As modern ladies of marrying age, our trusty inadequacy paradigm has always gone something like this: “I’m too fat for the men I like.” “I’m too ugly to get married.” “I’m too old to find a guy.” Blah blah blah, fart, repeat, dead (the lifecycle of…
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WASHINGTON – Seemingly conceding that shutting down the government in order to defund the president’s health care law would be a dangerous political gamble, House Republican leadership is now looking at the idea of using the debt ceiling as a…
It’s bad to hate…
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…
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.
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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…
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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.
In a meeting of the state’s Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force Wednsday, Colorado State Sen.
sigh.
For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,
Wow.
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.
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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.
Working Class Sha(wo)man 