I still read LJ, but between the manuscript and Threadbared, I don't have much writing left in me. I still like pictures, though, so you can also find me on Tumblr at Our Words Cut & Thrust.

Pitchfork is streaming The Gits documentary for free all week!

My student Jason Lee started this fabulous project to distribute his films and also to support independent Asian American media makers called Turtlist Media. Please visit his site and consider making a donation by purchasing his series of short films called Chains of Attraction on DVD!

Does anyone have The Brat's "Swift Moves," "Attitudes," and "Starry Night" in MP3 form, and can upload it for me to download? Fiona needs it for class, but our university internet connection seems to be blocking our, er, efforts.

The second weekend of Jordan Crandall's exhibition "Showing" brings Mimi Nguyen from Chicago and John Paul Ricco from Toronto, along with a selection of videos curated by Robert Summers called "Showing Shame: Shameless Showing." Mimi's talk focuses on the circuit between star and fan, using the work of JJ Chinois; John will give a performance with ( Read more... )

A friend of mine wants to actually download videos from YouTube.com for her class (so that access is not contingent on the videos staying up on YouTube.com or internet access). Is that possible?

My good friend and colleague Minh-ha Pham (a postdoctoral fellow in the Asian Pacific American studies program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University) have started a new fashion commentary blog, Threadbared! Come check us out. So far, Minh-ha is on a roll and I'm, well, not, but hopefully I'll be contributing very ( Read more... )

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Today's semi-related tangent in Intro to Feminist Theory was about 1980s hair metal, and how to think about men with big hair and spandex shorts.

I love this closing dedication in Ann Laura Stoler's edited collection Haunted by Empire:
This book is dedicated to my children, Tessa and Bruno, who enter adulthood at a moment when U.S. empire continues to bear down deftly and crudely, in so many places, with enduring force. Let us hope that their generation recognizes the rhetorical and ( Read more... )