Culture
Double Rainbow: Stepping Back
This blog series is rapidly closing in on its second week and I have only just gotten started. I have a lot in mind to cover—autistic gender and sexuality in parents’ guides, autism and sex ed, the pathologization of gender non-normative behavior—and I have barely scratched the surface of... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: '60s Movie Star Kim Novak Dislikes a Movie, is a Complete Douche About It
Remember what a douchebag Johnny Depp was last year when he compared his many celebrity photoshoots to instances of rape? You’d think his fellow... Read more »
Childhood Obesity Campaign Still Bullying Fat Kids
You may have seen these ads last week from Atlanta’s Strong4Life Campaign, which attempt to let kids (and their parents) know that they are fat and shame/scare/bully... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Saving Face
A look at Alice Wu’s Saving Face, a film about Chinese-American lesbian identity, that makes the case for why it’s much more... Read more »
The 99%: Trashy People Talking Trash on Trash Television, or Jersey Shore
Trailer trash, white trash—these ways of describing low-income people aren’t new. They’re meant to make people quite literally disposable, a way of denying their humanity and their potential to offer anything of value. With Jersey Shore, though, we get the “trash” without... Read more »
Marimacho Seeks Hunky Heartbreakers!
The super stylish folks at Marimacho—the masculine clothing line for cis women and transmasculine bodies—are launching a new Tumblr! To kick things off, they’re hosting a... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Sweet, Sweet "Chocolate"
I’m about to wax rhapsodic about a cheesy, transparently manipulative martial arts film. But seriously: Prachya Pinkaew’s 2008 movie Chocolate is the best film I’ve ever seen that features an autistic protagonist. And it’s the only piece of media I’ve... Read more »
The 99%: "But look how far we
Yet, what Downton Abbey also offers for the modern viewer is the idea that, today, class differences have been overcome. The stark separation between the lives of the family and the staff illustrate a segregation that is no longer overt in today’s society. Few people have... Read more »
Pomp and Quirkumstance: Portlandia Season Two Airs Tonight, Air Your Thoughts
I have a complicated relationship with Portlandia. To start, I was born in Portland and I still live here, and I want everyone in the world to know that it’s a great city with more to offer than coffee and bearded white... Read more »
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