tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9806105321386929562024-03-05T17:19:05.804-05:00Sex MahoneyDo we want to hear any more of this story?richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.comBlogger412125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-74539193090804309242019-03-20T07:19:00.001-04:002019-03-20T07:19:38.102-04:00Women of the Haitian Revolution - Cécile Fatiman, Sanité Bélair, Catherine Flon, Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>“l'active participation de la femme, sa présence continue aux côtés de l'homme à certains moments-clés des pages de notre histoire, paraissent, au premier regard, cependant d'une évidence incontestable.”―<a href="https://twitter.com/Jaclanar" target="_blank">Jasmine Narcisse</a>, <a href="http://jasminenarcisse.com/memoire/01_anonymes/01_anonymes.html" target="_blank">Mémoire de femmes</a></i><br />
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There are four women who’s names feature prominently in the histories of the Haitian Revolution. They are:<br />
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<b> • </b>Cécile Fatiman, the priestess of Bwa Kayiman<br />
<b> • </b>Sanité Bélair<br />
<b> • </b>Catherine Flon<br />
<b> • </b>Dédée Bazile<br />
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<b>Catherine Flon</b><br />
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“Haitian heroine Catherine Flon, who also served as a military strategist and nurse, sewed Haiti’s first flag.”―<a href="https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2015/05/celebrating-revolutionary-blackness.html" target="_blank">Mark Anthony Neal</a><br />
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«D'un geste vif, Dessalines supprima la couleur blanche». Catherine Flon aurait alors réuni les bandes bleu et rouge et les aurait cousues en utilisant ses cheveux comme fil.<br />
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“La deuxième version veut qu'une fille de Dessalines fut maltraitée par un colon sur l'habitation duquel elle serait restée comme servante dans le but évident de rapporter ce qui s'y passait. Dessalines ayant vu sa fille en sang, aurait déchirée sa jupe bleue, pris son foulard rouge et demandé à Catherine Flon de les réunir en s'exclamant: «Jamais, plus jamais, un Francais ne frappera nos filles. Liberté ou la mort». On présente en faveur de cette version l'argument que le bleu du drapeau haïtien ne serait pas identique au bleu francais.”―<a href="http://jasminenarcisse.com/memoire/01_anonymes/06_catherine.html" target="_blank">Jasmine Narcisse</a><br />
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<b>Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile</b><br />
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«Pendant que de nombreux enfants, au milieu de grands cris de joie, criblaient de coups de pierre les restes infortunés de Dessalines, sur la place du Gouvernement, une vieille femme folle nommée Défilée vint à passer. Elle s'approcha de l'attroupement que formaient les enfants (...) On lui dit que c'était Dessalines. Ses yeux égarés devinrent calmes tout à coup; une lueur de raison brilla sur ses traits. Elle alla à la course chercher un sac, revint sur la place, y mit ses restes ensanglantés et les transporta au cimetière intérieur de la ville. Le général Pétion y envoya quelques militaires qui, pour une modique somme, les enterrèrent»―<a href="http://jasminenarcisse.com/memoire/02_independance/02_defilee.html" target="_blank">Jasmine Narcisse</a><br />
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“Indeed, the true heroine of [Langston Hughes's Emperor of Haiti] would be Azelia, the wife of Dessalines under slavery, who becomes the historical Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile by protecting the corpse of Dessalines and affirming the path of love and solidarity, something lost by Dessalines during his ambitious rise.”―<a href="http://thedreamvariation.blogspot.com/2015/07/emperor-of-haiti.html" target="_blank">Dream Variation</a><br />
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<b>Sanité Bélair, The Tigress of Haiti</b><br />
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<i>“Liberté, pas à l'esclavage!”―Sanité Bélair</i><br />
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“Toussaint’s favourite was his nephew, Charles Belair, and it was believed that he destined Belair to be , his successor. In 1801 he was only 23, and had been aide de-camp to Toussaint when he was only 18. He had fought with distinction against the British and in the civil war against the South. Handsome, with distinguished manners, he loved military parade and display. He did not like the ‘whites, and Sanite, his wife, hated them and encouraged him to treat them harshly.”―CLR James, The Black Jacobins<br />
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“I went in to the woods with my national guard and after a short search I found Madame Charles Belair hidden behind a patch of high grass and I made her come out from behind it and carried on with her to find Belair who I had been told was entranched with some brigands but seeing his wife prisoner he gave himself away.”―Faustin Répussard<br />
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“On October 5th 1802, they both received the death sentence; Sanité was sentenced to death by decapitation, and Charles by firing squad. She refused to die by decapitation and demanded to be executed just like her husband, whom she had witnessed being executed by firing squad.”―<a href="http://kentakepage.com/sanite-belair-the-tigress-of-haiti/" target="_blank">Meserette Kentake</a><br />
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<b>Cécile Fatiman, Bwa Kayiman</b><br />
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According to author <a href="http://bwakayiman.blogspot.com/2016/12/cecile-fatiman-wasnt-muslim.html" target="_blank">Rodney Salnave</a>, Cécile Fatiman’s identity was revelead “by historian Étienne D. Charlier based on the testimony of General Pierrot Benoît Rameau, the great-grandson of Madame Fatiman, and a hero of the resistance against the American occupation of Haiti.”<br />
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Salnave quotes Charlier: “General Rameau is one of our national heroes, of whom we speak very little, probably because he is alive and, consequently, cumbersome. Indeed, in 1915, when the North American military intervention occurred, he fought in the North as General-in-Chief of Rosalvo BOBO's troops”<br />
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Salnave says Cécile Fatiman was the daughter of Célestina Coidavid and a grandson of Theodore Von Neuhoff. Her sister was Marie-Louise Coidavid, Queen of Haiti from 1811 to 1820. Cécile Fatiman lived to be 112 years old and died in Cap-Haïtien.<br />
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On August 14, 1791, Cécile Fatiman and Dutty Boukman as well as Jeannot, Georges Biassou, and Jean-François Papillon are alleged to have met at night in <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/XBik48a6pHo" target="_blank">the mountains of the north</a>, <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/qJWD7QkNxe82" target="_blank">performed sacred rites</a>, slaughtered a pig, and sworn oaths to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the white european invaders.<br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-72081385892942242352019-03-16T06:10:00.001-04:002019-03-16T06:10:57.452-04:00The U.S. Nuclear Threat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The united states is the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon against a civilian population during the attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<br />
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The united states has conducted nuclear "tests" in areas that were hard conquered by vicious military invasion and subjugation.<br />
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“Settler colonialism is an interesting framework because it’s not just about thinking about land as something that can produce value, but land and people that are thought of as disposable. In that instance of what Phyllis Young was talking about, our land was desired in the sense that it couldn’t produce wealth, it was desired in the sense that it could be wasted and destroyed, in this sense it could be flooded. In mid-20th-century history, indigenous land was desired to be wasted. Some of this comes out of Nixon and his thinking of the West as for uranium mining. If you look at the development of atomic weaponry in New Mexico, where I live, it’s a national sacrifice zone, too. The full cycle of nuclear development, extraction of uranium, the production of uranium, the testing of nuclear weapons, and the storage of depleted uranium and nuclear waste all happens here. It’s not happening in Santa Fe. The storage and testing of this uranium is going on in poor racialized communities.”–<a href="https://twitter.com/nick_w_estes" target="_blank">Nick Estes</a> from ‘<a href="https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/power-moves-through-people-an-interview-with-nick-estes/#!" target="_blank">Power Moves Through People: An Interview with Nick Estes</a>’ by <a href="https://twitter.com/SamRibakoff" target="_blank">Sam Ribakoff</a>, <a href="https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/" target="_blank">LA Review of Books</a></blockquote>
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The u.s. military tested nuclear devices in Mississippi the same summer that James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner were murdered by white supremacist assassins.<br />
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The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission picked Baxterville, fewer than 100 miles northeast of New Orleans because it sits atop the Tatum Salt Dome, a large underground salt dome. The 5.3-kiloton Salmon explosion in October 1964 carved a cavity out of that salt 2,700 feet underground. The bomb was about a third the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.–‘<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salmon-sterling-nuclear-tests-marker" target="_blank">Salmon/Sterling Nuclear Tests Marker</a>’ by <a href="https://twitter.com/mattsmithatl" target="_blank">Matt Smith</a></blockquote>
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What is currently the so-called ‘united states’ of amerika is the primary nuclear threat to humanity. The world will not know peace until the u.s. gives up its nuclear arsenal.</div>
richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-48481240120440555062018-04-07T17:01:00.003-04:002018-04-07T17:01:24.998-04:00Audre Lorde on the Propagandistic Language Used by reagan During the amerikan Invasion of Grenada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-63827670577336228702016-05-22T00:00:00.000-04:002016-05-22T00:00:14.496-04:00Beyoncé, bell hooks, ‘Carmen Jones’, and ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Deep into the <a href="https://issuu.com/candicebenbow/docs/lemonade_syllabus_2016" target="_blank">Lemonade syllabus</a>.<br />
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Chapter 11, is on Theatre, Film & Documentary.<br />
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Listed there is the multi-Academy Award winning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Jones_(film)" target="_blank">1954 classic <i>Carmen Jones</i></a>.<br />
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This movie has everything. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dandridge" target="_blank">Dorothy Dandridge</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte" target="_blank">Harry Belafonte</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Bailey" target="_blank">Pearl Bailey</a>. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/1215793049" target="_blank">Olga James</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diahann_Carroll" target="_blank">Diahann Carroll</a>.<br />
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But this is a <a href="https://issuu.com/candicebenbow/docs/lemonade_syllabus_2016" target="_blank">Lemonade syllabus</a>. <a href="https://lemonade.tidal.com/" target="_blank">Beyoncé’s <i>Lemonade</i></a>.<br />
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And I know the Oscars are everything or whatever, but <a href="http://uproxx.com/music/carmen-a-hip-hopera-lemonade-beyonce/" target="_blank"><span id="goog_191967946"></span>Beyoncé made a Carmen, too<span id="goog_191967947"></span></a>.<br />
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Now, I love Carmen. When the genders in Carmen are reversed, and it’s a man who faces death unafraid, that person is glorified to the point of deification. Carmen looks her killer in the eye and says fuck you and that shit is so hardcore.<br />
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But Beyoncé made a Carmen, too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/blog/femme-feminista" target="_blank">bell hooks</a> is amazing, and her <a href="http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/05/bell_hooks_calls_beyonc_a_terrorist.html" target="_blank">criticisms of Beyoncé</a> are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJk0hNROvzs" target="_blank">well known</a> and <a href="http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2014/05/bell-hooks-beyonce-terrorist-impact-young-girls/" target="_blank">widely documented</a>. The responses coming out this week have been amazing. There are now <a href="http://feministing.com/2016/05/11/a-feminist-roundtable-on-bell-hooks-beyonce-and-moving-beyond-pain/" target="_blank">bell hooks/Beyoncé syllabi</a>.<br />
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Now, I’m not here to pick a side in that fight. I love both sides too dearly to play favorites and can't do anything but read and listen at a distance so I can better understand both sides.<br />
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What I’m here to to do is talk about Beyoncé’s Carmen, because that is MTV movie is one of the few Carmen adaptations I know of where her death serves a different purpose.<br />
