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Continental Connections (or Not)
Several years ago, my mother and I were sitting in an overheated, overcrowded lecture hall watching on a giant screen the speeches that were ostensibly welcoming me to college. We were sitting with my...
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Privacy, Surveillance and Generation TMI
Cory Doctorow, editor of Boing Boing, talks about internet privacy and generation overshare (photo: JonathanWentworth.com) Last week, I read a phrase that really stuck with me, “digital birthright,”...
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Sunday Scraps 38
1. OCCUPY: The internet works its collective magic once again with the pepper spray meme. Watch the California cop nonchalantly spray his way through famous works of art in this Wired gallery. 2. SIGH:...
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White House Gear for the Boys, Princess Gear for the Girls
In all the (deserved) hoopla about the documentary Miss Representation I somehow missed the fact that the writer, director, and producer of the film was Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of the Lt....
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Sunday Scraps 86
1. WRITING: Man, If only our shared first name meant I shared talent with Emily Rapp (Ditto Emily Nussbaum, Emily McCombs). In this essay for The Rumpus, Rapp writes about finding intimacy while her...
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Sunday Scraps 88
1. SANDY: Great longform essay in the NYT, about how a private apartment complex in the Rockaways, called the Sand Castle, fared during Sandy. 2. CRAY: If you watch one video this holiday season, make...
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Sunday Scraps 99
1. TAVI: 16-year-olds have no right to be so cool and self-assured. This kid says everything I figured out ten years later about media, feminism, stereotypes, yada yada yada. 2. HEALTH: This American...
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A Few of My Favorite Things from 2013 (Part 1)
The time-honored tradition of end of year lists must be… er… honored (must it?), so here we go. These are a few of my favorite things to read/watch/listen to/cry at/laugh at/bemoan/enjoy from 2013....
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