in particular the line of...The 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 [...]
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A (Black) Feminist Note to Young White Feminists
Monday, June 13th, 2011Sometimes the Intern Game Reminds me of the Crack Game
Monday, April 4th, 2011Well. The New York Times has a piece up about interns working for free. Shout out to @rafikam for the tip. Ross Perlin writes in an op-ed, The uncritical internship fever on college campuses — not to mention the exploitation of graduate student instructors, adjunct faculty members and support staff — is symptomatic of a [...]
And You Even Licked My Balls: A Black Feminist Note on Nate Dogg
Sunday, March 20th, 2011So I have been thinking of Nate Dogg in general but rap music in particular and the difference between how I as a Black woman and how White men relate to rap music. While I understand that sexism and patriarchy is systemic, that we LEARN and are taught how to be “men” and “women,” how [...]
Mommas, Artists and Interns: All Expected to Work for Free
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011On the train a couple of weeks ago, I had an epiphany. I was tripping off of the notion of the student intern, and how that socializes young people to accept working for free. @RafiKam and I have had several conversations on twitter about who is an artist, who should get paid to be an [...]
Black Poets + Writers, Born to Stay Broke?
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Langston Hughes x Underpaid Poets x DJ Kool Herc’s Hospital Bills. There are a few things going through my head, clearly. The first is, a couple of weeks ago, poet and professor Thomas Sayers Ellis took the cardboard cut out of Langston Hughes from Busboys arguing that it was disrespectful and that the poets are [...]
What Women Have to Do With It: A Response to Chrystia Freeland’s Rise of the New Global Elite.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Chrystia Freeland at The Atlantic has written an interesting article “Rise of the New Global Elite” analyzing the new transnational elite. Her main points are that in the US we are “plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly self-interested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble” [...]
The Politics of Making a “Black Film” in Obama’s America
Monday, January 31st, 2011Image of director Kasi Lemmons courtesy of Professor Sussoro’s Blog Last fall I tweeted that a barometer of Black women’s freedom would be their ability to control, tell, and distribute their own stories. Having seen Push, and now For Colored Girls, two movies based on texts written by Black women about Black women, but directed [...]
The Hyper Marginalization of Black Fiction
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Publishers Weekly cover from Dec 2009 The other day I was reading an interview with Ishmael Reed and he said some things about Black fiction that got me to thinking.? The interview was with Jill Nelson for his new book, “Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: Return of the Nigger Breakers.” Tell me how [...]
Jay Dilla x Capitalism
Monday, February 8th, 2010My homie went to the Jay Dilla Tribute Party on Saturday? night in BK. He was on the line @ 12am. There were people inside partying and on the line outside. After waiting in line for 30 minutes, the bouncer told the folks on line, “Only single women can be admitted, no [heterosexual] couples, no [...]