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Bell-hooks-1988-BWPhoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Bell-hooks-1988-BWPhoto.jpg" width="320" /></a>Harry Belafonte kills Dorothy Dandridge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Jones_(film)" target="_blank">Otto Preminger’s 1954 <i>Carmen Jones</i></a>. José kills Paz Vega’s <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCBbZdB5vmU" target="_blank">Carmen</a></i>. José Lizarrabengoa kills <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1926_film)" target="_blank">Carmen</a></i> in 1926. Don José kills 1932 <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1932_film)" target="_blank">Carmen</a></i>. 1938 Nazi German Don José kills Carmen in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nights_in_Andalusia" target="_blank">Carmen of Nights in Andalusia</a></i>. 1938 Fascist Spain’s José Navarro kills Carmen in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen,_la_de_Triana" target="_blank">Carmen, la de Triana</a></i>. 1945’s Occupied French Don José kills <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1942_film)" target="_blank">Carmen</a></i>. I’m not sure if Antonio or Vincenzo kills Italian Carmen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_di_Trastevere" target="_blank">1962’s <i>Carmen di Trastevere</i></a> but she is killed. There’s a Western version of Carmen called <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Pride_and_Vengeance" target="_blank">Man, Pride and Vengeance</a></i> from 1967 where Don José kills Carmen. Goddard killed Carmen in his 1983 film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Name:_Carmen" target="_blank">First Name: Carmen</a></i>. Carmen must have been in vogue because there was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1983_film)" target="_blank">Spanish version</a> in 1983 and an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_(1984_film)" target="_blank">Italian one in 1984</a> as well. Paco kills Carmen in the Spanish version, Plácido Domingo as Don José in the Italian. They even made a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_on_Ice" target="_blank">Carmen on ice called <i>Carmen on Ice</i></a> where Brian Boitano kills Carmen. Jongikhaya kills 2005 South African Carmen of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Carmen_eKhayelitsha" target="_blank">U-Carmen eKhayelitsha</a></i>. 2011 Carmen in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%27s_Kiss" target="_blank"><i>Carmen’s Kiss</i></a>... well, you know where this is going.<br />
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Now, Don José Navarro’s method of execution varies from Carmen to Carmen. The original novel, on which all this was based, was written by French citizen Prosper Mérimée. He was born in Paris the year Napoleon sold Louisiana to the Yankees and he died in Cannes the year <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/ALFORD%281870%29_p029_THE_ESTRELLES%2C_FROM_THE_BEAU_SITE%2C_CANNES.jpg" target="_blank">Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury published this landscape of the French seaside town</a>. Mérimée heard the story of Carmen from a woman named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Manuela_Kirkpatrick" target="_blank">María Manuela Kirkpatrick</a> who grew up in Málaga where the early stages of industrial revolution were taking off and she would probably have come into contact with the masses of women seeking employment in the boom town. She eventually married Napoleon III and created his only son. Her descendents are still Dukes and Counts and Marquises today.<br />
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Mérimée has Carmen killed with a knife, and implies that Don José will be executed. Rather than dramatizing the execution, as he had done with Carmen, Mérimée lapses into a long treatise on Romani people which his editor called “suspect” (translation: total bullshit). But Don José almost always kills Carmen.<br />
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There are some exceptions.<br />
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In 1948, American <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loves_of_Carmen_(1948_film)" target="_blank">The Loves of Carmen</a></i> Don José does not kill Carmen but rather Carmen's husband. Weirdly, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Burlesque_on_Carmen" target="_blank">Charlie Chaplin’s 1915 Carmen</a> lives because Darn Hosiery’s knife is fake and they were just putting on a show for the camera (which they demonstrate by breaking the fourth wall as the film ends).<br />
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And then there’s Beyoncé’s Carmen.<br />
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<i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i>.<br />
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Produced by MTV Films. It’s available on multiple platforms to rent or purchase.<br />
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Beyoncé’s Carmen dies, but her lover does not kill her.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beyoncé as Carmen</td></tr>
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Usually, if Carmen lives, then Don José dies instead.<br />
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However, even though the story usually doesn’t depict his death it’s strongly suggested or straight up said that Don José will be executed for Carmen’s murder.<br />
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Carmen is a story that strongly punishes a woman’s independent sexuality, but, and this is a testament to its logevity, the woman, Carmen, is so defiant in the face of death that she becomes heroic. Her lover, or his rival (in some versions), is a bumbling tool who can’t hold a flower in his hand without crushing it as a twin result of his ambition in a hostile militarized organization and his adherence to hierarchical relationships of domination and submission.<br />
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In Beyoncé’s Carmen, Don José is Police Sgt. Derek Hill (played by Mekhi Phifer) and his rival is the corrupt Lieutenant Miller (played by Mos Def ***Aside, you know what’s weird. On the wikipedia page for <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i>, someone took the time to update Reagan Gomez’s name and add her married name, but Mos Def’s name had not been updated to Yasiin Bey, so I logged into Wikipedia and changed that, Aside over***).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rah Digga and Joy Bryant as Nikki and Rasheeda</td></tr>
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Lieutenant Miller kills Carmen while shooting at Sgt. Derek Hill because Hill is aware of Miller’s corruption. Hill kills Miller in retaliation, but is charged with Carmen’s murder as well.<br />
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Beyoncé’s Carmen is an exploration of a corrupt police force which glances against Carmen’s life as a hustler. In most other versions, it is Don José/Sgt. Derek Miller turns out to be an abusive asshole who murders his partner when she leaves him. Tale as old as time, and an always current affair.<br />
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<i>Hollywood Shuffle</i>, <i>Meteor Man</i>, and <i>B*A*P*S</i> director Robert Townsend did the MTV version. The script was by Michael Elliot, who wrote <i>Like Mike</i>, <i>Brown Sugar</i>, and <i>Just Wright</i>. The cast is just insane. Jermaine Dupri, Joy Bryant, Da Brat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Da Brat</td></tr>
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Da Brat.<br />
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Do you know how many movies Da Brat is in?<br />
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Five.<br />
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<i>Kazaam</i>. The Shaq movie where he's a genie. Or djinn. Or الجن.<br />
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Oh, also <i>Glitter</i>. A badass movie that I have never seen but now want to called <i>Civil Brand</i> where a group of Black women take over a prison.<br />
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But to get back to <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i>.<br />
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Most versions of Carmen manage to capture the horror of a lover drawing more and more inward until they are a trap from which you must escape or be killed and despite that horrible fate awaiting her, Carmen always goes with her head high and fighting all the way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Da Brat in Glitter</td></tr>
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Beyoncé’s Carmen does that.<br />
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And then she manages to criticize a police force that corrupts police as they go up the chain of command (Lt. Miller) and how it is tied to toxic masculinity because Sgt. Hill’s behavior puts her at risk as much if not more than himself. Considering that he survives this story, it is absolutely the case that a man’s adherence to rigid masculinity channels the violence that exists in women’s lives at all times.<br />
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That’s how amazing Beyoncé is, she sprinkles her tragedy with some crsip institutional analysis.<br />
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Now if only Carmen and Don José could survive the story. The tragedy could be that Don José gets a one bedroom in the industrial district and his internet access gets cut off when he violates the Hillary Clinton Online Gender and Sexuality Discrimination Protection Act of 2017 for posting imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist cisheteropatriarchal hate speech comments on makeup tutorial YouTube videos.<br />
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Carmen of course goes on to be the heavyweight champion of the world in all fighting based sports where her record is unbroken and her technique invariable. She simply stands in the center of any ring and falls in love with her opponent until they wither into dust.<br />
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Blue Ivy can be in that version.<br />
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But it goes a bit deeper than that. Because in the original Carmen, Carmen and Don José initially bond over (what Don José thinks is) their shared Basque status.<br />
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Remember María Manuela Kirkpatrick?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">María Manuela Kirkpatrick</td></tr>
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One year before she was born, in 1793 the French began a campaign of terror to destroy the Basque identity, destroying communities and scattering families across the country. It was the beginning of what was to be almost a century of warfare in the region and continued under Franco to the modern era, ending with his reign in 1975. Not that the issue is definitely settled. Tensions continue in France to this day.<br />
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When Carmen’s killer is her lover, she faces her death. In Beyoncé’s <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i>, it is the system of corrupt police that literally shoots Carmen in the back because she is standing between the system of authority and the threat of that system’s irredeemable corruption.<br />
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Having said that, I sit down to watch <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i> for maybe the first time (I am suspicious that I have seen it, but maybe not the whole thing, definitely parts).<br />
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And the corrupt police element begins immediately, with Lt. Miller planting drugs he received along with money as a bribe on a child he then arrests.<br />
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For further proof, Miller then hits on Caela (Reagan Gomez-Preston) right in front of Hill despite their being engaged. Then the two men whip their dicks out and slap each other for a few minutes (although I may have dozed off and dreamed that ***Aside, where is Beyoncé already?***)<br />
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Oh, here she is in the literal next shot. Or rather, her shoes are. Then a cut of Fred Williamson reacting to them. Then the whole room, including Lt. Miller, reacting to them. Back to the shoes. Back to Fred. Then in a slow pan, there is revealed Beyoncé as Carmen. In a sequined red cocktail dress that is slit up the left thigh to the top of the rectus femoris and with décolletage plunging to her navel.<br />
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She wears a red rose in her hair and the first words anyone says to her are “baby.”<br />
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A woman immediately gets possessive.<br />
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And Carmen, who has yet to speak, breaks out in song. A duet with Miller where he propositions her and she shoots him down by flirting with Hill.<br />
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Caela, to whom he is betrothed, does not take it lightly.<br />
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Caela intersects with another aspect of Carmen often discussed in history and criticism of the work. The character isn’t in the original story, but appears in the Bizet opera as Micaëla (and most subsequent adaptations that also depend on it for inspiration). There are two themes present in almost all adaptations along with Caela as an indicator of the non-Carmen path for Don José. Carmen Jones has one of my favorite incarnations of Micaëla. Her name is Cindy Lou. If your name is Cindy Lou, and you’re into dudes. Expect to be cheated on.<br />
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In all versions of Carmen, the narrative inherently sets up the ethnic minority woman, Carmen, as an oversexualized ‘Jezebel’ in contrast to the constant, propriotous, constancy of Cindy Lou/Micaëla.<br />
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Cindy Lou Caela follows the story, always trailing Don José as the life he could still have if he would just settle down and stop chasing after Carmen.<br />
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Carmen has no Cindy Lou, in any version of the story. Sure, there are always a pool of lovers vying for Carmen’s affections, but there is no normal life ever available to her. In the original, because she is a gypsy. In Beyoncé’s Carmen, because she is a Black woman in America. Instead, she has mysticism.<br />
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Almost every version of Carmen, including the original include an element of superstition, possibly because the story stems from an itinerant Romani person that may have actually existed with multiple income streams include fortune telling, but more likely because the French author was racist dickbag (Seriously, the last part of Carmen is just the author sounding off on the “patholigical immorality” of the Roma).<br />
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In that sense, and this is very often the case, all versions of <i>Carmen</i> function end up revealing more about white/colonizer fantasies about colonized women than perhaps was intended by the author. Anne Thériault recently wrote that men love metaphors because they think they are “smart and sneaky, even when they are in fact neither of those things.”<br />
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In that sense, <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i> and <i>Carmen Jones</i> are also about the limits placed on Black women in American entertainment at different periods of colonization.<br />
