in particular the line of...Click on the above image to peep the tweet which says, “Sometimes a heart can’t afford to be just friends.” My general rule is that if I am uncomfortable, I won’t do it. I been number one AND number two before. Number dos is bad for your self esteem IF YOU really want the top [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quickems’
Sometimes a Heart Can’t Afford to Be Just Friends
Monday, March 8th, 2010Aye Blood…….
Sunday, March 7th, 2010I am old enough to know that it will go away. But damn Gina if I don’t miss my friend. Tonight, I am working on a review of 5 years of a feminist journal. I got stacks of papers, outlines, mo’ stacks of papers. The goal is for us to start thinking about the places [...]
Race + Class + Sexuality
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Once I learned that Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality mutually construct each other, I ain’t been the same since/sense. For more reading: Black Sexual Politics Black Queer Studies New Black Man
Quoted: Global Feminism, Gats, Haiti, Nukes
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Structural Violence makes population more vulnerable to social, economic, health, and environmental harms. Not only has the United States increased structural violence against its own population in favor of waging direct (and structural) violence abroad, but also a number of other countries, some of which have the weakest social safety nets, have made similar choices, [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
