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24 February, 201031 March, 2016

Female Celebrities Behaving Oddly? It Must Be Mental Illness!

Posted in disability, Everything, health, social justice by s.e. smith 3 Comments

My pal Ouyang Dan from FWD/Forward has written two great posts recently talking about the way the public devours celebrity, and specifically about the way in which the public frames female celebrity. “The Public Consumption of Britney” is up over at Bitch Magazine, and “On Speculation and Boundaries…” was published at FWD after the unexpected […]

30 January, 201028 January, 2016

The Girl On The Subway

Posted in Everything, social justice by s.e. smith

A few weeks ago, something pretty thoughtless went up on the Tumblr Staff Blog. The Staff has a weekly feature, Tumblr Tuesday, which is usually silly and fun, a way to get people connecting with each other, and to make the Staff seem a bit more personable and friendly. On 12 January, 2010, a staff […]