March 2012
187 posts
white people are basically overgrown children
isabelthespy:
pursuant to this post but posted separately because the answer to “what could possibly be better than a white person chipping in their fascinating insights into whiteness in the middle of a conversation among POC” is “everything. literally everything is better than that.”
something i’ve learned about kids after working with them for a couple of years in a number of different...
February 2012
135 posts
andyhutchins:
“Hammer Dance,” Slaughterhouse...
MikeQ FACT mix →
feministx:
We’re not comfortable openly ignoring women of color, but we’re certainly not going to listen to women of color, so we’re going to yell at women of color until they agree with us.
Good plan!
“The first rap album I bought was Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, and even in third...”
– Brandon Soderberg’s “No Trivia” blog is now on Spin.
(via marathonpacks)
I don’t mean to pour cold water on important formative memories, or whatever, but “major labels were at the mercy of hip-hop’s oddball creators” is factually incorrect. On the contrary, pretty much everyone in hip-hop was...
allimmaturityandallcaps:
strontiumcapybara:
crouchtouchpause replied to your post: I wish I was as confident of not talking bullshit…
I wish I had the brain power to truly appreciate what you are on about half the time :)
I’m sure you do, half of having brainpower is trusting yourself to have brainpower.
Actually that’s another feminist issue I kept trying to put on the agenda back then,...
“The first rap album I bought was Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, and even in third...”
– Brandon Soderberg’s “No Trivia” blog is now on Spin.
(via marathonpacks)
I don’t mean to pour cold water on important formative memories, or whatever, but “major labels were at the mercy of hip-hop’s oddball creators” is factually incorrect. On the contrary, pretty much...
Holy shit. →
mikkipedia:
derasso:
tremblebot:
“Because the museum will be devoted to marathon performance art, it will feature customized chairs complete with wheels, dining tables and lamps. People who fall asleep will be rolled into a special sleeping area — considered part of the performance – and rolled back when they awaken.”
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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art...
Who Sings songs to Black Girls?
blackamazon:
femmenoire:
queerbrownxx:
blackamazon:
I’m confused. Are you saying that these young girls support Chris Brown because they appreciate that his songs are directed at them as Black girls or are you asking who these girls might better direct their admiration towards.
I’m saying that a lot of the discourse around Chris Brown has been focused on Chris Brown and not on black...
jakke:
Why is prostitution called the oldest profession?
The originator of the notion of prostitution as the oldest profession was Rudyard Kipling. His 1888 short story “On the City Wall” begins: “Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world. … In the West, people say rude things of Lalun’s profession, and write lectures about it and distribute the lectures to young persons in...
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blackamazon:
karnythia:
ok4rj:
karnythia:
So when Amanda Marcotte says the exact same thing about Rihanna that WOC bloggers have been saying for months, & suddenly it’s a good idea not to judge her? Farreal, that’s when white feminists can hear that being a survivor is more complicated than doing what makes other people feel good? Mmm..okay. I see I need to spend less time giving away...
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What Comic-Con International Wouldn't Print
alienben:
by mattwayne
I’ve debated airing this in public for two months now. Comic-Con International is printing tributes to Dwayne in the San Diego Comic-Con program this year, and they approached me to write one. What I came back with was my sincere feelings, and something that I feel the industry needs to understand about itself: Dwayne should have been running the comics business,...
Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to...
kfan:
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and comedy.
Last...
Watchbaddominicana:
latinosexuality:
new SWV! thoughts? “Co-Sign”
wondering who is filling in vocals for them this time around? Only one in that group who ever actually sung was Coco. I know the woman who did all the background vocals for them in the studio back in the day. At the time she was only 14, naive, fat and black and so, they decided to never credit her, put her in the group or put her...
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therapsida:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.
—Lucy [Gillam], When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege (via seaofbadstories)
Also the study where they had women...
what is your favorite pop culture critic's...
The exception that proves the rule: Joshua Clover on Che and Quantum of Solace, literally the only such critical writing I can recall.
“Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apparently found rare Joy Division and New Order...”
– Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division and New Order master tapes in restaurant basement | News | NME.COM
So, this happened. (via towerofsleep)
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unaguerrasinfondo:
this post will be irrelevant for most. - don’t care. its mostly just to summarize my thoughts on an experience I had in the bay area - which pertains to punk/racism/cultural exclusivity. It doesn’t reflect an entire scene or subculture… in fact and you probably shouldn’t even read it.
January 2011, SF, Mission District. At at a venue with enormous murals of Emiliano Zapata...
WatchIn August I wrote:
JW and Blaze “Palance”: the soca video from last February that you didn’t know you needed.
Now that it’s actually Carnival season again you owe it to yourself to listen to this at least once. It wasn’t the 2010 Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Road March for nothing!
Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into... →
ladyalexandria:
More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age.
Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The...
milkeemountainmama:
and before i get a million messages in my askbox telling me i’m wrong and here’s why—yes, i KNOW that there’s been plenty of white men throughout the world who have been extremely poor and taken care of huge families and not been dicks about the whole thing.
(This quote is from a longer post about race-related reactions to the casting of The Hunger Games.)
I’ve...
Watchbg5000:
sarahchristine:
Really? with Seth and Amy: Birth Control
I’m legitimately shocked NBC made this available, but glad they did. It’s incredible.
“On August 23, 1860, the Philadelphia Public Ledger covered an unusual exchange...”
– Kali N. Gross. (2006) Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Duke University Press, 72.
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THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD. (via liquornspice)
Rihanna, Chris Brown and Horribly Irresponsible...
oldtobegin:
perpetua:
I’m pretty grossed out about the notion that Rihanna is collaborating with Chris Brown again. I don’t really have any particular investment in her as a person and only occasionally care about her music, but in terms of cultural narrative, I think she is sending a poisonous and tremendously irresponsible message to her audience. The idea of “role models” can be very corny,...
So last night I got about fifteen frantic emails...
so-treu:
anglophonicblog:
Why?
When “Mr. Cody” aka Cody G. told me to fuck off, I ran what is known as a WHOIS inquiry on the domain name. It led me to the custodian of the site, a guy by the name of Jonathan Standefer.
You might know Jonathan Standefer as the guy who runs LAMEBOOK.
Jonathan blew me off because, hey…he runs LAMEBOOK and why should he give a fuck?
I got tired of being...
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