July 2012
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In pop culture, girls who crush hopelessly on guys they can’t have are painted as just that – hopeless. Over and over again, we’re taught that girls who openly express sexual or romantic interest in guys who don’t want them are pitiable, stalkerish, desperate, crazy bitches. More often than not, they’re also portrayed as ugly – whether physically, emotionally or both – in order to further...
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“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””
—http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html
"In the world’s structure dream loosens...
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“When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. When we praise brave Eagle Scouts who give up their badges in protest of the Boy Scouts of America’s prejudice, it’s not about scoring political points; it’s because there are kids in dens who are being taught to believe that they are less than equal. When...
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“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.”
—Audre Lorde
NOTE TO SELF: IDENTIFY, CHALLENGE, THEN SMASH...
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
—Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
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“He had never experienced anything like this before outside the Zone. And it happened in the Zone only two or three times. It was as though he were in a different world. A million odors cascaded in on him at once—sharp, sweet, metallic, gentle, dangerous ones, as crude as cobblestones, as delicate and complex as watch mechanisms, as huge as a house and as tiny as a dust particle. The air became...
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“How can you change something if you won’t even acknowledge its existence, or if you downplay its significance? White supremacy is the great silence of our world, and in it is embedded much of what ails us as a planet. The silence around white supremacy is like the silence around Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, or the Voldemort name which must never be uttered in the Harry Potter novels. And...
“I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite”
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“So I kept writing through the summer, and in August the baby was born and I’d cradle him in my left arm while writing melodies at the piano with my right, and I said, let Osiris the keeper of the gates be my witness, other songwriters may go soft when they get to be parents but I am going to keep going all the way down into the inner darkness, it will set a good example for the baby, and...
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So a Girl Walks into a Comedy Club....
breakfastcookie: Trigger Warning for Sexual Violence / Rape
“This is something that happened to a friend of mine in her own words.
‘So, on Friday night my friend and I were at her house and wanted to get out and do something for the evening. We brainstormed ideas and she brought up the idea of seeing a show at the Laugh Factory. I’d never been, I thought it sounded fun, so we...
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CANTO: LOUIE S3x02 "Telling Jokes/Set Up" →
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I want to write about last week’s episode of Louie because most of the reviews and analyses I’ve read of the episode have failed to capture, in my opinion, the overall point of the episode and its failures. While I think the episode was a daring (though not particularly brave, and we’ll take a…
Based on your review, I think that having the fake...
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LOUIE S3x02 "Telling Jokes/Set Up"
I want to write about last week’s episode of Louie because most of the reviews and analyses I’ve read of the episode have failed to capture, in my opinion, the overall point of the episode and its failures. While I think the episode was a daring (though not particularly brave, and we’ll take a look at that later) portrayal of the nuances of gender-roles in modern times, it...
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THE TAPE - INTELLIGENT MUSIC DISCUSSION, FIRST... →
Check out a piece I wrote on Sex depicted in the music industry, a piece on Pitchfork, EDM, and Maturity by my pal Tristan, a piece on Doseone by pal Willie, and many others. Be sure to follow The Tape on twitter as well!
“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
—Paulo Coelho
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“The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not marginals, are not men living outside society. They have always been inside — inside the structure which made them beings for others. The solution is not to integrate them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become beings for themselves.”
—Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics....
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WHY SEX MATTERS IN MUSIC →
Here’s my analysis of a broadening landscape of sexual representation by female artists in the music industry, taking a close look at Tune-Yards, St. Vincent, and Azealia Banks, critiquing the “post-racial,” and exposing where this comes from.
Back in 2012, Racialicious, a self-described blog about the “intersection of race and popular culture,” posted an article about the...
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“For me, the family fukú is rape. The rape culture of the European colonization of the New World—which becomes the rape culture of the Trujillato (Trujillo just took that very old record and remixed it)—is the rape culture that stops the family from achieving decolonial intimacy, from achieving decolonial love.”
–-Junot Díaz, The Search for Decolonial Love
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“I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged. All is soft, and bending. Walls and cupboards whiten and bend their yellow squares on top of which a pale glass gleams. Out of me now my mind can pour. I can think of my Armadas sailing on the high waves. I am relieved of hard contacts and collisions. I sail on alone under the white cliffs. Oh, but I sink, I...
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“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always...
“Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.”
—John Cage (1912–1992, USA)
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