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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Habla Español (Sort of)
11:07 am By Maegan La Mala · Magazines| New York City| Politics| language · Comments Off
24 Sep 2008
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking Spanish classes, with a Colombian tutor. Does this mean he speaks with a Colombian accent?
The men sat at opposite ends of a coffee table speckled with a half-dozen books — on the history of New York’s municipal lawyers, on the subway system’s rich architecture. Their legs stretched out, left foot resting on the right, they were mirror images of disparate worlds: the tutor, an immigrant from Colombia, with his student, the mayor of New York, face to face for 90 minutes in an elegant chamber at City Hall.
In an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, el alcalde says he wishes his Español was better
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My Spanish. I’ve been studying for seven years and I still speak como un novato.
In New York City, it should be a requirement to speak Spanish and I mean that in the best way.
Via / Mi Blog es tu Blog, NYT, Vanity Fair
Image Via / NYT
AIDS Crisis in Puerto Rico
11:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Health| Magazines| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
2 Sep 2008
Oh no, here comes the Rican with another Puerto Rico related post. This month’s issue of POZ Magazine has an article about the AIDS crisis in Puerto Rico and how it is endangering the lives most in need of critical services.
According to the article, there are 11,000 people living with AIDS on the U.S. colony, and many are being denied access to treatment because they face stereotypes and and massive mismanagement of services. With an AIDS prevalence rate there is almost twice that of the U.S. mainland, people are losing their lives and not enough people seem to care.
Ay the Hipster Irony (and Racism).
9:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| Fashion| Magazines| US Presidential Race 2008| race · 1 Comment
18 Jul 2008
We’re told to “get a sense of humor” and ironically to “lighten up” when it comes to our reaction as people of color to racist imagery and histories being put up on magazine covers and more recently, on a tee shirt.
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn’t his fault — and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of “ordinary WASPs.”
A More Apt Comparison
12:25 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Magazines| US Presidential Race 2008| race · 1 Comment
16 Jul 2008In a follow up to the New Yorker’s “ironic” cartoon, the Washington Post published the following:
As I asked in comments here, the interesting thing to consider is what could the New Yorker artist have done differently in his comic such that he truly represented irony? What’s different between the WaPo comic, which seems to represent it’s message very clearly, and the New Yorker comic, where the audience must be told how to interpret it?
The New Yorker Vs. Obama
9:11 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Magazines| Media| Politics · 2 Comments
14 Jul 2008
I’m currently out of the country and because of this, my reaction to the image you see here is probably more dramatic than yours. Maybe this has been all over CNN and you are numb to it? Maybe there is some other meaning behind this that I am missing? All I can say is that I am floored to see the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle depicted as “terrorists” (yes, read that with the quotation marks it deserves) on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.
Both the Obama campaign and the McCain campaign are denouncing the cartoon. Reports SwampPolitics.com:
“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement, reported by Politico. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”“We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.
As mentioned in the Obama camp’s quote, the magazine calls the cover a “satire”, meant to call attention to the right’s fear mongering tactics.
What do you think?
Wal-Mart removes racist Mexican comics
1:32 pm By Maegan La Mala · Magazines| mexico| race · 1 Comment
10 Jul 2008Popular Mexican comic book, “Memin Pinguin” was recently pulled from the shelves of Wal-Mart due to complaints of racism:
“We understand that Memin is a popular figure in Mexico,” the company said in a statement. “However, given the sensitivity to the negative image Memin can portray to some, we felt that it was best to no longer carry the item in our stores. We apologize to those customers who may have been offended by the book’s images.”
This is not the first time Memin stirred up controversy: this is the same character that was put on Mexican stamps in 2005 and subsequently protested against by many in Mexico and the U.S., including President Bush.
There are defenders of Memin, many have argued that people in the U.S. simply don’t understand the cultural significance of the character for Mexicans.
But for some reason I’m reminded of the joke an anti-racist Chicano activist told me was a good way to understand race relations in Mexico: A Mexican returns from the U.S.. People ask him how his trip was. He replies fine, except the ‘goddamn racists and pinche blacks’ were tough to deal with.
“Cultural significance” can also mean reinforcing racism. I think now is the time for all of us Chican@s and Mexican@s to start thinking about our assumptions of what racism can mean.
I Never Buy the American Book Review : But I Will and You Should Too!
1:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Magazines| Women| literature · Comments Off
8 May 2008
I never buy the American Book Review, but I’m going to make an exception for their latest issue and you should too! The current issue features Women of Color Publishing and contains the words of some blogger/writer hermanas! Just a taste:
“This Instant and This Triumph” an introductory essay that puts the current women of color publishing movement into historical context by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence’s crucial The Revolution Will Not Be Funded reviewed by the strategically fly organizer PAULINA HERNANDEZ!
Girlchild Press’s new anthology Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta reviewed by the most talented and necessary fiction writer of our generation DANIELLE EVANS! (I should note- La Mala is in here too!)
Hermana Resist’s collaborative ‘zine The MAIZ Chronicles reviewed by BROWNFEMIPOWER!
Is Vogue Racist For Choosing This LeBron James /Gisele Bundchen Cover?
7:52 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Magazines| race · 1 Comment
27 Mar 2008
So the blogosphere is all abuzz about Vogue magazine’s choice of cover imagery when they finally put a black man on their cover. The picture of Basketball star LeBron James and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen (who is, of German descent), is being labeled racist because it evokes the stereotype of the black male ravaging the white female. Some even say LeBron’s posture and pose evokes King Kong (which is actually the same stereotype).
The cover shot was taken by superstar photog Annie Leibovitz. Vogue did have other, less incendiary images for it’s cover. Like the one after the jump.
The Mandatory JLo and Marc Anthony Baby Money Shot
9:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Magazines · 1 Comment
21 Mar 2008
I can’t help it if I think Rican babies are beautiful. But I think Max looks way cuter than Emme (or maybe it’s the angle).
I intend to do a post on overbearing Latina mamis but overbearing Latina mamis with millions to spare brings things to a whole ‘nother level.
How many nurses do the babies have? Two. Plus a butler.
Ok so who do you think the babies look like? Papi or mami?
Via / The LA Times
Urban Female Youth Culture in Chile : Pelolais vs. Pokemones : It is About the Politics Bobos
1:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| Magazines| society · 4 Comments
20 Mar 2008
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve lived in Chile, but thanks to my Chilean partner, my half Chilean children, and DirectTV, I keep up with Chilean culture which is why I was kind of pissed off by Newsweek’s one dimensional interpretation of urban youth identity in Chile summed up by the Pokemones vs. the Pelolais.
According to the Newsweek article, Pokemones are all about looks, sex, and materialism and nothing of substance. They are, according to the article the new urban tribe taking advantage of a good Chilean economy with no political inclination at all.
Absent from the article, and corrected by one commenter, is the fact that the majority of Pokemones (so named, correct me if I’m wrong) not for the cartoon characters per se but because like the Pokemon characters, they are many. There is power in being part of a group and every group has an ideological enemy. In the case of the Pokemones, that enemy would be the pelolais.
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