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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two silly videos
Three seasons' worth of alternate endings to the Animaniacs theme song: Lion King bloopers, animated: (This may just be…
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Fraggles!
(I meant to post this a couple weeks ago and somehow lost track of it.) So can anyone tell me how this staple of my early childhood has held up? I…
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Misfits (TV)
Has anyone seen the British show Misfits, about a bunch of teenagers doing community service who get struck by lightning and gain supernatural…
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