Toys R Us Sweden recently released its ad in which children were featured in a variety of gender-mixed spaces, with boys playing with blow-dryers, kitchens, babies and Barbies and girls…
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“Good guys are always skinny and bad guys are always fat.” That’s what a five-year-old told me recently while re-imagining Super Mario World through Legos. I immediately offered that Mario…
Plenty of young people in the past decade have risen to (sometimes brief) stardom on YouTube. Various stars, from Justin Bieber to Soulja Boy, were discovered on the Internet after…
This past week media has reminded us that racism is alive and well. From teenagers to Billy Crystal, it sometimes feels we’re hearing a perpetual resounding “No” in response to…
A recent article on YPulse covers the rising industry of Tween salons, specifically one suburban salon called Sweet & Sassy Salon and Spa, where girls are encouraged to be “Diva…
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Conservative Siri www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive It’s been a week of Siri discussions…
The Black Friday madness has passed and it’s officially the holiday season. This is the time of year when the millions of children who celebrate Christmas are drawn in by…
Wednesday was American Censorship Day as Congress held hearings on an American censorship system. It’s defined by two recent bills: the PROTECT IP Act, which was stopped in the Senate…
In light of the YouTube responses to LAMPlatoon’s broken Dr. Pepper Ten commercial, this timely article, and my endless love affair with this Audre Lorde essay, this week’s post is…
Even though the popular mold is slowly breaking, society still looks at gender as something concretely binary: boy or girl, man or woman, masculine or feminine. In my writing I…
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