As I was getting my daily dose of feministing.com, I ran across yesterday’s post by Jessica Valenti asking for support for one of their contributors, Courtney Martin, to win the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest. Now don’t get me wrong, I love feministing.com, it is one of my favorite sites. That’s why it’s [...]
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October 7, 2009
The United Nations Website
I’m not sure when or how recently the UN overhauled their website, but it looks fantastic. Clearly, someone in the right place heard the complaints about their crotchety website and the confusion about the actual structure and organization of the massive organism itself.
Let me tell ya, I like progress.
I can actually find the UN Radio [...]
September 14, 2009
You Can NOT Be Serious!
I have never been a huge fan of Serena Williams (being an older sibling I always preferred Venus), but it’s interesting listening to the reactions to Serena’s outburst Saturday night and the days since. McEnroe had deplorable behavior when he was playing in the ’80s. Most found his behavior humorous which [...]
September 4, 2009
Work
I was browsing the NYTimes and they’re asking for definitions of work. Well, this came to mind: a poster I bought in high school which lives in my blue bedroom at my parent’s house:
Because a woman’s work is never done.
and is underpaid, or unpaid, or boring, or repetitious,
and we’re the first to get fired,
and what [...]
August 31, 2009
Fall 2009
My favorite time of the year is right around the corner. Fall. While everything is dying, a surge of hope is rising. Dying leaves reincarnate themselves into great bold fashion colors.
Death equals new beginnings, right?
I was on crutches through the Fall of last year unable to be THE Bryant Park groupie straining for THE glimpse, [...]
August 27, 2009
Lady Film Directors
There are so few ladies directing feature films that I feel an obligation to watch in homage to my sister’s future career as a filmmaker. Of late, there have been Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, Kathyrn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, and now it seems Jane Campion has a wonderful film to be released in mid-September [...]
July 8, 2009
Suede Magazine and its Predecessors
I stumbled upon Suede Magazine at CVS in Amherst, Mass a few years ago. I remembering bringing it back to my girls and we all clamoured over that magazine. The love shown was evident in its tattered feathered pages and unraveling binding. No matter how many times I say it, there are not enough positive images [...]
July 7, 2009
The Coil Review
My sister just returned from London after studying abroad for the semester at Queen Mary University. She stayed with me for a bit before heading back home to the Bay. But, I did notice while she was here, her hair was falling out. Her hair was everywhere every day. Her hair is a bit resistant [...]
March 27, 2009
The Black Notebooks
I just finished reading Toi Derricote’s literary memoir, The Black Notebooks. For some reason, I have always had a huge fascination with notebooks. I have stacks of notebooks at my parents’ house. Most are empty with nothing written inside for they are still waiting for the perfect something to fill their glorious pages. I was [...]
March 23, 2009
Christina Anderson
She is a playwright about to rock out at Yale’s School of Drama (um, Sanaa Lathan and Angela Bassett, anyone?) until her play was picked up to be peformed Off Broadway. Go Girl!
New York Magazine has more to say here.
