Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]

this was originally posted on the old blog, 2006.05.02. I’m reposting it because it is too long to post the whole thing on a discussion list.

I’d mentioned to piny that one of the problems with the attacks on “trans politics” (sic) was that they argued that, as long as transfolk weren’t being denied their formal […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

oh. that’s rich: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/03/02/who-gets-to-say-what-part-ii-blog-hierarchies/
Lauren points out that Mandy and Brittany, the women at the center of the spat in bloglandia mentioned by BFP, are the same women who were highly critical of Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism. I remember posting about how their criticism was clearly using women of color in order to hash out […]

For bitch to be sexist, it would have to be uttered in a conversation in which there is a power differential. Sexism equals privilege plus power, but you would know that if you were really about challenging the patriarchy.
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/02/radical-feminism.html

Well, if you accept that theory, yes. But if you do not, then no, actually. […]

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 […]

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]

2007-01-23 00:22:13
Carpenter asked me a question off-blog. Seeing as how a Bitch can, for a change, breath a little, I decided to catch up with various things that have been put off in the search for jobs and gigs. Among the backlog of things to be done was slog through email. I had a huge […]

2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]

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 […]

2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]

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 […]

2006-09-24 19:36:06
Have you ever looked at Michael Berube’s blogroll? He ‘classifies’ the blogs like so:

* Those That Belong to the Emperor
* Those Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush
* Those Included in the Present Classification
* Those That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
* Fabulous Ones
It’s a wink at Foucault’s introduction to The Order […]