Beauty Blogosphere 8.17.12
...not that my legs are a fraction as strong as Olympians')—when none of those features are particularly valued in our culture...yes, it feels sort of validating. Twenty-eight, looking great: Women...
A work of art by any standards ...
...Illustration from China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U.S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59, and '60 (1861) "Not a single...
Defending Rojava
...but also the patriarchy and rape culture prevalent among their own community. After all, ISIS exploits the concept of 'honor' in the region, constructed around women’s bodies and sexualities. Thus,...
The Future, Probably
...Overdrive were being written, Japan, as Gibson explains here, was "the global imagination's default setting for the future" ("Modern Boys and Mobile Girls"). That possible future may not be a...
Review: Girl Model
...and getting no work—despite the agency’s promise of at least two jobs during their stay in Japan—they think to examine their contracts. Lo and behold, if they gain a centimeter...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 25, 2019)
...eatery "Immigrant Food" occupies a spot near the White House More and more adults are asking "Why eat meals when you can snack," study finds Social media's impact on Japan's...
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...else?—Japan, and I die. Women, food, and the therapeutic narrative: Charlotte Shane argues that the social narrative around food is disordered, and we're not talking in a Michael Pollan...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in Eastern nations like China, India, and Japan. But even there, it wasn’t no Aryan princesses being lauded as the most attractive. This faux science posits all the history and...
So French
...beautiful, or is this all circular - we define "beauty" as that-which-is-French, giving those-who-are-French an advantage? Why not Japan, with its miracle hair-care products that I randomly discovered while shopping...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
Built to Last
...as unoccupied as they look. They were very, very empty. RB: How then do these stadiums figure into local culture? JMS: A couple of the big complexes are actually south...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...across a paper published by two scientists in Japan, who had been studying my favorite parasite, the Nematomorpha, or horsehair worm. Their research, published by the Ecological Society of America...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
...in splendor. Your World Cup journey continues; 'tis a pity your World Hair Cup voyage must stop here. Keisuke Honda, Japan. Position: Forward. Hair: Remarkable. Keisuke Honda, as with...
Sunday Reading
...uncontacted tribes Return of the blacklist? Cowardice and censorship at the University of Illinois The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent. Nothing Unintentional Multicultural Japan? Discourse...