July 2011
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The Un-Democracy Of Fashion Blogging →
By challenging traditional, or ‘glossy’, notions of beauty and defying the mainstream in order to reshape societal norms and expectations from a citizen viewpoint, blogs across all genres can and have served as powerful social tools. Women (those with access to the Internet; and access is a whole other can of worms in terms of Internet democracy debates), through personal style blogs, were...
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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
– Toni Morrison (via theinterlocutor)
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Buyers and Sellers →
We feminists are big on talking about double standards, with the stud/slut dichotomy being a particular favorite, in fact often referred to as the double standard. But I think one that we tend to circle around in discussion around sex, consent, sex work, etc. is the way that the continuing model of heterosexuality is based on the he’s buying/she’s selling model.
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sixteeninthemorning:
twofishareinatank:
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via atomos)
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“I’m not going to take money from old people and screw students.”
– Barack Obama
Thanks brah
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Kindergarten in Fuji
by Yui and Takaharu Tezuka
via Domus
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How The Internet Transformed The American Rave... →
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Rave was America’s last great outlaw musical subculture: created by kids, for kids, designed to be impenetrable to adults. American rave formed its own mutant funhouse approach to existing looks, sounds and ideologies. In the early-to-mid-1990s, it was driven not by stars but a sudden collective sense that, as the Milwaukee rave zine Massive put it in every issue above...
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Look at Me, I’m Crying →
cosmopolitangreetings:
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By MELISSA FEBOS NY Times 4/20/2011
I’ve done it on the subway and at the Museum of Modern Art, in Prospect Park, Tompkins Square Park and leaning against the locked gate of Gramercy Park.
If you live in New York, you’re bound to end up crying in public eventually; there just aren’t enough private places. Just the other day I saw someone doing...
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Mord Fustang - Electric Dream
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“To force some forever identity on other people is stupid. Point out...”
– Kathleen Hanna
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I want to learn how to do this
by Jaime Beck and Kevin Burg
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“…We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face,...”
– Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com (via lavvocato)
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