Another video post which looks at the masculinity issues that face the modern black male in western societies. Please give a little time to watch this short, but thought provoking film and share your thoughts. I would welcome your views regardless of your background. Trojan's Corner Welcomes everyone! This blog welcomes free speech, but please be respectful in your views. This award-winning documentary...
All nicked from FWD/Forward . Which is a great site that y'all should be reading. “Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, disabled women, Jewish women, lesbians, old women–as well as white, economically privileged heterosexual women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism,...
by Kristin It has been seven years since I visited Portland. Having young children has mostly kept me close to home, but now that they are six and four I feel more confident that our family can cope with the separation, so I went with a friend and stayed two nights. "What are you going to do?" people asked me. "Powells," I said. "What else?" "Powells." I had...
If you visited Newsweek.com’s Human Condition blog today, you may have been greeted by this beautiful photo of two bright eyed, big haired girls. Those adorable little afrobellas are my nieces. Dominique and Isabella! And the article was my response to the latest rebuttal by Allison Samuels. Hey response to the bloggers, if you will, [...] Related posts: Team Zahara! A Little Afro Love Afrobella...
By Sikivu Hutchinson In mainstream media, public conversation about the intersection between atheism and what I will loosely term third world feminism is as rare as Halley's Comet. In the corporate media universe, the groundbreaking work of feminists of African descent like bell hooks, Angela Davis and Patricia Hill Collins remains largely unknown, relegated to academe. [...]
How do you get your information about conservatives and conservative ideas? The best answer I could imagine would be 'Little Green Footballs', because it would be the kind of answer that would justify a liberal, even reactionary liberal stance. That...
[photo of bell hooks and the article below are from here]Gender, race, media and hooks Written by Betty Chaney - Life & Arts Editor Wednesday, 14 October 2009Behind the dark, heavy curtain, bell hooks sits in a metal folding chair before she took to the stage in Button Auditorium [at Morehead State University in Kentucky], Tuesday night.“I describe myself, first and foremost, as a seeker...
Matt Canada here with another edition of "Screen Queens". Last week we looked at To Wong Foo , a mainstream lighthearted approach to drag queens and their fab subculture. So this week, a more realistic, nuanced, and sensitive approach to the same subject. Jennie Livingston's seminal documentary Paris Is Burning is a film I have been trying to find for years now, and it more than lives up...
What Is Not Post-Feminism? Some Questions and Problems by Lonely Christopher Feminism is a problem of the discursive relationship between theory and praxis. Feminism is simultaneously an academic/theoretical grammar and a sociopolitically applicable ideology. There’s much confusion about what being a feminist means right now; the concept oft languishes as an empty signifier mouthed weirdly by...
We'll be posting intermittently today and into the weekend because a lot of us are in route to Jessica's wedding. Woohooo! In honor of the exciting celebration about to take place, I give you bell hooks: The moment we...
These days, I'm in the middle of (Re)writing Osun by Jessica M. Alarcon. Actually the full title is: (Re)writing Osun: Osun in the Politics of Gender, Race and Sexuality - From Colonization to Creolization. The book is an interesting read. As a spiritual initiate herself and a scholar, Alarcon easily invokes Obatala and Shango in the same breath as bell hooks and Audre Lourde. And she combines an insider's...
This whole post is going to be a freestyle; inspired by bell hooks and her book Belonging: A Culture of Place and Little Light’s amazing post on vulnerability. In fact, I’ll just say now that one of the reasons I don’t post more often is because I’m self-conscious about always having to “get it right”—wordsmithing [...]
Hi everyone! Thanks Ian for continuing to push us and drive the project. I gave the 'afters' paper a good read and have several comments: 1. In terms of how "these excerpts worked together", I loved the (Walter Benjaminian) montage style and effects. I like the various surprising dissonances and overlaps with the contents. I also like the appearance of the different shaped blocks of text...
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