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  Re: What's so gross about pink slime?

  Thanks for the insightful comments everyone!

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  Monday, October 21, 2013 — 3:17 am

  This reminds me that, slime aside, the foam pictured here is not altogether unlike the gourmet foams ...
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  Re: So God made a Farmer

  Midwestern masculinity

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  Staci Stutsman Syracuse University

  Tuesday, January 7, 2014 — 10:09 pm

  order to define Midwestern imagery. This is true more so in the Dodge ad which (aside from a brief flash ...
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  Re: Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

  Thank you, Lauren! I am also

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 3:26 pm

  it in a 350-word post. As a sort of aside, I'm also thinking about how Monaé started to ...
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  Re: The Labor Politics of Cameron Esposito and River Butchers 'Put Your Hands Together' Podcast

  Reach and comedy labour

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  Madhavi Shivaprasad Advanced Centre for Women's Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai

  Wednesday, March 11, 2020 — 9:40 am

  about the Indian stand-up scene.  Rebecca Krefting's All Joking Aside (2014)  which I am sure you ...
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  'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

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  Susanne Hamscha Free University Berlin

  October 28, 2009

  1 comment

  Austrian customers, namely “Mohr im Hemd” ice cream. “Mohr im Hemd,” a warm chocolate cake served with ... colonialism and slavery. But “Mohr im Hemd,” be it as ice cream or in its usual cake form, is not the only ...
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  Re: Can the Sidekick Protest? The Dissonant Sidekick and the Limits of Representing Difference in Contemporary Media

  I Basically Agree but...

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  Jeff Casey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:14 pm

  resignation asking, “But who am I to argue...?” Here I’m projecting my own discomfort onto the film and Tonto ... specifically, imagining the character as expressing my desire for escape, but I don’t think I’m alone in this ... granted that at the outset, I’m interested in the way the film’s own logic collapses on itself in ...
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  A "Huge" Cancellation and the ABC Family Brand

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  Phoebe Bronstein Georgia Tech

  November 12, 2012

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  “Everyone wants us to hate our bodies. Well I refuse to. I’m down with my fat.” By contrast, the girls of  ...
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  "Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season Finale, Schmeason Finale. I Don’t Even Know When It’s On!"

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  May 16, 2011

  11 comments

  on an accidentally viewed “I’m going to steal that baby right out of Amy Brenneman’s womb” season ...
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  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich

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  Anonymous In Media Res Special Category

  April 10, 2015

  “With all due respect, I’m far from a slut”, the hidden social justice advocate in Maury Povich ... producer then comes to the stage (clearly a very educated person) and said “with all due respect, I’m far ...
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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

  1 comment

  swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...

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