• Hey Marx: Check Your Privilege

    Hey Marx: Check Your Privilege

    In Foundations of Sociological Theory we were assigned The Communist Manifesto. Since I was a week ahead in my reading—the professor stretched one class lecture out to two classes after I’d already done the reading—I was able to thoroughly reread the portion we’ll be discussing in class tomorrow afternoon. A second reading strengthened my suspicion that Marx’s privilege…

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  • Jupiter Ascends from the Minds of White People

    We’re watching the movie “Jupiter Ascending”, a 2015 action-adventure movie starring Channing Tatum. I noticed a few things right off the bat: Even on other planets, everyone with power/authority is white. The all-white aristocracy from worlds other than earth speaks with an affected, pseudo-British accent. (Is this supposed to be the sound of superiority or something?) The…

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  • So You’re Looking for Some Models?

    So You’re Looking for Some Models?

    When you publicly tweet asking for people to suggest folks on IG for a fashion shoot, expect me to point you directly and exclusively to the accounts of people of color, people over 30, people with disabilities, and curvy people. Y’all are going to know they’re out there if I have anything to do with…

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  • You don’t have to ask me to check you out on Instagram

    You don’t have to ask me to check you out on Instagram

    I got a comment on one of my Instagram accounts. “Cool profile. Check mine out.” This is someone who is both a stranger and not a follower, but they clicked ‘like’ on a couple of my photos. All right, I’ll be polite and look at that profile. Their profile is full of memes. I don’t…

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  • Nature on the High Line

    Made during a photowalk through the High Line park on Saturday, 20 August 2016. New York City, NY, USA.

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