Christiane Amanpour and Men Can Stop Rape

October 21, 2011

So two quick things tonight. First of all, Happy Friday!! It was not until I went down to working four days a week that I realized how much everyone does not like their job. So, first the bad news. I attended a film screening of Miss Representation at the Paley Center for Media last week [...]

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Huan Zhu Ge Ge

October 20, 2011

This is the new Chinese TV show I am currently addicted to: Huan Zhu Ge Ge or The Princss of the Returning Pearl. I kept protesting to the BF that I would never get into a Chinese historical show (having attempted and failed once already) but guo ran ru tzi — as it turns out— [...]

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Anita Hill 20

October 16, 2011

Yesterday I spent my entire Saturday indoors in Hunter College at a conference. It was titled: Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill, Twenty Years Later. I tweeted more in those 8 hours than I have in 8 months combined. So I thought that would be a perfect way to describe the day: A day [...]

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Korean Drama Online

October 1, 2011

Right now I am addicted to another Asian drama—it’s Korean and called “Pasta.” You can even watch it on hulu (wth?). Pretty cool. Anyways, there are lots of similar themes I realized with Pasta and The Fierce Wife. I asked why it’s always the woman protagonist that has 2 male characters pursuing her and never [...]

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Taiwanese girls are …

September 18, 2011

When I was in Taiwan I also had the chance to visit and talk with a group of students at Taipei American School. What was originally just a casual coffee meeting with a female student grew into a classroom talk with teachers and even the principal. Little did they (or I) know that I would [...]

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