A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt: This is almost a collection of intertwined short stories about several middle-class white straight women in Southern California who are struggling with sexuality and relationships. It’s not overtly feminist, but does an excellent job of exploring the experiences of heterosexual women attempting to […]
Not to put too fine a point on it–if you’re an even remotely happy, well-informed fat person, skip this book.
I’m both surprised and saddened to write that sentence, because I was very ready to welcome this book into the anti-dieting fat-acceptance canon, begun way back in the 1970s with The Dieter’s Dilemma and continued throughout […]
Last weekend we were lucky enough to see the film When the road bends: Gypsy Caravan, which documents the travels of five Romani musical groups on tour around North America. It’s a wonderful film and I want to recommend that people see it, but I found that everything I thought of writing about […]
In Debt We Trust: A documentary film about the debt industry in the United States and how it’s flushing most of us down the financial toilet. Includes analysis of credit card marketing to college students, the real estate bubble, check cashing storefronts, rent to own, payday loans, rapid refund loans, car title loans, […]
I don’t have the energy or the heart to do in-depth reviews of either of these films. They’re both worth seeing. I’m grateful to have an independent theater within biking distance where I can see films like this for $5.
An Unreasonable Man
This documentary addresses a lot of questions–the effectiveness of working within the […]
American Blackout
From the theater release notes:
“Chronicles the recurring patterns of disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who not only took an active role in investigating these election debacles but also found herself in the middle of one after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9-11 […]
We have just returned from seeing this wonderful agonizing trilingual “multimedia presentation” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and I am damn near speechless. It’s a wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, strong, devastating portrayal of the way that the colonization of Mexico has been played out on women’s bodies, beginning with the role of Malintzin in […]
So, good crunchy dykes that we are, we rode our bikes to the “2nd annual albuquerque social justice film festival: Sustainability in Action,” and here is what we saw.
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: This was hands down the best film, in my opinion. One drawback was that there […]
Yesterday we saw the documentary about the Dixie Chicks, “Shut Up & Sing.” The controversy that has surrounded the band since lead singer Natalie Maines spoke out against the Iraq war on a London concert stage in 2003 has led the Chicks to produce an amazing song, “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which could […]
I’ve noticed that a lot of writers think a catchy title can make up for a multitude of literary sins these days. In the case of Jennifer Baumgardner’s recent Alternet article, the title, while sure to draw in readers of all stripes, is not so much catchy as seriously misleading.
Full disclosure: I’ve […]
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