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Dorothy Dandridge used the success of <i>Carmen Jones</i> to come out of the closet about her then taboo relationship with Ukrainian director Otto Preminger one year before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Dandridge later said it was Preminger’s advice about turning down a supporting role in <i>The King And</i> <i>I</i> that led to a slowdown in her career.<br />
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Beyonce’s <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i> came out in May of 2001, less than six months before the September 11th attacks in NY and D.C.<br />
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Both the 1950s and the 2000s were periods of intense crackdowns on domestic civil liberties but also a period of both expansion and transparency to the atrocities being carried out by U.S. forces overseas. Not to mention the ever escalating and expanding wars.<br />
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And then here we are in 2016 with Lemonade, 15 years after <i>Carmen: A Hip Hopera</i> and in the past two years there have been major uprisings in U.S. cities all over the nation but in Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, etc.<br />
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</i> Fifteen years after <i>Carmen Jones</i> it was 1969, and U.S. cities had been burning for at least four years with similarly public actions taken in response to escalating police violence.<br />
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</i> Dorothy Dandrige didn’t live to see that, though.<br />
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</i> She died at the age of 42 in 1965.<br />
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One month after the Watts Uprising.<br />
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<i><i><b>***</b></i></i></div>
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</i> While bell hooks is overly critical of Beyonce, Lemonade ultimately concludes with a theme found in much of hooks’s work. Healing.<br />
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The world of <i>Carmen</i> is a disordered world. What little family anyone has is ultimately inconsequential, and the random characters that come together form small, temporary familial units that live and expire by their functionality.<br />
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That more than anything is indicative of it’s patriarchy, colonial/capitalist, hyper-masculine white origins.<br />
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Lemonade, with its themes of healing through spirituality, family, connectivity, community, reveal its creator as the intensely competent Black woman.<br />
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Because Beyonce is amazing all on her own (which she acknowledges when she sings “We gon’ live a good life” about the possibility of ditching her husband and absconding with their babies), but she surrounded herself with a team of equally competent people to create something greater than any of of their individual parts that also unites and connects a broad audience by telling a narrative both sad and bittersweet and full of pain.<br />
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And yet, as mainstream as can be, Beyonce always performs success with half a step out of line with a white America that could not be more critical. When <i>Carmen Jones</i> was on television, Britney Spears and the American Idol were making big screen, full court press marketing Hollywood movies.<br />
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"BOUGIE DILEMMA" a web series about a deluded optimist with a serious case of Bougie Dilemma. The series follows the ups and downs of a deluded optimist in Hollywood whose "reach for the stars" tastes struggle against her "down to earth" budget. Throw in some romantic misadventures of trying to find something "real" in the LaLa town of "make-believe" and you have one sista with some major “Bougie Dilemma.”<br />
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Created by : <a href="https://twitter.com/NadegeAugust">Nadège August</a><br />
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Animation : Sean Geer- Harrison<br />
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Stars: Nadège August, Leith Burke, <a href="https://twitter.com/BigDawgy123">Anissa Borrego</a>, Heidi Schultz, <a href="https://twitter.com/iAMFeder">Abbe Meryl Feder</a>, Laura Liguori, Thomas Wright<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlp4zeAzGP4">Reflections on African American Studies with Dr. Cathy J. Cohen</a></b><br />
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"All that stuff I just talked about—the homogeneity of these institutions—the only way they’re changed, it’s not because people wake up one morning [and say,] “Oh, we’ll change!” It’s because people outside those institutions demand a change. So you want to be committed [to] that kind of politicized work. So, for me, I want to do my job and I want to do it well, but I am interested in seeing institutions transform for the better and oftentimes that takes some pushing from the outside. That’s probably why I teach social movements, because that’s my theory of change for institutions like the University of Chicago." -- Dr. Cathy J. Cohen in conversation with Joy Crane at <a href="http://greycity.chicagomaroon.com/article/qa-with-cathy-cohen/">greycity.chicagomaroon.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://jillianspeak.com/">JILLIAN’S PEAK</a> is a true story about Jillian Thomas, a African American woman in conflict. A successful photographer and wife from Detroit, she disrupts the picture-perfect All-American dream that she has been encouraged to live. She determines to fully live her life as it was meant to be, to understand what will truly make her happy, and to explore her constant questioning of her relationship with her husband Keith. But mainly she seeks to explore her hidden nagging feeling of “Am I a Lesbian?” Jillian pursues her truth in New York. She lives with Gail, her best friend from college, a self-assured lesbian who challenges Jillian’s ideas and beliefs about herself and her life.</div>
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-3425290967650504052016-02-06T02:06:00.001-05:002016-02-06T02:06:52.001-05:00Bits of Undigested 김치<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today, I have a new <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/06/la-lunchonette-s-sad-sold-out-farewell.html">article at The Daily Beast about the closing of La Lunchonette</a>, a small restaurant in Chelsea.<br />
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It's a great little place that I pass every day on my way to work.<br />
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As they are closing up shop this weekend and cleaning up, I went by the place to check it out.<br />
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There was a very cool basement that I would give my right arm to explore. The entrance is through a trap door below the bar.<br />
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Melva Max and Jean-François Fraysse own the place. I talked to Melva, but I met Jean-François in person when I went by the place during the cleanup. We had some nice chats.<br />
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As much as I passed by the place, and always wanted to go to their Accordion Nights, I only ate lunch there once. A month before they closed. I had a bowl of French Onion Soup and a cup of coffee.<br />
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I didn't really go for the food. I just wanted to sit there a while. Knowing the place was about to close.<br />
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The very first day I worked at The Daily Beast, I walked from Penn Station straight down to 18th Street and stood outside La Lunchonette because of the a sign that said "Accordion Show" (If you know me, you know I love accordions, concertinas, bagpipes... pretty much any instrument that whines when squeezed).<br />
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It was the the summer time and hot. I had just come from my other job at a Home Depot and I had done my best to wipe the warehouse grime off my filthy self before I had to go sit in an office and pretend to be normal sauce.<br />
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So I stopped in the little alley between a building and a parking lot where a man had set up a little shelter. I still smoked cigarettes at the time, so I bummed him one and we both smoked while I cooled off and put on a clean, collared shirt.<br />
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He was rousted out not too long after that. Now I rarely see anyone living outside in the neighborhood.<br />
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When I mentioned The Daily Beast, Melva said she knew at least two regulars from the place who would come in all the time. She didn't quite mention their names, but by her description I knew it was Mme. D______, whom I know well and adore, and M. V________, whom I also know well but have never met face to face (I worked remotely and we only ever emailed).<br />
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It also snowed this morning, with a decent amount of accumulation piling up before noon. It looked so fluffy and pretty. Then the sun came out, the weather went back to crazy warm, and the snow was all gone in a literal hour. It would have been more depressing if it weren't so warm.<br />
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A very busy, but in all a nice day. The kind of day where you feel present and responsible and with it.<br />
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Then you come home and realize you left the door unlocked all day so all your illusions of responsibility and resourcefulness are passing phantoms, bits of undigested 김치.<br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-47850801430767864472016-01-21T03:00:00.000-05:002016-01-21T03:00:10.210-05:00Addiction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-28476892621694905102016-01-20T23:00:00.000-05:002016-01-20T23:37:00.269-05:00The Dutch Tough<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Advertising is the true story of any age.<br />
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As odious as it may be, an ad is the essence of every story, myth, fact, aspiration, and definition available at it's creation.<br />
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The ad at left is from a 1978 issue of Playboy magazine. It's on page 54.<br />
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Now, the first 53 pages of the magazine are equally full of similar messages (the leather looking man, the bored looking woman), but this one about pipe tobacco stood out in particular.<br />
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First, of all the bored women that appear in these ads, the woman in the second photo looks challengingly bored. The male model looks like someone slapped a wig and makeup on an old jacket and gave it sexually criminal sentience.<br />
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Because, second of all, what the hell is going on in the first image? A.k.a. The one where the possibly same models are in Dutch colonist cosplay.<br />
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And as a subsection of the second part, why Dutch colonists? In an American magazine? For pipe tobacco? In 1978?<br />
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What the all around fuck?<br />
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Amphora, the tobacco company, is still in production. And there are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeT8RzzhjUM">people with YouTube videos</a> about it. So good on them for longevity. But a surprising number of Playboy advertisers from the same issue include similarly long lasting companies like Gillette, Chrysler, Cuervo Gold.<br />
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Turns out though that Amphora may no longer be available in the United States.<br />
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But with the name free, a company called Evofem Inc. created a personal lubricant called Amphora in 2004.<br />
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But the pipe tobacco Amphora brand is owned by Imperial Tobacco Group plc, a HUGE company based in Bristol (of all places).<br />
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So why of all things was the image of Dutch colonialism was being marketed to Americans in 1978 via their pipe tobacco?<br />
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Most of the other tobacco ads are for cigarettes, and they are primarily concerned about tar.<br />
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There is also one ad that appears like a proto-feminists appeal to the kind of lesbian smokers who might read Playboy in the late 70s.<br />
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But it's hard to draw any conclusions, because there are no real comparisons in the book to either other pipe tobacco ads, or specifically Dutch colonial imagery.<br />
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So, going back a few years to see what else might be in the advertising might prove fruitful, about a decade earlier.<br />
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To June of 1968.<br />
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Because, the logic is, if this use of Dutch colonial imagery to sell pipe tobacco in a semi-dirty late 1970s men's magazine means what it looks like it means, then that is pretty fucked up.<br />
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Looking into magazine archives from time periods is more rewarding than any other kind of garbage diving.<br />
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Once upon a time, with full access to the archives of Newsweek magazine, many hours of upload waits or downtime were filled with trips through old magazines from the 1930s, 1980s, 1960s.<br />
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Having said that, now that the ability to digitize old collections is a reality, everyone needs to make it a priority to save and reproduce all media.<br />
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Far too many things get left behind when the media changes.<br />
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An early summer 1968 magazine is such a strange piece of history.<br />
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Only two months after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (but really a month to a month and a half in magazine production time) and already on the newsstand when Robert Kennedy is assassinated in California.<br />
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The very first ad is for gin, the second, malt liquor. Like the old saying goes, gin before malt liquor gets you fucked up quicker.<br />
