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Reproductive Justice part 2: Reproductive 101, Deconstructing the current anti-abortion efforts targeting Black women; also, doulas and midwives.

Category: Ain't I A Woman, Angry in General, Bigotry & Prejudice, Cross Posted, Feminism, General, History, Link Roundups, Our Black History, Politics, Sex & Gender, Sexism, The Patriarchy, Why I’m Angry

April 13th, 2011 | Comments closed

Sister Song website
Reproductive Justice: 101
Loretta Ross of SisterSong on “Reproductive Justice 101″ Part 1

Loretta Ross of SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, gives a lecture on “Reproductive Justice 101″ in Miami during June of 2008, sponsored by Women’s Fund of Miami and Mi Lola. Check out their website at http://sistersong.net/

Loretta Ross of SisterSong on [...]

Rape Culture USA: How race, class, misogyny and homophobia intersected in the Kelly and Antoine Dodson story

Posted by: unusualmusic

Category: Ain't I A Woman, Angry at Black People, Angry at Men, Angry at Minorities, Angry at the Media, Angry at the Police, Angry at White People, Angry at Women, Angry in General, Bigotry & Prejudice, Cross Posted, Feminism, On the Internets, Queerism, Race, Racism, Rank Stupidity, Sex & Gender, Sexism, Society & Culture, The Patriarchy, Why I’m Angry

October 19th, 2010 | 11 comments

Today in my class we were trying to learn a camera technique. We decided to use funny youtube videos to illustrate the proper way to shoot the scenes we wanted. And my classmates decided that the Antoine Dodson videos were such GREAT candidates because man, wasn’t he SO FUNNY?!?!? I tried to point out the [...]

Good Guys: An Appreciation

Posted by: The Angry Black Woman

Category: Angry at Men, Rank Stupidity, Sex & Gender, Sexism

August 14th, 2010 | 24 comments

The other night I was hanging out with a (male) friend and some of his (male) friends, one of whom I’ve met before but don’t know that well. Let’s call him “Terry”. I was telling them this story of my adventures on the subway a couple weeks past, which was entertaining to all because I’m [...]

Get Them While They’re Young: An Idea Toward Creating An Anti-Prejudice Future

Posted by: The Angry Black Woman

Category: Bigotry & Prejudice, Discussions, Feminism, Race, Racism, Sex & Gender, Sexism, Society & Culture

June 7th, 2010 | 8 comments

The recent incident with the Arizona elementary school mural and the city councilman who hated it with his racist, racist ways got me to thinking about how it always feels to me that no matter how many minds I change via this blog or through personal interactions, it still may not be enough. There are [...]

Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition

Posted by: unusualmusic

Category: Angry in General, At the Movies, Bingo Cards, Entertainment, General, In the Magazines, In the Papers, In the World, Media, On the Internets, On the Radio, On the TV, Politics, Queerism, Rank Stupidity, Sex & Gender, Sexism, Society & Culture, The Patriarchy, Things You Need To Understand, Why I’m Angry

June 4th, 2010 | 26 comments

So apparently this month is LGBT Pride Month. I therefore snagged this from ontd political which gives the info that it was first put together by students of Earlham College and then link-enhanced by the current poster. Do I need to mention the part where ‘phobic assholes of any kind will be summarily deleted [...]

linkspam: Why didn’t you call the police? Part One

Posted by: unusualmusic

Category: Angry at the Police, General, Race, Sex & Gender, Sexism, The Patriarchy, Things You Need To Understand, Why I’m Angry

May 11th, 2010 | 12 comments

TRIGGER WARNING
NO VICTIM BLAMING IN THE COMMENTS OR YOU WILL BE BANNED. WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. AND MALICE AFORETHOUGHT. I HAVE. NO. PATIENCE. PERIOD. you have been warned.
Because you cannot trust them. No really.
Of course, not all of them do that. But how do you know that your cop won’t?
And even when you get a good [...]

Linkspam : Short and Sweet

Posted by: unusualmusic

Category: Ain't I A Woman, Angry at the Police, Bigotry & Prejudice, Link Roundups, Sexism

May 7th, 2010 | 1 comment

There is an astonishing amount to read at these links, so there won’t be a lot:
Blogging against Disabilism Day 2010 Just read everything. No really. Read everything.
And then the BP Spill pulls up news about how Western thirst for oil plays out in one country in the Global South. First there was this:
A spill of [...]

The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally

Posted by: karnythia

Category: Bigotry & Prejudice, Feminism, Queerism, Race, Racism, Sex & Gender, Sexism, Society & Culture, Things You Need To Understand

October 1st, 2009 | 19 comments

1. Don’t derail a discussion. Even if it makes you personally uncomfortable to discuss X issue…it’s really not about you or your comfort. It’s about X issue, and you are absolutely free to not engage rather than try to keep other people from continuing their conversation.
2. Do read links/books referenced in discussions. Again, [...]

Race, Gender, and the Oppressive Public Gaze…

Posted by: karnythia

Category: America the Crazy, Angry at the Media, Bigotry & Prejudice, Feminism, In the Blogosphere, In the Magazines, In the Papers, Media, On the Internets, On the Radio, On the TV, Queerism, Race, Racism, Rank Stupidity, Sex & Gender, Sexism, Society & Culture, The Patriarchy, Things You Need To Understand

September 15th, 2009 | 55 comments

I’ve been struggling with writing this post for some time now. On the one hand there are things I feel need to be said about the treatment of Caster Semenya (especially in light of the news that she has been placed under a suicide watch), on the other hand I don’t want to add to [...]

Hair, Blackness, and Beauty

Posted by: karnythia

Category: Ain't I A Woman, Bigotry & Prejudice, Feminism, Race, Racism, Sexism, Society & Culture, Things You Need To Understand

August 24th, 2009 | 16 comments

I need to wash and twist my hair. I do not feel like twisting it, but it needs washing and if I wash it I have to twist it since it refuses to even think about locing and thus water = losing its shape. So, as I’m sitting here doing everything but my hair, my [...]