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“The Blacks vs. The Gays”

By ~LS~ On July 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Politics, Queer, Race, Religion

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has recently had some internal conflicts over gay rights and Proposition 8. I learned about this from a group on Facebook called the Empowering Spirits Foundation. Apparently the national SCLC leadership has threatened to remove the Los Angeles chapter’s president (Rev. Eric P. Lee) because of his outspoken support of gay marriage. My first response was of course, SCLC…Southern…Christian. What should we expect? But it’s disheartening nonetheless.

The tension between “blacks and gays” (a linguistic construction that perpetuates the invisibility of gay blacks, not to mention the complete absence of the L, B, and T part of GLBT or of any other non-white queer in this struggle) has been part of the national discussion of Proposition 8 for a while now. This tension is particularly painful when the media cites various statistics around the country that show black people reject gay [...]

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Institutional racism or acts of meanness?

By ~LS~ On July 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Feminism, Louisiana, Politics, Race, YWCA

Recently I’ve been working a lot with the YWCA Dialogue on Race again. The dialogues have frustrated me for as long as I’ve been a participant. I think the process is invaluable and important. Necessary, even. But I also think it is highly problematic – beyond the problems and tensions that /any/ dialogue on race necessarily entails.

First off, the conversations about race that I’ve had with sympathetic people (of all races) in Louisiana are generally very flat. Conversations here don’t broach essentialism and intersectionality or question identity politics. While racism in Louisiana feels much more entrenched and deep-seated than in other places I’ve lived, the general understanding of racism here lacks nuance. Of course, some might say, “what is there to understand?…racism is racism. The people who are suffering under the burden of racism already understand. They’re oppressed. They live it. Simple as that.” But [...]

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Better blogging

By ~LS~ On July 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In How to do stuff, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

In preparing for revamping Vox and She-blog, I read a lot about blogging and what I should do to improve my blog and site. I’ve learned a lot and hopefully my future blogging will reflect that. There are some obvious problems with my old site and my old blog on blogspot – I’ve just never really bothered with them. The coding and design on them suck. I never took the time to deal with validation, cross-browser, or monitor size issues. When blogger went to the new blog format, I could never get my site to look right and I didn’t want to learn how because it was so annoyingly complicated. Whatever. It’s a new era.

In addition to these obvious mistakes, I learned about some other blogging conventions that I violate. It’s funny that there are now “rules” about how to blog and what makes a good blog. [...]

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