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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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Steve testifies before Louisiana House Insurance Committee

By ~LS~ On October 2, 2008 · 1 Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Katrina, Louisiana

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Post Gustav update – What is that beautiful house

By ~LS~ On September 12, 2008 · 1 Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Louisiana

Gustav was a harrowing and stressful experience, but we are really blessed and lucky that nothing major happened to us. We had some minor roof damage, we lost our electricity, we were inconvenienced. We have no right to complain.

We have (had) a tree about three feet from the front corner of our house. We’ve been arguing for ages about taking it down. I didn’t want to take it down, first because I love it, and second because its roots are holding up the house in that corner (at least according to an engineering report that we had done when we thought we were having foundation problems). But the tree keeps dropping limbs on our house. It damaged our roof enough that we needed a new one after Katrina/Rita. And we need repairs done now after Gustav. Hopefully we don’t need a new roof; I think patching will do the [...]

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Jena

By ~LS~ On September 20, 2007 · Add Comment · In Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Louisiana, Race

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The Jena Six

By ~LS~ On September 11, 2007 · Add Comment · In Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Louisiana, Race

At Jena High School, students of different races customarily seldom sat together. Black students traditionally sat on bleachers near the auditorium, while white students sat under a large shade tree, referred to as the “white tree,” in the center of the school courtyard. During a school assembly on August 31, 2006, a black male freshman student asked permission from the principal to sit in the shade of the “white tree.” The principal told the students they could “sit wherever they wanted.” The following morning, three nooses were discovered hanging from the tree. What follows below is a chronology of racial violence in Jena over the past school year, copied from the BRActionForJena6 website.

Chronology of Racial Violence in Jena over the Past School Year

Aug. 31, 2006: Two black youths, after talking to the school principal at Jena High School, sit [...]

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Let the water hold me down – One Book, One Community

By ~LS~ On September 7, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Gratitudes, Louisiana, Threes, YWCA

When I was an undergraduate, my friends called me “Apocalyptic Laura” because EVERYTHING was a crisis. I was constantly in crisis mode and my life was filled with drama. I don’t know if it’s age, drugs, or Steve’s influence, but my life is calm and steady now. I suspect it’s all three, actually. But a steady, drama-free life doesn’t leave me much to blog about.

I finally finished reading _Breach of Faith_ (by Jed Horne) for the One Book One Community dialogues that are going on. The man is an amazing writer. His ability to evoke images is impressive. One of the librarians here said in regard to the BRCC book club discussion of the book that most people found the first part of the book compelling but they didn’t like the second part. The second part is where he gets political. Not in a ranting sort of [...]

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