This is the blog for CTCS 677, a course at USC that will situate debates in cultural studies about the formation of identity and the relationship of production to consumption within an analysis of the fashion and beauty industries, especially as these industries have been represented within popular media culture.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
A friend's blog
I just wanted to share a friend's blog (he's also Charlie's friend!): lipstickeater.blogspot.com. His name is Joon Lee, and he writes memoirs as a Korean American femme fag whose jaw-dropping knowledge and penchant for fashion makes me want to kick off my Nike Dunks-a-la-DeGeneres and throw on a pair of Jimmy Choos. Okay, well not really. But his writing is exquisite and offers a provocative untethering of feminity from whiteness, female biology and a heterosexual economy of desire/fantasy. If you click on the title of this blog entry ("A Friend's Blog"), you'll be redirected to a posting of his that I particularly enjoyed, but please peruse the rest of his site if you should so fancy. I'm already having fun in this class....
favorite line:
ReplyDeletethe wonderfully illogical coherence of femininity
don't we live it day by day?