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The smoking ads however have neither pipe tobacco or Dutch colonial imagery. They do however have weird father imagery and a hopeful focus on innovation and modernity.<br />
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On the very first page of the June 1958 Playboy magazine, there is an ad with loosely connected Dutch Colonial imagery.<br />
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The ad shows a man in a tuxedo holding a large parrot, surrounded by palm trees and two women, who are dressed in vaguely non-specific Pacific Island dress. It's not Dutch, but it's got Colonial written all over it. And the Dutch did have large colonies stretching all the way from the tip of Sumatra to New Guinea.<br />
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The ad even features a little Venus on the half shell with one of the two women decorating the James Bond/Don Draper original.<br />
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An interesting aside, the <a href="http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=39.95&year1=1958&year2=2015">adjusted for inflation price</a> of the After Six wash-and-wear jacket is $328.08.<br />
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The rest of the mag features no real Dutch Colonial imagery, or pipe tobacco ads, which is surprising. The Dutch Colonial theme is specific to the late 70s for reasons that will possibly become clear.<br />
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What is interesting about the late 50s Playboy compared to the 60s and 70s is that there is a lot more advertorial content in the 50s. With whole articles about cameras (conveniently for sale at low, low prices) in between pictorials of the the 1950s version of the girl next door and liquor ads. It's almost as if Playboy were a training manual for something.<br />
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Then there are other less disturbing things advertised like a one foot tall model of a human skeleton for only $2.98. With removable parts!<br />
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So once again, a whole issue of Playboy and no Dutch Colonial ads.<br />
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Lessons were learned, like "there are a surprising number of cigar ads with dads lighting up around their children", but for now it's back to 1978.<br />
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In 1978, the Dutch Colonial empire was in its final stages. Although Dutch Colonialism continues as the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the administration of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and other stolen lands; in 1978, refugees from former Dutch colonies moved to the Netherlands in waves. The migrants came both for jobs that would supply cheap labor to their former colonizers, but also to escape the political unrest left in the wake of their home countries' independence. Feeling underappreciated for heroically driving the Japanese military out of countries they had stolen fair and square, the scorned Dutch settlers stymied nascent democratic movements in the global South by force at first, and then economic domination (some of which continues to this day).<br />
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The US Northeast maintains a tenuous relationship with Dutch Colonialism in that it often gets mixed up with English colonialism in national myth, especially since their areas of colonization overlap in like New York and other foundational strongholds of European colonialism in North America.<br />
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Also, important places and figures in Dutch colonization share nomenclature with the Imperial Tobacco Group product line or brands purchased by Imperial Tobacco such as it's predecessor Commonwealth Brands, Inc. (formerly the Commonwealth Tobacco Company).<br />
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The infamous cigarette smoking baby on the internet that the Western world fetishized? From the former Dutch colony of Indonesia.<br />
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See, the Playboy magazines didn't have any Amphora ads, but newspapers and other sources do. Going back ten years in newspaper searches show Amphora advertising that employs certainly <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19661215&id=MqEpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7-cDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5432,3405674&hl=en">less cosplayish imagery</a>. 1960s Amphora ads in general newspapers stress availability and price.<br />
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It would have been much harder to romanticize Dutch colonialism in the 1960s. The brutal repression of the Indonesian independence movement was still ongoing at the start of the decade.<br />
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In addition, this was a British-ish company marketing to an American audience, and unless the ad was specifically targeted to Northeast subcribers, it seems like a very narrow demographic that might find 17th century Dutch colonial cosplay enticing, but then again so is pipe smoking.<br />
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Plus, if there is a hetero woman alive that has ever had unpaid, non-coercive sex with a man who is actively smoking a pipe, she was a whaling shipman's wife in 1840s Nantucket, or, as the ad implies, the bonnet wearing wife of a European colonist somewhere in the Dutch empire circa 1500 - 1700.<br />
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What the image does recall today, however, is a million old men in a million old movies, about a woman protected only by her own boredom from a man who finds appealing the idea of taking things that don't belong to him. This is definitely a recurring theme in all those old Playboy. Not just the idea of women as for sale, because most of the things for sale are products like liquor, tobacco, and tobaccinated liquor. With a model or two promised by mere association with the product and the fine print that reads "woman not included."<br />
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Skipping ahead ten years, the difference is incredible, particularly as it comes to Tobacco advertising, which is still mostly allowed in the June 1988 issue of Playboy magazine, but is thoroughly in the grips of <i>the Marlboro man</i>.<br />
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There are also ads for Kools, Kents, Camels, Merit Ultra-Lights, Salems, and Winstons, all of which employ some working/middle class white guy at leisure. The Salem ad is a nude woman, her face and body out of frame, melting a cigarette pack sized block of ice on her neck with the brand logo frozen inside. The Marlboro ad which has not only seized on the colonial imagery, in this case the Cowboy "taming" the wild west (which in the 1980s meant horses for some reason).<br />
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The Marlboro Man as a concept had only a decade left in use by the Philip Morris company when they ran this ad in Playboy.<br />
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Cigarette ads like these were on their last legs.<br />
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Much like pipe tobacco in the 1970s. In a 2005 Washington Post report by Peter Carlson, head of the Pipe Tobacco Council, Norman Sharp, said "In 1970, Americans bought 52 million pounds of pipe tobacco. In 2004, they bought less than 5 million pounds."<br />
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5 million pounds of pipe tobacco may still be more than you can carry at a full sprint, but it's definitely not "advertise in Playboy" money.<br />
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But what does a creepy ad about the kind of pipe tobacco rooted in the Dutch colonial tradition have to do with a fictional advertising cowboy?<br />
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Philip Morris is the largest tobacco company in the world. Imperial Tobacco Group, Inc. is number four. In between are British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International.<br />
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Japan Tobacco, Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Imperial Tobacco Group all started within ten years of each other in the waning years of the 19th century, and the earliest days of the 20th (Although, technically, Japan Tobacco spun off from a government monopoly on tobacco production and an independent company formed from the Asia Pacific division of RJ Reynolds, now a subdivision of British American, in the 90s -- coincidentally around the same time the Marlboro man was retired).<br />
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All of this built on a crop stolen from the colonized people of South America, built into a global industry on the backs of slaves, and sustained to the present day on the profits of a destructive and unhealthy activity.<br />
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And when it comes to accessing that past for the purposes of brand identity, these companies have been reliably happy to do so (albeit less so at times when it is politically expedient to minimize the systems' worst abuses). But when it comes to making amends for the health damages its products cause, compensating all that stolen labor, and paying off the debt owed to the indigenous developers of the product; all that history don't count for shit.<br />
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Also, old Playboys are fucking creepy.<br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-51850944050080763172016-01-20T11:00:00.000-05:002016-01-20T11:00:19.182-05:00Some Thoughts on Elizabethtown, Kentucky and Gynnya McMillen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The recent news (or lack thereof) about the prompts context.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wlky.com/news/Death-investigation-underway-at-juvenile-detention-center/37382098" target="_blank">Initial news reports</a> about the death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen in Elizabethtown, Kentucky provided little detail, even neglecting to name the victim. A<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice-For-Gynnya-McMillen-1034398506624961/" target="_blank"> Facebook page</a> was set up calling for an inquiry and more information. The family has spoken out on the page, criticizing both the authorities under whose watch McMillen died and the press that has provided little coverage of the story:<br />
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I'm asking that everyone repost and share my sisters story on your pages and in any groups that will help us get it out...<br />
Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice-For-Gynnya-McMillen-1034398506624961/">Justice For Gynnya McMillen</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1034484076616404&id=1034398506624961">Friday, January 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The lack of media attention means that most of the information about the case, and calls for more attention, are addressed on <a href="http://earhustle411.com/why-is-the-media-quiet-about-the-death-of-16-year-old-gynnya-mcmillen-who-died-in-a-detention-center/" target="_blank">blogs</a> and via individual users on social media:<br />
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<a class="twitter-timeline" data-widget-id="688971636230516740" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GynnyaMcMillen">#GynnyaMcMillen Tweets</a><br />
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A Twitter profile with a name matching Gynnya McMillen has only one tweet. It's from November 29th, 2013:<br />
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When Someone You Love Is Far Away , You Appreciate Them A Whole Bunch More</div>
— Gynnya McMillen (@Hayoo_Gynnya14) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hayoo_Gynnya14/status/406521108855549952">November 29, 2013</a></blockquote>
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The official address for Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center is 820 New Glendale Rd, which on Google Maps is an empty field.<br />
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From the Elizabethtown page at JailExchange.com:<br />
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The Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Lincoln County, Kentucky, like all jails is a maximum security facility. Because the inmates in this jail range from low level offenders to those being held for violent crimes like robbery, rape and murder, the security level is as high as is it is in any maximum security state prison. Some of the security features in this facility include security cameras, electronic detection and reinforced fencing topped with razor wire. Correctional officers in Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center are armed with mace and trained to use physical force to protect themselves and other inmates from violence. </blockquote>
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The men, women and juveniles being held in the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center are either awaiting trial or have been sentenced in the Lincoln County Court System already and been sentenced to a period of time of one year or less. When an inmate is sentenced to a year or more, they are admitted into the Kentucky Prison or Federal Prison System. Inmates in the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center are fed three meals a day totaling 2,500 calories, are allowed access to phones to contact friends and family members, are allowed at least one hour a day for exercise, have access to books, bathroom and shower facilities. The inmates are allowed mail to be delivered to them as well as newspapers and magazine from trusted outside publishers. </blockquote>
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But the youth detention center is not the only carceral institution in the nearby area.</div>
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Just down the road is the Hardin County Detention Center. Which has <a href="http://www.hcdetention.com/" target="_blank">a website you can check out here</a>.<br />
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The Hardin County Detention Center provides an odd amount of information on its website: from a complete <a href="http://www.hcdetention.com/Hardin_Inmatelist.html" target="_blank">searchable database of all their inmates by full name and incarceration date</a>, to pages of <a href="http://www.hcdetention.com/inmate_mail.html" target="_blank">rules about communication</a>, and the ability to make <a href="http://www.hcdetention.com/inmate_mail.html" target="_blank">purchases from the prison commissary</a>.<br />
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There is even a page with a short bio of the "warden" or "jailer" as the site refers to the administrator:<br />
