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Israel was forced to do this, so condemn the rocket assaults!

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Books, Dark Continent of Our Bodies, Imperialism, Lesbian/Gay Studies, Obama, Politics, Social movements

note to self: don’t write posts at 6 am. I wrote some of below over course of a few days. Was editing it. Hit Publish instead of Save. I’d intended to put it away and edit it properly. So, very very sorry about the totally incomprehensible material below. Aiyiyiyiyi. will swing by and fix it […]


desexualizing brown women

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Imperialism, Orientalism, Racialization, Social movements, Teh Sex, Third World Feminism, Whiteness

Last year, brownfemipower criticized u.s feminism because its rhetoric desexualizes women of color — a discourse that also exists within a wider u.s. discourse where women of color are racialized by hypersexualizing their bodies as well. And this can seem puzzling. How can both be going on? It’s also harder to illustrate, I think, because […]


shoots. scores!

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 22nd, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Humor, Obama, Politics, Social movements, third way triangulating b.s.

Thanks to Oliver at CultPunk:

Also, this chicka shoots and scores with this analysis of Obama’s rhetoric:
Look at the extraordinary care with which Obama guides us here, and the fundamental duplicity of his message. He moves from King’s message of unity as solidarity in the face of oppression, to an idea of unity as empathy with […]


say it! Ehrenreich on Clinton’s race problem

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Clinton, Election 2008, Social movements, Whiteness

Hillary’s Real MLK Problem
Barbara Ehrenreich

At first I took it as another, yawn, white rip-off of black culture and creativity: the Rolling Stones appropriating the Bo Diddley beat, Bo Derek sporting corn rows, and now Hillary giving Lyndon Baines Johnson credit for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If you had to give this honor to […]