10 Everyday Sexisms and What Do You Do About Them | Soraya Chemaly. This post is updated from an earlier version that appeared on Role Reboot. Research shows that most people don't see sexism even when it's right in front of their noses. "Women endorse sexist beliefs, at least in part, because they do not attend to subtle, aggregate forms of sexism in their personal lives," wrote Julia C. Becker and Janet K. Swim, the authors of this study about the invisibility of sexism. "Many men not only lack attention to such incidents but also are less likely to perceive sexist incidents as being discriminatory and potentially harmful for women. " How do you think about and respond to these 10 examples? 1. 2. 3. There is a well-documented correlation between benevolent sexism and women's acceptance of biased gender roles. Our not seeing sexism where it is evident enables people with power to speculate out loud that "money is more important for men" and not lose their jobs for incompetence. 4.
Ask yourselves, men, do you feel safe on your neighborhood streets? 5. 6. Community Arts Network: Corrections. Book Excerpt - By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives Two writers consider art, education, prison, possibility. By Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson (March 2010) From Ghana to Greece to Lakota Sioux Nation: Cultural Diversity in Arts in Corrections Project Youth ArtReach of Class Acts Arts has 40 artists from around the world working with incarcerated people in the Washington, D.C., area. By Claire Schwadron (November 2009) The Eye & Tooth Project: Confronting Capital Punishment in Texas An experiment in legislative theater.
By John Sullivan (August 2009) Restorative Justice and Visual Restoration in Philadelphia A criminal-justice specialist talks about the mural arts program she directs in the inner city. Revising Confinement: Transformations in a Prison Writing Workshop Writing as a formidable tool for control, survival and transformation. Scroll down for a list of all essays on Arts and Corrections. Is not available. A Q&A with members of the cast of Orange Is the New Black. Things I've Learned in Hollywood. OITNB’s Lorraine Toussaint on Villainous Vee -- Vulture. Please by advised: The following interview covers the entire second season of Orange Is the New Black. Spoilers to follow for anyone who hasn’t watched through the finale. The way veteran actress Lorraine Toussaint remembers it, she had almost no time to prepare. She got the offer from Orange Is the New Black to play new inmate Yvonne “Vee” Parker on a Thursday, flew to New York with the first script over the weekend, and was shooting by Monday.
It wasn’t until she met series boss Jenji Kohan that morning that she realized Vee was going to be the show’s sneakiest, snakiest, and most diabolical character this year — a drug dealer who uses kids, including a young Taystee, to move product. We talked to Toussaint, who had previous experience as both a scary-tough mother (her role in 2012’s Middle of Nowhere earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and a jailbird (she was Claire’s cellmate in Ugly Betty!)
You met Jenji for the first time on your first day on-set? Why? On bell, Beyonce’, and Bullshit. Out of respect for elders, I haven’t been pressed to weigh in on why the venerable bell hooks might find it reasonable to refer to Beyoncé as a terrorist. Yet, I felt compelled to respond this morning, after reading this piece from Rev. Osagyefo Sekou at Truth-Out.org, that indicts an entire generation of Black intellectuals for apparently “believ[ing] that the system is a good system that only needs to provide greater access to the historically othered.” Who exactly are these people who believe this liberal claptrap? Because of this alleged belief in the “goodness” of our current racist, capitalist, patriarchal effed up system, we supposedly “rush to defend the black embodiments of neoliberalism Obama and Beyoncé.” This generation of Black intellectuals apparently “directs its fever-pitched critique at the blatant racist and sexist actions of individuals while it is unable to articulate the ways in which Beyoncé and Obama undermine the very possibility of anti-neoliberal discourse.”
7 Roles That Taught Hugh Jackman About Life: From 'X-Men' To The Oscars. Any upstanding method actor knows that preparation makes perfect. In order to absorb a character into one's DNA for the course of weeks or months on end, there's a certain amount of mental and physical groundwork required.
Twenty-eight films, four Broadway performances and four award-show hosting gigs later, Hugh Jackman should know that as well as anyone. So we decided to ask him about exactly that when we sat down with him at the New York press day for "X-Men: Days of Future Past," which marks the seventh time Jackman has portrayed Wolverine. The superhero is obviously a role that requires extensive physical training (and a lot of very specific hairstyling), and if it seems like such a thing comes naturally to Jackman several sequels later, it certainly didn't at first.
