March 2011
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Why I love NYC: Le Tigre
johannafateman:
Read the article here. I list my favorite hair salon and art gallery. A list of upcoming “Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour” screenings are here, and you can order the DVD here.
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WatchIn sincerely, joe. p. bear, our hero and narrator desperately and endearingly muses, “I wish the good parts wouldn’t go by so fast and the sad part didn’t seem so sticky.”
As filmmaker, Matt McCormick, explained to me earlier today, his first, feature-length film, Some Days Are Better Than Others, is the longer version of this film, with a “slightly different...
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“A lot of indie music these days is about not having a position, not having...”
– Pitchfork: Articles: You Were There: The Complete LCD Soundsystem
I am so excited to see LCD Soundsystem at Terminal 5 tonight!!!
(Carrie Brownstein expressed similar feelings about indie music on MonitorMix in 2009.)
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WatchI love all the feminist bookstore sketches from Portlandia (not to mention this one from ThunderAnt, Carrie Bronwstein and Fred Armisen’s sketch comedy group that preceded the show), but there’s a special place in my heart for this one. I cannot wait for Season Two! In the meantime, I’m going to try and find an adult hide and seek league to join.
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*Trigger Warning* Nic Robertson of CNN live tweets...
(Read from the bottom)
From Reuters:
“Her face heavily bruised, she said she had been arrested at a checkpoint in Tripoli because she was from the city of Benghazi, bastion of the insurgency against Gaddafi’s rule….Obaidi, who appeared to be in her 30s and was wearing a loose black coat and slippers, said she had been raped by 15 men and held for two days.”
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“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
Apparently, New York has as at least one more day of wintery snowy, rainy mush in store for us. Nevermind that!
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I'm on Twitter! Or, things everyone thought would... →
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“Why is NPR biased to the left? Because it simply doesn’t accept as truth the...”
– Ziyu Ziyu (via technipol)
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WatchThis is a video from my friend from college, Jason. It’s very beautiful and moving. His soul shines so brightly and with so much love:
“I decided to produce this video after returning from a medicine journey in South America with some close friends of mine. We had heard about the earth quake and tsunami in Japan thanks to a text message from my mom, but didn’t see any...
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I’m not going to pretend I’ve always...
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“Feminist writings about patriarchy, racism, capitalism and structural sexism...”
– Byron Hurt, Why I Am a Male Feminist (via jessicavalenti)
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“I never knew what would happen in a...
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New Directors/ New Films: This Film is Better Than...
I fell in love with this film from the very first shot (which precedes the opening credits). Katrina, (Carrie Brownstein) tells a video camera, and us, why she is the perfect castmate for The Real World. It commands our attention, yet is simple, both in form and content. The context will provide the weight. It is followed by a film awash in melancholy, but steeped in beauty (this is the...
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I never reviewed Blue Valentine formally, but I...
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“Funny because when someone calls me a “bastard” I take it extremely offensively....”
– A tumblr user who didn’t like my Jessica Valenti quotation. The logic is inherently flawed though. My brother tells me not to engage trolls, but I couldn’t stop myself!
Here we go!
The term bastard can be used for men and women and is offensive because of it’s roots in a...
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“What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Words like slut, cunt and skank. ...”
– Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism
Jessica Valenti says and writes insightful, smart feminist things. She also joined tumblr yesterday to the joy of the feminist tumblr blogosphere! A respected and influential author, she is also the founder of feministing.com, which never sacrifices...
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If Robbery Victims Were Treated Like Rape Victims:...
The full article, by Connie K. Borkenhagen, appeared in the American Bar Association Journal in April, 1975.
In the following situation, a holdup victim is asked questions by a lawyer.
Laywer: “Mr. Smith, you were held up at gunpoint on the corner of First and Main?” Mr. Smith: “Yes” Laywer: “Did you struggle with the robber?” Mr. Smith: “No.” Laywer: “Why not?” Mr. Smith: “He was armed.”...
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“Ready for the revolution!”
– How Stokely Carmichael answered the phone from the 1970s until his death in 1998. Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture), coined both the terms “Black Power,” and “institutional racism,” which he defined as “the collective failure of an organization to provide an...
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“Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the...”
– The New York Times focuses on victim blaming in their coverage of the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl. This is a child being blamed for her own rape; now imagine what it’s like for an adult to come forward about sexual assault. This sickens me. Our culture overly sexualizes young girls,...
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