Resources

Feminist Blogs/Texts/Videos

  • bell hooks “Cultural Criticism and Transformation”: In this video, extensively illustrated with many of the images under analysis, she makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism.
  • Bitch Magazine: is an independent, feminist media organization devoted to feminist analysis and media criticism.
  • Feministe: is one of the oldest feminist blogs designed by and run by women from the ground up.
  • Racialicious: is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture.
  • Feminist Fatale: observes and comments on the cultural environment from a feminist perspective.
  • Feminist SF: Feminists blog about science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy. Books, movies, comics, games, reason, & ranting.
  • The Angry Black Woman: Race, Politics, Gender, Sexuality, Anger.

Privilege and Institutional Oppression

News Media Resources

  • Democracy Now!: is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
  • The Real News Network: is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism.
  • Al Jazeera or watch on Livestation
  • ZNet is primarily a repository of thousands of political text articles, video, audio and other links.

Web Design

  • Wordpress: is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
  • Dreamhost: is an employeed owned web/email hosting company.

Fair Use/Copyright/Open Source

  • Creative Commons: is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

More Great Stuff

  • Fanlore Wiki: Fanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks.
  • Rebellious Pixels: Jonathan McIntosh’s Blog about Political Remix Videos: news, events and home to his remix videos.
  • Political Remix Video: This website showcases and promotes some of the best, most innovative and inspiring examples of Political Remix Video
  • Organization for Transformative Works: is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.
  • Target Women: is a video series created by Sarah Haskins that is apart of InfoMania on Current TV.  It is a critical and funny look at commercials targeted to women.
  • Ill Doctrine:  is a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad.
  • It’s Getting Hot in Here: is the voice of a growing movement, a collection of voices from the student and youth leaders of the global movement to stop global warming.