joankelly6000 linked to this, which is amazing and wonderful, and made me remember this:
The conversation continues.
Posted in black women, films, women of color on September 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
joankelly6000 linked to this, which is amazing and wonderful, and made me remember this:
The conversation continues.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2008 | Comments Off
Deadlines for registering to vote in most states are between October 6 and October 15.
Click here for state-by-state voter registration links.
Keep on pushing…..
Posted in black women, intersectionality, just stop, misogyny, violence against women, women of color on September 27, 2008 | Comments Off
bfp has posted a talking points response to John LaBruzzo’s racist, misogynist suggestion to end poverty by sterilizing poor women. The response is from the Women’s Health & Justice Initiative and the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic.
I’ll post a couple of paragraphs but you should really go read the entire document.
The sterilization policy currently being advocated [...]
Posted in all about me on September 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
* random bullets of crap
You know how, back in the winter months, your calendar for 3 seasons ahead looks all empty and pristine and everything seems possible? Even though school will be starting and you know what that is like – what with the getting the syllabi together and meeting new students and getting classes [...]
Posted in all about me, music on September 27, 2008 | Comments Off
It’s like that. (yes… on the surface everything I hate…. but it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.)
Video not playing? Click here.
Posted in gender, just stop, racism on September 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Let’s pay poor women to have their tubes tied because that’s really what has happened to the economy.
Check out what Renee has to say because I can’t even deal right now.
Posted in black women, gender, just stop, media, racism, women of color on September 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I am thinking about beauty, about acceptability, about the notion of real women, acceptable women, the impossibility of the ideal woman and the great distraction that happens when we focus so much on what we look like – and how nearly impossible it is in this culture to just look like what you look like, [...]