Archive for 'identity'
Eat Yo’ Beats: Ana Tijoux & The Political Power of Self-Examination
Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother’s job as a social worker put her in touch with hip-hop as an 8-year old, it was love. At 14, Ana and her family returned to Chile [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under ethics, etymology, expatriate, exploitation, expression, fascism, fat beats, hip hop, hip hop culture, identity, identity politics, invisibility, latin america, latino, mc, old school, oppression, poetry, politics, self, self awareness, social construction, social inequality.
Tags: ana tijoux, beats, black panthers, boxing, chicago gangsters, chile, christian, close reading, crime, democracy, devil, dissent, eden, eiffel tower, etymology, eve, fascism, france, garden, Hannah Arendt, hip hop, hip-hop is dead, hoodlums, hoods, IAM, identity, identity politics, innocence, Jay-Z, joe louis, l'ecole du micro d'argent, Lauryn Hill, LL Cool J, makiza, Mama said knock you out, man in the mirror, mc, MIA, michael jackson, nas, old frisian, Paris, pinochet, politics, power, prostitution, rap, rhymes, rock the bells, sampling, self-examination, serpents, sly and the family stone, snakes, social injustice, social justice, social work, star wars, the kkk, wu tang
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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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Flarf You, Ethnic Slurs: "Corrosive, Cute, or Cloying Awfulness."
According to Micheal Magee, “Poems are, like, total bullshit unless they are/squid or popsicles or deer piled/on elk in the trunk of David Hasselhoff’s/cutlass Sierra.” That’s pretty much the spirit of the first poetry movement of the 21st century: semi-dadist riffing with Googleian specifics. It’s an interesting metaphor for modern consciousness– globalization has brought the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under agency, art, feminist, globalization, identity, identity politics, insult, poetry, politically correct, politics, pop culture, popular culture, postmodern, repression, slur.
Tags: agency, apathy, art, avant garde, Baudelaire, consciousness, contemporary, cracker, cutlass sierra, dadism, david hasselhoff, deer, elk, ethnic, Ezra Pound, flarf, globalization, google, googleian, identity politics, information age, john ashbery, kike, making it new, micheal magee, movement, offense, podcast, poems, poetry, poetry foundation, poetry off the shelf, popsicles, postmodern, reclamation, repression, slur, squid, trunk, walt whitman, whatever
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When The Personal Was Revolutionary, 0r He's Not My Precedent
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Liturature. You’re saying, duh, this is not news. And so is she. According to Pheobe Connelly the American Prospect, after being informed that she had won the prize, Lessing shrugged and said, “”Oh Christ. It’s been going on now for 30 years; one can’t get more excited than [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2007 under New York Review of Books, New York Times, binary, camera, christ, connelly, contemporary, craft, doris, experience, female, feminine, feminism, feminists, gender, gender role, humility, identity, identity politics, inequality, lady, lessing, literature, men, misogynist, misogynists, motherhood, nobel, personal, personal experience, pheobe, philosophy, political, politics, prize, racist, racists, religion, sexuality, social construction, society, the small personal voice, women, writer, writing.
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Color Me Beautiful: MakeUp, Fact & Fiction.
So, there’s this thing that I put on my face in the evenings these days, before I go out to shake my thang or down some burrs. The fact that many women feel dependent on this stuff – I have heard countless women explain that they feel incomplete or “naked” without their lipstickeyeshadowmascarafoundationconcealerblush while most [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Ma$e, Mase, Pippi Longstocking, Pornography, Puff Daddy, abuse, active, airbrushing, alcohol, bitch, blush, concealer, costume, culture, cupcake, disempowerment, dove, drinking, erotica, evolution, eyeshadow, fafi, film, foundation, gender, gender theory, hair removal, high, hippie, hot, identity, inner, lipstick, make up, makeup, marijuana, mascara, masturbation, men, money, movie, murder, naked, objectification, objectification of women, objects, oppression, outer, party, passive, pedicure, pimp, porn, retro, self, self-esteem, sex, sex differences, sex research, sexual abuse, sexual difference, sexual marketplace, sexual objectification, sexuality, shallow, standard of beauty, theory, video, violence, women.
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"G.s Up, Hos Down, While You Muthafuckahs . . . Seek Gender and Racial Equality"
I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under A Girl Named You, ATLiens, Andre, Andre 3000, Atmosphere, Bag Lady, Benzi Box, Best Buy, Brooklyn Masala, Brother Ali, Brown Skin Lady, CunninLynguists, Cypress Hill, Dead Prez, Eminem, Erykah Badu, Forest Whitaker, G, Gin and Juice, Hey Ya, Immortal Technique, MF DOOM, Masta Ace, Mos Def, Outkast, Psalm One, Rage Against the Machine, Rhymesayers, Rjd2, Sage Francis, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, The Light, agency, artist, audience, authenticity, bikini, bitch, black, blog, clitoral stimulation, clitoris, commercial, common, conscious, culture, cunnilingus, dance, dancer, exploitative, expression, fan, festival, fish and grits, future, gat, gender, go-go, heads down, hip hop, ho, hum, identity, independent, indie, individual, irony, island, label, love making, lovemaking, lover, mainstream, making love, marijuana, mass-produced, masturbation, men, message, mind sex, money, mother, motherfucker, mud, music, nigga, nonsense, objectification, pimp, polaroid, political, politics, produce, produced, prostitution, race, rain, randall, randall's, rap, rapper, rhyme, security, self acceptance, self-produced, sex, sincerity, sister, stereotype, stereotypes, sugar, talent, underground, women.
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Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity
Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under 18th century, Aramayá, Barbie, Bolivia, Bolivian, Female Sexuality, La Paz, Miss Bolivia, Quillacollo, Robert Albro, Western, anthropology, bourgeoisie, chola, cholita, colonialism, culture, designer jeans, dress, empire, empowerment, fashion, femininity, gender, globalization, historical actor, identity, image, indigenous culture, market seller, objectification, oppression, politics, pop culture, popular woman, resistance, root metaphor, spanish king, standard of beauty, traditional dress, viceroy toledo, woman.
Tags: Aymara
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