As a follow-up to my International Blog Against Racism Week post on M. Butterfly (link to day view to preserve spoiler cut), an article from Harper's Magazine on a Ukrainian bride-hunting tour: "A Foreign Affair". As David Henry Hwang did in 1988, the article points out the intersection of racism and sexism in foreign "mail order bride" companies, and also explicitly demonstrates the role of class: "the more miserable the place, the more capital a visiting man will have to leverage against his prospective wives; that was why we had left the United States for Kiev, and why we had left Kiev for Vinnitsa."
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not-a-vid: "You Can Call Me . . . " (Avengers)
Kind of a long time ago, in comments to a non-public post, leighdb and I had too much fun sketching out an Avengers not-a-vid to Paul Simon's…
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is two a collection?
Previously linked to: a cover of "Seven Nation Army" set to robot armies. Now: "Seven Nation Army" covered on lab equipment. Happily, this is a…
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because my car rolled over 100K miles today
This is from last summer, but many of you will probably not have come across it: "Around the Bend", a really awesome multifandom vid by…
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