No Girls Allowed: File Sharing Culture and BitTorrent

July 20, 2010

Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium Every time I go to download files from a BitTorrent tracker site I am constantly bombarded with ads for sex/dating sites or straight up pornography and I’m sick of it.  Women and people of colour are engaging in online technologies as well and [...]

Interview: Jennifer Berger on About Face and American Apparel

June 29, 2010

Recently I sat down with Jennifer Berger, the executive director of About Face, a media literacy organization, helping girls and women resist harmful media messages. They currently have a campaign against American Apparel’s advertising. Related Links and Articles: About Face and visit American Apparel in their Gallery of Offenders. Views photos from an action About [...]

Bayonetta: Innovative Advertising or Sexual Harassment Training?

May 18, 2010

Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium The widely popular video game Bayonetta has had an advertising campaign that matches the on screen sexism of the game itself.  In Tokyo a large billboard in the subway invited passersby to literally strip off  flyers to reveal Bayonetta naked underneath.  The campaign [...]