Archive for '2008'
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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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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More Like Bringing Repression of Women Back…
Okay, check out this video that I got from NARAL Pro-Choice America today. If you’re bringing sexy back, and not considering women, I hope you’re looking to other genders to have sex with. Just sayin’.
Posted: August 4th, 2007 under 2008, America, Bringing Sexy Back, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Justin Timberlake, Mitt Romney, NARAL, Roe vs. Wade, Sam Brownback, a woman's right to choose, abortion, candidate, election, freedom, law, life, medicine, presidential, presidential debate, pro life, pro-choice, procedure, radical right, science.
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