On Our Radar: The Hunger Games, Santigold, and an All-Black Remake of Steel Magnolias

Bitch HQ post by Morgan Hecht on March 24, 2012 - 12:42pm; tagged Melissa Harris Perry, Santigold, Steel Magnolias, The Hunger Games.

Here's what we've been reading this week:

Live in the Bay Area? You probably should mark your calendar for this feminist, Native American art show by artist Geri Montano running April 7th through May 12th.
Check out this Kickstarter for reproducitve justice- and gender rights-themed art.
Queen Latifah will star in the all-black cast remake of Steel Magnolias.
Colorlines covers the statistic nobody is talking about during March Madness: the shockingly low graduation rates for college athletes.
Mad Men fans, with the excitement of the upcoming season premier, you might have missed these two remix videos by Pop Culture Pirate: Queer Men: Don Loves Roger and "Set Me Free," a mix of all the female characters set to the Supremes song.
Colorlines covers why Native Women are battling for Plan B.
Sparkplug Books, publisher of Gay Genius, is fundraising and needs help.
The latest in Julianne Escobedo Shepherd's essays at Stereogum is on Santigold after her performance at SXSW.
Zerlina Maxwell interviews Melissa Harris-Perry and she talks about #Nerdland, the War on Women, and Beyonce.
WAM! Boston Film Festival is today!
In the Guardian's interview of Rosario Dawson, she addresses what is like to be a woman in Hollywood and her activism to end violence against women.
South Africa’s Electronic Media Network and the African Film Library recently launched an online destination for African Films. Via Clutch magazine.
At the Feminist Wire, Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, "Can Black feminism be quantified?" (No).
Jos at Feministing and Mallika Dutt weigh in on how the War on Women is leaving out trans people and immigrants, respectively.
At Salon, Laurie Penny weighs in on the sexual politics of The Hunger Games.

Tell us what you're reading in the comments!

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Over at Jezebel.com, there's

Posted by nathaliad (not verified) on March 27, 2012 - 10:39pm

Over at Jezebel.com, there's a great article talking about the whitewashing of The Hunger Games. I also recently read their discussion of an article by Ian Brown in The Globe and Mail (Canadian newspaper) that posits why men can't and shouldn't stop staring at women.

Racialicious linked to an article from The Atlantic by Teju Cole on the White Saviour Industrial Complex which is fantastic. They have a number of good links regarding Trayvon Martin too. I'm about to read their guest post analysis on diversity issues on The Walking Dead (which are plentiful).

There's also a hungergamestweets.tumblr,com that Jezebel.com pointed me towards which is further to their article on the whitewashing of The Hunger Games - the hate directed toward the African American casting choices is outrageous and disgusting, but most especially toward the young woman (Amandla Stenberg) who plays Rue.

I've also read a cracked.com article called "The 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women" that is wholly based on conjecture (by a male) and doesn't raise anything really new but is a very easy-to-read entry point on the potentials reasons for misogyny. Worth taking a look.