An assortment
...-The NYT Style blog has a post up on "The Naked Face," complete with an embedded video in which a makeup artist gives a model her version of the...
Up for debate
Reflections from the TERF wars about dismantling bigotry on the left
Breaking Down Beauty: Physiognomy Revisited
...the notion of “It” girls as a modern-day version of the science of face-reading, I realized I’d sort of fast-forwarded into that idea without looking at the more direct ways...
Editors' Note, Vol. 32: Back to School
...their race, class, and gender. They must then simultaneously master such novelties as calendar time, asking permission to pee, how to become a version of themselves which is more excellent...
Storefront Supernatural
...away. The powder version comes in one-ounce, half-pound and one-pound packages. A portion of the store is dedicated to Santería, an oft-misunderstood religion that dates back centuries and has its...
Ghostbusters
...monstrosity that invades any attempt to reproduce an exact or even accurate version of the self. A Life catalogs a few different time periods: the time of “Mary Shelley and...
The Speech of Things
...for its direct translation from language to architecture. At the end of this session, the legal team owns an architectural version of the human witness’s testimony. We could see in...
The People's Kitchen
...Wedding lofty ideals to a sober concern for the bottom line, their version of the People's Kitchen they presented as "a business experiment with the social purpose of selling at...
Un(der)seen Cinema: Europa 2005
...result, she loses everything and ends up arrested and institutionalized for helping a young thief. In Straub-Huillet’s version there are no spoken words, no actors, no narrative. Yet despite its...
Frenemies
...Serena and Blair are BFFs (Best Frenemies Forever). Even in the meme format, they look past each other. One version goes like this: “Help me,” says Serena, “I’m...
Shame: A Durkheimian Take
...a gripping and disturbing sociology at work in Shame is not to say that sex addiction is a sham or simply a medicalized version of a sociological disorder. I have...
Anthropocene Realism
...Native women since it began. The version of social reproduction inherent to suburban development cannot be separated from the rise of petrocapitalism in the 20th century, according to geographer Matthew...
On Beauty Tips and Morality
...Young Lady's Toilette" seems a hair random. In short, it's a more poetic version of the "speak words of kindness" bit. To wit: "Truth—Fine Lip-Salve: Use daily for our lips...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.11.12
...highlighting that it's a privilege to be able to think of modesty as a choice. 1932 Carnival Queen, Her Majesty Queen Emma Carnivale: An early version of Filipino beauty...
Re: Ordinance Prohibiting the Possession of the Tools of Violence And Vandalism During a Demonstration
...qua non kind of insurgency, poppers, autonomous lungs, the moment in the film version of Mr. Popper's Penguins where the shadow of one projects on yuppie frosted glass like some...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
...haggard version of him that (because there is no who in this film, just that, just apparatuses as far as the eye can see) loves his children very much but...