Last week, Turner Classic Movies showed a series of movies about Native Americans. One that I watched was titled “Naturally Native.” The 1998 movie was about three Native American sisters (acted by Valerie Red-Horse, Irene Bedard, and Kimberly Norris Guerrero) living in Los Angeles who decide to try to sell a line of cosmetics based [...]
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Most everyone knows who Danica Patrick is. She’s the most successful and well-known woman driver in the history of the Indy 500 (and is just as well known for her “racy” photos and commercials). But, of course, there haven’t been many women drivers. It looks like this year will have the most women drivers in [...]
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Did Southwest Airlines ban this PETA ad because of its racy nature, or because of its pro-vegan message? Southwest reports that the ad was rejected from publication in their magazine, Spirit, because it is “too provocative to run.” PETA, however, claims that this advertisement is no sexier than other ads Southwest accepts– and that Southwest’s [...]
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Well, it’s that time of year: finals time! I have been in the thick of it for the past week or so, which is why my posts have been scarce. While my head’s been buried in multiple regression and policy books, I’ve been listening to certain playlists of mine on repeat, to help get me [...]
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M.I.A. is a popular and controversial musical artist from England, of Sri Lankan origin. Though many of us remember her music from years ago (I have to say, her song “Galang” is still one of my favorites), her 2007 album Kala got a lot of play. The single “Paper Planes” was sampled everywhere, from commercials [...]
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I saw a short blurb about a new independent movie called “Women’s Studies.” It’s coming out on pay-per-view on May 1 and DVD on June 8. I don’t know anything about it, but the blurb was funny: An independent horror movie about a pregnant grad student who is kidnapped by an all-girls school that is [...]
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I found this new PSA, featuring Bristol Palin on Feministing this morning. The PSA’s message is brief: What if I didn’t come from a famous family? What if I didn’t have all their support? What if I didn’t have all these opportunities? Believe me, it wouldn’t be pretty. Pause before you play. Feministing posted a [...]
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In a recent New York Times blog article, photographer Zed Nelson describes what he sees as globalization’s increasing impact on standards of beauty. “Globalization hasn’t just given us Starbucks in Beijing and shopping malls in Africa,” he said. “It is also creating an eerily homogenized look.” The increasing reach of American or Western advertisements, tv [...]
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I saw a truck this morning delivering food for the Diet To Go food company. (Diet To Go prepares a week’s worth of food (supposedly healthier) and delivers it to a central location for its customers to pick up.) One side of the truck shows before-and-after photos of a man with the words “Thanks for [...]
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