Archive for November, 2007
Do the Barackaway
Yo, if you’re interested in showing your support for Barack Obama, consider sporting the fly new threads designed by my cousin, the self-styled Vanilla Weiss. As he puts it, if you’re feelin’ low on cash, you’re in luck. Value shirts are cheap. And the proceeds that exceed the value of a value shirt go to [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under 2008, barack, barackaway, cheap, election, humor, ice, lean back, obama, tee shirts, terror squad, threads, tshirts, vanilla, vanilla weiss.
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Giving Thanks for Genocide: The Argument Against Thanksgiving
I like cranberry sauce as much as the next feminist, but I wonder if the lack of education about the genocide of native peoples in our continent argues against thanksgiving. I am (part) Native American, according to a genetic test conducted earlier this semester, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that if we [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 under Alternet, Robert Jensen, card, discover, discovery, discovery card, genocide, human rights, native americans, native peoples, pilgrims, thanksgiving, turkey.
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Miss Landmine Angola, 2008: The Right to Beauty & Agency
Hat tip to Broadsheet for this inspiring story of how Nordic artist Morten Traavik uses beauty pageants to subvert modern standards of beauty. In a country where 23 years of civil war has left 80,000 people disabled, Angolan society objectifies survivors of violence as passive victims and dismisses them as useless to society. Although the inclusion [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under 2008, Kathleen Palmer, active, american apparel, angola, antioch, awareness, beauty, beauty pageant, candidate, civil war, college, cultural cooperation, disabled, empowerment, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, gender role, grammar, gun, hookup, international women's day, landmine, landmines, manifesto, miss landmine, morten traavik, objectification, orthopedic, passive, physical perfection, pride, rape, sex, sex lives, sexuality, survivor, victim, violence, vote, women.
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Civil Rights, Lite! And Free Rice for Vocabulary!
Ok, so I know that this is discombobulated. I mostly just really like this cartoon. And there’s also this website where you can play a word game and send rice to starving people. It’s the perfect no-guilt procrastination device for those of us who are not on the Atkins diet. Speaking of which, Atkins is [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2007 under Atkins, Civil Rights, Pat Robertson, Regent University, Yale, affirmative action, alberto gonzales, christian, diet, dubya, enforcement, extremism, federal funding, feed starving people, free food, free rice, game, guilt, hate crimes, hunger relief, justice, law, law school, police brutality, procrastination, prosecution, racism, religious, religious extremists, rice, salvation army, skinniness, torture, vocabulary, voting rights, weight loss, wiretappers, word game.
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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Gender Normativity, Post-Mrs.Doubtfire Doubts, & A Drive-By Fruiting
I went to a dinner party a while ago, and it was really nice. I was camoflaged in adult clothes, and standing around with adults, chatting, and this child ran through. The child hesitated on the edge of our circle of tall obstacles, and then darted into the middle and out the other side. The [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under abuse, adults, bitch, bowl cut, bowlcut, boy, child, crossdressing, dinner, dolce and gabbana, drive by, drummond, fair, fairness, feminism, feminist, fruiting, gender, girl, heart, henry, hippies, hit, human rights, humanism, humanist, idiot, idiots, inherit the wind, jezebel, justice, koreanish, male victim, mrs doubtfire, norm, objectification, objectification of men, partner abuse, partner violence, party, psychiatry, punch, rape, scopes trial, slap, violence, violent.
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Pigs Still Flying: What to Use Instead of OiNK
OiNK is dead. Here’s a helpful list of what to use instead of OiNK. Not that I, you know, advocate or participate in any rampant piracy of music. But it’s true: pirates are terribly hipster.
Posted: November 9th, 2007 under Oink, hipster, hipsters, music, music piracy, piracy, pirate, pirates.
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