released theatrically between 1990 and 2012.
Colorado Legislator: Poverty Higher Among ‘Black Race’ Because They Eat Too Much Chicken
In a meeting of the state’s Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednsday, Colorado State Sen.
sigh.
Portraits of Albanian Women Who Have Lived Their Lives As Men
For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,
Wow.
A Brief History of ‘Why Isn’t She Married Already?’ | The Saturday Evening Post
Somewhere, someone is going to make me laugh and swoon. I haven’t met him yet. I’m trying.
The more we tell the truth, the more we become free. This is my friend and a beautiful writer.
When Your City Disappears
See on Scoop.it – New Great Depression
Growing up in New York City has a lesser known side effect for those of us who were raised here. We grew up in a tourist…
Now I want a chilidog in a pita.
White Is the New White | The Nation
It’s time white women drop the practice of authenticating—and profiting from—the experiences of women of color.
A Message to Women From a Man: You Are Not “Crazy”
It’s a whole lot easier to emotionally manipulate someone who has been conditioned by our society to accept it. We continue to burden women because they don’t refuse our burdens as easily. It’s the ultimate cowardice.
