By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 12 years ago

What We Missed

President Obama is currently in Australia, and while I do not love the main purpose of this trip – to arrange an increased American military presence in my home country – this photo, of America’s first Black President and Australia’s first woman Prime Minister, makes me happy.

The New York Times on women comedians who tell rape jokes.

Al Jazeera on the rise of the extreme right wing group, the English Defence League.

If you loved Jay Smooth’s “How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist” (and you did), you’re going to love his TEDx talk, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Talking About Race.”

New York, NY

Chloe Angyal is a journalist and scholar of popular culture from Sydney, Australia. She joined the Feministing team in 2009. Her writing about politics and popular culture has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York magazine, Reuters, The LA Times and many other outlets in the US, Australia, UK, and France. She makes regular appearances on radio and television in the US and Australia. She has an AB in Sociology from Princeton University and a PhD in Arts and Media from the University of New South Wales. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; her doctoral thesis was about how the genre depicts gender, sex, and power, and grew out of a series she wrote for Feministing, the Feministing Rom Com Review. Chloe is a Senior Facilitator at The OpEd Project and a Senior Advisor to The Harry Potter Alliance. You can read more of her writing at chloesangyal.com

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