April 9, 2012
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a long and troubled history of under-representing female artists. In 1970, Yoko Ono staged a performance piece at the museum in which a man wearing a sandwich …
April 1, 2012
Sure, go see The Hunger Games. There’s a singular, thrilling pleasure to a solidly executed blockbuster, and this one’s pretty …
By SAMUEL HUBER
MARCH 29, 2012
Samuel Huber is a junior in Yale College. He is the Executive Editor of Broad Recognition.
By ISABEL ORTIZ
March 11, 2012
The timing of the Women’s Center’s screening of Miss Representation couldn’t have been more appropriate given its proximity to the Academy Awards, our annual reminder of Hollywood’s male hegemony. A recent LA Times article …
March 9, 2012
According to Caitlin Flanagan, I too lived in Girl Land, once upon a time—and if I hadn’t, it was because my citizenship had been wrested away by the liberal, permissive parents who’d handed me a …
By ISABEL ORTIZ March 4, 2012
There’s something inherently problematic about writing an article about “female synth musicians” despite the fact that most of these women would probably deny having much in common with each other beyond the fact that they …
By ISABEL ORTIZ
February 29, 2012
By now, the Internet has become well acquainted with the Lana Del Rey universe. Wafting through a world of interminable highways, faded tinsel and pleasingly dilapidated motel signs, her self proclaimed image as a “gangsta …
February 23, 2012
Since her earliest records, M.I.A. has maintained a Third World, slightly anarchist political aesthetic that dabbles in postcolonial perspectives. Her latest music video, “Bad Girls,” sticks to that style, imagining a desolate Middle Eastern …
February 22, 2012
Real talk: last week was a frustrating week to be a feminist. We saw abusers glorified, women silenced, and reproductive rights denied. A look back:
Chris Brown’s “comeback:” The week got off to a bad …
