abbeymonster:

This dress was inspired by the student in my sociology class who thought that all feminists were hairy and butch. I just want to make sure that everyone knows that a feminist can wear whatever the fuck she or he (or both or neither) feels like wearing. My sociology professor loved the dress and she gave me extra credit! I used a potato stamp to make the print, I used a vintage pattern to make the dress, and I embroidered the phrase “This is what a feminist looks like” on the bodice.

another-littlegirl:

erosum:

Feminist Frequency - Tropes vs. Women: #1 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl

i’ve been called a real life manic pixie dream girl

“​We’ve all seen them. Whether it’s in your local coffee shop, at the nearest Goodwill store, or even teaching your sociology class, you’ve seen a hipster. The traditional skinny jeans, the thick framed glasses, a plaid button down over an old band t-shirt, and some Chucks, is the uniform of the hipster. But, that’s not the only think we commonly pin them with; there’s also bikes, coffee, odd facial hair, indie music, and Pabst Blue Ribbon, just to name a few. So, who are these hipsters, and why do we dislike them so strongly?”

SKH, project for Soc 115. teacher mocking is a fine art

“The conflict between these two paradigms — the corporate-based concept of media convergence and the grassroots-based concept of participatory culture — will determine the long-term cultural consequences of our current moment of media in transition.”

“Fans also reject the studio’s assumption that intellectual property is a “limited good,” to be tightly controlled lest it dilute its value. Instead, they embrace an understanding of intellectual property as “shareware,” something that accrues value as it moves across different contexts, gets retold in various ways, attracts multiple audiences, and opens itself up to a proliferation of alternative meanings.”

Henry Jenkins

“Many fans felt that Lucasfilm was claiming the right to ideologically police their shared “fantasies.” Much of the writing of fan erotica was pushed underground by this policy, though it continued to circulate informally.”

Henry Jenkins

“A history of participatory culture might well start with the photocopier, which quickly became “the people’s printing press,” paving the way for a broad range of subcultural communities to publish and circulate their perspectives on contemporary society.”

Henry Jenkins

“…the rebellion depicted in the Star Wars films provides a useful model for thinking about the coalition-based cultural politics which define this whole DIY movement. The Empire, Brooker argues, is a “colonizing force” which seeks to impose top-down regimentation and demand conformity to its dictates. The Rebellion is a ragtag coalition of different races and cultures, a temporary alliance based on constant flux and movement from base to base, and dependent upon often decentralized and democratic forms of decision-making.”

Henry Jenkins

“Fan fiction repairs some of the damage caused by the privatization of culture, allowing these potentially rich cultural archetypes to speak to and for a much broader range of social and political visions.”

Henry Jenkins

Gender, etc.  You people know the chapter…

sexxxisbeautiful:

MEN & FEMININITY (by lacigreen)

laci green: genius

super relevant to my posts last night

You really should be able to tell what school of media criticism this is most closely aligned with…

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sociological-Cinema/126283397438959

Especially thinking about what Jenkins said about how professional some of the fan films look…

Dichotomy!

“A lot depends on how we conceive consumerism. I see the fans, and now the growing online culture, as an active vanguard who are refusing to simply take what they’re given and are insisting on their rights to reshape the material of their culture. I like to talk about people taking media in their own hands, and it seems to me that’s both a critique of consumerism and a redefinition of consumerism.”

Henry Jenkins

fsufeminist:

I just shared this photo from someone else on Facebook. I can’t wait to see all of the pissed off people’s reactions.

[image: two Mexican women holding a poster saying “Welcome to America, where we celebrate diversity by drinking beers imported from Mexico, but get out Brown People. Happy Cinco de Mayo”.]