The research that some of the other candidates are doing is frikken amazing! A woman named Alex is doing work on sustainable communities and creating sustainable campuses that grow their own food. The implications for communities to return to more subsistence based living are global! It made me think of migrant workers out west being freed from the oppressive system of produce work. I didn't get a chance to ask her though about who "owns" the land and what that means for indigenous people who are still displaced from their land.
Lizzy is doing work on media representations of menstruation. She was talking about how the companies who produce pads and tampons, have the unceremonious task of doing menstruation education and how problematic that is. I'm sure we all remember the "I Got It" videos of our childhoods. She's also looking at reality TV through the same critical lens. The other people were really cool too and doing equally interesting things but those resonated with the most.
Oh, but one of the grad students is looking at compulsory monogamy. It was really cool to talk to her because I learned a million new words like "heteroflexible" and "polyamory." What other field lets you make up words?
I watched the Fashion police on E! last night and of course I got upset. They had that Kojo/David Evangelista -esque guy and Kathy Griffin, who have never seemed so fashion forward to me but whatever, commenting on what people wore to the grammy's. They showed footage of Raphael Saadiq with EWF, and of course they didn't know who he was or even distinguish him from the rest of the group. They showed Ben Harper, another beautiful brother who has "transcended" race, with a preggers Laura Dern on his arm as they discussed whether or not the child was his. Kanye threw up the roc and Kojelista asked "why do they do that? what does that mean?" he seemed somewhat miffed by his ignorance to the significance of the symbol which made me smile a little bit.
The title is an homage to coko, lelee, and taj. One of my friends tried to argue that gay people had a monopoly on sexual bluntness. Not that downtown is so very blunt but it's subject matter created quite a stir when it came out; J also gave them a shout out so they were on the brain so i listened to the album again. It's fire and at times it reaches for a feministic stance on sex. The way black women were singing about sex then was so inspiring.
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