I’ve thought about posting this topic for some time now. Not because it is a pressing issue in my life, but because I’ve had my share of “run-ins” that have left me wondering how to deal, and subsequently, how to process my experiences. These incidences have either registered as a direct experience, or via a situation that I have experienced vicariously through someone else. I for one don’t go actively searching for ways in which cultural clashes have manifested themselves, nor do I spend my time trolling through other people’s race-grievances in the media. At the same time, I am…. [ Read More ]
A few days ago Jezebel compiled and posted this compilation of Kanye West’s “most ridiculous on air moments.” I’m not sure what the point of the PSA was other than to draw yet more attention to the fails and foibles of a young Holly’weird entertainer on the brink; to further humiliate, demonize, excoriate, and mock a black male celebrity—oh look, he’s so angry [but in that sexy black male kind of way]—to add more fuel to the fire and ire of a clearly inexhaustible genius and sometime professional ego-maniac; or to show how ‘on point’ Jezebel is when it comes…. [ Read More ]
During my blogging dry spell I thought a lot about things that I wanted to write about. In my life it usually happens that the topics which I find fascinating are the things that intrigue me [duh] and trigger me at an emotional level. It’s usually never at first an intellectual response, because being a sensory person, like most people, it’s the visceral that appeals to me most. This is why advertising works, this is why the beauty/cosmetic industry thrives and this is why dudes dig bib boobs and shiny cars and lest we forget, the 11 year old “boy…. [ Read More ]
In the past few days, I’ve read with interest, two decidedly different opinions about our cultural obsession with Food. The first opinion by columnist Leah McLaren of the Globe and Mail is stated in first person, all-about-me-self-absorbed-privileged-girl-of-a-certain-class/access-glory, while the second opinion from Peggy Orenstein, a writer for the New York Times confides that she was once nervous to give birth to a girl-child for fear of whatever food phobias she, as a woman, might pass on to her. Don’t get me wrong. I actually like Leah McLaren. I find her witty, intelligent, and I appreciate her unique point of view….. [ Read More ]
ithinkyoushould. Read some news. Our lives are busy, oh so busy, but I think you should read some news. Be it online, or offline, I think you should. Reading the news is a pastime that shouldn’t ever go out of style. It’s a way of keeping up to date and processing our world one word at a time. Naturally, reading requires a different skill set than say listening to the news, or passively watching the news, and it is for this reason that I think reading the news is a good idea. When you actually read the news you are…. [ Read More ]
