Episode 6: Miss Elle’s Guide to the Emmys!
The 2012 Emmy nominations were announced last week and if you’re not a huge TV buff like me, you might not be up to date with all of the future winners. Don’t worry, I got you! Here’s a quick guide on what to expect from the Emmys this year (and every year.)
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Okay, so. I just finished watching Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine because I’m weak for a good documentary and also when I was in the ninth grade I was obsessed with cults/Columbine (not the white kids, mind you, but like—the media surrounding the affair. Very fascinating what a culture of fear will get you.)
Anyway, people in 2002 were really bold, you know that? Michael Moore spends the majority of the documentary going around and asking white people what they thought led to the Columbine shootings. That famous gifset of Marilyn Monroe talking about the “culture of fear” comes from this documentary; I feel like he’s the one who truly got it right, but that’s only because I’m a cynical bitch.
But anyway, he asks all these white surburbanites what contributes to school shootings and they all give really bullshit reasons, most of them implying racism or are just plain racist. What really interests me is when Moore interviews the creator/producer of COPS at the time, who says he doesn’t believe that showing primarily black/Latino suspects on his show leads to a stereotype that demonizes/criminalizes black/Latino people. Like anyone with an extensive knowledge of history and race relations in this country knows that fear of POC is an inherent backbone in the media + in capitalism; the culture of fear in general is propelled by the fear of the unknown/of being hurt + since America’s society isn’t so greatly infused w/ POC culture, POC are constantly the unknown. The Islamphobia found in aftermath of the 2001 attacks is a great example of what this looks like blown up to the millions.
I don’t pay a lot of attention to the Second Amendment or gun rights because I’m not really interested in the bullshit reasons white people use for owning guns. Safety is the keyword here, but it doesn’t stick for me. If we’re talking about a low-income neighborhood in Detroit where the police don’t even show up anymore, then we can talk about safety. But the majority of the white people discussing safety and the right to protect their own lived in neighborhoods where crime was not easily found unless the residents were creating it themselves.
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Also check out dream hampton and Nitsuh Abebe on the topic, if you missed them.
Wonderful video from JSmooth as always, folks. I encourage everyone to check it out!
One thing that does perplex is me is one of the initial reactions Smooth has to Ocean coming out; although I can understand the idea of being wary against the more nefarious ways artists self-promote, I can’t imagine anyone confusion coming out with self-promotion. Maybe it’s because I’m queer and therefore biased against the logic that being publicly queer in any space (not just hip-hop or rap, despite whatever the media would have you believe)—but as dream hampton pointed out in her letter on Jay-Z’s blog, plenty of artists have seen the downfall of their careers right over the shoulder of their coming out stories. Had Ocean really been looking for a way to promote his upcoming album, coming out would not be the way to do it.
On the night Ocean came out, I wrote a post that clearly showed how I was all up in my queer feelings, and someone reblogged it with the same sentiments Smooth showed above—except the person in mind wasn’t really wary so much as cynical. There was an obvious difference of wanting to protect one’s self as a consumer (what I feel like Smooth was doing here) and writing off the artist completely (what the aforementioned was doing there.) It’s really shocking to me that people still view sexuality as a publicity stunt—not because sexuality isn’t important but because it it is too personal to be anything as open and as demanding as publicity stunt.
As far as the Nicki Minaj affair goes: I really want people to realize that I am probably always going to give her the benefit of the doubt. I’m not condoning or demonizing her transition from bisexual to straight, because sexuality is pretty fluid and people do tend to fuck up sometimes. I’ve fucked up plenty of times on my way to being what I am now, and things can get confusing. I’m not totally comfortable with likening Minaj’s transition to a publicity stunt. Is there a probability of it? Of course, but that’s pretty much only for Minaj to know at this point.
Episode 5: Miss Elle on Blocking the Vote!
Think you have the right to vote? Think again! There’s been a lot of talk about voters suppression bills on Tumblr, so I’m here to help you through them. Know your states’ laws & get yourself registered!
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Anyone who believed your voice could make a difference, I want to reaffirm your belief: You made this happen.
