How to talk about Judas
This is a guest post by honeyandlocusts.
It’s pretty classic Gaga, if we can talk about “classic” Gaga already: visually lush, intricately choreographed, fantastically costumed. Also, it’s a total fucking mess.
More on feminist science fiction
In the wake of WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention, I think I’d like to put some serious time into reading the past winners of the James Tiptree Jr. award. More on the award: In February of 1991 at WisCon, award-winning SF author Pat Murphy announced the creation of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, an [...]
...read moreFacebook gaming for social justice: America 2049
There’s this badass game I’ve been excited to hear about lately: “America 2049″, which showcases how much better Facebook gaming can be than all that “Farmville” crap. (I don’t mean to be elitist, but, like, really. One game designer I know refers to players of “Farmville”-esque games as “victims”.) I haven’t played it, but word [...]
...read moreNot Another Odd Future Think Piece: Rap, the Internet and Female Agency
This is a guest post by B Michael Payne. B Michael Payne writes about a variety of things. He has a weekly thing at Fuse.tv, a website, and he’s probably tumblogging here, right now. You can email him at b dot michael dot payne at gmail dot com. *Sexual assault and violence trigger warning.* There [...]
...read moreZine: “The Prison-Industrial Complex Is …”
New zine available for download: “The Prison-Industrial Complex Is …” This struck me as especially relevant to the recent thread on rape culture that talked extensively about how to deal with aggressors while avoiding the prison-industrial complex. Some really amazing comments on that thread — thank you everyone. Snip from the zine site: This publication [...]
...read moreWisCon: Feminist Science Fiction & Fantasy, coming up in Madison
WisCon is an awesome upcoming feminist science fiction convention that will happen in Madison on May 26-30. Here’s the Statement of Principles, which includes the following: WisCon has been a feminist science fiction convention since its founding in 1977. The focus of the convention has been the intersection between feminism and science fiction. This focus [...]
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New Time Suck
Pinterest. Basically, it’s an electronic pin-board, where you can save images that you like and share them with others. You can also search images for themes you like. I’m using it to consolidate apartment-decorating ideas — like the picture above of magnolias printed on the page of a dictionary, which I recently purchased from Etsy. [...]
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This photoshoot definitely makes the Grilled Cheesus cry.
So noted model-molester and general skeeze-ball Terry Richardson shot the cast of Glee for GQ. Or at least, the young white members of the cast who don’t play gay teens or teens with disabilities. That’s cool. Very edgy. Very cool. Richardson, as usual, was highly original in his concept: Mostly-naked chicks. Or, more specifically, have [...]
...read moreContribute to Dear Sister
The Dear Sister anthology “is an anthology of letters and other works created for survivors of sexual violence from other survivors and allies. It is a collection of hope and strength through words and art.” It is accepting submissions through November 1st, and it sounds like an excellent project, so I hope some readers will [...]
...read moreBanksy on the Simpsons
Does anyone watch the Simpsons anymore? Apparently some people do. I don’t. But thanks to The Whole of the Internet, I did see Banksy’s couch gag intro (via Videogum, among others): Apologies to non-U.S. readers — the YouTube clip was pulled, and Hulu is the only source I can find for the video. Description: The [...]
...read moreHow white is your neighborhood?
Really fascinating and beautiful maps over at Gawker, looking at the racial integration of major American cities.
...read moreWhat To Read This Fall
I just bought Freedom, and I’m pretty excited to delve into what is supposedly The Greatest Novel of Our Time (that link, by the way, goes to a really really great piece that you should all read). But I’m also happy to see that Gawker’s list of books to read includes a number of female [...]
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