by Dahlia | Oct 17, 2013 | Journal
In my Critical Thinking class, I routinely assign an essay about Herman Rosenblat. (For those who haven’t heard about him, he wrote the book Angel at the Fence, which he claimed was a true story about his experiences during the Holocaust but which turned out to be...
by Dahlia | Oct 14, 2013 | Journal
I’ll be honest. I didn’t actively seek out Mindy Kaling. Hulu kept suggesting that I watch The Mindy Project after episodes of New Girl finished, so I finally agreed. I watched one, and then I decided to go back to the beginning because I’m OCD like...
by Dahlia | Oct 11, 2013 | Journal
That Hollywood is a boy’s club is so self-evident, I have zero interest in repeating the common arguments or restating the common evidence. If you have any doubt about the lack of roles for women in front of the camera or behind it, just google it. It’s not new...
by Dahlia | Oct 10, 2013 | Journal, Special Features
[I did this interview with Steven Klein in Berlin, in 2005. It feels particularly relevant now, in light of his recent work with Madonna, so I thought I’d repost it.] The photographer Steven Klein So what do a photographer and a writer, who, in their own ways,...
by Dahlia | Oct 8, 2013 | Journal
I’ve received several responses to one of my recent blog posts that accuse me of slut-shaming. I’ve received enough of these responses that I feel the need to clarify a couple things. In the 1960s, media theorist Marshall McLuhan became famous for the phrase...
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