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nigga-are-you-even-kawaii: youareliterallybeingsorude: zodiacbaby: sixpenceee: Sonia Singh, from the island state of Tasmania in Australia, finds used Bratz fashion dolls and other dolls at second-hand shops. She then uses nail polish remover and eucalyptus oil to clean the dolls’ faces and remove their thick lipstick, heavy eye shadows and painted on eyes. She replaces it all…
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Is a reputation economy really an economy?
mostlysignssomeportents: Kevin Simler’s 2013 essay on the economics of social status is a great, enduring Sunday sort of longread that should be required of anyone contemplating using the phrase “reputation economy” in polite society. Contrary to my own views, Simler argues convincingly that you can have an economy based on status — that is, that…
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I think that using alien to describe otherness works,” says Reynaldo Anderson, a professor who writes about Afrofuturism. Anderson is one of many theorists who view the alien metaphor as one that explains the looming space of otherness perpetuated by the idea of race. “We’re among the first alien abductees, kidnapped by strange people who…
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I think that using alien to describe otherness works,” says Reynaldo Anderson, a professor who writes about Afrofuturism. Anderson is one of many theorists who view the alien metaphor as one that explains the looming space of otherness perpetuated by the idea of race. “We’re among the first alien abductees, kidnapped by strange people who…