Two lesbians of color, Black and Asian, had seemingly forgotten lesbians are everywhere, and come from everywhere. We did gut checks on who we were thinking of when we thought of lesbians in East Oakland. We were thinking of dykes like the ones on 20/20: white, middle-class and definitely out of place in the inner […]
McKinney Responds to Verdict in Sean Bell’s Murder
Green Party Hopeful Would De-fund Departments Which Violate Civil Rights
Cynthia McKinney, a Presidential candidate seeking the Green Party nomination, today released a statement commenting on Queens State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman’s verdict, acquitting NYPD Detectives Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver of all charges stemming from […]
The other day Littoral Mermaid blogged about a horrible racist column from a Cornell University student blog.
A few days before that, this anti-fat-people article turned up in the student newspaper at the University of Toronto:
Public health care - why should the rest of us have to pay high taxes for you to eat yourself to […]
I am loyal to white supremacy. The other day I realized it would be easier to just admit this, and get it over with, than to continue turning myself into inside-out knots trying to rationalize, justify and explain the actions and circumstances that demonstrate this loyalty to everyone, it seems, but me.
The white-supremacist loyalty […]
Please read Tara’s excellent post on the subject if you haven’t already. You may want to skip the utterly predictable comments.
Human rights activists Mary and Carrie Dann on their Nevada ranch in 1979 (photo by Ilka Hartmann)
The injustice at a glance
Congress has never acted and nothing has ever occurred as a matter of law to “take” or “extinguish” Western Shoshone’s title to their ancestral lands.
The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley (Nevada) did not cede any […]
Just for the record, the definitive post on transgenderism and radical feminism was written some time ago, and it is Amananta on Radical feminism and the Transgendered, or, how to write a post that will infuriate everyone.
This one isn’t too bad either.
Why is this my last post on such a contested subject, you might ask? […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2008
Statement of University of Michigan Students and Faculty in Support of Andrea Smith’s Tenure Case
CONTACT: TenureForAndreaSmith@gmail.com
On February 22nd, 2008, University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) issued a negative tenure recommendation for Assistant Professor Andrea Lee Smith. Jointly appointed in the Program in American Culture and […]
10. How much white are you?
9. I’m part white myself, you know.
8. I learned all your people’s ways in the Boy Scouts.
7. My great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded white-Canadian princess.
6. Funny, you don’t look white.
5. Where’s your powdered wig and knickers?
4. Do you live in a covered wagon?
3. What’s the meaning behind the square dance?
2. What’s […]
From What Tami Said:
Where were these “all women must vote for the woman” folks when Carol Moseley Braun was running for president? I know why I didn’t support her–because other candidates more closely aligned with my take on the issues. But where were the feminists who say issues don’t matter? Where were the women who […]
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