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catching up

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Racialization, Third World Feminism, Whiteness, Womn of Color Feminism

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 […]



i want my inheritance, not a lousy forty acres and a mule

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Class, Racialization, Whiteness

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 […]



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 […]



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 […]



you a woman? or black?

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Racialization, So Very 1998, Third Wave, Whiteness

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 […]