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2012-13 WILL/WGSS Speaker Series
Gender and Popular Culture
Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV is Bad for Women (…and Everyone and Everything Else, Too!)
with Jennifer Pozner
7 p.m. Sept. 10, 2012
Alice Haynes Room, THC
With humor and razor-sharp analysis, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner exposes the editing tricks and ideological agendas that producers and advertisers use to create a world in which women not only have no real choices, but they don’t even want any. Pozner pushes back against “reality” TV’s regressive stereotypes about women, men, love, beauty, race and class in America to reveal how unreal so-called “unscripted programming” really is.
Hip Hop and Racial Storytelling in the Age of Obama
with Tricia Rose
6 p.m. Oct. 18, 2012
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
Hip hop has been considered the most influential youth music since the emergence of Rock and Roll. Professor of Africana studies and noted author Tricia Rose considers the cross racial power, peril and possibilities generated by highly visible commercial hip hop. What special role can hip hop play in helping create meaningful cross-racial imagination, conversation and action? What factors impede hip hop's potential in the Age of Obama?
Taking Back Our Bodies, Our Media, Our Lives
Courtney E. Martin
7 p.m. Feb. 20, 2013
Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
In this interactive talk, award-winning author Courtney E. Martin looks at the current state of media images of girls and women and maps out the exciting, ever-widening world of body image activism. Martin, the author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, examines how we can close the gap between our values and our consumption, make our own media, create a cost for sexism, and reimagine the world to more accurately represent who we really are.
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