Blogs about: Cultural Appropriation

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What You're Doing is SO NOT COOL.

Elissa wrote 1 week ago: Enraged white guy tells two black men they have no right to sell dream catchers. … more →

Tags: Haiku, Friday, Poetry, Pacific Northwest, white people, overheard at Pike Place Market, Race, Privilege, offended

Damn you (again), PETA!

feministdonut wrote 2 weeks ago: via The Abolitionist Approach The organization willing to exploit all other forms of oppression to … more →

Tags: bullshit advertising, sexism, Exploitation, World, Animal Rights, general assholery, Feminism, PETA, Lydia Guevara

NeGrass

k. emvee wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m a sucker for good music. A rock and roll song with a good deep bassline never fails to tur … more →

Tags: Music, Laura Love, negrass, Abigail Washburn, Carolina Chocolate Drops, jo miller and her burly roughnecks, bluegrass, Racialicious

Post-racial getting married

John wrote 3 weeks ago: Given all of the attention that former princess of Genovia received for her role in Rachel Getting M … more →

Tags: Arts and Letters, genovia, Mixed Race America, post-racial, Rachel Getting Married

I got my propaganda, I got revisionism: Book Review: Che's afterlife : the legacy of an image

r wrote 1 month ago: Is art (always) resistance? Popular version of original photo by Korda The paradox is to wield Che … more →

Tags: Art, attribution, authenticity, authorial intent, Book Review, Books, Copyright, cultural memory, cultural ownership

"Aaja jind shamiyane ke tale..."

Alex T. wrote 1 month ago: Video contains SPOILERS! So I too have been entranced by the song “Jai Ho!” by A. H … more →

Tags: Who is the Native?, A. H. Rahman, Africa, Gloria Estefan, India, M I A, Mbube, Music, Shakira

In a Barbie World?

r wrote 1 month ago: I come neither to bury Barbie nor to praise her, but to acknowledge her larger cultural role, a … more →

Tags: Barbie, Copyright, cultural ownership, fair-use, gender differences in fandom, Intellectual Property, parody and satire, this means what I want it to mean, Trademark

Stealing Fashion (of the Yogi?!)

Nisha wrote 1 month ago: A friend sent me a link to the Supreme Models Spring/ Summer 2009 package, asking me what I thought … more →

Tags: Fashion, Photography, supreme models

The problem with decontextualization of intellectual property's cultural role, or why an algorithm cannot determine fair use

r wrote 1 month ago: Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet … more →

Tags: Copyright, Creative Commons, cultural memory, cultural ownership, fair-use, fan labor, fandom, Free Culture, Intellectual Property

The culture of writing2 comments

isaacespriu wrote 2 months ago: Before I get down to statting my writing day, I want to talk briefly about Cultural Appropriation (c … more →

Tags: writing, Short Story, writer, Writing Groups, Writers, speculative fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Sci-Fi

Brian Jungen: Prototypes for New Understanding (1998-2005)

clarexu wrote 2 months ago: The merger of ’sacred’ contemporary objects and aboriginal artifacts makes me intensely … more →

Tags: Art, Shoes, brian jungen, Prototypes for New Understanding, Air Jordan, Commodity Fetishism, Culture

Kooky-ness

nightwoodband wrote 2 months ago: I would have loved this lady, Bat for Lashes, when I was a kooky twelve-year old. (PS: I think the o … more →

Tags: the selby, 52 pick up, annakim violette, Bat For Lashes, feather headdress

Things I'm wondering

Auntie Ranty wrote 2 months ago: Is Xenocentrism cultural appropriation? Is it the same thing or merely similar? If so – why? … more →

Tags: Class, Culture, Gender, History, media, Race, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Identity Politics

Marriage, dating, and the vacuum seal of the economy

Auntie Ranty wrote 3 months ago: The Iowa supreme court decided today in favor of legalized same-gender marriage. Wait…..Iowa? … more →

Tags: Civil Rights, Class, Culture, Democrats, Economics, Gender, media, Politics, Race

REVIEW : The Warlords (2007)4 comments

Jonathan M wrote 3 months ago: This month’s issue of Videovista has recently gone up and it contains my review of Peter Chan … more →

Tags: film, Review, the warlords, Blood Brothers, Alexi Tan, Peter Chan, Chinese cinema, Jet Li, wuxia

"I'll give you eyes of blue..."

Alex T. wrote 3 months ago: They’re called slanties. Yes, slanties. The inspiration behind these products are Iggaak snow … more →

Tags: Who is the Native?, consumerism, slam poetry

What fandom and cultural context can tell us about the Obama Hope controversy1 comment

r wrote 4 months ago: Creative Commons photo of La Justicia no es ciega in Chile-- Another interpretation of the Roman God … more →

Tags: 1000 true fans, attribution, authenticity, authorial intent, cultural ownership, Dillinger Escape Plan, fair-use, metal, Metallica

You're in the jungle, baby!: Book Review: Terms of Use: Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons

r wrote 4 months ago: In her “sequel” to No trespassing : authorship, intellectual property rights, and the bo … more →

Tags: attribution, authenticity, Book Review, Books, copyfraud, Copyright, cultural memory, cultural ownership, Cute Animals

The West's Appropriation of Ancient Rome

Becky wrote 4 months ago: I stumbled across a show that reminded me of what Professor Parham said in class last week about how … more →

Tags: cupid, TV


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