Shanghai Art and Science Fiction

I didn’t know I was interested in Shanghai’s contemporary art scene until I started reading the blog Asian Art Nerd.  The blog offers commentary and showcases Shanghai art (often via the author’s own photos) such as Jiang Zhi’s photographs, which recallsome bizarre combination of dreams, nostalgia, and horror films:
Each image makes my skin prickle, as [...]

Two great series on Racialicious.

Directing attention to these two series on Racialicious, both written by Latoya Peterson:
Debunking Myths about Statutory Rape, Race and Class:
Part One/Part Two/Part Three
This series does a great job challenging the stereotypes that young girls who dress in a ’slutty’ manner deserve to be sexually harassed and abused; that men have an overwhelming ‘biological preference’ for [...]