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cimoreneI read a bit ago that Italian Vogue is planning to release an issue shot with only black models. Normally as race news goes this rumour (?) would be fairly minor, but it's poignant in contrast to the latest chapters of what's been going on in the feminist blogosphere, which I've been reading basically at the same time. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ciderpress and miriam_heddy have collected some links on the explosion caused by the racist art in Amanda Marcotte's new book, and this when Blackfemipower's retreat from the web is still making waves. I can't help thinking that it's a shocking contrast when the Italian fashion industry is more impressive than the academic feminist sphere. (Even more upsettingly, I just finisehd reading that a judge cleared entirely the 3 NYPD detectives who shot an unarmed black man 50 times outside a club on his wedding night, which is far sadder and more horrifying, but it's no surprise that the US criminal justice system comes in last in race issues, although the ruling itself came as a nauseating shock to me - after all, just the shooting would still have brought them in last, if they'd been convicted as they should have been.) As for the feminist blogosphere happenings themselves, there seem to me to be heaps of irony everywhere - which are incapable of being funny because the issue is far too serious.
ciderpress and miriam_heddy have collected some links on the explosion caused by the racist art in Amanda Marcotte's new book, and this when Blackfemipower's retreat from the web is still making waves. I can't help thinking that it's a shocking contrast when the Italian fashion industry is more impressive than the academic feminist sphere. (Even more upsettingly, I just finisehd reading that a judge cleared entirely the 3 NYPD detectives who shot an unarmed black man 50 times outside a club on his wedding night, which is far sadder and more horrifying, but it's no surprise that the US criminal justice system comes in last in race issues, although the ruling itself came as a nauseating shock to me - after all, just the shooting would still have brought them in last, if they'd been convicted as they should have been.) As for the feminist blogosphere happenings themselves, there seem to me to be heaps of irony everywhere - which are incapable of being funny because the issue is far too serious.
