April 21st, 2008
A few loose ends
Starfish asked me some questions about my white-only post and I clarified a few things in her comments.
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I linked to “Stuff White People Like” a while back because I thought it was funny. At that time, I didn’t know that the author was white, or that the blog was connected to a book deal. (Geez louise, how tired am I of bloggers who are no threat to anyone anywhere getting book deals and thinking it’s a measure of how great they are.) I also didn’t read the comments, which apparently feature fairly frequent racist screeds that the blog owner doesn’t do anything about. Since then, I’ve learned those facts, as well as being made aware of some of the political problems with what’s written there. Here are just two of the many available critiques for your cutting and pasting pleasure:
http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=49eb53ed-afbc-4aae-bf17-6ffc44f40a48 (thanks Amber)
http://www.theroot.com/id/45371 (via Joan Kelly)
I still think SWPL is funny, but I don’t think it’s creating change, if I ever did. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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A few days ago I promised a piece on Teh State. I’m still excited to write that, but I realized I have some reading to do first. One of the books is on its way to me in the mail, and I’m excited because it’s one I’ve wanted for a long time but it’s been out of print for years, and hence difficult and/or expensive to get.
I also realize I never did a promised post on lesbianism, celibacy, and couple privilege, so I think that one will be up next, since the research on that one is pretty much done. 
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And just in case you were wondering, yes, the migration is complete, I fixed all the weird quirks that it caused, and everything ought to be loading correctly. If you find glitches, please feel free to let me know.
