Welcome to GIRL SALAD.
Intersectional Beach Reading for Girls as complex as Salad.
Hi, welcome! This blog contains a handful of articles, all roughly as multifaceted as salad (with dressing), about intersectionality, contemporary mass media, orientalism and the politics of gender, race, and probably a little queerness because it's the spice of life. I'm very interested in modern modes of Asianness in a postcolonial world, especially in a post-Cold War landscape. A lot of the work here will draw on historiographic, art historical and semiotic canons to supplement my readings.
The first post is up! "One Thousand Days of Yoko Ono" is a bit of retrospective work about Yoko Ono's artistic legacy, public scapegoating of famous women, the Beatles, and, ultimately, the coddling of male "geniuses" in life and otherwise. Can you believe there are still old white guys roving around with 40-year-old beef with a contemporary artist they're intimidated by because they think she hardened the heart of perfect, faultless, SUPER dedicated Beatle John Lennon. Who totally wasn't on the outs with the band and fighting with Paul McCartney like a couple kept together for the kids. Sure man, whatever. More posts to come!
In the meantime, enjoy the adorable, somewhat oppressive early 2000s-ness of this webpage.
AUTHOR STATUS (BLOG 5 RETROSPECTIVE)?
It's done! Oh my god. I'm so tired.