By celina • 17 years ago

Daisy Hernandez: Examining the ColorLines


Daisy Hernandez is the Managing Editor of ColorLines, a bimonthly progressive magazine based in Oakland, CA that takes the issue of race in America to the forefront of national debate. It is published by the Applied Research Center based in New York City.
Daisy is the co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Today’s Feminism. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Ms., Newsday, National Catholic Reporter, The Progressive Media Project, Bitch, Curve, Criticas, and In These Times.
Here’s Daisy….


Daisy Hernandez is the Managing Editor of ColorLines, a bimonthly progressive magazine based in Oakland, CA that takes the issue of race in America to the forefront of national debate. It is published by ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

The Onion brings the Friday funny


I love The Onion.

“I don’t know where Lydia gets off acting like the big cheese all the damn time,” said James Halterfeyer of his boss, whom he described as “bossy.” “She acts like what she says goes, even if I don’t agree with it entirely.”
Roughly 65 percent of Bernoldini employees echoed Halterfeyer’s sentiments, specifically mentioning her refusal to be addressed as “Lydia” and the fact that female employment had swelled to 35 percent of the company since Bernoldini took over from her father in 2002.

Amazing.


I love The Onion.

“I don’t know where Lydia gets off acting like the big cheese all the damn time,” said James Halterfeyer of his boss, whom he described as “bossy.” “She acts like what she ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

On books, dedications, and moms

Hey y’all. So Huffington Post decided to excerpt a part of Full Frontal Feminism as part of their iVillage/Fearless Voices Mother-Daughter campaign. So if you want a sneak peak at the book, and an explanation of my cryptic dedication (To Miss Magoo), click here.
UPDATE: A savvy reader made a very good point about Amazon. If folks who have read the book want to leave a review…it would be super helpful. Thanks!

Hey y’all. So Huffington Post decided to excerpt a part of Full Frontal Feminism as part of their iVillage/Fearless Voices Mother-Daughter campaign. So if you want a sneak peak at the book, ...
By Courtney • 17 years ago

Hollywood Sausage Fest

Anyone who has been tortured by some of the really bad movies getting way too much play at the local theater these days probably wasn’t surprised to read the New York Times story yesterday about the shortage of female power in Hollywood. Despite the fact that women make up 51% of movie goers, three of the four women who held top jobs at Hollywood’s major studios have left in the past 14 months. All have been replaced my men.
I’m no fan of essentialism (i.e. women always make movies other women like because they share some innate sensibilty a.k.a bad romcoms), but there is something unarguably frightening about one of our nation’s most powerful messaging industries being in ...

Anyone who has been tortured by some of the really bad movies getting way too much play at the local theater these days probably wasn’t surprised to read the New York Times story yesterday about the ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Touch the girl and see if she is a witch?

Apparently Nintendo DS has a game out called Doki Doki Majo Saiban. And what is the object of the game? Touch the scantily-clad prepubescent looking girl to see if she is a witch! And the description from a gamer blog:

It’s the most infamous DS game we’ve never played. And we know surprisingly little about Doki Doki Majo Saiban. Intertube reaction has run the gamut of amused (us) to critical (others) and in denial (others). Some are claiming the title is flat out porn, while some state that there’s no way Nintendo would let that happen. We doubt that the game is at either end of the pole and still giggle at the newly minted touch-a-girl-to-see-if-she’s-a-witch sub-genre.

Yes, because there is ...

Apparently Nintendo DS has a game out called Doki Doki Majo Saiban. And what is the object of the game? Touch the scantily-clad prepubescent looking girl to see if she is a witch! And the description ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Arrested for a kiss?


This is ridiculous.

An Indian judge today issued arrest warrants for Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty for contravening the country’s public obscenity laws by embracing and kissing at an Aids awareness event, a report said.

Not only are people totally freaking out about this in India, including burning effigies of Gere (wtf) but Shetty is being constructed as the “virgin” of the Hindu nation (who must be protected from the nefarious influence of Western influence, which, I think is too late to do, since she was on the UK version of Big Brother, but I digress). I mean I understand inappropriate displays of affection may make some people uncomfortable, but to make such a huge media spectacle out of ...


This is ridiculous.

An Indian judge today issued arrest warrants for Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty for contravening the country’s public obscenity laws by embracing and kissing at an Aids awareness event, a report said.

Not only ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

Award-winning domestic violence?

This video, “A Little Too Late,” features Toby Keith singing to this tied-to-a-chair-in-the-basement-girlfriend. He threatens her with a shovel, then it looks like he’s going to drown her, or maybe bury her alive. It’s fucking sick and scary.
It was nominated for Best Video at the Country Music Television Awards. Nice, huh?
Via Fun with Feminism.

This video, “A Little Too Late,” features Toby Keith singing to this tied-to-a-chair-in-the-basement-girlfriend. He threatens her with a shovel, then it looks like he’s going to drown her, or maybe bury her alive. It’s fucking ...

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