Housegutting in New Orleans
This week’s Dirty Jobs focuses on jobs in the New Orleans area, cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina. The first segment is housegutters in St. Bernard Parish. Ever wonder what I was doing down there earlier this year? Check it out on Discovery. It repeats throughout the week.
...read more“A woman with a husband is in much more danger than a girl in a brothel.”
In many countries across the globe, marriage is a significant risk factor for women contracting HIV. Married women are often unable to negotiate condom use with their husbands; marriage is assumed to give men unlimited sexual access to their wives’ bodies; and the stigma of male infidelity isn’t nearly as strong as the stigma of [...]
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Are you ten years old and just really sick of the whiney, nagging fifth-grade girls trying to break into your kickball game at recess? Tired of those smarty-pants brats lecturing you on long division? Uppity bitches got you down? Don’t worry, kids, Kmart’s got your back. An Augusta-area District Attorney, who sees domestic violence cases [...]
...read moreAnd I Am Telling You
Jennifer Holliday’s performance of the showstopper during the 1982 Tonys. Salon has a nice piece here about Holliday’s performance during the original Broadway run of “Dreamgirls” and how That Song worked its way into the culture. Particularly into gay culture. I like what Michael Musto and Billy Zavelson have to say about why it resonated: [...]
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