January 17th, 2008

The class privilege meme

Update: Secondwaver found the original source of this meme, including the missing #33, so here is the credit. I’m sorry that I didn’t go looking for the attribution myself before posting it.
From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, […]

December 17th, 2007

Marilyn Frye on being good

…at least one sort of a need for ethics is characteristic only of people with an investment of a certain sort in being good and/or in others’ being good, in doing the right thing, being right or being in the right…
…growing up in a small town south of the Mason-Dixon line, in an upwardly mobile […]

October 2nd, 2007

Broken

I have had to sit myself down and take a good hard look at the reality: my brain is broken.
I don’t know if it has always been broken. I suspect so. I suspect that my father’s line carries some kind of hereditary brain-brokenness; of course, it’s hard to know which comes first, […]

December 1st, 2005

All Hail Roseanne

I recently discovered late-night reruns of “Roseanne.” I hadn’t seen the show in a while, and I had forgotten how truly remarkable it is, in its context. What other show even attempts to portray the real lives of working people? Sure, Roseanne got really weird the last few seasons, when all the […]

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