Posted in Feminism, Media, Sexuality, tagged film, Film theory, homosexuality on 22 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Memory can sometimes be a strange beast. While thinking about this piece, I suddenly remembered an article Cath Elliot wrote on the bad sex in literature award two years ago under the title, Flaccid prose, and the first comment it elicited:
flaccid is an unnecessary man-hating word to use in the title. I’m all for feminism, [...]
Posted in Media, Religion, tagged consumerism, Muslim women, veil on 16 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post was first published on Muslimah Media Watch
If a hijab in Pucci-designed print could speak, what would it say?
I attended a seminar presented by Professor Reina Lewis on Muslim women’s lifestyle magazines last night and was faced with this bizarre question. It all started with the actual seminar itself, which showcased the latest research [...]
Posted in Feminism, Media, Sexuality on 15 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Loads of people who work in the sex industry are academics – education is a very expensive habit,” said Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers who has been a sex worker herself for 10 years.
“At a brothel I worked in, I think I was the only one not doing a PhD.”
On [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Post-colonialism, Religion on 12 October, 2009 | 1 Comment »
First published at Muslimah Media Watch. An edited version is published on altmuslimah.com
Today we witness postcolonial Orientalism coming to grips with its obsession with the hijab. While the white French elite seem fixed on debating its symbols, the British media are asking why women choose to wear it. Once, the obsession was an obvious desire [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, tagged British TV, Cooking, Racism on 23 September, 2009 | 11 Comments »
If you follow Jamie Oliver’s cooking programmes, alternatively known as The Naked Chef, you’ll notice that his cool and effortless boyish attitude to cooking strikes a chord with the young, mostly male, upwardly-mobile, and aspiring members of the British middle class; it’s about an obsession with fresh, locally-sourced or grow-your-own ingredients, and recipes firmly grounded [...]
Posted in Feminism, Media, Religion, tagged film, Muslim women on 16 August, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First published at Feminist Review. Muslimah Media Watch has also the goods.
Reading the official synopsis of The Mosque in Morgantown, I quickly got the impression that it was a documentary film that revolved around the battle between journalist-activist Asra Nomani and “the extremists” in her hometown Morgantown, West Virginia. It is [...]
Posted in Malay language, Malaysia, Media, tagged Malaysian on 2 June, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Cross-posted from Muslimah Media Watch
As I count the hours to the day I return to Malaysia, I’m compiling my notes and thoughts for a small research project on media images of women in the capital. But I’ve already started collecting preliminary data; my immense curiosity in the representation of Muslim Malay women in the current [...]
Posted in Feminism, Malaysia, Media on 28 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hi everybody,
Apologies for the long silence. Things have been rather hectic following my film workshop (which I’ve long been meaning to write about). Further, I’ve been spending a lot of time with friends and my boyfriend, to catch up and compensate for the loneliness when I’m back in Malaysia.
I’m flying tomorrow, so my mind’s stuck [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Post-colonialism, Sexuality, tagged British TV, India, interracial marriage, Marriage, Racism on 17 May, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Crossposted on Feminist Review.
The repressive, corseted Victorian culture of the novel found a perfect foil in the rigid caste strictures of Indian society. (The Times, 27 April 2009)
Nesrine Malik’s scathing review of the ITV drama Compulsion got me thinking a lot more about modern day adaptations of pre-20th century literary works featuring ethnic Indian actors. [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Media, tagged Eating disorders, Muslim women on 14 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First published at Muslimah Media Watch
It’s become common belief that Muslim women, particularly those who wear the hijab, are liberated from the media-driven standards of beauty that values the thin and the willowy. But it’s a belief that couches on the idea that head-coverings and modest clothes provide little incentive for showing off a great [...]
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