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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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Peaches – No Sexist Pigs Allowed on My Planet

By ~LS~ On June 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Humor and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Humor, Sexism

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Sweet Honey in the Rock and Some Political Thoughts

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Louisiana, Music, Politics, Race, YWCA

Sweet Honey in the Rock is one of my all-time favorite musical groups. I got to thinking about Sweet Honey the other day when I was donating my clothing and I wrote about the politics of second-hand clothing. In learning about what actually happens to donated clothes, I was left with a sick feeling about my own consumption and how easily I succumb to buying things. I regularly feel guilty about going to Wal-Mart despite full awareness of why shopping there is so utterly wrong. I haven’t reflected on this problem the way I used to in women’s studies classes — the hopeless, damned if you do, damned if you don’t feeling you get when your consciousness is raised about consumption. I don’t want to donate my clothing to exploitative rag-making multinational corporations. I don’t want to toss my clothes in a landfill, either. So the only [...]

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L. Frank Baum and Oz

By ~LS~ On June 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Books, Goals, Pop Culture, Queer

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Female Scotus Pick

By ~LS~ On May 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Politics, Sexism

An email I sent to reporter Lynn Sweet in response to a post she made on Politics Daily on why Obama should appoint a woman to the Supreme Court:

I’m writing to you about a phrasing that you wrote in the lead to your SCOTUS post. The lead to your article reads: “So a new Gallop poll shows “no clamor” for President Obama to select a woman or minority to the Supreme Court vacancy being created by the departure of Justice David Souter.”

Your lead calls to mind an old book entitled _But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men_.

The point in this title is that not all women are white, that there are minority women too, and those women get elided when we write about “women” and “minorities” as separate categories. Now, I recognize that you are simply parroting [...]

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“The Blacks vs. The Gays”

Institutional racism or acts of meanness?

Peaches – No Sexist Pigs Allowed on My Planet

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