February 2012
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Rinku Sen at Colorlines: Domestic Workers Use... →
But their intervention did more than take advantage of a cultural moment—it shaped that moment to mitigate against the potential negative effects on a national audience. From an organizer’s perspective, there is a danger embedded in stories of triumph over segregationists, especially a story as prettily presented as this one. Viewers develop little appreciation for the grit of struggle, imagine...
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TUMBLR’S SERVERS ARE OVER CAPACITY AT HOW MUCH WE ARE ALL MAD THAT WOODY ALLEN IS PATRIARCHY AND SHOULD DIE
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Kung Fu Panda 2 was robbed.
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“In the 1980s the most dangerous place for a teenage American girl to be was in a...”
– ABC Family has it out for the young women of America (via tvhangover)
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alexandra-ewing:
There is no need for a defense of Liz Lemon. What I do need is someone with the reach to write for the New Yorker asking why there are only two lead women characters in comedies that are critically acclaimed, and asking why it is so important that they need to be defended, as I believe their only crime is that they are multi-faceted women—women with flaws—and apparently that...
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“In this specific example, while making its comparison of India as a magical...”
– Colorblue breaks it on down as to why Sociological Images’ analysis of “India As Magical Negro” fails on several levels at the R today. (via racialicious)
The thing that most bothers me about this S.I. post is that they completely ignored a very old, very specific history of Orientalism which was...
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Pariah Snubbed By Oscars: The Breakout Film... →
Both The Help and Pariah featured black actresses demonstrating once again that race doesn’t play a factor when it comes to talent or range, yet only one film featured a plethora of Black talent behind the lens and portrayed a multidimensional, portrayal of oft-ignored Black experiences. Thus, it isn’t such a surprise that the one with the Black maids in the South came up a winner with the...
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synecdoche:
A (hopefully) comprehensive list of television shows that have made tears-as-lubricant jokes within the last two weeks:
Are You There, Chelsea? (“At least we can use his tears as lubricant.”)
2 Broke Girls (“I can’t afford lube. I just use my tears.”)
I must admit, I don’t understand this at all. We all know tears dry on their own, and that makes for terrible lube.
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A Womb of One's Own: Feminist (Dis)Enfranchisement...
farahjoon:
Introduction and Overview
The horror genre has long been dismissed as decadent and depraved “low-brow” cinema. However, what is altogether overlooked is horror’s grand ability to use shock, awe, and gore in a subversive and transgressive attempt to shift the gendered status quo. Growing up, I always recognized horror films’—and in particular the slasher horror sub-genre’s—focus...
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In Praise of Von Trier-ian Excess, Or: Someday,... →
spaceshipignition:
A lot of people point to Antichrist as supposedly irrefutable evidence of von Trier’s misogyny; I wish I could just go with the flow there and agree with most people, but the thing is, I can’t. In terms of Feelings, I find almost too much meaning in this film, and sort of identify with this woman who outright feels so much, and displays those feelings—no matter how ugly,...
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Top 10 Pro-feminist Episodes of The Simpsons →
iamthecrime:
(I’m gonna pretend the Julian Assange guest-star episode never happened…)
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“Women are more open to being taught than men. There are no girl-wonders,...”
– Allison Anders, BOMB Magazine
This is really, really important and I don’t think we talk about it enough. The entire interview is fascinating.
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“Yeah … I don’t really mind the label [“feminist...”
– Interview with Allison Anders
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Things I learned from TV.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
All Asians look like John Cho.
Asians know everything. Seriously, everything. And they can probably fly in secret and they just don’t tell us.
If an Asian person tells you to do something, for the love of god, do it. NEVER cross them.
Black people are all hard. Every one. They’re hard as fuck. You can’t break them with a hammer.
Despite being really hard, black people...
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calloutqueen:
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calloutqueen:
I really like that one fight on Jersey Shore like season 1 when Sammy is crying and taking her hair extensions out while Ronnie is naked in a towel
YES, PERFECT. there’s something so ridiculously interesting to me about how the very specific brand of gender performance on jersey shore interacts with their loose cannon lifestyle. like, they always...
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WTF? ESPN.com's "Contact Us" Gives Option To Hate...
fuckyeahfeminists:
[via Complex.com]
wtf
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Documentary: "I Love Being HIV+" →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Got linked to this via my friend who’s a HIV historian. I’ve only watched the first five minutes so far, so I can’t tell you how good or bad it is, but it’s had some very good reviews generally.
