BOOKISH: Zen, paper fortresses and Nina Simone

Each week, Nina dishes out all the hot lit going down in the city. This week: Zen Buddhist priests, paper fortresses and Nina Simone.

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BOOKISH: Zen, paper fortresses and Nina Simone

POSTED: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:00 PM

Each week, Nina Willbach puts together a rundown of book-centric events. This week: Zen Buddhist Priests, paper fortresses, and Nina Simone.

Thursday, March 29

Tweeting Down the Hierarchy

In the ongoing struggle to confront and overcome gender hierarchies, artists play a huge role. By presenting writings and images that highlight inequalities, artists can offer alternatives and even act as a catalyst for bringing them into reality. The Kelly Writers House honors this potential with the series Feminism/s—a monthly event dedicated to artists who use their work to eliminate gender discrimination and explore alternatives to sexism. Tonight's edition will feature Masha Tupitsyn, whose work often comments on the way new technology shapes culture, particularly in the world of film: In Laconia: 1,200 Tweets on Film, she explores the sound bite as expressed through Twitter and explores how its popularity has changed the way we consume narrative. Aside from writing, she is a blogger, videographer, and pop-culture enthusiast, stringing together her disparate media with a common thread of gender consciousness.

6 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, writing.upenn.edu/wh

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:46 AM, 04/05/2012

It's so sad that females have the horrible privilege of having good sex, posing, dancing, humiliating and (yes) marrying men for money. They should be very fortunate to be at the very top of the sexual hierarchy. If the thought of other women making use of their societal privileges upset them, they should go to a marriage counselor who might be able to provide ample reasons for them to remain married. Till then they should stop complaining.

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