May 2012
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My reaction to guys (usually white) who try to...
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My reaction to whenever someone says, "Oh wow,...
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“Bieber has a legitimate claim on the social media crown (regarding Lady Gaga,...”
– Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist
Child, sit DOWN.
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“Ooh! Cheryl Cole is…hot. I would just like to watch her work. Preferably...”
– Rihanna
Oh sweet Jesus, the internalized sexism and objectification of other women…I can’t even. Sometimes I love Rihanna because she is unafraid to put her sexuality on display (and reveal the subtleties of slut-shaming and society’s narrative on the role of women), but then she...
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Given the popular discourse surrounding Black women and Asian/Asian-American women’s bodies, it does feel weird when you, an Asian-American woman, realize that the celebrity whose body yours is most similar to (or is it whose body is most similar to yours?) is Beyoncé.
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“The only reason “coming out” is still even a thing is because it’s presumed that...”
– Anon
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From insurgency to identity – A feminism that has... →
And what of race? All oppressions are tied together; one of the major failings of feminism in its earlier movements was that it failed to address the intersection of gender and race.
wehrhafterkampf:
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th. It is the day of feminism, on which the urgent issues of women are raised. Feminism as a political movement has undergone major changes since...
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A Guide to Hipster Anti-Racism →
“You might be participating in hipster anti-racism if….
You offer “snaps” or props to the criticisms your POC friends present of other white folks, but find yourself participating in many of the behaviors being criticized.
You enter conversations about race armed with a lot of vocabulary that may make the dialog inaccessible to newcomers. You also often find yourself speaking first in...
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Mind the Gap: London's Olympic Games Are Falling... →
“All Olympics produce debt like a cow produces methane. But this one happens in the context of a double-dip recession. It happens with round-the-clock UK media coverage of the “Euro-panic,” as voters in Greece are threatening to tell Angela Merkel, David Cameron and the European Union to take their austerity agenda and cram it sideways. The fears of crisis and debt surround even the...
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“Why do they think ‘fat dyke’ is an insult? To me, it means… I’m gonna eat fried...”
– Margaret Cho
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The Cosmopolitan Condiment: An exploration of... →
“Yes, dear reader, the word ketchup originally meant “fish sauce” in a dialect of Fujian province, the humid coastal region that also gave us the word “tea” (from Fujianese te). As it happens, Fujianese immigration to the United States has increased in recent years, so you can now sample Fujianese dishes in Chinatowns up and down the East Coast, paired with the homemade red rice wine that is...
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For Same Sex Brides, Choosing Between Gown and... →
But what about same sex grooms? They also have to choose between gown and suit. A wedding requires a suit and a gown for it to count as an antiquated, chauvinistic ritual in which one partner is sold off to the other. Duh.
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Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s... →
“They describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills...
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Jessica Biel: Married Life with Justin Timberlake... →
…not even his habit of constantly cheating, nor his need to prove himself as an “actor” instead of a musician, nor how he gets more movie offers than her despite his terrible acting.
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“We can be racist by conditioning, antiracist by choice. That racism is part of...”
– Tim Wise
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A little piece of me always dies when:
1. Every year, my parents ask me to dig up the hostas, and every year, I think it’s going to be the last because I’ve done an extra good job of getting rid of every single bulb…only to come back home a couple months later to see the hostas in full bloom.
2. Every year, the deer eat the stargazer lilies right before they bloom.
On a happy...
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Random thoughts
Yet another paper that I wrote a few years ago for a class:
SECTION ONE
Standpoint is a central issue and theme in “Defining Black Feminist Thought” for it is the basis upon which Patricia Hill Collins builds her arguments. In her essay, Collins argues that being a black feminist is not an issue of skin color, but rather of a multitude of different factors including standpoint. A...
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On mothering
Another paper I wrote a few years ago for class:
Mothering is a political practice in that personal decisions are analyzed and used by larger movements to justify ideology and discriminate against certain groups. As such, mothering has been used by feminists to distinguish between “true feminists” and “pretenders.” The “true feminists” are those who work to solving the issues facing the...
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The Race to Sexiest: Competitive Sexualization of...
A paper I wrote a few years ago for a class:
In “Illegible Rage: Post-Feminist Disorders,” McRobbie argues that the media in its post-feminist state pushes aggressive individualism as the answer to women’s issues and as the sign of the post-feminist age; however, aggressive individualism is not feminism for it is founded upon patriarchal and capitalistic values. I will argue that aggressive...
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Kaela Humphries Changes Her Athlete's Diet – and... →
Another post from a yoga blog that I share with friends but also needs a new home.
fuckyeahnamaste:
I find this headline and accompanying article fascinating because it was Title IX and the rise of women in athletics that propagated society’s current obsession with thinness in women. There are several interesting points: the implication that an athlete’s diet is bad and fattening; the fact that...
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Q&A from the Beyonce/Aishwarya Rai Bachchan post
Question: About the beyonce/aishwarya post, I don’t think Beyonce lost weight too quickly, she did it the healthy way and doesn’t look stick thin. Beyonce knows shes a performer and part of her job is to look good. Aishwarya needs to understand this as well. I mean is she really going to look that big in her next movie? How distracting is that going to be for the actual movie?...
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'I've lost 60lbs!' Beyonce reveals she hit the... →
Something I wrote for a yoga blog I share with friends, but now needs a new home.
fuckyeahnamaste:
1. It is amazing how giving birth to a child will shift twenty to thirty of those sixty pounds.
2. This article, coupled with the one on how Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was criticized for not losing her pregnancy weight…I don’t understand societal standards. Considering a woman had nine months to...
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The 50 Hottest Asian (Women) Porn Stars of All... →
Stuff like this makes me cry. However, their profile on Annabel Chong gave me a break for a few seconds.
From Wikipedia:
“After taking her A levels, she took nearly three years off, including a year spent in the United States. She then went on to study law at King’s College London under a scholarship. While in the United Kingdom, she got drunk on a train. There, she met a man and...
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WatchHow much did Revel Casino pay her?
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Rameses B - Game of Thrones (remix)
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Peru: “Natural selection” ends the lives of 877...
univisionnews:
The Peruvian government claims that “natural causes” killed 877 dolphins that washed ashore earlier this year.
By EBONY MONTENEGRO
An investigation carried out by Peru’s government has determined that more than 800 dolphins found on the northern coast of Peru between February and April died of natural causes and not from compressed air charges sent into the ocean by companies...
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tumblr is *white* dildos →
Well, we live in a Eurocentric world, don’t we? All of us have benefited from white supremacy in some way, and all of us are guilty of propagating white supremacy.
dagseoul:
Reblogging this because it got lost behind my tit-4-tat with pragmatic-realist. I think my claim deserves attention within the strident social justice blogging community. Who, when confronted with divergence from the...
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Stuff you can do if you know you have privilege... →
nickdouglas:
List starts halfway down.
