First, the carnivals:

The 5th edition of the Radical Women of Color Carnival is up and it includes me. :)

The XVI Carnival of Feminists is up.

Next, the ugly latina...and no, I won't be trashing myself this time. Yay me!

Part of me has been dreading this, but it's official, Salma and America will be bringing Latin America's favorite ugly girl to American TV sets this fall.

As for the show’s plot, ABC explains: “Betty will work in the superficial world of high fashion, where image is everything. … How can an ordinary girl – a slightly plump plain-Jane from Queens – possibly fit in?” From what we know, Betty is a modern-day twist on the age-old story of an ugly duckling who becomes beautiful. “Must-see TV?” Maybe.

“Betty's sly commentary on the vacuous magazine industry through the eyes of a plain-Jane hero (played by the charismatic America Ferrara) could work,” Seattle television critic Melanie McFarland predicts.

I know that both of these fine Latina Goddesses are feministas and that they will set out to use this show to thumb their cute noses at a society that thinks JLo is fat and not, well, Latina. But then I remember that this is TV. Corporate TV. And I wonder how subversive can this really get? I guess I'll have to watch and see.

BTW - Me thinks I need to post this photo everywhere so I can motivate myself. Do you see how much weight America has lost? Not that I thought she was fat before, oh, no...she was perfect. But damn! Does she look good. And Salma ain't have bad either. OK...I think I need a women's studies class on body image now. Why don't we have a feminist church where I can go and confess my sins?

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