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And speaking of MySpace...

Love / Shove blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 12, 2008 - 4:50pm; tagged music, music videos, Myspace, performance artists, racism, resisting myspace, vloggers, you tube.

but on a more positive (well, admirable at least) note....

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Resisting and organizing through creative media

Bitch on Wheels blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 5, 2008 - 4:42pm; tagged AMC 2008, classism, community organizing, Detroit, documentary, gentrification, hip-hop, music, music videos, racism.

I'm back in Portland, still processing and reflecting on my trip to the Midwest. I'll be posting more about that soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video about displacement/gentrification in Detroit, featuring Detroit-based female hip-hop artist, Invincible. It's a beautiful example of how powerful a story becomes when different forms of media are combined.

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Amazon Women on the Moon

Images of Femininity in the Video Age

Article by Andi Zeisler, appeared in issue Premiere; published in 1996; filed under Broadcast; tagged androgyny, gender, gender bending, mtv, music videos, rock, sex objects, sexualization, stereotypes, women in rock.

Like some grizzled old-timer sitting on the porch of the homestead talking about the good old days, I think back to the first time I saw MTV and pity the prepubescents of today who didn’t have the luck to see, as I did, the wonder of MTV when it first aired. I was eight years old, alone in my living room, and somehow I knew that I was witnessing a tremendous event: a connection with something that just wasn’t accessible through after-school cartoons or Gilligan’s Island reruns.

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