I woke up this morning tired. Putting ice on my knee tired. I went out to Ms. Coca’s party last night.Ali Shaheed played Electric Relaxation and I got hoarse from singing along. I was checking my blog statistics this morning and noticed that I was gettingreferrals from The Guardian. I clicked on the link and [...]
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The Guardian
Friday, July 4th, 2008The Removal of White Feminists
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Earlier in June Linda Hirshman wrote a piece in theWashington Post about the feminist movement is fracturingby paying too much attention to the “other”, and that the movementneeds to focus. Hirshman writes, A movement that uses intersectionality as a lens but banishes white, bourgeois, corporate older women might be a vehicle to glue what remains [...]
Too $hort Love the Kids
Friday, September 7th, 2007Too $hort is a youth career counselor in East Oakland. Oh, the beautiful irony of it all. Some might find it hypocritical for the author of “The Bitch Sucks Dick” and “Shake That Monkey” to counsel others about their use of swear words. Still, it’s a test of the rapper’s humility to let himself be [...]
