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Dove: Pioneer or Panderer?
I must admit, the first seven times someone emailed Dove’s ubiquitous new ad campaign, I got a little weepy and emotional. It hit all the right cords, all the soft, vulnerable spots that most women...
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S(Monday) Scraps 105
1. TEXAS: This is a long and beautiful piece by Amy Gentry for The Rumpus about abortion, body politics, and who we’re really protecting. 2. BADASS: Senator Claire McCaskill replies to James Taranto’s...
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S(Monday) Scraps 106
1. WEIGHT: How not to be a dick to your fat friends. Spot on advice from Marianne at XOJane. 2. HOLLYWOOD: This clip is old, but man is it good. Watch Dustin Hoffman have a few on-camera epiphanies...
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Do I get to write about Trayvon, too?
Well, I did. I feel further outside my wheelhouse than I’ve been in a while on this one, but I have thoughts and I have a blog and consequently those thoughts will be put to paper… screen, for...
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“White Liberal Dude Privilege Syndrome”
Yup, bet this is a really hard time for YOU, bro My favorite thing I’ve read this week is the apology letter from David Roberts at Grist after he referred to a former Anthony Weiner intern as a “hobag”...
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S(Monday) Scraps 108
1. AUTHORS: 50 places every literary fan should visit, according to Flavorwire. I’ve been to one… 2. OITNB: If you are not watching Orange is the New Black I don’t even really know what to say to you...
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S(Tuesday) Scraps 109
1. HOOPS: Bill Simmons, who I generally love, gets rightfully reamed by college basketball player Wayne Washington when Simmons refers to his dreads as “stinky.” 2. AUTHORS: Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep,...
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More on Miley
How many essays have you read about Miley Cyrus today? I think I’m up to 11. It’s like a gender studies bingo card: cultural appropriation, slut-shaming, female chauvinist pigs, shock politics,...
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I promise this is not a post about blackface
I promise this is not an post about blackface, although for the first paragraph or so it might seem that way. Blackface is inevitably in the news this time of year as people nationwide make terrible...
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“I won’t date _________ people” = Racist? Yes.
This week for Role/Reboot I wrote about the always controversial subject of racial preferences while dating. It started because a friend (who is Asian) asked if I thought it was racist to not want to...
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Sasheer Zamata and “Preferential Casting”
As you’ve probably heard, Saturday Night Live hired a black female comedian this week, Sasheer Zamata, 6 years after their last black female performer (Maya Rudoph) left the show. You may not have...
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“If you’re feeling attacked, it probably means you’re having your privilege...
If you haven’t spent much time with the Batty Mamzelle essay “This is what I mean when I say ‘White Feminist’”, you should. If it hasn’t entered the canon of intersectional third wave feminist texts,...
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Yoga Is for Everyone, (aka Can it, Jen Caron)
I refuse to link to Jen Caron’s terrible essay at xoJane about how tough it was for her, as a skinny white woman, to be in a yoga class with a large black woman. It’s awful on every level. You’ve...
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Thanks, Critics
This week for Role/Reboot, I’ve been thinking about why I keep writing in that community, why I’m such a “sharer” (as opposed to, say, a diary keeper). One of the things I’ve landed on is gratitude for...
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The Cool Kids
Got your geek out goggles on? Good, you’re going to need them. This week the Schomberg Center organized a conversation between Zadie Smith (White Teeth, On Beauty, NW) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...
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The Last Book I Loved: Miss Anne in Harlem
Do you guys remember back in college when you’d pick up your books for a new class and the first thing you’d do is skip to the back and be thrilled to find out that 100 of the 500 pages you were...
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