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By shag carpet bomb • Jun 3rd, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Class, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Racialization, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



bell hooks: the politics of accountability

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Women of Color Feminism

This is a really awesome talk hooks gave. In it, she brings up the issue that inflamed folks recently when Renee Martin wrote about big girl panties. While I disagree with Martin’s characterizations of Black Amazon and others, I think hooks says some really interesting things here, some of which I tend to chafe against […]



bell hooks: a complex accounting of identity

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Racialization, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



ooo ooo ooo new books and a movie

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 13th, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Books & Book Reviews, Class, Racialization, Research, Too Heavy A Load, Women of Color Feminism

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 […]



Johnetta Cole on Intimate Politics

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Marxist Theory, Social movements, Women of Color Feminism

at work, I’ve been listening to Angela Davis — just search on youtube and listen to them all. It’s all you need to understand what is going on, and how to address so many of the issues that come up repeatedly within leftist and feminist circles.
Seriously.
Meanwhile, a “related video” alert brought me to this […]



Angela Davis on feminism and change

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, Politics, Women of Color Feminism

Angela Davis talks about how change happens and about her understanding of feminism. She speaks to the issue, often noted here and elsewhere, that the people behind the Montgomery bus boycott were women, that Rosa Parks wasn’t just a tired woman who got fed up one day, etc. It’s very good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6RHtEbiOA



is sean bell a feminist issue?

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Whiteness

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 […]



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

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Dark Continent of Our Bodies, Imperialism, 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 […]



home

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Dark Continent of Our Bodies, Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality

thinking a lot about home lately as we try to figure out where we should live. i realized that i want to be home, someplace a little more settled. i have moved four times this year and i’m tried of not really having my own place. i’m terrified of buying because i don’t want to […]



Convergence/Divergence: from Combahee to BfP and Nubian

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 6th, 2007 • Category: Archiving, Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Racialization, Split Decisions

2007-01-06 09:53:31
OK, so KH’s questions got me thinking. I decided to unbury Split Decisions I realized I needed to explain something that probably isn’t clear. Now, I was just going to flesh out Halley’s work. As I did so, though, I couldn’t help but think of how nubian and brownfemipower articulate their own convergentist and […]



the woman problem in feminist thought

By shag carpet bomb • Sep 24th, 2006 • Category: Archiving, Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, Janet Halley, Radical Feminism, Sex Positive Politics, Split Decisions

2006-09-24 14:44:51
I’ve mentioned several times that one of the most persistent divisions among feminists was the question, “who is woman?” How do we define what a woman is? Whatever a woman is, then this woman must be our subject, the one for whom we advance our politics. If woman is fundamentally oppressed by rape, then […]



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