Brain Popcorn: Archive

This is where I’ve been hiding. The new site launched yesterday! Hallelujah!

Editor-in-chief Pilar Gerasimo talks about Experience Life’s new redesign and the 10-year journey that brought the magazine to where it is today.

Aug 24, 20104 notes

“Whether or not you find authenticity culture narcissistic, it’s not hard to see how the idea of travel works to support it. American literature and film celebrate few concepts as thoroughly as the open road. In Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild—to name just a few—travel becomes a means to free the sacred self from the mundane and to experience the joys of a world that suddenly seems to sparkle with divinity. Of course, this has typically been understood as a male freedom. Gilbert flips the gender assumptions—she’s the one who leaves a spouse because she needs freedom—and some find the reaction against Eat Pray Love to be rooted in that sexist legacy.” —Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See | Culture | Religion Dispatches

Aug 24, 20104 notes

“The violence women negotiate every day of our lives doesn’t look like having our hands burned off over a slow fire. It looks like being assaulted by people we know; being denied access to legal medical procedures; being paid less for equal work; all the hundreds of little garden-variety inequalities that add up to a great big pile of shit. Most of us will never be abducted by a sadistic serial killer, thankfully. But all of us will, at some point, be told we are less because we are female.” —

The Girl With the Lots of Creepy Disturbing Torture That Pissed Me Off: On Stieg Larsson

I haven’t read it, and am kind of glad for that. And yet I’ve heard so many of my friends rave about this book, which seems to highlight the challenge of reproaching sexism when it’s presented in an immensely entertaining way (see also: True Blood).

Aug 4, 20103 notes

#lady business

Brain Popcorn

August 2010

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