It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye
Today is my last day blogging with the lovelies here at Feministe. It’s been fun, and I hope you’ve found my posts interesting at the least, maybe infuriating, hopefully not boring. I’ll be taking a brief vacation and staying “home”, as it were, at my blog Red Vinyl Shoes, and then starting August 1 I’ll [...]
...read moreThe Coming Race War
Well, Andrew Breitbart, smearing Shirley Sherrod in order to refute the NAACP’s resolution against “racist elements” in the Tea Party turned out to be a pretty bad idea. Yes, you cost her her job, but she’s making black people look good. It’s too bad you’re not like, a journalist, or something, and did some digging [...]
...read moreThe Impermanence of Light
Tonight I did something I do less and less of these days — I came home and didn’t jump on the Internet. Didn’t rush through my meal to hurry up and check my e-mail only to be inundated with the day’s nauseating blog comments. Didn’t skip reading the book I’m almost finished with to see [...]
...read moreLook! Black People Are Totally Racist Too!
Fox News dropped this bombshell in the early hours of July 20 (or the late night of July 19, as it is for me). Apparently someone was able to dig up a video of a black USDA worker telling an audience of other black people about having to help a white farmer keep his land [...]
...read moreWhen You Have To Say It: Tea Party Racism (Again) and You?
Why I continue to follow links relating to the Tea Party and whatever problematic tripe they’re spewing on that particular day, I don’t know. I only have a certain amount of anxiety medication allotted each month and I can’t afford to waste it. When I saw that the NAACP called the Tea Party a bunch [...]
...read moreThe Master’s Publishing House
[UPDATE: I will not be submitting the anthology to Seal Press, so the question asked in this post has been answered. Read the comments for more details.] In working on the anthology I’m editing/contributing to, Occupied Bodies: Women of Color Speak on Self-Image, an issue has come up over whether or not I should include [...]
...read moreOutlaw Clothing: Burqas, Islamophobia and Women’s Rights
The ongoing quest of the French government to preserve their country’s “secular traditions” came to the fore once again Tuesday when the lower house of France’s parliament voted to ban women from wearing any face-covering veil, such as the infamous burqa or the less “extreme” niqab — a move obviously targeting French Muslim women, of [...]
...read moreIs White Really the Combination of All Colors?
This “family feud” has been mentioned in blog post after blog post, so I’ll keep the history short. Big “feminist” site Jezebel posts about female comedy writers not being represented in the staffing of The Daily Show. Big “feminist” site XX Factor posts about how hypocritical it is for Jezebel to post something controversial to [...]
...read moreMiss Tasha If You’re Nasty
Hey y’all, my name is Tasha Fierce, but feel free to just call me Tasha or TF because we’re going to be tight like that. For the next two weeks I’ll be guest blogging with the other lovelies here. My personal blog is at Red Vinyl Shoes and I also contribute to the pop culture [...]
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