No, I have nothing profound to say this afternoon, just taking a visual break from work here.( A Spock screen grab a day keeps the grumpies away... )

This viral video of Huntsville, Alabama resident Antoine Dodson made the online rounds last week to the amusement of some and the consternation of others. Reactions to the clip indicate that many laughed at, rather than with, someone who committed a heroic act, but apparently is too Black, too gay, and too poor/working class to get much respect.  

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The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory.( Read more... )

 I've been a vintage clothing enthusiast since age 7 or so, thanks to hours spent at the library, accompanying my mother on thrift store excursions, museum visits with both parents, watching old musicals on public television channels, and being taught to sew by someone who learned herself during the 1950s. I obsessively collected patterns and ( Read more... )

CFP: Images of Women in Film and Media

Women in film:
We've come a long way, baby! Or have we? MP journal seeks submissions that explore the ways Women/Femininity/Female agency are depicted in visual media such as video games, television, film, animation (anime), comic books, graphic novels, or any other visual depictions. MP Journal welcomes ( Read more... )

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
The Encyclopedia of Women and American Popular Culture

Facts On File, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, is seeking contributing scholars for a print and online reference work on the history of women in America popular culture from colonial times to the present. The project is aimed at the academic high ( Read more... )

CFP k(NO)w tomorrow: Cultural Contradictions of Imagining the Future ( Read more... )

I occasionally read Black Panther comics (T'Challa!) way back in the olden days, when I was an adolescent. An animated series has been produced by B.E.T. but the series was first aired in...Australia ( Read more... )