"X-Men" (2000) Jackman was cast in "X-Men," his first American film, three weeks before production was slated to begin. "I didn’t know anything about the movie. The wolves, in fact, influenced his performance. Good Hair Nappy Hair. Clockwise: my mom Glenda, daughter Deva, step-daughter Nea, Deva with dreads, me, and aunt Rose styling my daughter’s natural hair The N Word We Rarely Discuss: NAPPY Like most blacks in America, I was raised in an environment where hair like mine, kinky hair, was frequently referred to as “bad hair.”
Conversely, straight hair or kink-less hair was characterized as “good hair“. I grew up receiving a steady stream of messages that directly or indirectly informed me that kinky hair, broad facial features, and dark skin were marks of inferiority. During my childhood, in the 60′s, the term “Black” was a label that was avoided when characterizing a Black person. It was common to hear disparaging words spoken of people who were “black with nappy hair” as if those were insults. In the 60′s infrequent black images shown on television, usually in the news, were invariably negative. The LA Progressive published an article by K. Initially, my mother was unhappy with my decision. Is public shaming fair punishment? - Los Angeles Times. You play the judge: How would you sentence a man who spent 15 years picking on his neighbor and her handicapped children?
A Cleveland judge sentenced just such a man, Edmond Aviv, to jail, community service, anger management and mental health counseling — and to spend five hours alongside a busy street on a Sunday in April with a great big sign branding him an intolerant bully. The 8th Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment. Is this either one? Or can justice be fairly meted out in something other than years and months behind bars? In 2012, a different Cleveland judge gave a woman a choice of going to jail or spending two days standing on a street corner with a sign reading: "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.
" The woman chose to hold the sign. Puritan punishments like locking someone's head and hands in the stocks seem like retribution, not justice. Should shame be a component of punishment? A California judge thought so nearly 25 years ago. Inside the Art of the Civil Rights Movement. If you walk into the Brooklyn Museum’s new exhibit, “Witness: Arts and Civil Rights in the Sixties,” one of the first pieces you’ll see is Charles W. White’s 1961 charcoal drawing called “Awaken from the Unknowing” (PDF). In it, a black woman sits before heaps of papers spread out before her while her head falls in fatigue along her shoulder. These days, it’s an image that evokes the romanticized stories of black women of the era, but in 1961 it represented the multifaceted struggle for equality in America. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the era’s preeminent youth organizing outfit, put the image on the cover of its brochure announcing Freedom Schools.
“Witness: Arts and Civil Rights in the Sixties” is an exhibit that marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. I spoke with Teresa A. Tell me how the idea for this exhibit came together. Who are some of those artists? It was not a surprise that major activist-artists like David Hammons had relevant work.. Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar. A small rural community of sugarcane workers, known as a batey, in the Dominican Republic. People of both Dominican and Haitian descent live in these communities, with Haitian migrants being the majority. Photo by Leah de Vries of the DCCD Group (Dominican–Canadian Community Development Group), 2011. Midway through Candide, Voltaire’s famously naive protagonist enters Dutch-controlled 18th-century Suriname, where he encounters “a negro stretched upon the ground, with only one moiety of his clothes, that is, of his blue linen drawers; the poor man had lost his left leg and his right hand.”
“Good God!” Exclaims Candide, who proceeds to ask the man why he’s in such terrible shape. “When we work at the sugar-canes,” the man answers, “and the mill snatches hold of a finger, they cut off the hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off the leg; both cases have happened to me. This is the price at which you eat sugar in Europe.” We still eat sugar at a similar price. According to the U.S. Passionate Present: Protecting Black Girlhood on Livestream. MFA vs. POC. This is a condensed version of the introduction to “Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop,” which will be published this week.
