Posts from ‘September, 2009’

It may seem hard to believe, but the foxy lady you see above is actually at the center of a big-time fashion-meets-immigration scandal! Indeed, 32 year-old Fatou Cham — a literal hot-mama of three — was recently chosen as “the new face of Tesco”, one of Britain’s largest mass-retail chains. Cham — who works check-out [...]

Considering our liberal tendencies, we at Transracial rarely agree with Judaism’s religious right. But we gotta say, their latest edict could not be more welcome. Sun-down on Sunday marks the beginning of Yom Kippur — the Jewish day of atonement.  Traditionally, the pious are banned from wearing any form of leather to and from synagogue [...]

A new Daily Beast article reports on the potent — yet promising — HIV treatment known as PrEP — or pre-exposure prophylaxis. In case you did not know, PrEP is essentially the use of the strong medicines used to treat HIV+ folks to help prevent infection in people who are negative. The new story comes [...]

We seem to be in the midst of a full-scale media blitz for Ed Hardy — the American “fashion” jeans brand begun by that now ubiquitous Frenchman Christian Audigier. First, there were those endless items on Audigier and his new BFF and muse, Jon Gosselin. Then there is THIS article in the current GQ — [...]

Yom Kippur — the Jewish day of atonement — is best known not for the confession of sins, but as that rare moment in Jewish culture where you are not allowed to eat. So it is highly unusual that a day marked by near-starvation should see so many chickens — yes chickens — at risk [...]

Iranian police have set their sites on a new target of moral impurity — risque mannequins. Indeed, yesterday authorities began to warn shop-keepers that punishment looms if they display mannequins without hijabs (traditional hair coverings) or showing bodily curves. And that’s just the start of it! Shops where men are selling women’s underwear or neck-ties [...]

A new computerized program from Australia is now allowing hotel owners and managers to keep close tabs on hotel guests — like the duo above — who may be far more trouble than their worth. The program, Guests Behaving Badly (GBB), is essentially an Interpol-styled data base of rogue hotel guests with a history of [...]

The smarties over at UCLA have just completed the first-ever “census” of the characters inhabiting video games to determine their race, gender and age composition. And considering that video games are played predominantly by adult men — the results are not exactly surprising. Most of the avatars are white, male and adult — with few [...]

Drama is brewing in the British country of Yorkshire where the AIDS/HIV education group The Brunswick Centre has come under attack for distributing condoms in popular (and public) Gay cruising hot-spots. It seems as if the Brunswick folk have taken to hanging bags of condoms from branches and trees in the heavily-wooded Litherop Lane area [...]