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Notes Photo December 7, 2015

“Game Changing” Pirelli Calendar Still Exists to Sell Tires to Men

Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the Pirelli calendar still leads with nakedness, privileges whiteness, and assumes that men are always, inevitably the primary viewers.

Notes Photo November 9, 2015

Weaponized Entitlement: Book Cover Frames a Gun-Toting Clinton as Deviant, Dangerous

Clinton’s frontrunner status should be a major advantage, but a gendered narrative suggests she is bullying her way to the nomination.

Notes Photo October 23, 2015

Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos

While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.

Notes Photo October 15, 2015

Radical Feminists Disrupt Suffragette Premier; Stars Approve

Why would radical feminists disrupt the premiere of a film celebrating radical feminism? And more significantly, did the optics work?

Notes Photo August 7, 2015

The First GOP16 Cattle Call: Our 3 Pix of the Night

In this troglodyte moment, you can see the boys behind Ms. Kelly back there tittering.

Notes Photo June 12, 2015

It Went Viral, But Why?: Hillary's 1st Instagram

If you said, because it's patriotic, that's too easy.

Notes Photo June 3, 2015

Behind the Niqab: The (Male) Photographer's Perspective of Life Through the Veil – Part 2

The ability to frame a shot and have that image published in and discussed by major outlets is a privilege. Unfortunately, that privilege is too often reserved for men.

Notes Photo May 26, 2015

Behind the Niqab: The (Male) Photographer’s Perspective of Life Through the Veil – Part 1

Men would do well to consider women’s perspectives more often—not just when there is a physical reminder that your literal view on the world is affected by your gender.

Notes Photo May 24, 2015

Make Love, Not War

If we agree that war is pathological, this image from an International Gay Rodeo Association event in Little Rock this week could be seen to radically challenge the disease.

Notes Photo April 15, 2015

Kickoff Week: Profiling Hillary (and the Parodists)

The amount of posturing, aggressiveness and and even presumption in the Clinton's political DNA notwithstanding, I found the Hillary '16 kickoff parodies way off-key.

Notes Photo April 14, 2015

Maternal Instinct

This photo was submitted by one of our readers, Don Fitzsimons, responding to a comment about the picture in the Jakarta Post.

On the Hillary Announcement and Logo

Notes Photo April 12, 2015

On the Hillary Announcement and Logo

With the abundant comparisons to FedEx, what's telling right off the bat is that categorically, it's more corporate than populist or even political -- by miles.

Notes Photo March 12, 2015

Horns Are The Least Of It: Quick Takes On The New TIME Hillary Cover

Of course, if you want to avoid the silhouette altogether....

Notes Photo March 10, 2015

On Men Cross-Dressing in Kabul, Istanbul in Support of Women's Rights

I’m wondering if these displays might also reflect a shift in consciousness when it comes to sexual identity and gender roles.

Notes Photo February 16, 2015

Human Trafficking Awareness and Photographic Ensnarement: A World Press Winning Portrait

Despite the photo’s potential utility, however, it also raises important questions about the ways in which well-meaning outsiders and journalists depict the problem of human trafficking.