Music, Money and Hip Hop Honeys was a look into the world of the infamous 'video chick' so common across the UK and US hip hop scenes. Overall, I found it well presented with Hedayat's informal method of interviewing played to it's strength. She managed to ask probing questions in a way the interviewee wouldn't find too rude whilst still ( Read more... )

 I've still yet to sort my life out - at the moment I've exams and thus am undergoing the usual periods of manic revision and depression (though can I say I think I am improving my studying habits of last year and what do you know now we're being taught the facts of life as they stand, suddenly all the little facts and weird random equations make ( Read more... )

Women's Rights in Afghanistan

One thing I am fascinated by is the intersection of gender, class, race and religion and how social advocates who specialise in or expertly deal with one area can often downplay of other areas or completely ignore the more complex interplay and thus assign certain trends or features of society incorrectly. ( A Century of Fatherhood: The Good Father )

God-fucking-damn. God-fucking-DAMN.

WTF is wrong with these people?
( No really. What. The. Fuck. )

Feminist on Testosterone

Finally checked out the guardian links on my iGoogle homepage and came up with these tidbits on comment is free (I still haven't learned not to read the actual comments. Why am I such a masochist? It must be the melancholic in me...). We have Will Hutton making the case that Britian's no longer a world power, which makes ( Read more... )

...and a short cameo made by the topic of vegetarianism!

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It's kind of late, so I won't be long. I'll just put up two nursery rhymes I like and introduce a topic that's been depressing me lately.

Feminism. What happened?

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