The Window Shopping Project: XXI
“After years of thrifting, I realized that I had not entered a retail store of any other type in far too long. I did not even know how to shop in most retail stores. This year, I have decided to spend the next twelve months window shopping. The twist I want to put on this...
To Market, To Market, To Buy A Fat Pig
Keeping up with the desires in my own head is hard enough, but being a part of the slew of popular social networking sites and applications out there suddenly adds a whole new set of issues to grapple with. I tumblr, I tweet, I pinterest and facebook, pose, stylecast and instagram. I read fashion blogs...
Why Are You So Obsessed With Me?
I’ve written my fair share about cultural appropriation, all of it dealing with the specific appropriation of Native American imagery, more specifically that of the plains tribes. I’ve tweeted, blogged, Facebook-ed, published articles, given speeches and drunkenly spoken out about it at bars. But I think I need to write something addressing the things that...
And So Modest!
If you are like me, then your Google Reader is probably full of a variety of fashion blogs covering the entire spectrum of humanity — there are fashion blogs for all sorts these days, displaying microcosms of style so varied in approach and ideals that it can be overwhelming. Sometimes I go through Fashion Blog...
Hey Girl, Hey!
Hey pretty lady. How’s it going? What’s your name, sunshine? Where do you live? I like your pants/shorts/skirt/top. Damn! They’d look better on my floor. What did you do last night? Were you with your boyfriend? He better keep an eye on you, sugar pie. You can sit next to me, princess. I only move...
Tomb Raider 2012: A Survivor is Born and a Franchise is Rebooted
Last year at E3 2011, Square Enix set the video game blogosphere ablaze by announcing a new Tomb Raider for a new generation. Developed by Crystal Dynamics, the game establishes an origin story for intrepid explorer Lara Croft, who begins the game as a recent college grad out to make a name for herself. Lara’s...
“It’s Like Shopping!”: How Fashion Blogs Create A Competitive Market of Taste
Linking from fashion blog to fashion blog, I try my skills at curation: importing pictures to hang side-by-side on my desktop. I try to be selective, and I try to be careful — to make notes of designers and models, collections and editors — but I lose the plot almost immediately, and get carried away...
The Window Shopping Project: Old Navy.
“After years of thrifting, I realized that I had not entered a retail store of any other type in far too long. I did not even know how to shop in most retail stores. This year, I have decided to spend the next twelve months window shopping. The twist I want to put on this...
Native Issues
Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people walking around with feathers in their hair, and it kind of pisses me off. Maybe you haven’t noticed the recent hipster trend of appropriating Native traditions, but being of Native descent and having been raising in a pro-Native household, I sure as hell have. And to be fair,...
The Window Shopping Project: Walmart.
In this new series, we follow blogger Terri Lowry as she makes her way through a year-long project exploring the various levels of retail in America. Each month we will feature a post from her window-shopping project and hope that it will encourage discourse! You can see last month’s post, on dollar stores, here. I...
How To Be Tumblr Famous
Post a lot of photographs of thin, white women with dirty hair. No, really. I’m serious. I will be the first to admit that I love me some Tumblr and Pinterest. I use Pinterest as a catchall wishlist-cum-recipe-book and visit it about once a day. I used to obsessively Tumble (is that how you say...
Plus One
Plus-size modeling has received quite a bit of attention in recent years. First there was model Lizzie Miller’s belly shot in Glamour magazine’s August 2009 issue. Then there was V Magazine’s ‘Curves Ahead’ piece, which featured plus size models both dressed and undressed. Ever since, there has been steady editorial growth for plus size models,...
