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Adventures in Feministory: Ms. Mary Wilson, Supreme Lady

by Jennifer K. Stuller
June 21, 2010 at 12:13pm

Mary Wilson was born in 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi. She later moved to the Detroit Brewster Projects where at the age of 13 she met Florence Ballard and Diane Ross, the girls with whom she would become the greatest girl group of all time–The Supremes.

The story of the Supremes is one of friendship, dreams, tragedy, success, and glamour, as well as groundbreaking firsts in...

Political InQueery: The Ass-Backwards Apologies of the Beltway

by Everett Maroon
June 21, 2010 at 11:21am

There's that old line: Whatever you don't know won't kill you. Unlike other idioms that make a modicum of sense, this is one that has been proven useless a gazillion times over. One example:

On Our Radar

by Katie Waldeck
June 19, 2010 at 5:45pm

We're back again with another edition of On Our Radar - bringing you some of the most interesting things we read this week!

  • Riddhi Shaw takes a look at the misogynistic and homophobic undertones of Bros Icing Bros on Broadsheet. The drinking game, wherein a bro (never a female, and never gay) surprises another bro with a warm bottle of Smirnoff Ice and forces him to chug it, has...

TelevIsm: The Offensive Olympics' Closing Ceremonies

by Rachel McCarthy-James
June 19, 2010 at 4:18pm

Today, I conclude my comparative review of South Park and Family Guy. This is the last part of a four-part series (one, two, three for your convenience) called the Offensive Olympics. These shows are both notable for their propensity to rely on political shock value and the oppression of marginalized bodies to make their jokes, so I am investigating which is worse, and on which axis...

BitchTapes: The Media is the Message

by Katie Waldeck
June 18, 2010 at 8:06pm

Luddites beware! For my first BitchTapes as the resident New Media Intern, it seemed only appropriate that my to compile some of my favorite songs about just that: media and technology!

Political InQueery: The Supreme Gap Between Reality and Make-Believe

by Everett Maroon
June 18, 2010 at 8:21am

June 28, 2010, is a Monday. It is also roughly a week after the summer solstice, so just as the days start getting shorter here in the northern hemisphere, the United States Senate will begin hearings to confirm Elena Kagan as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Sound the trumpets and flip the play button on a rousing Sousa march.

Elena KaganWait a minute—it's probably not...

Snarky's (Classic) Cinemachine: Unpacking Sean Young

by Ange Anderson
June 18, 2010 at 8:13am

Hollywood seems to reserve a special hell for female actors who do not play nice, and the most enduring example–for me anyway–is Sean Young. Young’s performance in the 1982 Ridley Scott sci-fi classic Blade Runner left an indelible impression on me as a teenager and even more so when I saw the first of many “director’s cuts” theatrically.

TelevIsm: The Offensive Olympics: Family Guy

by Rachel McCarthy-James
June 17, 2010 at 10:44am

My affection for shows like King of the Hill and the Simpsons (the kind of shows that Family Guy half-heartedly rips off) grows the more I watch it and the better I know the characters, the setting, the style of humor. With Family Guy, though, I just grow irritated and bored.

No broken ribs in Breaking Dawn

by Kjerstin Johnson
June 17, 2010 at 10:35am

Even though we’re three feature films away from the conclusion of the Twilight film series (Eclipse premiers at the end of this month), there’s already talk of what the adaptation of Breaking Dawn, the final book in the series that is being broken into two movies, is going to include…or more specifically leave out, namely Bella’s bone-breaking, blood-soaked, and...

The Lady Is a Tramp: To Tango, To Touch

by Andrea Plaid
June 17, 2010 at 8:00am

I think we in the US get that notion confused in our exploitative, mushily erotic society, where every touch is perceived as sexually charged yet suspect–due to, among other influences, homophobia, soap operas, rom-coms, romance novels, porn, puritanism, rape culture, and music videos–that some folks fail to understand the in-between physical contact, which is where quite a bit of...

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