July 2011
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The best of the rest of the internet
I am currently on a jetplane (for a cool, forthcoming story for The Monthly), so Best of the Rest has come early this week.
Lots to read this week: on DSK, beauty politics and climate change, alongside the usual feminism, race, class and popular culture.
Sociological Images on the mental burden of a lower class background. (Sociological Images)
“Normal” sizes, fashion school and...
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WatchMy friend Elena is running a campaign on Kickstarter to help fund her film The Illusionists, a feature-length documentary about the commodification of the body and the marketing of unattainable beauty around the world.
In the style of Inside Job, Food Inc. and The Corporation, The Illusionists takes the pursuit of the body beautiful - a subject often framed in personal terms - and puts it in...
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Guest post: Fake Goods: An Australian born Chinese...
This is a guest post by Monica Tan, one of my all-time favourite people, favourite writers and one of my soon-to-be bridespeople. I hope you enjoy it as much as I - and my writing hero James Fallows - did.
The Chinese taxi driver had a big incredulous smile plastered over his face. “Where are you from?!” he asked, hardly containing his laughter. To any ordinary foreigner this is an ordinary...
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“Try this the next time you meet a little girl. She may be surprised and unsure...”
– Lisa Bloom in the Huffington Post.
Take a look at the article, which models a great example of meeting a little girl, here.
(via petitefeministe)
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Tiger Beatdown: Systems that force us to lie →
More on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn saga from redlightpolitics:
This goes much further than pointing at the collective and trying to wash away the impact of the current development by claiming that “we all lie”. The core of the problem here is slightly different: some people’s survival, their very own sustainability sometimes depend on a lie. We judge these lies based on parameters that never...
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“When you’re setting out on your career, do not think about carving out...”
– Polly Vernon quotes Sian Westerman in ‘Where Have All The Bright Women Gone?’, UK Grazia.
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The best of the rest of the internet
This week’s best reads on feminism, politics, class and popular culture - chopped up, roasted and served to you on a platter.
Jack Kerouac’s 1952 pencil drawn concept idea for the cover of On The Road. (Ned Hepburn)
Molly Lambert’s essay on Blake Lively is a work of art. (Grant Magazine)
“In period dramas like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, it’s the servants, not the...
June 2011
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Guest post: We Will Not Go Quietly
This is a guest post by Mel Hughes and Kate Ravenscroft, editors of We Will Not Go Quietly: a zine for survivors of sexual assault.
We met at a group for survivors of sexual assault – an awkward start to any relationship and one hardly guaranteed to lead to longevity.
The most relieving element of a group like this – the removal of the need to ‘out’ yourself as a survivor of sexual...
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Mad Men: Meta-story of Women's Liberation or...
Cassandra writes: Question for a bright feminist - why do so many women get upset that I find mad men depressing? If I say it looks like patriarchy porn men say fair enough but lots of women get upset and say it’s a metastory of womens liberation. no doubt you get many random pop culture feminism questions but if you have a view on mad men I’d be fascinated to read it.
I like Mad...
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Is Bristol Palin’s new memoir the story of a rape... →
I spent much of last week in a haze of rather complicated freelance deadlines, sweet victories and friends visiting from abroad, but one thing I did wonder whenever I popped my head above the water to open my Google Reader was: why are none (well, almost none) of the American feminist bloggers I read talking about the Bristol Palin memoir?
Specifically, why wasn’t anyone calling out the...
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“Here’s a big difference between you and me. You wear make up and you dress in a...”
– Susan Sontag in Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan. (via somethingchanged)
Sadly not me, but I appreciate the sentiment.
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The best of the rest of the internet
Gawker reports Mark Zuckerberg is engaged, which leads to a discussion of what’s wrong with Asian women, naturally. (Racialicious)
n+1 on interning as a gift:
[F]or an intern to distinguish herself, she must ingratiate without seeming ingratiating. The intern is to appreciate the opportunity to peek at the file folders into which she slides contracts and correspondence. She shouldn’t act...
