After a long weekend and some time away from the internet, here are just few reads from the last couple weeks.
Sarah McCarry on watching violence against women at the movies.
A Racialicious Thanksgiving Special: The Native American Vote in New Mexico and Beyond.
Lastly: a cool conversation in the NYT on narrative in contemporary films.
A few fun reads from around the web this week (and last week!). Have a great weekend!
Sayantani DasGupta talks imperialism, sexism, and Half the Sky over at Racialicious.
“Despite the issues I have with militarism, or this country’s campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, I’m all for cheering for female pilots (yea, bada&& flying ladies!). What I can’t just can’t stand by and let slide is this “your women are oppressed, but ours are awesome” rhetoric, a rhetoric which only illuminates how–both actually and metaphorically–racism, xenophobia, and imperialism so often play out on women’s bodies around the world.”
Andrienne K. discusses Stanford, college mascots, and racism at Native Appropriations:
“So to the people I chatted with, Nick H., the students who ordered a Stanford Indian sweatshirt, the Cardinal Council, the Class of 1962, and anyone else who donned a Indian image without thinking twice. Just stop for a moment, and really listen. Push aside the defensive and dismissive feelings, and realize that it’s not totally your fault. You’ve been socialized in a system that has normalized racism against Native people. You’ve been raised in a society that sugar-coats its colonial and genocidal past, and ignores the modern presence of Native peoples. So maybe you weren’t personally responsible for any of that. But now, I’ve taken away your ignorance defense. You now know how hurtful and harmful these images are, you know how it feels for me, a Native person, to see them at my alma mater.”
Lindy West talks about women, weight, and Hollywood over at Jezebel:
“I’m grateful to have Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson on my screen, if only as an affirmation that women of all sizes can be funny and powerful and smart and successful. But I look forward to the day when they just get to be women.”
Also, this week: Arturo Garcia talks about how “Harvard’s Voice, puts its foot in its mouth,” via Racialicious and check out Actually.org. First up: Rosie Perez on Mitt Romney.
Just a few reads from around the web this week. Did you read anything awesome this week? If so, we would love to know in the comments section! Have a great weekend.
Dr. Jason Eastman talks race and sports in “Nature, Nurture, and the Pro Athlete,” at Racialicious.
In solidarity with the Chicago Teachers’ Strike, from the Crunk Feminist Collective: “Striking Teachers Are Also Parents.“
refresh_daemon takes on Asian stereotypes and PSY’s Gangnam style, “PSY the Acceptable Asian Man,” at Racialicious.
As we head into the weekend, here just a few reads from around the web this week. Have a great weekend!
N+1 does a round-up of books by hip hop artists in “It Was Written.”
Lesley Kinzel takes on the USTA’s terrible treatment of the #1 Junior Tennis player in the U.S: “#1 Junior Tennis Player in the World Benched for Being Too Fat.”
Racilicious crushes on Kerry Washington this week in their crush of the week column (because she’s so awesome!!).
In “Not So Hot for Teacher,” Elizabeth Alsop wonders why popular TV shows like “Breaking Bad” and “The Big C” are giving teachers a black eye.
And Sarah T. writes about losing things, friends, and floods for Billfold, “My Stuff Was Myself, But Then It Was Gone.“
Like a few of you (perhaps) I spent much of my week watching the DNC. Thus, here are just a couple DNC-ish-themed links from around the web this week. Any great-election-related links? Share in the comments!
On the amazing Melissa Harris Perry and eloquent rage, “At the risk of sounding angry” from the Crunk Feminist Collective.
And MHP talks about that same rage, American politics, and more in “5 Questions for MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry,” from Raw Story.
Karen Cox talks about marketing Charlotte for and during the DNC in “DNC Watch: Charlotte Businesses Play the Southern Card” over at Pop South.
Two historically black fraternities create a super PAC to re-elect Obama and register a million voters: “Can a Super PAC of Black Fraternity Brothers Register a Million Voters for Obama?” over at Colorlines.
Check out ”Our Voices, Our Stories: Training African Women’s & LGBT Organizations to Use Social Media is Critical” over at Spektra Speaks (and this one too).
And here is the Crunk Feminist Collective on the color of terrorism: “American breeds terrorists. And they are white not brown.”
Rebecca Solnit explores the type of man who thinks he knows everything, and who expects women to be the grateful recipients of his condescending lectures.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper writes about literary criticism that doubles as self-help in “Hard Blows.”
GLG pal Tammy Oler examines Pinterest’s visible girliness over at Bitch.
When women speak about their experiences with violence, many people don’t want to hear them. Lidia Yuknavitch’s powerful essay “Explicit Violence” demands recognition.
Ta-Nehisi Coates considers race and Obama’s presidency in “Fear of a Black President”
Michelle Dean writes about class, race, and TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo at Slate.
Here are this week’s links. Have a great weekend!
Juan Cole discusses the Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others, at Informed Comment.
Check out Dr. Tanisha Ford’s awesome response to the NYT coverage of white fashion in the Ivory Tower in “Haute Couture in the Ivory Tower,” at Racialicious.
From Gawker, “Rapper Le1f is Very Good and Very Gay” (Get ready for his horn-driven single “Wut” to take over your brain.)
From New York Magazine, “Was the New York Times Too Mean to Lolo Jones?” If you by mean you mean sexist, yes.
Have a great weekend!
This week’s links:
A beautiful personal essay about queerness and being transgender by Thomas Page McBee, at The Rumpus.
The New York Times covers sexual harassment in the online gaming community.
Autostraddle has a great and informative interview with queer feminist Texas Representative Mary Gonzalez.
Dodai Stewart responds to the commentary on Gabby Douglas’ hair, over at Jezebel. And check out awesome coverage of women’s gymnastics and the incredible Gabby Douglas over at the Crunk Feminist Collective.
And from the wonderful Sarah S:
Slate on race and casting calls
Do you agree with this list of the Top 10 Joss Whedon characters? (Sarah T. does not! Too many dudes, too little Faith/Zoe/Kaylee.)
Last week, I ventured to the Berkshires where there was only dial-up internet and then to a conference in Boston where there was loads of internet but no time. Thus, this week here are some fun readings to make-up for last week’s lack! Have a great weekend.
Margaret Cho on feeling comfortable in her own body, in response to Gabi Gregg’s smokin’ bikini photos.
Kase Wickman interviews Lauren Greenfield about her new documentary, The Queen of Versailles over at The Hairpin.
David J. Leanord writes about Serena Williams’ Wimbledon victory and white supremacy at New Black Man in Exile: Serena Williams: “Ain’t I A Champion.”
And check out “The Othering of Barack Obama and the Growing of a Movement,” by Scot Nakagawa at Race Files.
Anything to add? Let us know in the comments!
Just some good reads from around the web this week. Have a great weekend!
Two takes on the Daniel Tosh rape joke controversy, from Lindy West at Jezebel and Roxane Gay at Salon. And coming on the heels of this week’s conversation about rape culture, an article by Liz Gorman describes being sexually assaulted in broad daylight and “walking while female.”
Anna Lekas Miller writes about the fetishization of race at Feministe.
Amy Poehler, Best Person Ever, debuts a new video series in which she gives advice to teens.
A Turkish art student re-creates famous scenes from Hollywood movies as Ottoman miniatures.
