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Read More: Miss(ing) Representation(s)Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 2011) tells a critical and true story about the relations among mainstream media and women’s political and personal power. It follows in the footsteps of…
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Read More: Hello Avatar! by Beth ColemanNow that it’s summer, I can read from that precarious pile of books on my desk. First up, Hello Avatar! There is much to recommend here, but let me begin…
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Read More: FemTechNet Invitation: Please Spread
I am hereby inviting you to a global project to activate networks of feminist artists and scholars of science and technology. Working with Anne Balsamo (at USC), and many others,…
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Read More: The Road Trip Experiment(This is re-posted from my Online Feminist Spaces project) I’m back from Colby College in Maine which also signals the almost-end to the six-month experiment I’ve been running on my…
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Read More: Playing the Pain Card: The Retraction of Ira Glass
This post is late in the news cycle of this media event because I tried, unsuccessfully, to publish it as an Op Ed. Enjoy! A few weeks ago, an unfortunate…
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Read More: Grrr-Ls
That’s grrr, like annoying, not Riot. Cuz there’s none of that in Girls (not to mention women of color). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ieiTaJrN4&w=420&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HAcSmz_pg&w=560&h=315] In the early 1990s, I was around…
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Read More: Framing a Blaxicana IdentityThis afternoon, my graduate student in Cultural Studies, Ana Thorne, successfully defended her dissertation, Framing a Blaxicana Identity: A Cultural Ethnography of Family, Race and Community in the Valley Homes,…
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Read More: Two Conferences: One Students’/Women’s Media PowerHome after back-to-back events where I wore one hat that just might be construed as two (an interesting slip [of the tongue] or tip [of the hat] that helps point…
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Read More: Still Around: HIV@30/ACTUP@25/NQC@20So many anniversaries, and so much fascination with the 90s! Looks like Watermelon Woman (Dunye, 1995) is going to be part of the posse of re-views too (slated for Framline…