Queen bees go head-to-head in Bring It On: All or Nothing. [source]
As is often the case when I find myself any place where cable is readily available. I stayed up entirely too late last night watching television, sucked into a movie I would have never deliberately viewed. Last night, the film in question was Bring […]
“Crop: 1997-98″ by Roxy Paine. [source]
When I was young, my grandmother on my father’s side lived in Seymour, Texas, where she maintained a garden that occupied her entire backyard and produced everything from apricots to okra to poppies. From the poppies, she harvested seed, which she used to make huge batches of Czech kolaches from […]
The working girls of 1980s 9 to 5. [source]
Today is Equal Pay Day. A day to pause, reflect, and get your hackles up about the fact that women still only make 78 cents on the male dollar. As if that weren’t infuriating enough, that’s just the average — African-American women earn just 69 cents on […]
News report on the “sexting epidemic,” and parents’ efforts at high-tech snooping to curtail the behavior. [source]
As much as I hate the word “sexting,” I am still on board for the push in Vermont to legalize teens’ phone-to-phone dirty picture sending [story]. It’s not so much that I think sending naked pictures of yourself […]
Apparently, Liz Henry made a rough transcript of the panel, “Can Social Media End Racism?,” that I posted about yesterday, which Nalo Hopkinson cleaned up quite a bit. For those of you interested in the subject who weren’t able to attend the panel, it’s definitely recommended reading. The transcript is available here on Henry’s blog.
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