I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
obama nesting dolls
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, collage, craft, crafts, design, etsy, girlonthestreet, girls, knit, nesting dolls, Obama, politics, quilt, woman, women on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Number one, O.J. did it, and number two, don’t tell us what to do
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged advertising, affirmative action, american, bias, boomers, bush, divisive, early feminists, election, equality, feminism, gender, Hilary, hillary, houston, matriarch, michelle, misogyny, myopia, neo-feminist, o.j. simpson, Obama, old boy network, patriot, polemics, political, politics, power suits, reagan, sisters of 77, slutty, woman, women on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
we are not asking permission from some great Uncle Sam like authority to be who we are or to have power.
obama’s popularity measures up up up in fashion’s pop culture litmus test
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fashion, merchandise, Obama, politics, pop culture, shepard fairey, tee shirts on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The LA Times reports that Obama offerings from the world of fashion far outsell that of Hillary (and McCain obviously). From Shepard Fairey to Marc Jacobs to CafePress tee shirts, the numbers are pretty remarkable.
I am voting for Barack Obama
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged articulate, democrats, election, empower, hillary, leadership, Obama, politics, president, republicans, vision, vote, voting, white house, win, winning, women on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I resisted but it’s too damn important. Women might very well be the deciding vote here – he’s got the white men nailed so that’s done, and there is the question of the Latin vote – but I feel confident from all my hours of listening, that this guy first of all, has a better [...]
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t… (gender politics at work)
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged fashion, politics, work on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
statistics of a predicament
