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Mountain Moving Day and Six Sisters

By shag carpet bomb • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Antiwar Movement, Class, Feminist Fight Club, History, Politics, Racialization, Research, White Privilege, Whiteness

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 […]


privilege

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, White Privilege, this bridge we call home

I’ve been reading more of Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I came upon her discussion of the phamplets that proliferated on the eve of the French Revolution. She discusses the various evils identified by phamphleteers. One was “An Essay on Privilege” by Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, which […]


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