Feminism | Posted by Jill L on 08/23/2010
The Sex of the Scientist
Despite emerging from them under the vague impression that everything had gone well, I am currently awaiting my exam results with a degree of aprehension, multiplied by a summer of post-exam discussion and dissection.
However, sitting these papers confirmed something to me which I have long suspected. Whenever I exited the exam hall, I would be greeted by my contempoaries standing in huddles and, broadly speaking, the conversations would sound a bit like this. I’ll set the scene.
(Tuesday Afternoon, Outside School, Post Chemistry exam, Rain)
Boy 1- How do you think that went?
Boy 2- I aced it. Seriously. Probably did the best out of all of everyone who has ever sat the exam ever. It went brilliantly. It was so easy. Not going to lie, I was fantastic. …
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Pop-Culture | Posted by Brian C on 08/22/2010
Support Women Artists Sunday: Katy B
Katy B-(Katie Brien) is an English singer-songwriter and a graduate of the BRIT School. She is a R&B, funky, house and garage singer and has also performed under the name Baby Katy. Having been offered “major label deals” in 2009, she released her first single with the label Rinse in 2010. She has just completed a degree in Popular Music at Goldsmiths College, London.
DJ NG’s song “Tell Me”, which she featured on as Baby Katy, was released on a white label and later signed to Ministry of Sound. Katy B has collaborated with Geeneus to cover the Kevin Saunderson produced “Good Life” and the track “As I”. She also provides vocals on the track “Hold Me” for The Count and Sinden’s upcoming debut album Mega Mega Mega and features …
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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 08/21/2010
Saturday Vids: SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!
Wow, I think I got a good portion of my excitement out in the caps-heavy title, but SERIOUSLY, SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY IS BACK!!! I love it.
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Creative | Posted by Katherine C on 08/20/2010
At 6 AM
at 6 a.m.
according to my shadow i had grown another head
another long arm that sifted long
fingers
through my own knapsack
but i didn’t feel a thing
i guess i was an easy target
an early-morning woman carrying way too many things
i mean looking way too far up into the sky
but i whipped my hair through the
air
i smashed my paint box into the side of his face, i said
“you leave me alone, our Mother is dying and i am on my way to CHURCH!”
but that didn’t really happen
our Mother was dying and i was too sad to say anything
smash anything
and anyway
all that was in there were tampons and napkins
and these he scattered down the street in a …
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Feminism | Posted by Shanmin D on 08/19/2010
Not Two Separate Species
I’m taking a creative writing class this summer at the local community college. One day, a man brought in a story he’d written? I won’t get into what it was about, but when he finished reading it to the class, a girl spoke up and politely disagreed with him. The man was not offended, received the comment graciously, and all was well and good. However, I was distraught when another guy spoke up and suggested that the girl didn’t “get” the story because it was written “for a man, by a man.”
It reminded me of another incident that took place in my English class last year. The teacher asked if any of us had seen How to Train Your Dragon over the weekend. Another girl and I both raised …
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Feminism | Posted by Janani B on 08/17/2010
Queer Hair and Musings on Activism
I recently donated my hair for the 4th time. Locks of love requires that donations measure at least 10 inches, tip to tip. But while in the past my donations had left me with bobs at least chin-length or a bit longer, this time 10 inches meant lopping off the do up to the very roots. I am left now with a pixie cut. Truth be told, I love it. It’s comfortable, practical, and fun. But then, just two days after getting the cut I found myself in an uncomfortable predicament. I was just about to put on my “No on Prop 8” (repealed!) t-shirt when I caught myself in the mirror. Unsurprisingly, I look more queer than ever. Rather I look queer where before I passed as either straight …
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Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 08/16/2010
Teen Botox Epidemic? What That Really Means.
After reading reports that Charice Pempengco, an 18-year-old singer who recently landed a part on Glee, got Botox treatments for her TV debut, I proceeded to bang my head against a wall–ironically achieving the same goal of altering the shape of my face through frustrated self-inflicted violence that Charice accomplished with poisonous injections.
No, in reality I am a nonviolent, non-masochistic person, so instead of head-banging I started compiling a mental list of teens I know that have had cosmetic procedures. The classic “Happy-16th-Birthday-Honey-Here’s-A-New-Nose” bit is probably the one I hear of most frequently. While I am currently unaware of any who have had Botox (despite The New York Times claim that teen Botox is becoming an epidemic, with 12,000 injections performed on Americans teens last year), I do know …
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Pop-Culture | Posted by Brian C on 08/15/2010
Support Women Artists Sunday: Lykke Li
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson Li was born in Ystad, Skåne in 1986; her mother is a photographer, her father is a musician.[2] The family moved to Stockholm when Li was a toddler and later moved to a mountaintop in Portugal when Zachrisson was six, where they lived for five years; the family also spent time in Lisbon and Morocco and spent winters in Nepal and India.[2][3] She moved to the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn inNew York for three months when she was 19.[4][5][6] She returned when she was 21 to record her album.[7] When not touring, she resides in the Södermalm district of Stockholm.
Her …
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