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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 […]

we’ve been shopping all day. my dogs are tarred. i am lusting for one of those homedics massagers i tried in the store. about four balls roll around and massage your back. i enjoyed it so much, when one of those balls rolled and hit the small of my back, i jumped and made noises […]

as i’ve said before, i am not an ally. but i was just talking with a friend and it occurred to me that there are some figurations of ally that don’t ever seem to make sense — and probably aren’t really even uttered.
ally work typically comes from a critical race theory perspective, so it’s […]

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 […]

Barack Obama wasted no time bowing down to his Wall Street financial backers and war-mongering advisors. His cabinet selections represent the same old politics of imperialist wars of plunder abroad and police containment policies against the African and Mexican communities here. It could not be clearer that Obama is, as the Uhuru Movement sums up, […]

Black homophobia isn’t especially galling because of their history in this country. White homophobia is especially galling because white conservatives have the resources and, my god, the energy to make defeating LGBT rights such a priority.
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Unfortunately this becomes a problem when, as the No on Prop 8 people did, gay marriage is presented as a […]

On June 29, 2008, Uhuru Movement members Dr. Aisha Fields, Kobina Bantushango (Thomas Buchanan) and Dr. Michelle Strongfields were brutalized and arrested in Huntsville, Alabama by Huntsville police for exercising their legal right to observe and document police as they harassed young Africans after a regional Black Arts Festival in the city.
The HSV3 currently await […]

“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]

heh. cried in a good way both times:

well, on the bright side, it’s just an event related bounce. whenever something important happens, opinions bump up. this is quite a bumpg of course but i suspect it’ll be back closer to the old percentages once things settle down.

Two days after Barack Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House, […]