February 2012
37 posts
“I’m not denying that both high and low culture need women’s voices,...”
– I have been despairing about the VIDA stats on women’s representation in magazines like The Atlantic and Harper’s (among other things), but Emily Gould is entirely fucking right. I open The New Yorker these days and think, “There’s nothing here for me.” So instead of...
New feminist film blog!
laurenbarbato:
Hey y’all Tumblrs,
I started a blog called “Film Fatale,” combining my two favorite things: film and feminism!
The blog is in its prelimenary stages but you can check out the first post (on the Oscars) here. And follow: thefilm-fatale.tumblr.com.
<3
L
“Recognize that you are not the center of the universe.
Figure out how the idea...”
– riot grrrl zine #2, 1991
(reprinted in Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus)
Judy Berman: Please submit to my fun/painful... →
heartbarf:
judyxberman:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS It’s Complicated: Feminists Write About the Misogynist Art We Love ed. Judy Berman and Niina Pollari “Listening to the Sex Pistols, trying to figure out if ‘Bodies’ was really an antiabortion song, I discovered that it was something even worse. It was an outburst of loathing…
By the way, this project that I’m co-editing with the infinite Judy...
“A young friend of mine, who had gone through period of cutting herself...”
– Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart on his new song, “I Luv Abortion.” What is amazing about Stewart is that he’s always sort of trolling, but at the same time, he’s entirely sincere and his music comes from an emotionally honest place. That’s why Xiu Xiu have never felt...
Mr. Shawn, the playwright and occasional “Gossip... →
Let’s just take a minute to admire the best career of all time: Wallace Shawn.
“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via grrrlstudies)
I plan on getting a ‘god is gay’ tattoo
(via girlsgetbusyzine)
This is why Nate always buys Canadian Club
(via psychotropicpolitics)
-Anna
(via rookiemag)
This sums up all the reasons I feel lucky that Kurt Cobain was the first rock star to...
In which The Times launches a digital membership... →
latimes:
More commonly known as a paywall.
What do you guys think? Are you willing to pay for news? Or do you think 15 articles a month is enough?
Want to be even more depressed about the future of journalism than you already were? Read the comments on this post. Not surprising, but upsetting nonetheless.
Salon is so angry about good TV lately
Stop comparing everything to “Portlandia”
“Key & Peele’s” edge-less, post-racial lie
“Downton Abbey,” we’re breaking up
“Hearing things like ‘Wake Up’ by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats’...”
– Greil Marcus on post-punk in an interview with Simon Reynolds. So, of course it’s wonderful. I got Marcus’ collection on that era, Ranters & Crowd Pleasers, as a gift in high school, and it introduced me to so much music — X, Essential Logic, even Gang of Four before their big...
“There just isn’t much about her persona, personality, or abilities as a...”
– Leah Beckmann at Gawker in yet another concise summation of my general feelings about LDR. Sorry. I know I should stop posting these, but I really liked this one.
“I used to try to explain that love didn’t preclude tension and conflict. Once I...”
– Ellen Willis, “Preface to Barbara O’Dair’s Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock” (1997), from Out of the Vinyl Deeps (via sylviawrath)
If you like rock and roll and are looking for some good reading material, may I recommend?
(To be honest I just skipped ahead and read the...
“In what has to be a deliberate act of “trolling”, last Friday [The...”
– How did I miss this laugh-out-loud hilarious Guardian piece on The Daily Fail trolling its own readers?
Men enjoy 'Downton Abbey' too, but for different... →
mollyeichel:
From the Daily News, February 15, 2012.
I preferred the headline “Dudes and ‘Downton.’” Most revealing observation: All of the men mentioned Bates or Carson as their favorite characters.
“Some say the day just forces us into a spiral of anxiety; unable to articulate...”
– Daria Morgendorffer on Valentine’s Day, sort of
“You are impressed by some combination of a young man’s music, charisma, dancing...”
– Roxane Gay, “Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them” (The Rumpus)
“I think strongly that teen pregnancy and young people having babies when they...”
– Joss Whedon on why Buffy the Vampire Slayer is having an abortion
“1. Go through your piece and flip the gender of your descriptive phrases’...”
– Maura Johnston, “How Not to Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide,” fuck yeah.
A Punk Show
gotagirlcrush:
Got a Girl Crush: Johanna Fateman posting old riot grrrl fliers from her extensive archive
The rest of her (and Kathleen Hanna’s) collection was donated to the Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Library at New York University. So rad.
(via johannafateman)
Justin Kirk Set to Lead NBC Comedy Pilot 'Animal... →
popculturebrain:
He’d be able to do it alongside the upcoming season of Weeds, but should Animal Kingdom work out he could leave the long running Showtime series.
Thank God. I was just saying that Uncle Andy needs his own show.
WatchHaving kind of a draggy week, but this made my morning. Thanks, Stereogum!
“And I dreamed. Oh how I dreamed. I would wake up and be beautiful. I would have...”
– I have all kinds of problems with this Tiger Beatdown piece. For one thing, the author doesn’t mention any women’s criticisms of LDR, despite the fact that there are lots of those pieces worth reading.
But what really gets me is the portion above, in which the author describes how she...
supergalaxy quest: forever defending →
desnoise:
also, what wouldn’t be considered behaving in response to the male gaze? would she have to don turtlenecks, tattoos, unwashed hair? this isn’t meant to polarize, i really am sincerely asking.
I really like Kasia Galazka’s entire response to my Liz Phair-Lana Del Rey SPIN post from this morning, because there’s obviously a whole lot I don’t understand about Del Rey’s appeal (and her...
“Phair’s overall point appears to be that she’s happy to see women...”
– This is only one of the fantastic paragraphs in Marc Hogan’s Liz Phair-on-Lana Del Rey post.
“The words “personal” and “dark” have been referenced in Paralytic’s promotional...”
– This is a really frustrating paragraph and reminds me strongly of the Klosterman/tUnE-yArDs stuff. I put on the album (which is still growing on me, and I agree with TMT is his best since Hissing Fauna) as I was reading this, and I don’t understand how he could be confused as to what Kevin is...
naming blogs is easy: "Integrity." →
maura:
Raptoravatar on Bon Iver’s wahhmbulance call:
I’m going to be honest here and say that this makes me at least like him for having integrity.
Also, this makes me think that one of the unsung downsides about poptimism is that it makes us way more okay with treating our artists like whores.
I liked the part where Vernon said, “fuckin’ rock n’ roll should not be decided by people that...