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The 99%:
For the Bluths, their wealth is a performance, but their class privilege is real. They live in a former shell of their old life: they share a model home built by the once-lucrative Bluth construction company that stands alone in an unfinished development. Beautiful inside and out, the home... Read more »
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 »
Sm{art}: Eve Arnold
The first week of the new year brought with it the passing of Eve Arnold, one of the first women to earn recognition as a photojournalist in the mid-twentieth century. Though she is perhaps best known for capturing celebrities... 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 »
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