Asher Roth, Hip Hop, and Rockism, Or Why Doesn’t My Kid Like Hip Hop?
Because Latoya and Jill polluted my wasting brain by posting about this last week, let’s go ahead and beat this Asher Roth topic into the ground. And hell, why not? ASHER ROTH IS TEH SUXXOR. ASHER ROTH IS A ROBERT HERRICK REINCARNATE. First off, Jay “Made Of Win” Smooth did a great interview with Dan [...]
...read moreAir-Breathing, Water-Drinking Earthlings
Last night Ethan’s third grade class put on an Earth Day celebration, a “Prairie Home Companion” styled radio show, that was packed full of epic recorder songs and appeals to their parents to recycle and consume water and electricity in more responsible ways. Even though it was relatively standard in the school recital sense, what [...]
...read moreAccents
My mother is adorable. She’s lived in the US for over 35 years now. She has authored, edited or translated a half-dozen books — in English! But she still sends me e-mails with lines like this, in her recipe for Japanese curry, from ten minutes ago: “In the same flying pan, add some more oil [...]
...read moreXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in All Sorts of Places
Golf is not something that is usually on my radar screen (unless I’m getting worked up about how golf courses buy water rights to maintain their unsustainable lushness in draught-affected areas or about how the Bush administration claims to have increased the amount of wetlands in the U.S. by counting golf courses as wetlands), but [...]
...read moreRacism and Greece
My blogging began because of a racist attack that had happened here in Greece six years earlier. It shocked the country then, not just because it was so horrific but also because the country had to wake up and see that racism exists here, contrary to popular opinion. It is a commonly held belief that [...]
...read moreRoma Issues
Firstly, a big thank you to everyone at Feministe for the opportunity to guest blog here. I was thrilled to be asked and am looking forward to adding my two-pence worth to this community for the week. Secondly, I just need to explain something. I have just moved house in the past two weeks and [...]
...read moreAnti-Choicers: Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, oh my!
Ann at Feministing has a great collection of photos of the March for Life that she found in a pro-life. Be sure to read the captions. Interesting how the pro-life leaders are old white men, the girls at the rally are applauded for being pretty, bilingualism is accepted as long as its in this very [...]
...read moreThe Way God Designed Our Bodies
Regular readers of feminist blogs have probably already seen this video about the Quiverfull movement. Much has been written about the underlying racism and xenophobia of the movement, as well as the Quiverfulls’ hostility toward women’s rights — and the distaste for women being in positions of power or even self-sufficiency is evident in the [...]
...read moreToday: National Day of Action for Immigration Reform
Get out and act! If you’re in New York City, there’s a rally from 3-7 at City Hall. One march will leave from Washington Square Park at 2pm. Be there. Support human rights. Take a stand against racism and xenophobia. UPDATE: As a show of solidarity, CultureKitchen will be publishing all day in Spanish. Bueno [...]
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