The White Liberal “Feminism” of Tina Fey and Baby Mama
Last night I decided to watch Baby Mama while doing some not very mentally taxing work online. Oh, my. Was that movie worse than I expected or what? It was so bad, in such an interesting, ugly bouquet of ways, that I feel the need to share my thoughts with you, both about this movie [...]
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Why You Tripping About What I Said?
I’ve been involved in online discourse for over ten years now. It never fails that when I or any Black person, be they gay, straight or trans, posts ANY commentary that critiques how whiteness insidiously operates in our communities and beyond, calls out a white person operating in a racist way, or points out that [...]
...read more287(g): Can White Privilege Ever Be Exercised for Good?
(In this post, I’m going to be talking about how the 287(g) program plays out here in Nashville, Tennessee, because that’s what I’m most familiar with. This stuff may be applicable in other communities–I suspect it is–but I’m not going to presume to know.) Like many Southern cities, Nashville’s predominate racial make-up was white and [...]
...read more“Obesity,” health, and the pro-food movement
In my first post this week, I talked about how I became interested in the consequences of our industrialized food system, both macro and micro, and what I’ve done in my own life. Now I want to talk about what’s coming to be called the pro-food movement, and one thing about it that has been [...]
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