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February on the ABW

Welcome to February ABW readers. Already this month is making me angry, though less for public reasons than private. Still, there is a lot to look forward to, at least around here. One of those things is posts from a cavalcade of guest bloggers, some

The Missing Black Woman Formation

Apropos of Monday’s political post, I wanted to point out some interesting blog posts. A few weeks ago, author and friend Scott Westerfeld posted this excerpt from his novel So Yesterday: A focus group of cool-hunters has just been shown a new sneaker advertisement, and

The Prodigal Blogger

You may have noticed the light posting around here lately. Sorry about that. The holidays kicked my ass, among other problems. Lately I’ve also been feeling pretty blah about doing political blogging, which makes me feel guilty because I said I’d do it. Then I

Happy Holidays

Oh look at me being politically correct! And warring on Christmas! Just a quick note to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Go Kwanzaa, Up With Solstice, and other festival greetings to my readers. I hope you’re all safe, loved, and happy this season.

Two completely unrelated things

First thing. You may have noticed there’s a new box on the right announcing the ABW store. I put a few shirts up and a mug since I’d had some interest from folks. Particularly for the hair ones. It’s a Zazzle store, not CafePress, because

Introducing: LadyJax

This week i’m attending the LaunchPad workshop in Wyoming.  I’ll let you know all about ti in detail when I get back.  Blogging will be light on my end since there’s no assurance of high speed internet access while we’re there.  So I arranged to

Open Thread

So, the comments on the Transformers thread are now off. It was getting ridiculous with the trolling and such. And also the having to teach Racism 101, which is time-consuming. Nora actually has a day job, whereas I spend all day looking at the Internet

State of the ABW

Thanks to everyone who offered support and condolences about my stolen backpack. I have some good news to report on that front. I got a call on Monday from the guy who had my bag! He returned it to me, all items intact. Phone, camera,

The True Front of Progressivism

God damn, I love nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez/The Unapologetic Mexican. Why? Why: SOMETIMES YOU WONDER if blogging is a component of Real Change, done for distraction, provided as a social experience, or is just a game. And of course, it is all these things at different

The Return

Just a quick note to say a few things. First, I’m back and feeling very zen. Don’t know how long this feeling will continue, but I hope for at least a few more days. However, considering the inkling I have of what went on in