Tuesday, May 31 2011
‘Dragon Age: Origins’ and A Few Notes on Class
In games, we always play as middle class. We just occasionally start out in peasant drag.
Friday, May 21 2010
Starfleet Unitards for Women
Trekkie compilations and more cocoa in Starfleet to confront viewers with the show's embedded sexism.
Monday, April 26 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Racism and science collide in this devastating true story of a young woman, the tissue sample from her body that spawned a million-dollar industry, and the impact on her family.
Monday, January 4 2010
This New Year’s Eve Really Did End with a Bang
Nothing like spending New Year's Eve with couple of white guys pretending to be black guys during a war-time year worthy of blowing its own brains out.
Tuesday, June 16 2009
Kinship & Collective Fate in Heroes
Each one, teach one goes the ole African adage. This gets reflected in many unconventional ways in Heroes.
Friday, October 17 2008
Why, Spike, Why?
For all of Spike Lee's status as the eternal Young Turk, he's also a moviemaker who came of age just a few years after the brat pack of Spielberg, Scorsese, de Palma, et al.
Thursday, May 1 2008
The Race Card by Richard Thompson Ford
The Race Card brilliantly forces thinking on practices such as profiling to new levels of candor and complexity.
Friday, April 11 2008
State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama
In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.
