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Meet Madison Moore, Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Fierceness Studies at Yale

Q. Wait, so let’s go back to that chapter on Tina Turner and fierceness. What is that about?

A. Okay, so what I’m trying to do is think about fierceness as a way that minoritized groups — like gay men, women, people of color — have used to express themselves aesthetically.

Q. Wait, but before you continue — what is fierceness?

A. Okay! Fierceness, I think, is a way of kind of returning the gaze. So in popular culture, we talk about how images and people are looked at — fierceness, I think, looks back at you. I think it’s a way of changing the social dynamic in a room. So if you’re in a room and all of a sudden someone fabulous like — I don’t know, who’s fabulous? — so if you’re in Bass [Library] and Lady Gaga walks in, you know it does something to the room, to the way the room feels, the way people react to the space and that presence does something to activate normalcy. Like okay, you guys are all normal. It puts into motion ideas about how we are beholden to particular kinds of dress or style.

Q. So it instigates self-reflection in a way, or self-consciousness in people who … aren’t fierce?

A. No, no, no, it’s not about that. Well, it’s a really broad question because the dissertation overall is looking at glamour, and glamour has usually been written about from a perspective that talks about Hollywood, and whiteness in particular. And so my interest in fierceness actually comes from the fact that when I was researching glamour and looking at all of the Hollywood stars, there was no conversation about black bodies or Asian bodies or queer bodies in terms of the production of glamour. I was like, “Something is wrong here.” So when I started to look at Tina Turner’s videos, I thought maybe black and queer bodies are doing something different altogether — maybe it’s not glamour, maybe it’s fierceness, which is where the idea comes from.

That’s a pretty awesome dissertation topic! <3333

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An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

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Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall.

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Children of immigrants are more likely to have graduated from college than the general population. 

By CRISTINA COSTANTINI

Is one or both of your parents an immigrant to the U.S.? Then you’re one of 20 million second generation U.S.-born Americans. 

That means, statistically speaking, that you make more money and are more educated than your parents were at your age, you lean left politically, and you’re accepting of homosexuality and supportive of interracial marriage (according to a recent study by Pew.)

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Pretty much what I was thinking when a guest checking into my hotel said, “I’m not racist but, that Day’s In down the street have Indian owners. Indians, you know, have prostitution rings and I didn’t want to put my family in that kind of danger.” 

Yeah buddy that wasn’t fucking racism AT ALL.

(Source: tastefullyoffensive, via chambergambit)

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At the bottom of this picture is a urinal Ernest Hemingway once took from Sloppy Joe’s bar. He did it in part to piss off his wife, but also because he had “pissed away” so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it.