When I was in my mid-twenties I decided to apply for an MFA in creative writing. Part of it was I wanted to get serious with my writing—whatever that meant. Part of it was that my body was getting worn out from delivering pool tables. Part of it was a worrying sense I had that I was going to need a lot more sophistication if I was ever going to be any good at writing. And part of it was I didn’t know I had other options. These days there are all sorts of writing workshops: part-time, full-time, low-residency, and more resources online than you can shake a stick at. I applied blindly and not very widely. Six programs, and out of some strange pocket of luck that the Universe reserves for total fools I got into one: Cornell. I should have known better but hey I was young; I was naïve. I didn’t have a great workshop experience. Inside Junot Díaz’s class at MIT: What the writer wants his students to read.
On the same week that activists called for more diversity in fiction, the New Yorker published a compelling essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT professor Junot Díaz, in which Díaz criticized MFA programs for their overwhelming whiteness. “Lately I’ve been reading about MFA vs NYC,” Díaz wrote about the ongoing debate within the ivory tower. “But for many of us it’s MFA vs POC.”
Díaz recalled how his MFA experience at Cornell failed him, how he almost dropped out, and how many of MFA students do, in fact, give up because they feel like there’s no room to talk about their specific experiences in the insular literary community: about coloniality, about gender, about race. And so, in search of an alternate canon, we hunted down some syllabi from the classes Díaz teaches at MIT.
(Granted, they are undergrad, not MFA classes, but still.) Sharing just a list of books, he feared, “feels like a shortcut—like throwing out Sterling from the NBA.” World-Building: Reading List: The Hazing Problem at Black Fraternities - Walter M. Kimbrough. Black fraternities face different challenges than white ones—but both groups can be corrupted by twisted power dynamics. Matt Dunham/AP Photo I receive a Google news alert by e-mail every time the phrase “fraternity hazing” is mentioned in the press.
As one who has studied fraternities and sororities for over two decades, worked in student affairs as a Greek advisor, now a college president, and an expert witness in hazing cases, it is important to stay current. As you can imagine, I get lots of news alerts. Lots. Last month I received an alert about The Atlantic’s article “The Dark Power of Fraternities.” This critique probably made a number of my colleagues in the inter-fraternal world crazy, as it set off new rounds of conversations about the relevance of fraternity and sorority life on college campuses. And yet, they’re helpless.
The author, Caitlin Flanagan, is clear that her focus is “formerly all-white, now nominally integrated” men’s general or social fraternities. 50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America. Click to enlarge Timothy Norris See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Best L.A. . *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. . *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. " I believe we can speak for ourselves. More than a city of gustatory delights and fantastic parking, we're the one place on the planet where people come exclusively to dream and create - and that's a great start to a killer burgh.
What else is there to say about Los Angeles' awesomeness? 50. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. Steve Parker 41. 40. 39. 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. . *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles. 3 powerful ways to invest in yourself when you’re trying to change the world. Bold Idea: The most influential, and happiest, agents of change have a valuable lesson to teach: self-concern is as essential as your desire to help others. Photo credit: getIT, Shutterstock Over the past quarter of a century, Echoing Green has learned a thing or two about what distinguishes successful solutionists from those who simply care about a social problem.
With front row seats to some of the world’s most successful social change agents’ lives and work, we’ve noticed some similarities among them—including a strong commitment to bettering the world and themselves at the same time. When we compared our Fellows’ profiles to the best contemporary research, we saw this theme echoed in Adam Grant’s research on Givers.
You may have read about it a few weeks ago in The New York Times magazine piece, “Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?” Grant categorizes people into three categories: Givers, Matchers, and Takers. He defines Givers as those who are motivated to act in a pro-social way. Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You : Code Switch. Hide captionThis story may well sour any pleasant childhood memories of chasing after ice cream trucks in the summer. iStockphoto.com This story may well sour any pleasant childhood memories of chasing after ice cream trucks in the summer. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is about a virulently racist song. Read no further if you wish to avoid racist imagery and slurs. "Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! I came across this gem while researching racial stereotypes.
As quickly as it began, the music paused, and this call-and-response ensued: Browne: "You niggers quit throwin' them bones and come down and get your ice cream! " My mouth dropped. Nigger love a watermelon ha ha, ha ha! Nigger love a watermelon ha ha, ha ha! Origin Of The Song I wondered how such a prejudiced song could have become the anthem of ice cream and childhood summers.
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