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winterhol wishlist
The rules:
Step One
- Make a post (public, locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your reading list/friendslist (or network, or friends' friends, or just random journals, or [community profile] holiday_wishes/[profile] wish_list) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. pointers to rap or hiphop that is more rather than less friendly to women. bonus points if the artists are poc, super bonus points if they're woc. i know that rap/hiphop is not any more sexist than metal or alternative, but i am now at the point where i can no longer listen to matchbox twenty[1] without screaming at the radio and changing the station, and if i squint i can pretend that nickelback's "i like your pants around your feet/i like the dirt that's on your knees/i like the way you still say please/when you're looking up at me/you're my favorite damn disease" (yes i typed that from memory) i can pretend it's about a bdsm relationship that's having some trouble, but i can't do their new song "i only find you attractive when i pretend you're giving me a blowjob". so, any artists, any songs, any subgenres, point me at them.
2. good pictures of me with long hair like i have now. i have some, but most of them are from my phone, and in many of them, the rest of the things in the picture are more important, so i am keeping them even though they are not the best pictures of me.
3. an icon of blond garcia in front of a computer. it could say something, but i'm not sure what. i need a geektastic icon.
um, that's what i got.
eta: contact info! my account is still paid at lj, so kalmn @ lj reaches me, as does my last name at gmail.
[1] Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You can turn yourself around and come on home
ugh.
Step One
- Make a post (public, locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two
- Surf around your reading list/friendslist (or network, or friends' friends, or just random journals, or [community profile] holiday_wishes/[profile] wish_list) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. pointers to rap or hiphop that is more rather than less friendly to women. bonus points if the artists are poc, super bonus points if they're woc. i know that rap/hiphop is not any more sexist than metal or alternative, but i am now at the point where i can no longer listen to matchbox twenty[1] without screaming at the radio and changing the station, and if i squint i can pretend that nickelback's "i like your pants around your feet/i like the dirt that's on your knees/i like the way you still say please/when you're looking up at me/you're my favorite damn disease" (yes i typed that from memory) i can pretend it's about a bdsm relationship that's having some trouble, but i can't do their new song "i only find you attractive when i pretend you're giving me a blowjob". so, any artists, any songs, any subgenres, point me at them.
2. good pictures of me with long hair like i have now. i have some, but most of them are from my phone, and in many of them, the rest of the things in the picture are more important, so i am keeping them even though they are not the best pictures of me.
3. an icon of blond garcia in front of a computer. it could say something, but i'm not sure what. i need a geektastic icon.
um, that's what i got.
eta: contact info! my account is still paid at lj, so kalmn @ lj reaches me, as does my last name at gmail.
[1] Baby, baby, baby
When all your love is gone
Who will save me
From all I'm up against out in this world
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You can turn yourself around and come on home
ugh.
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(Anonymous) 2010-12-02 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(would you like a dw invite code? it makes commenting easier! it's freeee!)
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I'll try the lj email to send you attachments.
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Salt n Pepa as well as TLC also have pro-sex and pro-woman hip hop. Eve's "Love is Blind" discusses domestic violence in a way that is empowering, IMO. If you're looking for roots of hiphop, there's always Nikki Giovanni's Ego Trippin. "Girlfriend" by Queen Pen complicates the heteronormativity of most hip hop (though it does so in a problematic manner). Invincible is an Arab American queer hip hop artist who raps about a lot of issues, including feminism and urban blight. Miss Platnum is a Romanian hip hop artist who raps about body issues especially ("Give me the Food" is a favorite of mine)
I'm also interested in hip hop that deals with domestic violence specifically (and takes a specifically anti-violence stance). You might look at Ludacris' "Runaway Love," City High's "What Would You Do?," and my favorite, 2pac's "Keep Ya Head Up."
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There's the obvious stuff - Queen Latifah ("U.N.I.T.Y." is my personal fave), Salt n' Pepa, MC Lyte, Lauryn Hill, MIA, Eve, Nicki Minaj.
Less well known: Jean Grae, Bahamadia, Monie Love, Lil Mama, Lady Sovereign, Yo-Yo
Mos Def is a current male artist who is refreshingly non-annoying. "Brown Skin Lady" is a charming love letter to darker-skinned WOC - awesome. OutKast is also fairly unproblematic. Old school folks like Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, and De La Soul are non-gangsta, often political, and non-lady-hating.
NOW's NYC chapter did a list of 200 "feminist certified" rap songs. I have problems with some of their choices, but it's a useful starting point.
Sadly, I think it's necessary to include some "IT'S A TRAP"-type warnings of female hip-hop artists a lot of folks find problematic: Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott. ME in particular breaks my heart because she is SO GODDAMN TALENTED and there's such awesome fuck-you sass, but ten seconds later there's some wretched, wretched shit. You'll be rocking right along to the badass beats and then run across a line like, "treat me like a prostitute" and ow ow ow. YMMV on Lil' Kim - some folks find her problematic, some find her in-your-face sexuality rockin' and empowering.
If you would like more, I can ask my friend, Alyx, who blogs at Feminist Music Geek and is most wise in the ways of these things.
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http://www.nownyc.org/women/images/feminist_certified_rap_and_hiphop_songs.pdf
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Lady Sovereign
Salt N Pepa
Northern State
De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
Public Enemy
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(Anonymous) 2010-12-06 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)Dessa (local, part of the Doomtree collective, who might have other artists to check out, I've had little exposure to them.)
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do you want a dw invite code?