February 2012
The three deadliest words in the world: It’s a... →
kateoplis:
It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’. India and...
Accounting for Beauty
thenewinquiry:
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Erotic capital doesn’t set us free. It yokes women’s careers to the whims of men
by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
Before I actually read Erotic Capital, sociologist Catherine Hakim’s treatise on how women should flex their powers of sexual allure in the workplace, I wanted to like it. As Hakim presents it, erotic capital is a combination of physical assets (beauty,...
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crookedindifference:
Sidney Bechet - Si tu vois...
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'The Video the Colombian Government Doesn't Want... →
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“io sol uno”
– Dante, Inferno
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Saving Face Documentary Wiki entry →
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Watchlaughingsquid:
Guitar Pedals, An Interactive Art Installation of 96 Guitar Effects Pedals by David Byrne
howlingnocturnes:
Tom Waits - Talking at the...
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If podcasts were humans, I'd be madly in love with...
blairstapp:
This one’s about music and neurology and dead composers and other interesting things.
