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Hey everyone, take it easy with some of these fine links, hand-picked from all over the web.

• Caitlin Boston gives us some pretty concrete pointers on how to hit on not harass an Asian girl.
• Feministe dances a jig over Nepal's landmark gender legislation.
• Attention students and academics! Of Another Fashion, a Tumblr started by Threadbared's Minh-ha Pham to archive the overlooked fashion of American women of color, is now available on the academic search engine WorldCat. 
• Gamepro doesn't buy the "but no one was supposed to read that" defense after a slur slips into a popular game's code.
• The Huffington Post's fair Canadian branch calls out a supposedly "ethical" pro-oil ad campaign on Oprah's TV network.
• Fbomb reminds us that this whole Dominique Strauss-Kahn ordeal is still bad news.
• The Pursuit of Harpyness decided that her boss is so awesome she deserves her own tribute.
• The XX Factor slap their forehead after reading a psychological study that thinks sex hormones influence your fetus' future career.

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Most of the art our culture celebrates is the same type of art that makes me yawn. See, I enjoy art that gets my blood racing. For me, good art needs to be both aesthetically appealing and make my brain hurt. Because of my intense predilection for this type of provocative eye candy, I was exceedingly pleased recently to discover the Visibility Project—a female, Asian American, Queer portraiture project by Bay Area Photographer Mia Nakano and Los Angeles collaborator Christine Pan.

Makeup giant Maybelline has a newsletter of sorts in which consumers answer a few questions and get tips on choosing products most suitable for their look. An Asian-Canadian blogger who uses the moniker Rasilla was happy enough to answer Maybelline’s questions about her appearance. But after choosing "brown" for eye-color, Rasilla was asked to select the shape of her eyes. Her options? Close set, wide set, hooded, Asian, almond, down-turned, deep-set, prominent and centered. Let’s backtrack for a moment. One of the options was Asian. That’s right, Asian. Rasilla wasn’t too pleased about this.