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Except for that brief period when J.Lo wore a table cloth to the Grammys and the cognoscenti kept talking about the greatness of celebrating a “real lady” with “real curves,” American culture has been sexualizing women who look as if they have been victims of marasmus for the duration of my culturally aware existence. As the public gets progressively larger, Nicole Ritchie gets smaller and, in turn, more famous. It boggles the mind. Lately, however, pint-sized celebrities and models who do cocaine on the front page...
...song’s string-laden bridge suddenly takes on a new meaning, becoming a brief interlude of metamorphosis from your average Dilbert into feminine, um, beauty. He (she) attends a place called the “Trannyshack,” sings and dances on stage, and returns home, exhausted yet happy. There is a very visible change in mood, as he feels more comfortable as a woman, and appears much more natural and at ease...
...customized NYU ID card, complete with a photo of me that my mother has pasted over my dad’s picture. I wore this particular outfit for maybe six or seven Halloweens, beginning at age six. It was an impressive streak that went happily uninterrupted save a brief, ill-advised turn as a pale pink Care Bear.But when my relatives glance at this undoubtedly adorable photo today, they don’t smile and laugh. Instead, their lips purse, puzzlement sets in, and they begin to wonder: what happened to you? As it happens, I’ve been...
...still lingers. One student, who asked that her name not be used in this story, recalls approaching University President Lawrence H. Summers at a Dunster House Master’s Open House last fall and asking for his thoughts on a women’s center. It was a brief, one-on-one exchange, so there is no record of Summers’ response. But the student says she remembers his emphatic, unambiguous reply as: “A women’s center is one of the last things I want to see on campus...
...gumbo of overpasses, alleys and neglected street corners. It is popping up in cities everywhere--New York, Los Angeles, London, So Paulo. And although it has roots in the outburst of graffiti spray painting in the 1970s and '80s, it's a different order of business. In the brief annals of street-art history, graffiti ranks as something like cave painting--a first gesture, recognized for its primal intuition that public space is up for grabs--and has, in the past four or so years, been overtaken by a host of new practices: wheat-pasted posters, adhesive stickers with...