So I met a jawn a week ago. No big deal eh. He was pressing me. I obliged. He was double take handsome, which I don’t do, normally. I typically do eccentric and cayute. New year, new thangs. I knew school was starting, I wanted to kick it, a little company ain’t never hurt nobody. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
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Friday, January 29th, 2010What I Read
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Where does all the nerdiness come from? I get it from my momma, Talking with Y’all, And reading all these books. Yes. Above is one semesters worth. Glad I got my eye sight still. Not a bad life, no? Amen.
“Third World as Retirement Home”>>These Negros
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010These negros are talking about shipping the elderly from the Global north (First world north) to the Global south (Third world south)? So you mean to tell me, rather than deal with humans where they are, to provide them with health care after they have worked, had children, paid taxes, fought in wars, they will [...]
What It Means to Be A Working Artist
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Tonight I watched Chop Shop, a film by Ramin Bahrani, about a 12 year old young man in Queens, who makes his way in the world, with at least twelve different hustles. I was moved by Bahrani’s analysis of his own work. In an interview he writes, I see every film as its own entity. [...]
Quoted: Dorthy Roberts >Black Womens Reproductive Rights
Friday, January 22nd, 2010For too long, Black women’s struggle against the most degrading repression has been left out of the official story of reproductive rights in America. But it is their struggle that highlights the poverty of current notions of reproductive freedom. It is also their struggle that can lead to a more radical vision of reproductive justice. [...]
Quoted: Cathy Cohen> On Assimilation
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010“…it also highlights the limits of lesbian and gay political agenda based on civil rights strategy, where assimilation into and replication of, dominant institutions are the goals. Many of us continue to search for new political direction and agenda, one that does not focus integration into dominant structures but instead seeks to transform the basic [...]
Racism, Sexism, Homophobia and Black Folks
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010So, racial theory, queer theory and whiteness theory are all rather meaningless if we can’t use them to help liberate us, or even just better understand how the ‘isms function in our day to day lives. Last week, I was in Whole Foods, in Oakland, with my momma and she says to me, “Hmmp, that [...]
Quoted “Pimp’s Up Ho’s Down”
Sunday, January 17th, 2010“I am not afrocentric, I am just natural. But in this country, black women who don’t straighten their hair with chemical processing are stereotyped and labeled. Not all Black women with striaght hair need chemical processing, but I would have to to achieve that look. Just because we don’t straighten our hair doesn’t mean we’re [...]
Jay Z + Gentrification: A Force of Capitalism
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010The first time I heard Empire State of Mind, I thought it sounded like a Requiem for New York City. A city that requires, arguably a $100 thousand income, per household, in order to have a humane and healthy existence is both fascinating and unsustainable. You can live in New York with less, but your [...]
Race, Class, Food and the Future of the City: A Manifesto
Sunday, January 10th, 2010By Renina Jarmon I always want to know where people will go and what will they eat. Last December, I was in Whole Foods on a Friday night, trying to read get through some really hard material on “the saturated self”, I resorted to reading out loud, so that I could “hear the theory.” A [...]
