Utilitarian Review 5/24/14

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Nadim Damluji on imperialism and Mickey Mouse in Egypt.

Vom Marlowe with a Weiss Kreutz slash gender-swapping pregnancy fan fic for the gay utopia.

Hiba Ganta on femininism and Indian culture.

Isaac Butler on white peopel enslaved in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.

Jones, One of the Jones Boys on Jack Kirby, touching, and the X-Men.

Me on wanting to be the one you’re with in 16 Candles and Nora Olsen’s Frenemy of the People.

Frank Bramlett looks at representations of Michael Sam in editorial cartoons.

Chris Gavaler on Tarzan and eugenics.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Atlantic I argue that critics of critics should be criticized.

At Splice Today I sneer at William Giraldi’s stupid article about 50 Shades of Grey.

At Salon I have a list of white covers of R&B before Elvis.

At the Chicago Reader I previewed a nice looking show of emerging artists in Chicago.
 
Other Links

Elias Leight on Nikki Lane, Sturgill Simpson, and contemporary country.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the case for reparations.

Amanda Hess on 28 things that have been described as porn for women.

Professor Crunk on Beyonce and bell hooks.
 

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