There seem to be two factions of commenters on this blog: the people who talk about race and the people who talk about gender/sexuality. There is frustratingly little overlap. We’re not sure why that is. Is privilege as it pertains to gender and sexual identity not a ‘black’ issue? Is ‘black’ stuff too foreign for Read More
A few days ago, noted poet/speaker/scholar Dr. Maya Angelou guest-blogged at Hillary Clinton’s campaign site. Her post title: “Celebrating Women: A Note from Dr. Maya Angelou.” She opens by quoting herself which, frankly, is a pretty pretentious move in itself, but to open with a quatrain from “And Still I Rise?” Really? You may write Read More
SWPL’s Landler, from Heeb. Christian Lander, the guy behind Stuff White People Like, recently got a $300,000 book deal from Random House. The book is due out in August. We’re not sure what that means, really. Just throwing it out there.
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Yesterday was by far our little blog’s busiest day ever. Kinda amazing, since there wasn’t an update. I couldn’t figure out why. Stacia pointed out that Thomas Beatie, that man who happens to be with child, was on Oprah yesterday. Apparently, going into yesterday, we were one of the top sites for this guy via Read More
Some news outlets are reporting that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president since independence 28 years ago, has conceded the first round of the presidential election to the opposition, and there is talk that he might even step down without a fight. A second round would require him or Morgan Tsvangirai, from the Movement for Democratic Change, Read More
A while back, I posed a question on a message board: is there a black person more reviled by black people than Clarence Thomas? The overwhelming answer: no. But what surprised me was how much Condi Rice seemed to be challenging Justice Thomas for that dubious title; there’s real contempt there for her — of Read More
We’ve all been wild busy with life offline. We’ll be up and running like normal soon enough.