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Danny Allen is a lifelong resident of Hardin County. Jailer Allen started working for the county government as a Deputy Sheriff in 1985, and 1988 as the assistant supervisor for the Hardin County Road Department. In 2001 Jailer Allen was moved to the supervisor position for the road department of Hardin County. Danny Allen was elected and took office of Jailer January 1, 2011. Jailer Allen has also served (6) years on the Hardin County School Board and was also Fire Chief for # 86 Volunteer Fire Department.</blockquote>
Amid all this information, is a page about prison visitation. At the Hardin County Detention Center, prisoners do not interact with their visitors directly. Instead:<br />
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INMATES will visit with friends and family from a video visitation terminal in their housing unit.<br />
VISITORS will use a similar video visitation terminal in the jail’s visitation area.</blockquote>
So prisoners just two miles away from where a teenager died in state custody at a maximum security facility, inmates are denied the basic right of being able to sit in the physical presence of their loved ones.<br />
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These visits are limited to two twenty minute sessions per inmate, per week.<br />
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Because the video system is remotely accessible, parties can connect to prisoners over the internet. Presumably these count toward the visitor limit each prisoner has. The sessions cost $12.99 each.<br />
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Lincoln Juvenile has a much lower internet presence (although their phone number is listed at <a href="http://www.yellowpages.com/elizabethtown-ky/mip/juvenile-justice-lincoln-village-treatment-center-19727707">yellowpages.com</a> (270) 766-5280). They are or were <a href="https://careers.ky.gov/Pages/LPN---Elizabethtown.aspx" target="_blank">hiring a nurse</a>. On the page describing the job, the following is given as a typical day:<br />
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A typical day starts with receiving a briefing from the Youth Worker Supervisor concerning any youth movements in/out of the facility and any current medical needs of the youth. Counting controlled medications and passing medications. Assessing youth with medical complaints. Health and history screenings for any youths who are admitted to the facility. Obtaining physician orders required for medications or treatments for the youth. Providing updates to the Nurse Shift/Program Supervisor about youth needs or concerns.</blockquote>
The do have a <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/hardin.kyschools.us/lincoln-village/">Google website</a>. It is minimally populated with content, but it gives the same address as the one Google shows. The site also has a list of staff and a mission statement of sorts:<br />
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The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (KY DJJ) Program Services Division currently monitors all of Kentucky's juvenile holding facilities and secure juvenile detention facilities for compliance with state and federal mandates. KY DJJ also operates eight secure juvenile detention centers. Kentucky's juvenile detention system provides pre-trial detention of all alleged delinquent juveniles and ensures state-operated detention centers to be available for all counties.The Detention Centers provide programs with a wide range of services including: education, counseling, acute medical and mental health care, behavior management, observation and assessment, as well as continuous supervision.</blockquote>
According to one report about McMillen's death on kentucky.com said that hers is the <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article54258110.html" target="_blank">first juvenile death in custody since 1999</a>. The same report says an autopsy was scheduled for last Monday.<br />
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The most in-depth report on the case comes from Anna Taylor at <a href="http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/content/police-teen-who-died-only-lincoln-village-day">TheNewsEnterprise.com</a> which lists, among other details:<br />
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<li>McMillen had "only been at the facility about 24 hours"</li>
<li>She was brought to Lincoln "following a Sunday morning altercation with a parent at a Shelbyville residence"</li>
<li>Kelly Cable, spokesman for the Shelbyville Police Department, said a domestic violence call came in at 1:46 a.m. “The child was the perpetrator in the incident and the parent did receive minor injuries,” he said. “We contacted the court-designated worker. The juvenile was transported to Lincoln Village on a charge of assault fourth-degree – domestic violence with minor injury.”</li>
<li>Gynnya was "found unresponsive at 10 a.m. in her cell and was pronounced dead at the detention center"</li>
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Despite the extra details Taylor's story, most of them come from officials at the prison and the local police. Little is know about how she was taken into custody or the name/names of the responding officers.<br />
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Gynnya McMillen.<br />
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Say her name.</div>
richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-24162175308374180682015-09-23T15:00:00.000-04:002015-09-23T15:00:01.202-04:00Il Nana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</i> <i>With Pope Francis getting a warm welcome in the US and no end in sight to church's sex crimes, presented here is a parody of a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/us/pope-francis-popularity-bridges-great-divides.html?_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times Story</a> in which most references to the religion that shall not be named have been replaced with more accurate terminology</i>.<br />
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He may be the world’s foremost pedophile sex cultist, but to his fans, Pope Francis is more Martin Luther King Jr. than Pope Benedict XVI. He speaks, and millions listen — whether they are Muslim or Baptist, Hindu or atheist.<br />
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Two years after his papacy began, Francis — the pedophile sex cult leader with the common touch and the tolerant embrace — is a lodestar to both the spiritual and secular worlds, a global celebrity to those who admire his warmth and a rudder to those who share his concerns about climate change, social justice, poverty and more.<br />
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Not all observant pedophile sex cultists agree with him on the issues: Some conservatives feel he has watered down true belief; some liberals are angry that he has not changed a word of pedophile sex cult doctrine.<br />
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But for non-pedophile sex cultists unfamiliar with dogma, Francis has already taken on a broader role, filling a void for those seeking leadership on global issues affecting the planet and the poor.<br />
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Like Pope John Paul II, Francis has attracted adulation from throngs of non-pedophile sex cultists as well as pedophile sex cultists in every place he has visited. And it is likely to be no different during his five-day visit to the United States: When he meets with President Obama and parades down the National Mall on Wednesday morning, Francis will draw a celebrity welcome, complete with cheers, gawkers, souvenir hawkers and huge crowds of Americans representing nearly every faith and creed.<br />
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With a speech in Congress and meetings with lawmakers, the Washington leg of his trip may be more secular than his stops in New York and Philadelphia. But throughout his stay, Francis will be meeting and addressing scores of people outside the pedophile sex cult faith.<br />
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In Washington, interest groups of all kinds are planning to gather on the White House lawn to try to seize a piece of the pedophile sex cult moment.<br />
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In Philadelphia, where Francis will cap off his visit by celebrating a Mass at a pedophile sex cult conference on family values, the conference’s volunteers include Baptists, Jews and Lutherans who are chipping in not only time and energy, but also money to catch a glimpse of the pontiff.<br />
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In New York, where Francis will ride his pedophile sex cult mobile through Central Park, a lottery for tickets to see him drew entries from Jews and Muslims as well as pedophile sex cultists.<br />
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The breadth of his appeal can be traced, in part, to the role he has carved out as a champion of causes beyond the scope of pedophile sex cult doctrine. A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in early September found that 45 percent of respondents saw Francis more as a leader and humanitarian spokesman for all people, regardless of their religion, than as simply the leader of the pedophile sex cult.<br />
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A Pew Research Center poll in February found that his approval rating among white mainline Protestants was 74 percent. Among those with no religious affiliation, it was 68 percent.<br />
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In New York, most opportunities to see the pope are limited to those with formal ties to the church. But to watch him pass through Central Park, anyone could enter a lottery arranged by Mayor Bill de Blasio, another non-pedophile sex cultist won over by Francis. (He has said that Francis has inspired him to re-evaluate his famously fraught relationship with pedophile sex cultism.).<br />
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Francis is coming to the United States primarily for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, a triennial pedophile sex cult conference never before held in the United States.<br />
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The roughly 10,000 people who signed up to volunteer at the weeklong event are expected to pay for their own background checks and transportation and to find their own accommodations in a city that officials are warning will be all but paralyzed during Francis’ visit.<br />
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Yet officials at the conference said many who wished to help, whether out of civic pride or a desire to connect with the pope, were not pedophile sex cultists.<br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-44209881609494986582015-09-11T13:00:00.000-04:002015-09-11T13:00:00.109-04:00Friday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2015/09/cicero-and-the-drones.html" target="_blank">Cicero and the drones</a></b><br />
<b>by Mary Beard</b><br />
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I have come to think that the issues raised by Cicero's conflict with Catiline in 63 BCE are not likely to go away for some time to come (which is actually why I started SPQR with it). Cicero the consul of Rome, believing that Catiline was behind a terrorist plot, backed by a makeshift army, to destroy the city, rounded up some of the main suspects and executed them without trial. He repeatedly dubbed them 'hostes' or "(foreign) enemies", and so casting as them as men who had forfeited their citizenly rights to due legal process. His view did not prevail. In a campaign led by a personal enemy, he was exiled for flouting the civil liberties of Roman citizens, and his house destroyed -- and a shrine of Liberty erected on the site.</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.theshoopsroost.com/2015/09/09/what-advice-do-they-have-for-us-now/" target="_blank">What advice do they have for us now?</a></b><br />
<b>by Tony!</b><br />
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Hey ya’ll. I have some news. You may want to sit down for this bc I suspect it will be shocking. In a case of mistaken ‘black guys all look the same, so we don’t have to double-check his identity before we introduce his face to the pavement‘ identity, some cops in New York roughed up 35-year-old former tennis player James Blake.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.theshoopsroost.com/2015/09/09/what-advice-do-they-have-for-us-now/" target="_blank">Read More at The Shoop's Roost</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/oh-dont-try-me-on-style-and-salt-and-serena-williamss-utterly-astonishing-breadth-of-utterance/" target="_blank">“Oh, don’t try me”: On style and salt and Serena Williams’s utterly astonishing breadth of utterance</a></b><br />
<b>by Ed Pavlić</b><br />
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This past summer I thought, again and again, about the rare range of things Serena Williams communicates on the tennis court. Never before has an athlete, or just about any other kind of performer, really, operating at that level—and, in a separate question: has anyone operated at this level?—included the audience in anything like the range and depth of process and pathos, the vulnerable dissonance that scurries about in the depths of what it takes to attain such an extreme level of craft. Like memory, craft at this level is never attained, can’t be kept, and so must be recreated again and anew in the moment.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/oh-dont-try-me-on-style-and-salt-and-serena-williamss-utterly-astonishing-breadth-of-utterance/" target="_blank">Read More at Africa Is A Country</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/six-ways-im-getting-over-my-sexistential-crisis/" target="_blank">Six Ways I’m Getting Over My Sexistential Crisis</a></b><br />
<b>by Bronwen Crowther</b><br />
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I want to talk about sex. The part of sex that interests me. And that, I’m sorry to tell you, has nothing to do with the tell-all, down-and-dirty, really hydraulic stuff. What I really want is to talk about is talking about sex. The way we discuss what goes on in the bedroom is still limited and flawed, and I’m part of the problem.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/six-ways-im-getting-over-my-sexistential-crisis/" target="_blank">Read More at Zusterschap</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2015/09/10/so-what-went-wrong-for-the-slut-shamers/" target="_blank">So what went wrong for the slut-shamers?</a></b><br />
<b>by Echo Zen</b><br />
