Context: I wrote a draft of this back in the summer after attending a house party thrown by a neighbor to support a candidate for city council.
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Recently, a good friend sent me a link to a blog that’s all about sustainability. It’s interesting, engaging, well written, well researched, nicely illustrated, even cute. […]

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Everything about misogyny, fat-hating, postcolonialism and consumerism, that is.

In a delightful feature under the heading “body news,” we’re informed about the “Spice Girls’ Body War!” wherein they are “battling to see who will look the best” on their upcoming tour. I’m not under any kind of delusion that the Spice Girls are feminists, but […]

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I’ve been too politically discouraged lately to read much nonfiction, but last night I picked up Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity and started glancing through it. Like all the best books, her arguments are too complex to excerpt well, but here’s part of her discussion of the meanings of “wild” […]

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Here’s Naomi Klein again:
When goods began to be produced in factories, not only were entirely new products being introduced but old products–even basic staples–were appearing in strikingly new forms. What made early branding efforts different from more straightforward salesmanship was that the market was now being flooded with uniform mass-produced products that were virtually […]

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Consumerism is something that’s been popping up on my radar a lot in the last week or so.  The contradiction between my politics and the environment in which I’m learning about design is almost amusing. I go to class and listen to lectures on the importance of “corporate identity”; I go on […]

Filed under: consumerism, design, feminism as politics, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today

I’ll say right up front that I’m cranky and defensive, so if you’re not interested in reading the cranky, defensive ranting of an unapologetic lesbian feminist separatist, you should navigate away from this blog immediately.
This rant is sparked by what is going on over at BB’s site, especially the comments section of her feminist cred […]

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Raise your hands, everyone who’s surprised the fat girl is writing a valentine to the health food co-op. But I adore this place. It’s not an exaggeration to say I picked my apartment based on reasonable proximity to it. It’s not an exaggeration to say its presence played a fairly large part […]

Filed under: consumerism, fluff and musings by Amy's Brain Today

I was rattling around the blogosphere late the other night and, in a post by Doppelganger, I came across this:
“The Spacebox is a self-contained studio residence made of high-quality composites. It is equipped with all the necessary facilities and complies with the requirements of the stringent Building Act of The Netherlands. The residential units are […]

Filed under: consumerism, environment, land dyke odyssey by Amy's Brain Today