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Reclaiming Lady
My current auditory obsession is this remake of Fela Kuti’s 1974 song Lady, by tUnE-yArDs, featuring ?uestlove, Angelique Kidjo and Akua Naru. It is the first single from the second Red Hot compilatio… more →
Vuga!
Socially Meaningless: If You Click Them, They Will Come
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Tag someone who eats ALL the bacon. Sign up for weekly news updates from www.WeSaveTheWorld.co.nz/hu … more →
War on Terror: Demonization of Ethnic Minorities- an Unwanted Media Effect?
wrote 3 weeks ago: The Boston marathon bombings have sparked sufficient controversy to question the media spin and our … more →
Writing and Psychology: The difference between Psychopathy and Psychosis
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wrote 3 weeks ago: People just love to write the mentally ill. And why not- from Joker to Hannibal to Anton to freaking … more →
Indians. We're good for more than just the token song and dance number, you know.
wrote 1 month ago: thirstrani: Over the past year or so, the problem I’ve had with the representation of Indians in Hol … more →
Commission on older women in public life: The call for evidence
wrote 1 month ago: This piece by Jean Rogers on the Totally4Women website gives some further information on the Commiss … more →
Leading The Way With Old Fashioned Views of Race, Women, And Power
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been catching up on two dramas I really enjoy Deception and Scandal. Deception a starring Mega … more →
Our Best Chance
wrote 1 month ago: A line I always say is ‘I was raised by books.’ I basically spent my entire childhood wrapped up in … more →
Occupy Toronto: limitations to freedom of speech
wrote 1 month ago: The Occupy movement provided an extensive look into the deeply cemented problems and issues that are … more →
Hacks All Folks
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wrote 1 month ago: Who is that bumbling buffoon? Why that’s Rebekah Brookes, sir. One of for your fork and spoon … more →
News Analysis: Representation of the rape of Swiss tourist in India on three different media platforms.
wrote 1 month ago: In critically analysing three geographically situated articles in South Africa, United Kingdom and t … more →
"FEMINISTS AREN'T FUN": A COMMENTARY ON THAT.
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wrote 1 month ago: I want to live in a grey world where nobody laughs or smiles and we all live in an Orwellian dystopi … more →
What you see isn't always what you get
wrote 1 month ago: It seems to me that every time I turn on the television or watch a movie these days I am instantly b … more →
The hurt that accompanies the denial of ageing
wrote 1 month ago: It’s not surprising that our media is devoid of stories and pictures of old women. These days … more →
With great ratings comes greater resonsibility
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been noticing a pattern lately. It isn’t a new one, but rather a well worn argument … more →
King Hit: Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
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wrote 2 months ago: An image can say a thousand words, raise ten-thousand voices, and change a hundred-thousand lives. F … more →
On queer representation in media with a touch of heterophobia~
wrote 2 months ago: (TRIGGER WARNING: BRIEF, NON-GRAPHIC MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT/EMOTIONAL ABUSE) Hum. So I was think … more →
Wrestling with an Angel: The Importance of Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies to Communication Theory
wrote 2 months ago: Alexander Louis Leloir, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1865) Describing Stuart Hall’s Cultural Stud … more →
Manly Women: Depicitons of Women Suffraggettes in the Media
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wrote 2 months ago: Women in Canada made tireless efforts over a span of decades before being granted franchise. Media … more →
