via Huff Post article “Majoring in Debt“ There have been three things on my mind this week. The first is the labor of graduate students and adjuncts. The second is student debt. The third is the Facebook IPO and who makes money off of what. Yup, it’s going to be one of those kinds of [...]
Archive for the ‘Capitalism’ Category
The Choices that Creatives Make
Saturday, December 31st, 2011Image via Metro Times Dedicated to Jonzey and our conversations about Hennessy / Carol’s Daughters sponsored art. This post is about money, artists and how corporations are deliberate and never neutral. Spending the last few months teaching a multiracial group of young people about race, art, class, history and feminism, I have learned a lot [...]
Justin Timberlake’s “In Time”: A Critique of Capitalism?
Sunday, November 6th, 2011I saw the new Justin Timberlake last night, In Time a film where time is the currency used to pay rent, pay for bus rides, buy food etc. Everyone has a watch on their arm, that counts down to their last minute. Timberlake lives in the hood, and by virtue of a come up, he [...]
Author Martha Southgate on Why the Film “The Help” is a Symptom of a Larger Issue: My Thoughts.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011In entertainment weekly, one of my favorite authors, Martha Southgate (@mesouthgate) discusses the film “The Help” stating that, There have been thousands of words written about Stockett’s skills, her portrayal of the black women versus the white women, her right to tell this story at all. I won’t rehash those arguments, except to say that [...]
The City is Like Chitlins: Notes on Gentrification in Washington, DC.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Peace to Janel for staying on me to write about class. Peace to Latoya Peterson for reminding me to think about how cities are similar, different and the reasons why DC, with it’s 25 miles, is special to me. I once said that the city was like chitlin’s. Moving from the deep South to DC, [...]
Race, Class and Prostitution in the City: Washington DC’s Black Madam- Odessa Madre
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011For @AlaiaWilliams for continuing to remind me to write this. Readers are a precious commodity. In the essay “Working for Nothing but a Living” Dr. Sharon Harley describes the life of Odessa Madre, a dark skinned Black woman who became a Madam in the 1940′s because as a high school graduate, who as dark skinned [...]
A Feminist Analysis of Sheryl Sandberg and the ‘Male Dominated’ Silicon Valley
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a society organized by and for men, it makes sense for women to be exluded from pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). STEM research and jobs spur the innovation for our Capitalist economic system. You can’t have innovation, at least how we are thought to conceive of it, without STEM. Which leads me [...]
Tip Your Servers, It is How We Survive.
Thursday, July 7th, 2011#Dedicated to Jerm the Perm and to everyone else on that shift work for tips. For the last two summers I have worked as a waitress at some point. #AutonomyisExpensive. Depending on the state in which you live, a restaurant may pay a server between $2 and $4 dollars an hour. This means that servers [...]
Starting a Women of Color Policy and News Blog
Monday, June 13th, 2011I am in the process of laying out the foundation for starting a women of color policy and news blog. I get sick and tired of the janky way that rape, sexual harassment, the debate around food stamps and “domestic” violence are framed, discussed, archived and shaped. I personally think we can do better. Ann [...]
A (Black) Feminist Note to Young White Feminists
Monday, June 13th, 2011The idea for this post came to me while I was reflecting on my work as a teaching assistant and teacher over the past year. It is interesting how much I have changed as a person, having taught such hairy issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, double jeopardy, the matrix of oppression etc. My [...]
