May 2010
5 posts
Feminist Porn: Sex, Consent, and Getting Off —... →
Feminist porn is out there. In my opinion, feminist porn represents a diverse cross-section of people and is woman-friendly, queer-friendly, open to many interpretations of beauty, and is, at best, political and woman-owned. I’ve listed some sites that I really admire to stimulate thought and discussion.
slow motion crawl: Dear eighth grade boys: →
Stop making me feel like my body is my burden. Do I, or any other girls, find you to be attractive? Helllllll no. But we don’t stare at your bodies and then whisper to our friends! We are polite! I don’t know if this is because girls are told to keep quiet, or because we are totally over bullying,…
March 2010
15 posts
Riddles of the Sphinx →
A film with questions to answer rather than answers to give. Its central concerns are feminism and formalism.
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s film addresses the position of women in patriarchy through the prism of psychoanalysis. Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) draws on the critical writings and investigations by both filmmakers into the codes of narrative cinema, and offers an alternative...
“Canada Turning Its Back on the World’s Poor:
Foreign Aid Spending Hit Hard by...”
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Katia Gianneschi Media Relations Canadian Council for International Co‐operation (613) 241‐7007 ext. 311 katiag@ccic.ca www.ccic.ca
“Only by restoring the broken connection can we be healed. Connection is health....”
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. The Body and the Earth. 132.
... Liminality ...
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”[1]) The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy.[citation needed] One’s sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed - a situation which can...
“When I hear people say “the bad feeling” is coming from “this person” or “that...”
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www.worldpicturejournal.com (via curate)
Film Diaries #1 →
If you like obscure Russian films about dentists that are heavy with pro-elitist morals, you will love…
Pokhozhdeniya zubnogo vracha!
February 2010
2 posts
“mainstream Canada claims and re-packages imagery from natives to sell a vision...”
– http://www.racialicious.com/2010/02/24/an-indigenous-olympics/#more-6393
January 2010
22 posts
i wish to be a norwegian cyclist →
a recently discovered blog i love: www.copenhagencyclechic.com These pictures make me yearn, from the bottom of my aching heart, for the days of biking to start for me again. Manila is…
Feminist Celebration of Flashdance →
Bike rider, empowered exotic dancer, steel mill worker, intergenerational friendship sustainer, dog owner and wearer of man clothes… Flashdance’s strong female lead Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals)…
Oprah: You let me down, yet again. →
Can we scrap the word “feminism?” In a word, no. By Guest Blogger
Nona Willis Aronowitz is a 25-year-old writer and author living in Chicago whose first book,…
Redemption Blues » Women and Multiculturalism →
Seyran Ates, thank you for critiquing multiculturalism. Next time, can you please critique it with specific references to the Canadian context? We are badly in need of your scathing social…
Feminism Online →
The third wave - at a computer near you Feminist blogs are booming. But are they globalising emancipation - or just playthings for the rich and well educated? By Kira Cochrane
Nina Wakeford, a sociologist at the University of Surrey, is cautious about blogging’s influence. “I think the way blogs can provoke debate is useful,” she concedes, “but it isn’t clear how...
Alternative Press, Alternative Powers →
We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentation of things which concern us dearly. It shall ever be our…
“I DUNNO, YOU SEEMED FUNNY AND SELF-AWARE IN A WAY FEW PEOPLE ARE THESE DAYS OKAY...”
– Life is hard. Here is someone.: (via beenthinking)
feminist theatre (my secret love) →
COLLECTIVE CREATION AND THE CHANGING MANDATE OF NIGHTWOOD THEATRE Rubess observes that two realizations are important for a collective to function effectively; first, it must be acknowledged…
Haiti/Martin Luther/illdoctrine →
What Martin Luther King Would Say About Haiti On His Birthday
Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday. Today a horrific tragedy is going on in Haiti. While some men of the…
Link →
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.” - Slavoj Zizek
Forest from Guernica Magazine on Vimeo. →
Drawing from film, music, cartoons, and dance, I like to blend earthly fact, blatant fiction, and lots of oil paint to form a stage of tragedy, farce, and raw, ominous…
Making Globalization Work →
MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK By Joseph E. Stiglitz. 358 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95.
NYT Book Review
Stiglitz walks the reader through a series of issues, from…
Boxer →
For centuries, boxing has been seen by some as the ultimate primal battle. Some even regard boxing, and the choreography played out in the ring, as the most beautiful of sports. Throughout history, noses have been bloodied and broken, and brains shaken loose in a sport that others see simply as barbaric and brutal. Yet regardless of whether we like boxing or not, it holds a fascination that...
juxtapositions →
Catch
For Dina, the comic books are both medium and inspiration. “I use the artworks or images of previous generations as conceptual and formal techniques in order to create a new one…
YouTube - Haiti's history of hardship →
YouTube - Haiti’s history of hardship
http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/... →
http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/haiti-7.jpg As I read about Haiti on my twitter feed, I wonder what kind of impact the outpouring of information provided by…
Style Rookie →
IMG_5264 Sometimes… I am in awe of thirteen year old people, and their fashion sense. Although the blatant commercialism is a BIT of a turn off… …
i-site.ph →
LAND as a source of wealth and power is waning; instead the business interests of the members of the House of Representatives are more varied, a sign of the modernization, if not the…
SWITZERLAND: Police Smash School for Undocumented... →
Several police officers, half of them in riot gear, stormed the Autonomous School Zurich (ASZ) Thursday. After chasing away the squatters and holding off protesting supporters with pepper spray, officers started confiscating teaching materials and technical utilities. The police partly demolished the single-storey building and removed its windows, leaving it uninhabitable. The ASZ had...
Is my sex life a progressive cause? →
ActForLove.org online dating for activists! “Welcome to ActForLove.org — the largest matchmaking site for Democratic singles. ActForLove.org was founded by progressive activists, for…
Rising Tensions →
BBC News - Security boosted in Philippines ahead of May elections “The Philippines has a long history of political violence. Society is awash with firearms - both licensed and unlicensed - and…