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lacigreen:

A lot of my Sex+ babes have been sending me Lily Allen’s new music video “Hard Out Here” and asking for a review.  So…here are my half baked thoughts.

Let me start by saying that I love that there are fierce female musicians out there creating content that critiques misogyny in the media.  At it’s heart, this song is the shit.  It slaps, it’s critical, it’s unapologetic and real.  Oh, and it makes fun of Robin Thicke.  

Why can’t we have more like this?  Plz?  Pritty plz?  I wish it was more common.  And for that, I give Lily Allen mad props.  

Howeverrrrrr I am in solidarity with the outcry about some issues with the video.  Unfortunately, Lily went by the wayside by objectifying black women (a la miley cyrus and iggie azalea).  Again and again we see white women using black women as props — there for ass shaking and adding an edgy/sexy vibe in the background.  

If you watch the vid, you’ll notice the black women are hyper-sexualized in a way that Lily herself (and the other white/white passing women) are not.

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http://vimeo.com/11855948

thefeministhub:

These videos represent women taking action through media to talk about issues important to their lives and talking back to the media that so often misrepresents, stereotypes and victimizes us.

Below is the playlist of the videos she showed:

Bechdel Test – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF6sAAMb4s
Feminist Free Association – Girl Drive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDEr8IT9IY
Revisioning Pretty Woman – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2H37m_Yt8
Queering Real Housewives – http://elisakreisinger.wordpress.com/
Harry Potter and the Brokeback Mountain – http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/2009/03/03/harry-potter-and-the-brokeback-mountain/ 
It Started with a Kiss – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hs1W0OOQP4
Dance Floor Star Trek – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQuFc3BP74
Too Many Dicks: Video Games – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJ0JPLg_-8
I’m your man – http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/2009/03/02/im-your-man/
It Depends on What You Pay: Dollhouse – http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/2009/07/24/dollhouse-it-depends-on-what-you-pay/
Women’s Work: Supernatural Vid http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/2009/04/08/womens-work/
Planet of the Arabs – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1ZNEjEarw
Black as Me – http://vimeo.com/4080308
If Men Menstrated – http://vimeo.com/4638455
The Revolution will be Televised – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfJd0Q8HjPw

~Crystal

These are outstanding, as is the discussion around them. Some of them are quite upsetting, so just be aware of that before you start watching.

(Source: http://vimeo.com/)

Zora Howard performs Bi-Racial Hair at the 2006 Urban Word NYC Annual Teen Poetry Slam.

Theres another version of this video here: http://lab.wgbh.org/open-call/bi-racial-hair

This girl was only 13 when she wrote this, she’s simply incredible. If nothing else, read the bellow excerpt.

“I have biracial hair because I have biracial blood. I’m not talking about that cute ‘Daddy met a black woman and fell in love’ blood, I’m talking about that slave raped six times by the master, birthing six mixed babies, later hung blood. I’m talking about that cross-burning in the mud blood, and you call me a mudblood? Slit my wrists, and my blood does not excrete in black and white. I dream in verse and in red like what spilled from Emmett Till’s lips when he was killed for breaking down color lines. “

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)