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		<title>On Freedom Fries, Strauss-Kahn and &#8220;French Standards&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[France  has long been aligned with romance in the American imagination, but recent events have got me going all Public Enemy on that ish: Don&#8217;t Believe the Hype. It all centers on the discussions of the behavior of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund currently sitting in Riker&#8217;s Island without bail awaiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2011/05/on-freedom-fries-strauss-kahn-and-french-standards/</link>
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		<title>Can Jimmy Wong cure the new Hoof-and-Mouth Disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is brought to you by the word bricolage, which  Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright define as the practice of working with whatever materials are at hand, and making do with what one has. As a cultural practice, bricolage refers to the activity of taking consumer products and commodities and making them one&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2011/03/orientalism-hoof-mouth-disease/</link>
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		<title>Eat Yo&#8217; Beats: Ana Tijoux &amp; The Political Power of Self-Examination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet&#8217;s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2011/03/ana-tijoux/</link>
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		<title>Shake That Booty Politic: Das Racist&#8217;s Union of High and Low Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new year is here, and with it, new questions.  The New York Times wondered what it would mean if we aren&#8217;t calculating horoscopes correctly; Information is Beautiful explored what it would mean if we were; McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency asked why comic sans can&#8217;t get any respect. I wonder what it would be like to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2011/01/booty-politic/</link>
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		<title>Links for 12/06/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello lovelies! I&#8217;m still hard at work on applications. But here are some links for you in the meantime! Over at Sociological Images, Marissa explores the implications of representing sex on bathroom signs for our understanding of sex and gender. At AmplifyYourVoice, actual abstinence-only curricula meets animated bears. The New York Times reports on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/12/links-for-120610/</link>
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		<title>Musical Interlude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Interested Parties and Thinking People, Here at ObjectifyThis, you may have noticed that we&#8217;re in the midst of a haitus. Suffice it to say that with the demands of applying to graduate school, the radical notion that people are people is not getting the attention it deserves. And so, it is my pleasure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/10/musical-interlude/</link>
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		<title>Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as &#8220;an Italian art collective with an agenda,&#8221; by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/07/ethics-among-vandals-diy-politics-inc/</link>
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		<title>&#039;Zona Defense: The Phoenix Suns vs. SB 1070</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Cinco de Mayo, Arizona&#8217;s NBA team, the Phoenix Suns, will denounce their state&#8217;s immigration policy on their uniforms. NBA.com reports that the Noche Latina tradition includes uniforms displaying the team name &#8220;as spoken by the Latino population. . .  The Miami Heat, for example, is called &#8220;El Heat&#8221;; the San Antonio Spurs are &#8220;Los [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/05/zona-defense-the-phoenix-suns-vs-sb-1070/</link>
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		<title>Act for a Happier Women&#039;s Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, March 8th, was International Women&#8217;s Day. However, it&#8217;s never too late to act. After all, limiting your actions on behalf of women to Women&#8217;s Day would be to cede the other 364 days of the year to men: a ratio that&#8217;s clearly imbalanced. In the spirit of fairness, take action for women: Urge the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/03/act-for-a-happier-womens-day/</link>
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		<title>On The American Dream and Amber Waves of Great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Dream has great power. Merriam-Webster defines it as &#8220;an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity&#8221;; but this is incomplete. The American Dream is also bound up in those four words, &#8220;the pursuit of happiness,&#8221; an &#8220;unalienable right&#8221; guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and Franklin elided our right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://objectifythis.com/2010/02/on-the-american-dream-and-amber-waves-of-grain/</link>
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