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When a teen is gang-raped and photos of her rape distributed online, the normal human response should be indignation toward her attackers – not toward the victim, for allegedly being a slut who enticed all the boys. Sadly civilisation has a long way to go, but even in the last couple of years, the cultural climate has grown more conspicuously hostile for misogynists who fancy themselves arbiters of women’s sexual worth. Something has changed – but what?</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2015/09/10/so-what-went-wrong-for-the-slut-shamers/" target="_blank">Read More at Feministe</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTyLdQUeWHo" target="_blank">Asterisk: A Glyph</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-83064971312069565552015-09-10T13:00:00.000-04:002015-09-10T13:00:01.192-04:00Thursday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/part_2_two-suns_in_sunset" target="_blank">Mom, Is it War Yet? – Part II: Two Suns in the Sunset</a></b><br />
<b>by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson</b><br />
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By the time I had reached high school I was convinced that the Soviet threat was an absurdity – although I had not yet realized the enormity of the NATO threat.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/part_2_two-suns_in_sunset" target="_blank">Read More at Black Agenda Report</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://taikonenfea.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/yes-trigger-warnings-do-help-me-heres-how/" target="_blank">Yes Trigger Warnings Do Help Me: Here’s How</a></b><br />
<b>by Olivia</b><br />
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I’ve talked before about trigger warnings, what they are, why they’re useful. It might seem like I’ve covered every element of the discussion possible. But there’s something odd that I’ve seen in discussions of triggers: no one is willing to say that they are the ones helped by trigger warnings.</blockquote>
<b><a href="https://taikonenfea.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/yes-trigger-warnings-do-help-me-heres-how/" target="_blank">Read More at We Got So Far To Go</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2015/09/09/i-was-just-another-piece-of-property-escape-chapter-8-newlywed/#ixzz3lLSUgR4Q" target="_blank">“I Was Just Another Piece of Property” – <i>Escape</i> Chapter 8: Newlywed</a></b><br />
<b>by Dana Hunter</b><br />
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Carolyn Jessop has gone from single college student to subservient wife in a polygamous arranged marriage in just a few days. Now, on her “honeymoon,” she’s enduring repeated sexual assaults from her new husband at night. She’s just grateful she doesn’t have to speak to him during the day, as he shows no interest in her outside of trying to fuck her. She’s reeling, and the fact that her father and stepmother are thrilled by her marriage perplexes her: “If they loved me, how could they have let me go through anything so hateful?”</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/2015/09/09/i-was-just-another-piece-of-property-escape-chapter-8-newlywed/#ixzz3lLSUgR4Q" target="_blank">Read More at En Tequila Es Verdad</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://loveinshallah.com/2015/09/09/im-queer-grappling-with-orthodoxy-as-an-asexual-muslim-woman/" target="_blank">“I’m Queer”: Grappling with Orthodoxy as an Asexual Muslim Woman</a></b><br />
<b>by Laura P</b><br />
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Recalcitrant. Disobedient. Deserving punishment. These words filled my mind one night in March 2014 as I bowed, and then dropped to the floor to prostrate before Allah.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://loveinshallah.com/2015/09/09/im-queer-grappling-with-orthodoxy-as-an-asexual-muslim-woman/" target="_blank">Read More at Love, InshAllah</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.thefword.org.uk/2015/09/louise-oneill-author-interview-asking-for-it/" target="_blank">“We need to be constantly fighting. We need to be raising our voices”</a></b><br />
<b>by Gemma Fraser</b><br />
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“It was my third birthday,” says Louise O’Neill, speaking to me over the phone the day after the launch of her second novel <i>Asking For It</i>. “I remember the dress — a very pale lilac with white stars on it — and everyone kept telling me that I was such a pretty girl and that my dress was so pretty. And I remember feeling really sort of warm on the inside when I was getting these compliments. This was positive attention, positive reinforcement, and it came from looking a certain way, looking physically pleasing.”</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.thefword.org.uk/2015/09/louise-oneill-author-interview-asking-for-it/" target="_blank">Read More at The F Word</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balnSvwwJNI" target="_blank">Touch The Sky | Hillsong UNITED | Acoustic Cover | 3b4jHoy</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-72498020191134790482015-09-09T13:00:00.000-04:002015-09-09T13:00:02.834-04:00Wednesday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.cutcharislingbaldy.com/blog/in-which-we-establish-that-there-was-a-genocide-against-native-americans-yes-there-was-it-was-genocide-yes-or-this-is-why-i-teach-native-studies-part-3-million" target="_blank">In which we establish that there was a genocide against Native Americans, yes there was, it was genocide, yes or this is why I teach Native Studies part 3 million</a></b><br />
<b>by Cutcha Risling Baldy</b><br />
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Now, some people may be surprised to learn that when I talk about genocide in my classes (and I do, I often teach about California, and it becomes very clear, very quickly that what happened in California is a genocide) that students resist. There are many things that I tell them which they take at face value. If we are talking about basketry, they don’t question the methods or the outcomes of what I am saying about basketry. If we are talking about sacred sites, they nod along to videos I show them of Native people fighting for the right to protect their sacred places. But when we start talking about genocide, it usually results in few people who really, really, want there to have not been a genocide in the United States.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.cutcharislingbaldy.com/blog/in-which-we-establish-that-there-was-a-genocide-against-native-americans-yes-there-was-it-was-genocide-yes-or-this-is-why-i-teach-native-studies-part-3-million" target="_blank">Read More at CutchaRislingBaldy.com</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/09/white-americas-emotionally-abusive.html" target="_blank">White America's Emotionally Abusive Relationship With Black People</a></b><br />
<b>by Chauncey DeVega </b><br />
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White America emotionally abuses black people. </blockquote>
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The abuse takes many forms. It is an unwillingness to admit to harms done, a denial of the pain caused to others, and a habit of selective remembering and forgetting in which White America can imagine itself as largely good and benign, a feat that is accomplished by attempting to silence and bully anyone who would dare to suggest otherwise. </blockquote>
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Like most abusers, White America wants people of color to forget the bad and to only remember the good.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/09/white-americas-emotionally-abusive.html" target="_blank">Read More at Indomitable</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/50-years-later-the-forgotten-origins-of-the-historic-delano-grape-strike" target="_blank">The Forgotten Filipino-Americans Who Led the ’65 Delano Grape Strike</a></b><br />
<b>By Lisa Morehouse</b><br />
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While the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. [O]n the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/50-years-later-the-forgotten-origins-of-the-historic-delano-grape-strike" target="_blank">Read More at kqed.org</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://madison365.com/index.php/2015/09/03/what-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-race-and-progressive-cities/" target="_blank">The Harsh Truth About Progressive Cities</a></b><br />
<b>By David Dahmer</b><br />
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Madison, Minneapolis, Austin, Portland, San Francisco. </blockquote>
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These are America’s most progressive, forward-thinking, open-minded, and social-justice-focused cities. They also have the worst racial disparities in the nation and some of the worst racial segregation.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://madison365.com/index.php/2015/09/03/what-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-race-and-progressive-cities/" target="_blank">Read More at Madison365.com</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/madam-walker/" target="_blank">The Sharecropper's Daughter Who Made Black Women Proud of Their Hair</a></b><br />
<b>By Hunter Oatman-Stanford </b><br />
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American history books are filled with stories about titans of industry—invariably, white men like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller—who cornered emerging industries and amassed incredible wealth at the expense of the public and their employees. Yet few know the name of Madam C.J. Walker, a black female entrepreneur who built a hair-care company from scratch and became one of the most powerful African Americans in the early 20th century. Unlike those corrupt businessmen of yesterday or the ones who rule Wall Street today, Walker offers an inspirational icon for our age—a woman who overcame great barriers to make it into the ranks of America’s elite, choosing to reinvest her money in social causes and provide opportunity to those who had none.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/madam-walker/" target="_blank">Read More at Collector's Weekly</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-45111190158471246572015-08-25T13:20:00.000-04:002015-08-25T13:20:00.282-04:00Tuesday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://sistahvegan.com/2015/08/23/making-sure-berkeleys-riff-raff-cant-afford-to-live-here-anymore-thoughts-on-being-without-a-home-in-5-days/" target="_blank">Making Sure Berkeley’s “Riff Raff” Can’t Afford to Live Here Anymore: Thoughts on Being Without a Home in 5 Days</a></b><br />
<b>by Dr. Amie "Breeze" Harper</b><br />
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Let’s face it. Over the last five years, the Berkeley area has become ridiculously over-priced. Same with Oakland, Albany, and Kesington. Alameda and El Cerrito seem to be going that same direction. It’s nearly impossible to find something for working class to lower-middle class people that doesn’t put one into barely making ends meet. Those who locked in a place to rent, years ago, are not moving, in fear that the same type of housing would be 1.5 – 2x more expensive than what they are paying for now. Thankfully, Berkeley has rent control and excellent renter’s rights policies. We were in the same boat (low rent from years ago) until our landlords announced that they would be moving back to live in the house. Our place was a great find and we had planned to never leave.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://sistahvegan.com/2015/08/23/making-sure-berkeleys-riff-raff-cant-afford-to-live-here-anymore-thoughts-on-being-without-a-home-in-5-days/" target="_blank">Read More at The Sistah Vegan Project</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.cinemacked.com/post/127488617531/grantham-and-rose-film-review-marla-gibbs" target="_blank">Film Review - Grantham & Rose</a></b><br />
<b>by Trudy Hamilton</b><br />
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<i>Grantham & Rose</i> is an enjoyable film that I seriously did not understand until the very end. It is one of my Netflix picks this month that I mentioned in 3 New To Netflix Selections - August 2015. In the film, Rose (portrayed by veteran actress Marla Gibbs, of classic television shows such as <i>The Jeffersons</i> and <i>227</i>) takes Grantham (portrayed by Jake T. Austin) on a road trip that is more than he bargains for. They meet via a program for “at-risk” boys that Rose volunteers at; Grantham is there because he acts out in response to the pain of years without his father (who passed away) and dealing with his mother who is sick with addiction. Grantham gets into a fight while at the program and can’t connect with his caseworker Erik (portrayed by Ryan Spahn); Rose steps in to help him.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.cinemacked.com/post/127488617531/grantham-and-rose-film-review-marla-gibbs" target="_blank">Read More at Cinemacked</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/06/cultural-appropriation-the-fashionable-face-of-racism/" target="_blank">Cultural Appropriation: The Fashionable Face of Racism</a></b><br />
<b>by Chimene Suleyman</b><br />
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There is a painting in my parent’s house that my mother made. It is a self portrait; green eyes looking back between the black cloth of the headscarf painted around her face. It is a beautiful painting, carnal even. The assigned image on my phone for my father is a photograph taken from the same time as my mother’s painting. He sits straight, regal, the red chequered keffiyeh draped around his head. It was the 80s and we were living in Saudi Arabia. Their stories of this period in our life are as wild as they are affecting. My mother speaks of having to pretend to be my father’s “foreign” wife, denying her Turkish nationality so she would not be forced to fully comply with the strict rules assigned for Muslim women.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/06/cultural-appropriation-the-fashionable-face-of-racism/" target="_blank">Read More at Media Diversified</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/08/shishihokodan-the-destructive-female-gaze-of-ya-supernatural-action-romantic-comedy.html#.VdyVKHV3lhE" target="_blank">Shishihokodan: The Destructive Female Gaze of YA Supernatural Action Romantic Comedy</a></b><br />
<b>By Brigit McCone </b><br />
