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Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth, Culture and Social Crisis
Punk, hardcore and alternative rock music scenes have been for years the almost exclusive realm of teenagers and youth in their 20s. Not only have they been areas of creative expression, but such subcultures have given young people a place to challenge beauty standards, political boundaries and cultural norms.
Continue reading...Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
15. July 2010
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AAARRRGGGGHHHH, Matey! I was one of the kids who grew up thinking that pirates were, well, cool as shit. Swashbucklers had evil-looking flags and tattoos, they wore eyepatches, they were fearless bandits, hedonistic drunks, and nationless nomads.
Continue reading...Disgrace
8. June 2010
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The plot of Disgrace is driven by the personal metamorphosis of David Lurie, an arrogant, libidinous professor, brilliantly played by John Malkovich. A poetry lecturer at Cape Town University, David's descent into disgrace is provoked by an affair he is having with a mixed-race student thirty years his junior.
Continue reading...Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book
12. November 2009
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Ballerina's with wrenches, a stubborn Miss Muffet and high heel cloning projects are just 3 of the 27 gender bending scenarios in Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak's Girl's are not Chick's coloring book. A yellow front and back cover is filled with multi-colored stars, the front featuring an upside down chick and on the flip side, a broken shell with the following definition
Continue reading...Fragmented Lives, Fragmented Parts: Culture, Capitalism and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Violence & Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez
20. April 2009
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Although overshadowed these days in mainstream media by drug cartel violence, Cuidad Juarez has come to capture the minds of many people concerned about social justice, and for good reason. In no other city in Latin America do controversies such as globalization, economic collapse, institutionalized violence against women, history, immigration, resistance, North American exceptionalism and the much lauded Eduardo Galleano-esque mythology so crisply cut paths.
Continue reading...Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural
20. April 2009
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In reading Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural, one cannot help but be reminded of historical blind spots regarding the nature of profit -- a spot progressive idealists miss regularly. One need look no further than something like progressive advocacy of drug legalization as an example of collective amnesia about North American economics.
Continue reading...The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women
12. April 2009
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Though you might not know it judging from the tenor of "post-feminist" discourse, young women's positive conceptions of themselves and their futures are the result of the first- to third-wave feminist movements. Such is the blessing and curse of many a successful campaign -- gains are so positive, people can take them and the organizing, fearlessness and sacrifice that got us here for granted.
Continue reading...Become A Friend
29. July 2010
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