May 2013
165 posts
Felicia's Melange: Star Trek Movie: SPOILERZZZZ →
thisfeliciaday:
You are officially spoiled if you read below, NO COMPLAINTS!
Up front I will say I enjoyed this latest Star Trek movie a lot. It was super noisy, but enjoyable, beautifully executed, and I particularly like some of the secondary characters, Spock was excellent, etc etc. I just want to share an…
so I couldn't fall asleep last night, and I...
wildehack:
about a reverse little mermaid, in which the prince’s sister has always dreamed of life under the sea, and then they are in a shipwreck, and as she hangs onto a piece of driftwood, she sees her brother rescued from drowning by a mermaid. Everybody thinks she’s mad, later, after she’s been rescued. But her brother did turn up alive and unharmed on the beach, and she knows what she saw:...
No Orders at the Window: Unsolicited Life Stories:... →
deliciouskaek:
ianthe:
kawaii-afro-fluff:
ianthe:
This post was asking about a potential link between the afro-style wigs and big, painted lips of the modern clown and racist caricatures, so I decided to do what any good theatre history student would do - I did some research.
SPOILER ALERT: YUP, IT’S RACIST AS FUCK
From Janet M. Davis, The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the...
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Stephen Colbert [TW FOR... →
girljanitor:
schakall:
yourfaveisproblematic:
on pink slime “Yes, LFTB because our beef now has so many hormones it’s a member of the transgendered community.” (“So I just want to get out in front of this and say that I, Stephen Colbert, apologize to any of my…
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Stephen Colbert [TW FOR... →
girljanitor:
schakall:
yourfaveisproblematic:
on pink slime “Yes, LFTB because our beef now has so many hormones it’s a member of the transgendered community.” (“So I just want to get out in front of this and say that I, Stephen Colbert, apologize to any of my…
“”
– In sixth grade Mrs. Walker slapped the back of my head and made me stand in the corner for not knowing the difference between persimmon and precision. How to choose
persimmons. This is precision. Ripe ones are soft and brown-spotted. Sniff the bottoms. The sweet one will be fragrant. How to...
“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it....”
– Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)
So true. In...
“Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by...”
– Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)