“I love being HIV+” is a documentary presented by Ricky Dyer, a HIV+ man, who is investigating the phenomenon of ‘bug-chasers’: HIV-negative men who want to be “pozzed up”, or...
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From feministfilm to you: a [probably] exhaustive...
getchapopcornready:
One thing we have to keep in mind, though, is that this isn’t just SNL. SNL finds its talent from smaller shows, and from the Second City and UCB, where things are starting to change and it isn’t just a white boys’ club anymore (and we all know that the Tina Fey era of SNL helped to change that a little at Studio 8H.) Sort of. A quick scan of the performers in UCB’s New York...
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Emily Manuel: "Even kitchenmaids get the blues:... →
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From feministfilm to you: a [probably] exhaustive...
Out of around 130:
Yvonne Hudson, 1980-1981 (featured player only)
Danitra Vance, 1985-1986
Ellen Cleghorne, 1991-1995
Maya Rudolph, 2000-2007
Nasim Pedrad, 2009-present
That’s it. You’re welcome.
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A SINCERE REQUEST FROM FEMINISTFILM TO NBC
Let Jay Pharoah do things. He’s more or less the only dude on your staff who is talented, but—oops—God knows you can’t give more than one black man airtime in a week.
Hire. A. Black. Woman.*
Seriously. Please?
*which isn’t to say that I don’t also want them to hire many women of color—there has never been an East Asian woman (person?) in the cast, nor...
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lookuplookup:
I’m having a lot of feelings about Ben Wyatt’s physical reactions to cops in this episode of Parks and Rec.
fromthemitten
I didn’t know how Ben Wyatt could be more endearin then he had to go off and reveal his dislike for cops <3333
At least there was a heavy dose of Fuck The Police, though. Feminists love Fuck The Police.
#boyfriend drama as state allegories
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certifiedhottie:
Tom was way too creepy in tonights P&R ep. “Four sweetest words in the English language: you wore me down.” Ickkkk.
What a week for consent dynamics on network television, amirite!
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Watchwhateverjeanne:
i saw the premiere of ACT UP united in anger at MoMA last night. it was like a high school reunion but really really cool. support the film’s kick starter!
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katydidnot:
i cannot believe this episode of the new girl just had the line “there is nothing less sexy than a man asking if he can kiss you”
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On the Descendants; or Postmodern Colonial Culture →
deadandimmortal:
A professor I had wrote this brief article on The Descendants that I think is worth reading. I have heard inklings of how Hawai’i is presented within The Descendants in problematic ways. Here, Jason Sperb complicates the reading somewhat, but doesn’t appear to be convinced by the film.
While the colonial gaze is always important to discuss (I personally think it’s pretty...
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“The Other Side of the Gaze: Ethnographic Allegory in the Early Films of Maya Deren” (PDF)
This paper examines Maya Deren’s first three films in which she appears as the central protagonist: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), At Land (1944), and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945). While these films are suggestive of a personal autobiographical narrative structure, this essay seeks to...
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“The rumors are real: rebel film director Abel Ferrara plans to shoot a film...”
– Abel Ferrara Reveals Plans For “The DSK Affair” Film - Worldcrunch
redlightpolitics:
I expect this to be a trein wreck of epic proportions. Ferrara loves shocking aesthetics and one of his most memorable cinematic moments is when, in Bad Lieutenant (which he directed some time in the early ’90s),...
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“I can go into an audition with my makeup and my hair and my lashes and come out...”
– Viola Davis on how people perceive her. (via nprfreshair)
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“I worked in a lab and I wasn’t taken seriously. I know it’s because...”
– Make-Up Effects Artist Rachel Dubin
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dirklalonde:
homoerotics:
I’M NOT OKAY WITH CHRIS BROWN PERFORMING AT THE GRAMMYS AND I’M NOT SURE WHY YOU ARE
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Latoya Peterson's Sundance Picks at Racialicious →
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Women In Horror Month Round-Up, pt. 1
Directors Jen and Sylvia Soska wrote a fan piece on V.C. Andrews, which isn’t exactly about film but is perfect nonetheless. I would kill to see the Soska sisters do an adaptation of one of V.C.’s novels. (My Sweet Audrina is the most important feminist camp horror film that’s never happened, right?)
In fact, you should probably be reading the Soska Sisters’ blog anyway....