The new issue of EM is available on-line now.
The new issue includes articles by some already familiar names, such as
Echidne of the Snakes:
It was a woman who invented the brassiere. This is worth stressing as I sometimes feel that the female breasts don’t belong to women at all. They belong to the pornographic industry and to the media. They belong to the medical researchers who study breast cancer or to the experts in breastfeeding. There are days when I look down my shirt and wonder what those two invaders are doing linked to my body.
Read More….Flea of One Good Thing:
A couple of weeks ago I was in our garage, fighting the endless losing battle against the piles of junk that keep appearing no matter how many times we clear it out, no matter how insistent we are that we, personally, are not adding to the Wilson family landfill. Our garbage seems to be a particularly fecund sort, a type usually limited to more organic life forms such as roaches, flies, and mice. Because of this, I’m compelled to constantly forge a clear path through the garage, cutting swaths through all the broken toy parts and out grown clothing. Making matters worse are the vision problems of our neighbor’s orange cat, an animal whose optic nerves send messages to its pea-sized brain telling it that our garage is the world’s sweetest litter box.
Read more….There are also articles on:
From HipHop and Black Participation by Shauntrice Martin:
Lauryn Hill is an organic intellectual whose words I can hear through hip-hop. An organic intellectual is a person from an aggrieved community who speaks out about the needs of that community and challenges the dominant structure by practicing counter-hegemonic discourse (which challenges the dominant form of education). This can be defined as a structure fighting the ’supreme’ institution. Hip-Hop is the purest form of counter-hegemony. Though raped by the music industry and pop culture, it can still be enjoyed without the presence of capitalism. Lauryn Hill talks about what she went through growing up in the streets of South Orange, NJ and transcending the obstacles poor black women face. She speaks to those experiences in her rhymes like her album ‘The Mis-Education of Lauryn Hill’. In the song ‘Lost Ones’ she talks about miscommunication and how so many are disenfranchised.
Read more….The “Babe” Culture by regular EM columnist, David Scott:
They’re here. They’re there. They’re everywhere!
Everywhere one looks in our society, one is confronted by ‘babes’. This is the common, demeaning term for women whose primary value is assumed to be looks. The NFL has cheerleaders (do you ever see anyone in the crowd following their cheers?). Coors beer has a set of blonde twin mascots, possibly refugees from the ‘Swedish Bikini Team,’ sponsored by some other beer. Primetime TV would lead you to believe that every woman in the world could step onto the cover of Cosmopolitan ‘ and if they can’t, they can become contestants on ‘The Swan’ and get made over via plastic surgery. Read more….
From War and AIDS by frequent EM writer, Kamala Sarup:
Nira Magar from Rolpa has been working as a prostitute for the last four years. She spent most of her time working on the family farm. One day, a group of Maoists came and asked her to join them for military training. The next day, her mother sent her away with a local villager to Kathmandu fearing that the Maoists would come again looking for her. In Kathmandu, she made the choice to make easy money. “I decided to sell my body for my family,” Nira says simply. Nira is paid up to Rs 500 ($7.14 in US currencty) by each client.
Read more…Separtism: Are We Limiting Ourselves? by Hannah Austin:
Feminism has always been portrayed as a movement solely for women, a movement with which men needn’t be bothered and a movement in which men aren’t welcome. The media has portrayed us as man-haters, reverse sexists and lesbian separatists ‘ images that are difficult, but necessary to escape from if feminism has any hope of continuing to strive. More worrying than this is the continuing presence of separatist attitudes amongst some feminists ‘ discriminatory attitudes towards even the most feminist of men, exclusionary tactics to keep feminism a women-only movement and a refusal to accept that all men are not the enemy. In order to move forward we first must dispel the myths that all feminists are separatists, and secondly work to reverse the damage done by separatism.
Read more….And much, much more.
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December 25th, 2004 at 1:24 am
Thoroughly off-topic: a wish for a grand holiday to you and Barry and the rest of the unrepentant liberals of Portlandia. (Now carry on with all the debaucheries as before, till the ruination of Western snivelization is complete. It’s our only hope!)
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