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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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

you know, when I first started riding the Internet, I would occasionally mouth off about something that I knew little about. After getting caught out on that behavior, I stopped mouthing off so much.
I dropped by bgp’s blog and saw a post castigating black men or, at least, one black man of suggesting that black […]

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 […]

i just read BfP’s rant about some new blowout in bloglandia. I haven’t any idea what happened and don’t have time to learn more until next weekend. gotta hit the gym for a second full body routine for the week, taxes need to be done, house cleaned, gotta get to the clay room, and […]

“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 […]

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 […]

hmmm. couldn’t resist. i visited amazon and this book was screaming at me to buy it, buy it, buy it. I can’t wait to read it and can only hope i have time! i finished a couple of books in the last couple of weeks and am currently reading Katherine Newman’s No Same in My […]