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YA Supernatural Action Romantic Comedy (SARCom) was created in 1987 by the manga artist Rumiko Takahashi’s <i>Ranma 1/2</i>. Her mixture of kung-fu demon-of-the-week fights, romance and comedy, with a supernaturally strong heroine, dual shapeshifting supernaturally strong love interests and sarcastically quipping sidekicks, was then a completely unique format and rapidly became popular in the West and Japan. Takahashi’s creative control as visual and story artist (particularly after the success of the slapstick <i>Urusei Yatsura</i>) meant that the aesthetics of SARCom were shaped by the female gaze from the outset. Among its innovations, <i>Ranma 1/2</i> introduces an Ice Prince/Wolf love rivalry between the hero Ranma and his rival Ryoga, a trope Takahashi would develop in her next SARCom <i>Inuyasha</i>. Joss Whedon’s <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i> popularized the SARCom in mainstream Western culture, developing its own Ice Prince/Wolf rivalry with the characters Angel and Spike. The Ice Prince/Wolf dynamic now dominates teen girl cinema, after Catherine Hardwicke’s <i>Twilight</i> set a new record for commercially successful female directors.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/08/shishihokodan-the-destructive-female-gaze-of-ya-supernatural-action-romantic-comedy.html#.VdyVKHV3lhE" target="_blank">Read More at Bitch Flicks</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2015/08/24/more-atheist-leaders-who-arent-dawkins-or-harris-lauren-lane/#ixzz3jqXfjuac" target="_blank">More Atheist Leaders Who Aren’t Dawkins or Harris: Lauren Lane</a></b><br />
<b>by Greta Christina</b><br />
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I am the co-founder and current Executive Director of Skepticon, the universe’s largest skeptic convention located annually in Springfield, MO. It is the mission of Skepticon to support, promote, and develop free-thought skeptic, and scientific communities through inclusive educational programming… which is just a fancy way of saying we all get together to share ideas, knowledge, and high fives. Skepticon is a non-profit organization that is run entirely by volunteer organizers — all the money we raise goes directly to funding the conference.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2015/08/24/more-atheist-leaders-who-arent-dawkins-or-harris-lauren-lane/#ixzz3jqXfjuac" target="_blank">Read more at Greta Christina's Blog</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/08/charlie-mom.html" target="_blank">Charlie Mom</a></b><br />
<b>by Jeremiah Moss</b><br />
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Charlie Mom Chinese restaurant has been in the Village since 1983. This coming Wednesday, August 26, will be its last day. </blockquote>
<b><a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/08/charlie-mom.html" target="_blank">Read More at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-69800148137184832322015-08-24T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-24T13:00:01.621-04:00Monday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/what-were-you-all-waiting-for/" target="_blank">What Were You All Waiting For?</a></b><br />
<b>by Maggie McNeil</b>l<br />
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For years I have held the position that the cause of sex worker rights, as part of the whole fabric of recognition of the individual’s right to be unmolested by the state due to private sexual behavior, must inevitably succeed. </blockquote>
<b><a href="https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/what-were-you-all-waiting-for/" target="_blank">Read More at The Honest Courtesan</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2015/08/22/mind-your-business-ohio-legislature/" target="_blank">Mind your business, Ohio legislature</a></b><br />
<b>by EG</b><br />
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I just went through a pregnancy for a much-wanted child. I endured morning sickness that lasted throughout the entire pregnancy. I became so short of breath that I had to stop and rest partway up the stairs in my own home. I dislocated a rib. My heartburn was so bad that I had to take two or three separate medications each day. I had a major placental abruption with a level of blood loss that the doctors termed “impressive,” and placental abruption carries risk to both mother and fetus. And if I want to go through that, that is my decision. And if I decide not to go through with that ever again, no matter what my reason is, that is also my decision.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2015/08/22/mind-your-business-ohio-legislature/" target="_blank">Read More at Feministe</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2015/08/huey-p-newton-canadian-connection.html" target="_blank">The Canadian Connection</a></b><br />
<b>by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali</b><br />
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Huey P. Newton was murdered 26 years ago in Oakland, California during the month of August. Because Black freedom fighters like George and Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gaulden and others lost their lives during this month, revolutionaries inside the California prison system have deemed it Black August.</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://blackfemlens.blogspot.com/2015/08/anchor-babies-and-gops-plantation.html" target="_blank">"Anchor Babies" and The GOP’s Plantation Politics</a></b><br />
<b>By Sikivu Hutchinson</b><br />
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For the thousands of white folk who packed the stadium in Mobile, Alabama to hear Donald Trump this past Friday it must have seemed like old times. No PC dogwhistle limpness or vacillation, no pandering to “the minorities”; just straight talk, the kind of unvarnished alpha male nativism, Christian evangelicalism and white supremacy that rocketed the Tea Party into the mainstream in 2009. Trump’s tirades on anchor babies and repealing the 14th amendment’s birthright citizenship clause have the GOP presidential campaign clown car in overdrive. As the rest of the field scrambles to double down on its racist appeal to red meat Middle America all people of color are targeted by this rhetoric of criminalization.</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/08/the-ritual-white-america-does-not.html" target="_blank">"The Ritual": White America Does Not Forgive, Why Should Black People Always Be Expected To?</a></b><br />
<b>by Chauncey DeVega</b><br />
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On the one-year anniversary of the death of a 18-year-old black teenager named Michael Brown by a (now confessed racist) white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden, was asked if she forgave Darren Wilson for his cruel and wanton act of legal murder. She told Al Jazeera that she will “never forgive” Darren Wilson and that “he’s evil, his acts were devilish.”</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2015/08/the-ritual-white-america-does-not.html" target="_blank">Read More at Indomitable</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uYTENfTO1s" target="_blank">Desireé Dallagiacomo - "Shave Me" (NPS 2015)</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-91266559801928095572015-08-21T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-21T13:00:07.291-04:00Friday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/abws-angry-black-woman-syndrome/" target="_blank">ABWS: Angry Black Woman Syndrome</a></b><br />
<b>by Emunah Y’srael</b><br />
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What do Sandy Bland, Michelle Obama, the neighborhood ‘black’ girl and Aunt Viv from Fresh Prince of Bel Air all have in common? Surprise, they have all been labeled at some time in their life as an ‘Angry Black Woman.’</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/abws-angry-black-woman-syndrome/" target="_blank">Read More at Zusterschap</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://aep.typepad.com/american_empire_project/2015/08/the-iranian-threat.html" target="_blank">“The Iranian Threat”: Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?</a> </b><br />
<b>By Noam Chomsky</b><br />
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Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the assessment of the U.S. Arms Control Association that “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action establishes a strong and effective formula for blocking all of the pathways by which Iran could acquire material for nuclear weapons for more than a generation and a verification system to promptly detect and deter possible efforts by Iran to covertly pursue nuclear weapons that will last indefinitely.”</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://the-toast.net/2015/08/20/women-who-cook/" target="_blank">Women Who Cook: Dismantling the Myth of the Bitch in the Kitchen</a></b><br />
<b>by Lilian Minon</b><br />
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To be a woman who dares overstep her place in the physical or the digital worlds is to be branded a target by men, men who wish to return to halcyon days: of women only seen (except when they shouldn’t be) but not heard, of apron-donning, of apple-cheeked ma’ams bowing to their every whim. For these men, food — or rather, feeding — is the second most important women’s work (with the first being to create/carry/raise the man’s children), and the domestic kitchen is the only place a woman should be when she isn’t tidying up the homestead or on her knees.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://the-toast.net/2015/08/20/women-who-cook/" target="_blank">Read More at The Toast</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://blacknerdproblems.com/site/remembering-kirby-right-back-at-ya/" target="_blank">Remebering Kirby: Right Back at Ya!</a></b><br />
<b>by William Young</b><br />
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So, I may have been wrong in an earlier review when I said Star Wars was one of the best book in Marvel‘s SW line. This is one of the best books in Marvel‘s entire arsenal. Whether it’s SW or Thor mythos, Jason Aaron is ridiculously adept at creating a unique yet familiar voice for your favorite character while carving out fresh aspects of existing lore. And the latest story arc in the flagship book for the SW universe is no exception.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://blacknerdproblems.com/site/remembering-kirby-right-back-at-ya/" target="_blank">Read More at Black Nerd Problems</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-users-mapped.html" target="_blank">Ashley Madison Users Mapped</a></b><br />
<b>by Keir Clarke</b><br />
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Malfideleco (Esperanto for infidelity) is a global map showing the number of Ashley Madison users around the world... Flashpoint, the web security specialists, have released a static map which they say visualizes a heat map of "individuals accessing a data dump allegedly stolen from AshleyMadison.com"... Interworks has created a United States map of Ashley Madison Users by ZIP Code.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-users-mapped.html" target="_blank">Read More at Google Maps Mania</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bJ49dOSP9o" target="_blank">きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - Crazy Party Night ~ぱんぷきんの逆襲~,Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-Crazy Party Night-Pumpkins Strike Back-</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-7364454148344134882015-08-20T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-20T13:00:05.678-04:00Thursday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/haiti_occupation_in_blackface" target="_blank">Haiti: An Occupation in Blackface</a></b><br />
<b>by Dr. Jemima Pierre</b><br />
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July 28, 2015 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the landing of US Marines in Haiti and the beginning of a military occupation of the Black Republic that lasted nineteen years. With its massacres of Haitian peasants, its control of Haiti’s finances, its suppression of the Haitian press, and its dissolution of the Haitian legislature – all backed by a combination of Jim Crow ideology and Monroe Doctrine exceptionalism – the occupation represents a searing annotation in the history of Haitian sovereignty. Yet the memory of the US occupation sits awkwardly in the context of the Haitian present, where a new occupation is currently in its eleventh year, begging the question posed by The Public Archive (@public_archive) on twitter, “How do you memorialize occupation in the middle of occupation?”</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/08/still-empty.html" target="_blank">Still Empty</a></b><br />
<b>by Jeremiah Moss</b><br />
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It's depressing to walk home to the East Village and see the old St. Mark's Bookshop space still empty after they were forced to move by a rent hike. I try not to walk by there anymore.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2015/08/still-empty.html" target="_blank">Read More at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://loveinshallah.com/2015/08/19/zen-the-art-of-soul-repair/" target="_blank">Zen & the Art of Soul Repair</a></b><br />
<b>by Zainab Chaudary</b><br />
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Just before they take her away for her MRI, my mother removes her rings and asks me to wear them. They won’t allow metal in the room, and she gets four of her rings off easily, but there’s a set of three that are stuck. She frets with them as the orderly situates her in her stretcher.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://loveinshallah.com/2015/08/19/zen-the-art-of-soul-repair/" target="_blank">Read More at Love, InshAllah</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://jeanajorgensen.com/wordpress/removing-shame-from-the-dance-classroom/" target="_blank">Removing Shame from the Dance Classroom</a></b><br />
<b>by Jeana Jorgensen, Ph.D.</b><br />
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The first point of overlap is that when we’re talking about shame, we can discuss not only what it is and how it feels, but also how it looks on the physical body. Glickman defines shame as the sense that one is a bad person, and that shaming oneself or others is often destructive, but it can also lead to positive outcomes, such as giving one an incentive to not do certain unhealthy things again. Yet the discussion of shame can go much deeper than emotion & reaction; we can also talk about the physical behaviors that embody shame.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://jeanajorgensen.com/wordpress/removing-shame-from-the-dance-classroom/" target="_blank">Read More at JeanaJorgensen.com</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://aphro-ism.com/2015/08/19/weareallvegans-that-awkward-moment-when-the-vegan-society-shared-100-black-vegans/" target="_blank">#WeAerAllVegans: That Awkward Moment When the Vegan Society Shared ‘100 Black Vegans’…</a></b><br />
<b>by Aph Ko</b><br />
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In my head I thought: how much more powerful and paradigm-shifting would her article have been if she simply introduced the world to black vegan activists who were doing ground-breaking work like Dr. Breeze Harper who actually created a conference specifically focusing on veganism and #blacklivesmatter?</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://aphro-ism.com/2015/08/19/weareallvegans-that-awkward-moment-when-the-vegan-society-shared-100-black-vegans/" target="_blank">Read More at Aphro-ism</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-81042541870045764402015-08-19T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-19T13:00:01.861-04:00Wednesday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-ways-critics-political-correctness-have-it-backwards/" target="_blank">6 Ways Critics Of Political Correctness Have It Backwards</a></b><br />
