Tag Archives: Popular Culture
Whitney Houston and moving beyond tragic narratives for women
Given the frenetic pace at which we overcome public deaths–writing about Whitney Houston five full days since she passed feels like old news. This, in and of itself, is sad. But even sadder is the lessons we learned this week about fame, addiction and tragedy, which are lasting. Like many others, Whitney Houston’s death felt [...]
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Does the “shit girls say” meme perpetuate sexism?
I have been living under a rock (OK, I was traveling in India and not keeping up with the latest internet memes) and I missed the series of videos that actually prompted the “shit so and so says” meme. The one that I had seen was Franchesca Ramsey’s “Shit white girls say to black girls,” [...]
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A good year for Chris Brown is a bad year for women
I don’t actually care all that much about the singer Chris Brown. Seriously, he’s just a famous singer. What I do care about is violence against women and victim blaming. And that’s unfortunately why Chris Brown sometimes becomes the topic of my writing and conversations. A story yesterday on NPR addressed the fact that Chris [...]
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Forthcoming HBO Special on Dr. Tiller
The brains behind True Blood has another show up his sleeve. Alan Ball, who’s the executive producer of many of my friends’ top DVR selection, is working on a new show called Witchita. The new drama will be based on Dr. Tiller, who was, for many years the figurehead of political and cultural tensions. Ball is [...]
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What if Rihanna and Chris Brown get back together?