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A Thursday Interruption: Lesbians React

by Maria

This first link may not be safe for work. For those of you who dare: BEHOLD! LESBIANS REACT TO LESBIAN PORN! Total honesty: I thought this next vid was going to be a “Single Ladies” parody. This critique of the corporatization of LGBTQQA movements and marketing towards homonormative citizens is less musical, but more politically on point.

After Earth

by Maria

After Earth stands out brilliantly in a crowd of ho-hum summer blockbusters. Its nuanced portrayal of military family dynamics as well as its complicating of the homefront through its centering of the whole military family deftly raises the emotional stakes of the film’s action sequences. Plus, Kitai’s mom and sister are better developed and more emotionally nuanced characters than this present version of Uhura and Dr. [...]

A Thursday Interruption: Conversations with Kids

by Maria

Seriously… this is so funny I am CRYING. Here’s another cute kid… this time from a commercial. Interestingly, people are so, uh, RACIST, that Cheerios closed comments on this series of commercials, since it features an interracial couple/family. Hooray for Cheerios! I’m normally a Snap/Crackle/POP! girl, but I’m now publicly declaring my new found allegiance to Cheerios — the heart-healthy cereal beloved by modern families [...]

Superior Ability, Inferior Ambition

by Gena

Hey, Hathor readers! It’s your friendly neighborhood guest blogger, Gena– rumors of my writing retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Before I jump into the nitty-gritty of this article, I’d like to give a big, big thank you to the awesome members of the Star Trek fandoms, and people from outside, as well, who’ve produced amazing, thought-provoking pieces on Star Trek Into Darkness’s whitewashing and continued hypersimplistic gender [...]

Angelina Jolie sharing her mastectomy publicly

by Jennifer Kesler

Angelina Jolie, upon learning she had a rare genetic marker that indicates especially high risk for breast and ovarian cancer (the latter of which took her mother’s life at age 56), decided to have a preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer from 89% to less than 5%. Then she decided to let the world know, and the criticism began. While it’s [...]

Avon: Lipstick Equals Instant Self Esteem?

by sbg

Okay, while I do think that makeup can make a person feel better about oneself – and I’m not denigrating the use of it at all – there is something about this commercial that just sets me on edge. Is it the idea that the implication is that the only reason this woman feel pretty is this particular red lipstick? Is it that the woman [...]