I’m at work right now, reading through Newsweek.com and I came across this interesting article: “The Backlash Against Magazine Airbrushing.” The author sounds a lot like myself at first, talking about reading Seventeen and YM as a preteen, and calling them her Bibles. Anyway, the story is about airbrushing and whether or not magazines […]

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In light of the new developments in California, I feel compelled to invite us to think critically about the institution of marriage and what it means… It is important for us to consider the implications of certain rights.
Beyondmarriage.org is an amazing statement signed by some of the greatest contemporary thinkers and other community members about […]

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I am writing a paper about identity politics and digital culture right now, focusing on the advent of blogs like stuffwhitepeoplelike.com and exploring their meaning in relationship to the political economy. As a result, I am noticing everything on the internet and attempting to deconstruct what is behind specific forms of visual representation… When I […]

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*I feel the need to place a warning of sorts here, as the topic of this post involves a series of ads which are rather graphic and disturbing.*
The other day I stumbled upon an ad that struck me as both tragic and terrifying. It was a picture of a teenage girl lying stomach-down on […]

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