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Media & Racism
"How magical is your Negro?" A discussion of race portrayal in genre media.
This entry was originally posted at http://fatoudust.dreamwidth.org/254002.html.
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Lush update
Well, it looks like the racially offensive "Flosty Gritter" is in fact off the Lush menu at this point. (Let me know if you see something otherwise.) It seems likely that it's just the discontinuation as part of the normal product cycle, and not the effect of our vast network of internet activism, but still, I guess as far as I'm concerned, I'm ( Read more... ) -
Lush: Incidental Racism - you can help
So. Lush makes fizzy bubbly glittery scented bath products. It seems like a fairly innocuous company, and it's one that my friends have bought from over the years. Apparently every year they bring out some holiday specials. Until this year, this one flew under the radar. It's pink. It sparkles. And it's named, wait for it, "Flosty Gritter ( Read more... ) -
Don't steal my links, yo.
Signal-boosting this from jonquil. LJ had a third party software hijacking commerce links, stripping any affiliation and substituting its own, obfuscating so that on mouseover it looked okay but changed the link onclick, which I find deeply insidious. http://vichan.livejournal.com/392527.htmlRead more... ) -
oh, internets, no
I cannot believe the level to which RaceFail'09 has escalated. It is so utterly ridiculous and off point by now that I can't even articulate my reaction ( Read more... ) -
cold!
Why am I so freaking cold all the time? Nobody else is cold! Today I had the heater all blasting on me, and every student I had asked to turn it off. I did, but I had to turn it back on between every lesson because I was so cold! I'm freezing right now, and it ain't great! -
Penguin!
Man, I need to catch up in natter at the b.org so I can post there, but the SO's penguin arrived! It is supercute, and much taller than I expected. It looks like a penguin, but all its penguin parts are also functional. You press the eyes to open it up and put the CO2 cartridge in. You rub its belly to make the horn pop up so you can put the ( Read more... ) -
random
Tidbit, thinking about racism ( Read more... )
