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Dagnabit Shit Fuck: True Blood Recap S03E11 Posted 01 Sep 2010 under fandom, immigration, mental health, sex, tv
Hosted by Thea Lim and featuring Joseph Lamour, Tami Winfrey Harris, Latoya Peterson and Andrea Plaid Thea: Another sort of lackluster episode, though better than last week’s. Though I have to say this eppy sure had lots of good oneliners: I used to drink hot sauce straight out of the bottle…that was a good time. Dagnabit Shit Fuck! So [...]
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Blah blah True Blood Blah: S03 E10 Posted 25 Aug 2010 under beauty, cultural appropriation, fandom, religion, tv, white
Hosted by Thea Lim, featuring Joseph Lamour, Tami Winfrey Harris, Latoya Peterson, and Andrea Plaid Blah Blah Fairies Blah Thea: Was it just me, or was this eppy a little blah? Tami: It was. In fact, I am honestly having a hard time talking about it, because it was so not memorable. An episode packed with [...]
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links for 2010-08-24 Posted 24 Aug 2010 under Uncategorized
For Spike Lee, a New Requiem for New Orleans | NYTimes.com “When you’re doing a documentary film, a lot of this stuff is detective work. So we knew, unlike the first one, we had to go to Mississippi. We knew we had to go to Houston. A lot of those people have found a better way [...]
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On Montana Fishburne Posted 23 Aug 2010 under black, celebrities, class, privilege, race, sex, sexuality
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid I understand Montana Fishburne. No, really I do. I understand that I wanted to walk into the great halls of adulthood and thought having sex was the key to opening the door when I was about her age, especially since sexual activity is viewed in this society as the providence of [...]
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Dear Olivia Munn Posted under asian-american, feminism, media, sexism, sexuality
By Thea Lim, cross-posted from Bitch Magazine While I was writing our weekly True Blood roundtable with my Racialicious peeps on Tuesday, Tami Winfrey Harris said: Watching King Russell go rogue on national TV made me think of the dread many POC feel when the media spotlights a member of our race doing something bad, dysfunctional or [...]
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Wooden Bullets, “Exotic” Accents & Human Masculinity: True Blood S03E09 Posted 18 Aug 2010 under exoticisation, fandom, masculinity, mental health, religion, violence against women, xenophobia
Hosted by Thea Lim, and featuring Joseph Lamour, Andrea Plaid and Tami Winfrey Harris (Latoya Peterson sadly missed) Tara: Trauma and Healing Thea: Ok, so after all the hating on this show’s treatment of Tara – or, as has been argued, heterosexual women in general – there were definitely things that True Blood did this week which [...]
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links for 2010-07-29 Posted 29 Jul 2010 under Uncategorized
Judge Blocks Key Parts of Immigration Law in Arizona | NYTimes.com "Aside from stopping the requirement that the police initiate immigration checks, the judge also blocked provisions that allowed the police to hold anyone arrested for any crime until his immigration status was determined. “'Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of [...]
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War, And The Clothes Brought ‘Here’ From ‘There’ Posted 19 Jul 2010 under asian, exoticisation, fashion, war
By Guest Contributor Mimi Thi Nguyen, originally published at Threadbared Browsing through cardboard boxes, I bought a library discard called Customs and Culture of Vietnam by Ann Caddell Crawford, published some time in the early 1960s, a sort-of guidebook. (I always buy this stuff, old LIFE magazines with “exposes” on Viet Nam and [...]
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Kinkosis [Essay] Posted 23 Jun 2010 under Outside the Binary, The Things We Do to Ourselves, beauty, ethnicity, ethnocentrism, gender, hair, identity, mixed race, race, race & representations
by Guest Contributor Safa Samiezade’-Yazd, Special to Racialicious Hard to believe, but I was born bald. Not cute little peach-fuzz bald. Not skinhead bald with a chance of stubble. No, I was born with a head as bald as a baby’s butt. What’s more unbelievable—I grew up with straight hair. [...]
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Danielle Evans on Talking Privilege While in Graduate School Posted 16 Jun 2010 under academia, books, privilege
By Thea Lim From “Smart Conversations about MFA Programs” – though I believe you can apply Danielle Evans’ thoughts to many different academic programs: 4) We should be able to have real conversations about privilege We should be able to talk about both privilege within MFA programs and privilege that MFA programs grant attendants in the world at [...]
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Human Zoos, Conservation Refugees, and the Houston Zoo’s The African Forest Posted 14 Jun 2010 under On Appropriation, WTF?, culture, eurocentric, exoticisation, history, misrepresentation
By Guest Contributor Shannon Joyce Prince Note: The Houston Zoo uses the term “pygmy” and specifies no particular so called p*gmy ethnic groups. According to the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee, “This term [‘pygmy’]is used by some communities and organisations, but is considered pejorative by others.” When I first began writing about the Houston Zoo it was my [...]
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What Tami Said can save you $8: My review of “Sex and the City 2″ Posted 01 Jun 2010 under hollywood, movies
by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said [Maybe there are spoilers in this review. I don’t think so. Frankly, I think there is nothing I could possibly do to make the shitfest that is Sex and the City 2 worse.] Allow me to save you $8. Here is the plot of Sex and the [...]
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More Native Appropriations, Heritage Capitalism, and Fashion on Antiques Roadshow Posted 25 May 2010 under colonization/colonialism, everyday racism, indigenous peoples, tv
by Guest Contributor Minh-ha, originally published at Threadbared This post is inspired by Sarah Scaturro‘s comments to one of my previous posts about the Black Fashion Museum Collection. In her comments, she mentions the Save Our African-American Treasures program, which she describes as “an Antiques Roadshow (minus the price appraisal) type of event” that travels [...]
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links for 2010-05-15 Posted 15 May 2010 under Uncategorized
Small New York Town Makes English the Law It’s about 2,500 miles from this green, rural town in the rolling hills near Vermont to the Mexican border at Nogales, but that hasn’t stopped Jackson from making a bid to be New York’s small version of Arizona in the immigration wars. Or that’s how it is beginning [...]
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A Contrarian View of Lady Gaga Posted 05 May 2010 under beauty, black, celebrities, exoticisation, gender, media, music, race, south asian, white
By Thea Lim and Andrea Plaid After watching her Facebook news feed fill up with links to articles adoring the politics of Gaga, Thea emailed her local sex/race/gender/pop culture expert: Andrea. Thea was puzzled by the wild adulation heaped upon Gaga as “transgressive” and “binary-breaking” by the gender studies crowd…not because Gaga is without merit, but [...]