<b>By J.F. Sargent</b><br />
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This is something I hear a lot these days -- sometimes it's angry bloggers complaining about "Social Justice Warriors" or "SJWs," sometimes it's Bill Maher, and sometimes it's even actual human beings with real thoughts and feelings. So I dug into some of the "PC Suckz00rz" arguments and quickly realized that not only are they wrong, they're exactly wrong, which is sort of impressive.</blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/7-hilarious-lies-and-truths-about-sex-that-every-college-kid-should-know/" target="_blank">7 Hilarious Lies and Truths About Sex That Every College Kid Should Know</a></b><br />
<b>by Vianca Masucci</b><br />
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After a hoard of hillbillies flooded Target’s social media pages with their hate speech in response to the company’s decision to remove gender branding from their toy aisles, I decided that it was time to pay Target a visit. In solidarity, of course. As I entered the store—making sure to look away from the capitalist thirst trap that is the 1-3$ section—I saw a garden of 79$ mini-fridges and those colorful multi-head lamps that always seem cool until they start melting and droplets of plastic magma burn through your hands. This sale could only signify one thing: college time! I couldn’t help but reflect on my own college years…and all of the fucking fumbles, the sex stumbles, and the cunt calamities that salted my college years came to the forefront of my thoughts immediately. WHY DO AWKWARD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/7-hilarious-lies-and-truths-about-sex-that-every-college-kid-should-know/" target="_blank">Read More at Black Girl Dangerous</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://mathbabe.org/2015/08/18/the-chef-shortage-explained/" target="_blank">The Chef Shortage, Explained</a></b><br />
<b>by by Sam Kanson-Benanav</b><br />
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I am a professional restaurant person – cook, manager, server, and bartender (on nights when a bartender doesn’t show up). As a recent Washington Post article highlights: it has become increasingly more difficult for kitchens to staff their teams with proper talent. We could ponder a litany of reasons why talented cooks are not flocking to the kitchens, but if you prefer to stop reading now, just reference Mathbabe’s entirely accurate post on labor shortages. </blockquote>
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Or, we could just pay cooks more. As it turns out, money is a very effective motivator, but restaurants employ two cannibalizing labor models based on fundamentally contrasting motivators: tipping and wages. I’ll take these on separately.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://mathbabe.org/2015/08/18/the-chef-shortage-explained/" target="_blank">Read More at MathBabe</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/if-43-of-young-people-arent-straight-or-gay-why-do-only-2-identify-as-bi/" target="_blank">If 43% of young people aren’t straight or gay, why do only 2% identify as bi?</a></b><br />
<b>by stavvers</b><br />
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A YouGov poll was published the other day which revealed that 43% of 18-24 year olds don’t identify as completely straight, or completely gay, with pretty substantial chunks of other generations also being somewhere in the middle on the Kinsey scale (a third of 25-39 year olds identify this way; heck, even 21% of 60+ year olds don’t identify as exclusively straight or gay). Nowhere in the reporting did it mention how many people identified as bisexuals, preferring to focus on heteros and gay and lesbian people.</blockquote>
<b><a href="https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/if-43-of-young-people-arent-straight-or-gay-why-do-only-2-identify-as-bi/" target="_blank">Read More at Another Angry Woman</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/being-23-made-me-want-a-boyfriend/" target="_blank">Being 23 Made Me Want a Boyfriend, And I Hate That</a></b><br />
<b>by Sophie Vickers</b><br />
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I’ve never been someone who needs a boyfriend, or wants one, particularly. Some people will no doubt think I say that to cover up my own, desperate craving for/inability to find a partner, but it’s not true.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/being-23-made-me-want-a-boyfriend/" target="_blank">Read More at Zusterschap Collective</a></b><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-68512210975967480692015-08-18T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-18T13:00:00.963-04:00Tuesday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/why-am-i-really-wearing-this-dress-on-clothing-and-the-pressure-to-be-feminine/" target="_blank">Why Am I Really Wearing This Dress?: On Clothing and the Pressure to Be Feminine</a></b><br />
<b>by Kendra Dawsey</b><br />
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Gendered clothing is a huge facet of our society. It was only in the past hundred years that a woman wearing pants was considered socially acceptable, and it was instilled in me at an early age that men do not wear dresses and women do. These ideas stem from transmisogyny, homophobia, strict gender roles and really salty unfashionable people. If you ask anyone why things had to be this way, would they have a practical reason for it? Or would they make up some weird gender-normative shit about women giving birth or doing housework more easily in a dress?</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/why-am-i-really-wearing-this-dress-on-clothing-and-the-pressure-to-be-feminine/" target="_blank">Read More at Black Girl Dangerous</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/08/moolaade-female-genital-mutilation-and-geographical-morality.html#.VdM3C3V3lhE" target="_blank">‘Moolaadé': Female Genital Mutilation And Geographical Morality</a></b><br />
<b>by Brigit McCone</b><br />
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The 18th century Irish politician Edmund Burke coined the term “geographical morality” to slam Britain’s Governor General of India, Warren Hastings, for excusing his own corruption by claiming it met Indian cultural norms. Burke fought a 10-year campaign to hold Hastings accountable for the colonial exploitation of India, under the belief that “there is no action which would pass for an act of extortion and of oppression in England, that is not an act of extortion and oppression in Europe, Asia, Africa and all the world over.” Such criticism of geographical morality challenges ideas of cultural relativism. Yet, it was Burke who debunked his peers’ assumptions about the Oriental barbarism of the Koran, by an extensive study that demonstrated that it could serve as a culturally appropriate guarantor of civil rights. He aimed to oppose geographical morality through the defense of personal liberty worldwide, while respecting established cultures rather than imposing foreign norms.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/08/moolaade-female-genital-mutilation-and-geographical-morality.html#.VdM3C3V3lhE" target="_blank">Read More at Bitch Flicks</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2015/08/17/in-his-own-words-julian-bond-1940-2015/" target="_blank">In His Own Words: Julian Bond (1940-2015)</a></b><br />
<b>by Arturo R. García</b><br />
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The American social justice movement mourned the loss of pioneer and lawmaker Julian Bond on Saturday, after he passed away at the age of 75.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2015/08/17/in-his-own-words-julian-bond-1940-2015/" target="_blank">Read More at Racialicious</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.theshoopsroost.com/2015/08/16/the-progressive-march-of-pop-culture/" target="_blank">The progressive march of pop culture</a></b><br />
<b>by Tony</b><br />
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Hollywood, aka Tinsel Town, is home to the entertainment industry of the United States. Viewed as the land of the rich and famous, Hollywood has long been the destination for many people seeking to make a name for themselves, whether on the small-screen, the big-screen, or in the music industry. Unfortunately, with so many people looking for fame and fortune, Hollywood is a difficult industry to break into, let alone succeed in. Some groups of people have an advantage in the industry, due to a bias in their favor. This bias-which favors white, heterosexual, cisgender men-has resulted in a Hollywood that is not reflective of our culture at large. Because of this bias, members of marginalized communities-LGBT people, women, and People of Color-have greater difficulty making it in the entertainment industry. Whether in front of the cameras or behind them, on the big screens or the small ones, these groups have long been plagued by unequal treatment in Hollywood.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.theshoopsroost.com/2015/08/16/the-progressive-march-of-pop-culture/" target="_blank">Read More at The Shoop's Roost</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/when-your-parents-stalk-you/" target="_blank">When Your Parents Stalk You</a></b><br />
<b>By Eleanor Skelton</b><br />
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Stalking is usually applied to a romantic relationship gone bad. </blockquote>
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This is why people hesitate to believe me when I say I’ve been stalked by my parents.</blockquote>
<b><a href="https://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/when-your-parents-stalk-you/" target="_blank">Read More at Homeschoolers Anonymous</a></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz_nRc-QSDc" target="_blank">"Black Lives Won't Matter Until Black Power Matters" Gazi Kodzo speech #BlackOutTampa</a><br />
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richgoldstein13http://www.blogger.com/profile/13024589882600654072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980610532138692956.post-29713592053762888182015-08-17T13:00:00.000-04:002015-08-17T13:00:00.578-04:00Monday Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><a href="http://blacknerdproblems.com/site/blade-trinity-perspective-hurts/" target="_blank">Blade Trinity: Perspective Hurts</a></b><br />
<b>by L.E.H. Light</b><br />
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Blade: Trinity (2004) — The most maligned entry in the series, for good reason. Excuse the pun (taken from the original Blade movie), but the series had definitely gotten long in the tooth by 2004. All the amazing talent from Blade II is gone, using that movie as a stepping stone to more fertile film franchises (Hellboy, pairing del Toro and Perlman from Blade II, also came out in 2004). Wesley Snipes’ performance in this movie is so wooden he might actually be an undead vampire at this point. And Ryan Reynolds… I’ll get to Ryan Reynolds. </blockquote>
<b><a href="http://blacknerdproblems.com/site/blade-trinity-perspective-hurts/" target="_blank">Read More at Black Nerd Problems</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/a-pocket-guide-to-alternative-menstrual-products/" target="_blank">A Pocket Guide to Alternative Menstrual Products</a></b><br />
<b>by Sarah Berro</b><br />
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I am going to give an overview of some different menstrual products that you may not have heard of. The advantages of these alternatives include the fact that they are associated with contributing less to environmental waste and are not linked to health problems, such as Toxic Shock Syndrome. So, delve in to my handy guide for those who are curious about different menstrual methods:</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://zusterschapcollective.com/a-pocket-guide-to-alternative-menstrual-products/" target="_blank">Read More at Zusterchap Collective</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=10665" target="_blank">Can Nostalgia Be Sustainable?</a></b><br />
<b>by Sarah Nixon</b><br />
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More than eleven years ago I made my first account on Neopets, a browser-based virtual pet website whose gameplay centers around improving and customizing your pets, collecting, playing Flash games and trying to make it big in what’s essentially a capitalist economy. I was ten or eleven or so and devoted much of my free time (and my parents’ phone line) to playing. Neopets was a cornucopia of possibilities for me. I could try to save my money to get enough to buy a rare paint brush that would transform my Neopet into a pretty color and design. I could try to work towards getting a high score in one of their games. I could chat and make friends and just hang out on the NeoBoards. I could explore any of the many corny but complex plotlines going on in Neopia at any given time. I could practice my writing through text-based roleplaying. I could even dabble in things like a miniature stock market, but let’s just say that I lacked the economic prowess to take those efforts very far.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=10665" target="_blank">Read More at Not Your Mama's Gamer</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2015/08/do-you-want-to-be-free-by-lawrence-ware.html" target="_blank">Do You Want to be Free?</a></b><br />
<b>by Lawrence Ware</b><br />
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In the introduction to 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole asks a question that is at once simple and profound. Melodically chanting like a griot at the beginning of a mythical tale, he asks the listener: "Do you want to be free?" </blockquote>
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Upon first glance, this seems an uncomplicated question. It is not.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2015/08/do-you-want-to-be-free-by-lawrence-ware.html" target="_blank">Read More at New Black Man (In Exile)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-2-food/are-your-grandparents-being-served#sthash.t7T1ijph.dpuf" target="_blank">Are Your Grandparents Being Served?</a></b><br />
<b>by Lisa Wong Macabasco</b><br />
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A new San Francisco program serves Chinese seniors nutritional Chinese American favorites far from the senior center.</blockquote>
<b><a href="http://hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-2-food/are-your-grandparents-being-served#sthash.t7T1ijph.dpuf" target="_blank">Read More at Hyphen Magazine</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXBZFvFXdA" target="_blank">ST. LOUIS BLUES. Blues Legend Bessie Smith's only film appearance. Uncut 1929</a></b><br />
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