Fringe Feminists: Patti Smith
...her music is something, finally, to rally around. For one thing, she has certain qualities that can make her a hero to a whole generation of young girls; Patti has...
Blind Ambition
...assisted lost strangers and contrived clever board games to play with the town's other blind residents. Music enchanted him. He attended concerts and joined music societies. Often ringing through the...
Opening Reception: Yto Barrada & DJ /rupture @ Walker Art Center 11/21
...Yto Barrada In conjunction with the exhibition An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, join artist Yto Barrada and special guest DJ/rupture, referred to as “a thoughtful pipeline for music from...
See Hear
A new book offers a different way of attuning ourselves to images of Black lives.
Skin Feeling
...beautiful story I know about Bird was told by August Blume: “There was this musician’s girl who had a bad case for Bird’s music. She left her fiancé to follow...
A Dark City
...parks and the architecture, of the astounding culture and the museums. Then he adds, I am searching the complicated web of the Moscow metro lines to remember more things....
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
...sophisticated interpretation of primitive music, vaguely akin to Nick Hornby (but less funny and with more looping). 4. I have no idea what these stories are supposed to be about....
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Get real
...belonging, not the acts of an egregiously desperate victim of image culture. The moral tenor of the novel is that America has been swept over by superficiality, by artificiality, by...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
...Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema . MIT Press, 2011. Inness, Sherrie, ed. Geek chic: Smart women in popular culture . Springer, 2016. Lady Science is an independent...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
...Side of the Moon?" (Um.) Slow violence: We're finally having necessary conversations about our culture of violence. Minh-Ha T. Pham asks us to look at the gendered "slow violence" we...
“My Working Will be the Work:” Maintenance Art and Technologies of Change
...that support a public culture of innovation. In an interview for Artforum , Ukeles talks about how two of the most famous Minimalist artists of the 20th century, Richard Serra...
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...Further Reading Hillel Schwart, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (New York: Zone Books, 2014). Linda, Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and other essays (New York: Harper...
Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....