wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]
I want to write, individually, to everyone who has helped me, been willing to talk about the call for commentary itself, who took the time to do a careful reading and make awesome stylistic suggestions (I’m looking at you Chuckie!).
For now, it’s going to be a group hug, a collective thanks.
Throughout this project, […]
looking for something in the archives of the old blog. i’m thinking i’d like to eventually teach a course for the workers justice center we are getting off the ground here. i want to call the class: your employer hates you. i knew i had used that phrase before, so i looked it up and […]
good lard save me from the essentializing crappola! brownfemipower is writing about working class men and i just want to scream. i really dislike the implicit assumption that, somehow, it is only working class men and women who are owned by corporations, that what it means to be working class is to do manual labor […]
god. i read amber’s blog, only to learn about some ridiculous blow out in sexworker bloglandia. i really don’t feel like reading everything so as to have an informed position, let alone so I can distill it all for you, but you can learn more by blogging on “alexa di carlo,” fauxho, etc. etc.
and i’m […]
Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of time to think about this one particular chapter. It starts out, helpfully (!), to show that it’s just not race that’s a problem, but also other things like gender. (Of course, don’t […]
I decided that I wanted to use up some leftover dressing from an event at work, along with some leftover turkey I’d roasted and a can of chicken I opened but hadn’t remembered to make lunch or dinner of last week.
I was also in the mood for bread or pizza or something. So, I went […]
yeah. i think I’m adorno, ‘k?
first, I have two new books with which to avoid reading Moishe Postone. _Fresh: a perishable history_ by Susanne Freidberg and _The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language_ by Christine Kenneally.
I immediately wrote Dwayne to let him know since we have been relishing reading various books that […]
i’m making progress on what R calls “dunging out” which is, i guess, like dunging out a barn. ha ha. reminds me that someone took it upon themselves to put up posters in all the toilet stalls in the bathroom at work. there are some women who work on our floor who are kinda gross. […]
last week, i had to work an early morning release: get up at 3 a.m. to be to work by 4 a.m. to help make sure a big software release goes out correctly during our maintenance hours. I was doing this twice a week, to help out an understaffed QA department. After months, they cut […]
went to see Observe and Report over the weekend, on the strength of Lauren’s (Faux Real Tho) comments about the director’s previous work. I have had The Foot Fist Way on my list of must-sees for awhile…
Meanwhile, I ordered my book for my feminist book reading group last week and it finally arrived. While logged […]
my boss became a citizen recently — though his wife, a doctor, didn’t. I didn’t want to pry but I wondered, why? I was guessing pressure at work. Dunno. Meanwhile, Yates has a post up about immigration:
President Obama has decided not to nominate immigrant-rights advocate and attorney, Thomas Saenz, to head the Civil Rights division […]
to follow up on what I wrote last night, I wrote this to a friend but ended up sending it to a more public forum:
So, I went to the feminist book club meeting last night. We’d read Alexandra Robbins’ insider account of sororities. I had to laugh, of the twelve women in the room only […]
ha. Is capitalism a feminist issue? Or, is it an issue feminists should care about?
Yeah, I’m being snide. Reading Postone last week, and then diving into The Great Financial Crisis (TGFC) by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, it’s on my mind. A little. As I read TGFC, my mind sometimes wanders to a blog […]
Have you ever heard that expression? “If you don’t like the weather in this town, just wait awhile. It will change.”
It gets said everywhere I’ve lived. Well, in this town, it’s true. I walked to work, nice morning. The rain finally stopped. In the late afternoon, I sat in a park for a late lunch. […]
seriously. this really is related. as i mentioned in previous post, i couldn’t be arsed to travel my lazy ass up the stairs to go get another book, so i trundled postone’s book to the porch with me and my cuppajoe. i flip open the book to where i’d last been, which was toward the […]
just one teensy weensy thought on the revolutionary gardening crapliotta.
did any of those workers picking green beans and apples ask you to stop buying the apples and beans they picked. in other words, do *they* think that supporting them in their struggles would be best accomplished by boycotting their products.
hmmm?
srsly. using concern about migrant workers […]
cleaning up my email and came across an inquiry from a reader which i’d somehow missed. at some point, i’d written this:
“Because, remember: socialism is about condescendingly sharing *your* sandwich, not about asking why the other guy doesn’t have a sandwich to begin with. fuck.”
that was a snide comment about a thread on the LBO […]
For every anti-racist Marxist, there are 10 (or more) others who think that getting rid of capitalism should take precedence over ending racism. http://www.rachelstavern.com/?p=827
gosh, who wrote this?
” Labor in the white skin will not be free while labor in black skin is branded. “
wow. just wow. what a fucking asshole. like she has, what?, a […]
via amber’s blog i read this. what an asshole:
wasn’t being a team player, but I needed to find the balance of feeling good about myself, making money and taking care of the house. It’s not an easy spot to find, especially since the house encourages you to go ahead and have sex at what […]
Microcredit: a political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad
It’s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win.
What do they say about things that […]
My buddy Dwayne wrote last night to urge me to listen to Doug Henwood’s latest radio program. Here’s why Dwayne was kvelling: because the author basically gets at what I’ve called “assimilationist black nationalism” — of the sort featured in Lawrence Otis Graham’s _Our Kind of People_:
Hey, if you haven’t already done so, I recommend […]
seriously. I sat in the dentist’s chair, getting some super duper periodontal cleaning and *loved* the sound of the scraping and stuff.
why? because I have dental insurance AND a salary that enables me to afford the co-pays.
the last time I went to the dentist, to have a broken tooth repaired, or something, I had no […]
Anthony’s keeping a list of all the ways obama continues to tack to the right or undermine claims made in the primary particularly. Here’s another one:
Later Emanuel responded to a question on the Employee Free Choice Act,
a measure backed by organized labor but strongly opposed by business,
saying, “Let me take your question and go somewhere […]
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