stuff white people like and stuff white people do? they like the sites, stuff white people like and stuff white people do! stuff white people like and do? they like and do bitch about white people who like the sites stuff white people like and stuff white people do! ha! couldn’t resist. and so on. […]
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 […]
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 […]
At work, I’ve been doing a lot of rather rote work that requires a ton of QA. It leaves me lots of time to listen to lectures and talks on youtube. I finally found that one video that I’d seen, the one where hooks discusses institutionalized racism and what she thinks of as the need […]
this is a really great review of Martha Nussbaum’s book, Sex and Social Justice Cecilia (from Au) kept telling me to read it because I’d probably appreciate her discussion of objectification, sex work, etc. I read it two summers ago, and after wading through what seemed to be far too much text for what it […]
returning to the sean bell nuttiness, which i happened to blunder across again because i was reading yet another blowout in bloglandia. this time it was over the wrong-just-wrong-wrong-wrong statements made about women of color, specifically blackamazon, brownfemipower, and sylvia, who were called drama queens on the womanist musings blog.
i clicked on a link […]
grrr. while reading around, trying to understand the contours of the feminist blowout in bloglandia brownfemipower mentioned, i happened across a couple of posts and comments talking about some earlier blowout as to why sean bell was or was not a feminist issue. i didn’t read every post and comment on the topic, at least […]
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 […]
“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:
we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses:
John T wrote: ”
The idea of standing in […]
i still haven’t had much time but i did stumble over some of the recent events re brownfemipower, amanda marcotte, appropriation, and racist imagery.
i suppose, having been accused of appropriating for writing the old bitch lab/queer dewd blog, i should be sympathetic. obviously i’m not but i did have to laugh when, recounting events to […]
There’s been an on-going debate about Obama’s candidacy. A fellah named Julio Huato argued that Obama’s presidency would create a worldwide upsurge in the self-assurance of black people across the globe and seeing as how they are the most oppressed in this country and globally, then it would be a good thing:
“But the strongest reason […]
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 […]
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 […]
some people are brave, bitch! i have to stay out of this to keep my blood pressure down — and i’m not using that phrase lightly. i mean it, it is seriously bad for my health such that the ticker goes a little haywire — the electrolytes spaz — when i’m stressed. i always thought […]
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