We got home from our trip to Pennsylvania yesterday, and thanks to some of your suggestions we did manage to visit Fallingwater as well as Fort Necessity and a couple of other places. I thought we were closer to Pittsburgh than we actually were, so once we realized that Pittsburgh meant another couple of [...]
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Fort Necessity and Family Reunions, Oh My!
Published June 23rd, 2008 in Back In the Day, Books, Class, Education, Family, Racism and Travel. 3 CommentsTake it from this documentary junkie, “Resolved” is one of the better documentaries I’ve seen in a couple of years, and lucky for you it’s playing on demand on HBO and is available via Netflix.
“Resolved” trains an eye on high school debate competitions and the peculiar traditions that make them so competitive, also basing a [...]
What You Should Read Since I’m Not Writing
Published June 8th, 2008 in Feminism, Obligation, Poverty and Racism. 1 CommentLesson 2 (remembering previous thoughts on Linda Hirshman):
So what keeps the movement [Feminism --ed.] from realizing its demographic potential? First, it’s divided along lines so old that they feel like geological faults. Long before this campaign highlighted the divides of race, class and age, feminism was divided by race, class and age. As early as [...]
The proper response to a call to end the erasure of women of color from the public sphere does not include silencing others, much less drowning out the voices of women of color who have a direct personal and professional stake in the discussion at hand with your righteous white feminist rage. At this [...]
May the Lord Bless Ad Filtering Software
Published February 12th, 2008 in Advertising, Blogging, Feminism and Racism. 3 CommentsPart of my lingering responsibilities for Feministe is putting together their new ad content. This has been a personal challenge — because if you surf the internet like I do the only time you click on an ad is on accident. It is a necessary evil, seeing that the hosting service was becoming [...]
I’ve been looking for some for the last several days — apparently Ethan has been on the receiving end of racist sentiments at school recently, and he’s really confused and hurt by it. Because E is such a big reader, I figured we could look at something together and talk about it. My [...]
And Twenty Years of Market Research Will Afford Us Greater Social Selectivity for Children’s Games
Published January 15th, 2008 in Children, Games and Racism. 0 CommentsOr, how to win Guess Who? in one move:
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Because I Am Dense, A Post
Published January 9th, 2008 in Bloggery, Feminism, Racism, Relationships and Work. 6 CommentsI worked last Saturday with Sally (a sadly unimaginative nickname we will give my coworker in order to protect her privacy), and after a long, lazy morning of donuts and ebay-browsing, we closed the doors to the office at noon. A man slid past us right before 12, and after I was done helping [...]
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, featuring not-Cowboy Curtis
Published December 22nd, 2007 in Celebrity, Humor, Racism, Weirdness and Work. 29 CommentsEarly this week I committed a serious faux pas.
It’s funny, really, that through my youth, and then my college years, all the time I was immersed in progressive literature, identity politics and activism, I would find myself in the most diverse environment I’ve enjoyed yet at an entry-level job in whitebread middle America. [...]
For The Racist’s Wishlist
Published December 1st, 2007 in Assholes, Business, Movies and Racism. 3 CommentsDisney decided to get in on the couture noose racket with The Noose Necklace:
But despite all the race-related, noose-related threats on North American soil in recent months, it’s related to Pirates of the Caribbean so it’s no big deal. Also be on the lookout for the sterling silver SS belt buckle from The Sound [...]
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