The Ying Yang Twins on Uptight Assholes, Gays, the Ideal Woman, and Why They Speak for Strippers
By ANNIE ATURA
April 28, 2010
The following interview is unedited. It took place at seven o’clock on April 27, 2010 in the Branford College Master’s House, minutes before the Ying Yang Twins took the stage at Spring Fling. When I entered, there was a massive spread of catering from Popeye’s on the dining room table.
Essay
An Unfortunate Introduction: Barbra Streisand’s Oscar Night Faux Pas
March 13, 2010
At the Oscars this week, it was Streisand who presented Bigelow with her Best Director Oscar.
Art Review: Breaking the Veils
Wavering at the Crossroads of Pain and Progress: Art Exhibit “Breaking the Veils” Reviewed
December 2009
Nestled in the underbelly of the Yale Divinity School lies an insightful exhibit: “Breaking the Veils: Women Artists from the Islamic World,” which will be displayed at Yale until December 11th as part of the show’s three-year US tour.
Theater Review: Eclipsed
Yale Rep’s “Eclipsed” Deploys Easy Psychology at the Expense of Ethics
By ANNIE ATURA
December 2009
Eclipsed is an excru ci at ing tear jerker, which sug gests that play wright Danai Gurira felt an urgency of mes sage. Yet it’s also an adamant pur veyor of futil ity and moral ver tigo. Gurira says, “I went to Liberia to allow the women who endured a treach er ous war to speak to me and even tu ally through me.” This claim is dis turb ing enough in itself, but its pre sumption is com pounded by the play’s shallowness.
Movie Review: Jennifer's Body
Dick in a Box?: The Dubious Feminism of Jennifer's Body
October 2009
“My dick is bigger than his,” quips demon-infused Jennifer in Diablo Cody’s new horror/comedy flick Jennifer’s Body. Jennifer’s one-liner reveals the real point of this attempted feminist re-write of the horror movie script: that, in order for a girl to “take back the knife,” she has to grow a dick—one bigger than those of her opponents.
“Good Design Is Feminist Design”: An Interview with Sheila de Bretteville
April 2009
On April 2, de Bretteville sat down with Broad Recognition Arts Editor Jessica Svendsen to discuss “feminine” typefaces, feminist form and content, and the difference between a female designer and a feminist designer.
Comprehensive Broads Guide to Yale Spring Fling 2010
April 18, 2010
Sometimes Yale decides to speak up in the face of injustice, but right now it’s a little too quiet outside. This year, the campus has been disturbingly silent about the Spring Fling line-up, almost completely devoid of women and featuring at least one explicitly misogynistic group, the Ying Yang Twins.
Poetry
Lilac
April 2009
Lover, I’ve made you a paper lilac
after spending some time at the tree. I think the construction is right, a few scraps, wound into strands, making a coiled vine that accumulates into bunch blossoms.Latest Tweet from @yalebroads
Broad Recognition revisits the Boobquake experiment! Check it out at http://bit.ly/cDDmWd 2010-05-19
