Category Archives: Pipeloluwa

This paper is going to be the end of me.

So I have been attempting to write an outline for my paper. I am in the middle of a 24hr final exam right now, I have an exam on Tuesday and another on Wednesday and this paper is due at … Continue reading

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Outlining….

I was writing an outline for my paper and a part of the instructions asks for “research on the cultural, social, political, and historical contexts”. I was working udner the impression that the rasta movement as a whole is the … Continue reading

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Brewer Bookstore Researching.

I’m at work and for once, the cafe isn’t looking like Grand central terminal. So anyways, since I’d like to pretend I’m not in this place right now and since I’ve been agonizing over my presentation on Thursday, I thought … Continue reading

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Retrieved Information:

When I decided to change my research topic, I started by preliminary research by making a schedule of the order in which I had hoped my posts would follow. However, this was before my laptop broke and had to be … Continue reading

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Cultural Hybridization

Bhabha states in “Questions of Cultural Identity”  (pg 54) “This ‘part’ culture, This partial culture, is the contaminated yet connective tissue between cultures- at once the impossibility of culture’s containedness and the boundary between. It is indeed something like culture’s ‘in-between’, baffling … Continue reading

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Everybody was early morning researching…..

After Africa night last night, I was exhausted and fell asleep at about 11:00am. Anyone who knows me knows how uncharacterisitic that is of me. That being said, now I’m awake. So, might as well be productive. I came across … Continue reading

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The Peculiar Kind.

Our discussion for this week centered on the LGBTQ community in the media through the eyes of urban New York city residents. We chose to examine the different themes that we often find arising in these representations. First, A video … Continue reading

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Some links

At work, and deciding to kill time by researchign cultural appropriation. Some links I might have to read more indepth later “Logiques métisses”: Cultural Appropriation and Postcolonial Representations Dreadlocks: The Hair Aesthetics of Cultural Resistance and Collective Identity Formation M. … Continue reading

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It’s Like My Face Just Morphed

“When you come out to people as bisexual they think you’re just…” Pipe started,  “GREEDY.” Kim said automatically. I, Kasia, had to do a double take to this statement. I never heard that before, and I especially had never thought … Continue reading

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And she twerks…

[youtube M4Do1v5m32g] For my next post, I was hoping to find a scholarly article that I find particularly interesting. However, I came across a post yesterday about the viral video of Miley Cyrus doing the WOP. In this video, she happens to … Continue reading

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