[Image: A graphic entitled “The 11 Best Representatives For Gay Rights”. Beneath are eleven portrait photos of the following: Rep. Pete Stark, an older white man in a suit. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a blonde white woman. Rep. John Lewis, a smiling middle aged Black man. Rep. Edolphus Towns, a middle aged Black man. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, an older white woman. Rep. Barbara Lee, a middle aged Black woman. Rep. Raul Grijalva, an older Latino, Rep. Keith Ellison a relatively young Black man, Rep. Bob Filner, a middle aged white man and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a middle aged white woman.]
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We name the 11 most pro-gay U.S. representatives. Read more about their great LGBT records.
Last week, we named 7 most anti-gay Republicans.
Please note how many of them are People of Color…
^This.
If I have to hear one more white queer person going on about “minority communities being inherently more homophobic than white communities” I’m going to…I don’t know what I’ll do, but it’ll probably be highly amusing and slightly illegal.
and PS: the 7 most anti-gay republicans? ALL WHITE.
This post is like one big “fuck you” to Dan Savage. I love it.
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An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.
Settling in for a long night of research and note taking. Tomorrow is film day and I have three videos to do for Miss Elle! EXCITED TBH
Hope everyone is enjoying their night! I’m gonna fill up the queue again so you all have some cool stuff to look at until Sunday. Have a good night! :)
Now let’s get to the core of this mother of all fauxpologies ever uttered in any medium, format or language.
Whoever says anything like this by way of an apology isn’t interested in taking responsibility for anything, including their own very specific actions that they were actually called out on, at all. That much is clear to anybody, because nobody asked them to apologise for “the world”.
And another thing that bothers me about statements like “it’s the way of the world”, “the world’s fucked up” etc. is the language that is intended to shift any/all responsibility and complicity from the speaker to something much bigger that they could not possibly change by themselves, as if they were even asked to go against something like that.
Newsflash:
We are the fucking world. The world in these statements is made up of people who just try to get by and make the best of whatever they’ve got. And yes, sometimes circumstances are overwhelming. Sometimes there are no good options. That is real and those situations need to be dealt with differently.
But even so they do not cancel out the ultimate responsibility of the person who is faced with the choice of what to do, how to act, what to say. And few and far between are the people on tumblr who do not have a choice or power over what they themselves are doing.
The Internet is one of the few places in which you have TOTAL FUCKING CONTROL over your own output. Think about that for a second before you blow up people’s ask boxes or comment threads with fauxpologies over how there is racism in the world or some shit like that. Nobody asked for it, and nobody certainly needs another white opinion on the matter.
I see white people blaming “the world” for their ignorant, racist and hurtful actions against POC online all the damn time and let me tell you, you insipid little bitches, it just doesn’t work that way.
Who do you choose to be? Who is it you are?
Because if “the world” is really preventing you from seeing how you have hurt another person (unwittingly or not) and apologizing for that, you’re a fucking sheep.
Another reason why I personally deliberately avoid thinking about injustice on broad terms like “the world” is because of the feeling of powerlessness that it often engenders because it’s not the job of one person to change it all. There’s the danger of totally losing perspective of what I can personally, actually, really do that will have a positive effect and thereby change at least a small part of the world better.
So think about it.
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[Image: A graphic entitled “The 11 Best Representatives For Gay Rights”. Beneath are eleven portrait photos of the following: Rep. Pete Stark, an older white man in a suit. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a blonde white woman. Rep. John Lewis, a smiling middle aged Black man. Rep. Edolphus Towns, a middle aged Black man. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, an older white woman. Rep. Barbara Lee, a middle aged Black woman. Rep. Raul Grijalva, an older Latino, Rep. Keith Ellison a relatively young Black man, Rep. Bob Filner, a middle aged white man and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, a middle aged white woman.]
inflateablefilth:wretchedoftheearth:cgdageek:think-progress:
We name the 11 most pro-gay U.S. representatives. Read more about their great LGBT records.
Last week, we named 7 most anti-gay Republicans.
Please note how many of them are People of Color…
^This.
If I have to hear one more white queer person going on about “minority communities being inherently more homophobic than white communities” I’m going to…I don’t know what I’ll do, but it’ll probably be highly amusing and slightly illegal.
and PS: the 7 most anti-gay republicans? ALL WHITE.
This post is like one big “fuck you” to Dan Savage. I love it.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ld91G3T31ql6jblo1_1280.png)