we can do it?

You decide. Beyonce. "Why Don't You Love Me"


"Why Don't You Love Me" - Beyoncé from Beyoncé on Vimeo.

queen gaga

Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video has awaken me from my blogging slumber. Love her. I'm most excited that she was not outshined by her counterpart, B. Hauteness. My favorite line: "I told you she didn't have a d**k. Too bad."

gender is burning

When Isis, the diva from America's Next Top Model made history as the first transgendered person to compete on the show, the airwaves went crazy. In fact, the producers created so much hype around Isis's gender that it inevitably overshadowed her performance on the show. But this was not the first time that the blurring of gender lines seemingly occurred in the mainstream. I think back to the overwhelming popularity of the 1990 documentary, Paris is Burning, in which characters like Venus Xtravaganza and Willi Ninja were born. Or even Marc Jacobs' controversial ad campaign which employed androgynous male model Cole Mohr to showcase a few dresses within his Spring 08 collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs. In 2003, Jean Paul Gaultier favorite Omahyra Mota even appeared in Jay-Z's video for Change Clothes. Whether in hip-hop, fashion, or mainstream popular culture...could the lines be blurring/burning before our eyes?