for duanna johnson

sister, i am angry
furious at your death
upset with my own foolishness in celebrating him
while you die in the streets
with beatings, with violence left on your beautiful brown skin
with the names, the silence, the mainstream media lies
they refuse to let us ever forget that
guns penetrating our backs, we are always standing at the cliff of our [...]

thoughts on the politics of independence

“the community is not great for anyone until it is great for everyone.”        –WIDU motto

BA and BFP always get me going…

Background: a professor for a women’s studies class wrote about how he assigned Full-Frontal Feminism (FFF), a book that was accompanied with much criticism, to his class and that it was a hit with the students. To sum it up it was basically “HA! you radical women of color (WOC) bloggers, I know woc who LOVED IT so [...]

another word on privilege

I ran across this article on privilege today, written by Peggy McIntosh, an anti-racist feminist. (Maybe I’m late to the table and you folks have already seen it?) Anyways, here were some of my favorite points that describe aspects of privilege:

If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an [...]