Hello bloggers,
I thought I’d reproduce for you here the note I sent out to my friends and family to mark International Women’s Day this year.
Things with me are alright. thanks to those of you who have emailed to day hello — it’s always good to hear from you.
Best,
TG
Dear friends and family,
today marks International Women’s Day! [...]
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I had the opportunity a couple weeks ago to attend a session held by a local anti-trafficking group, during which I heard the most wonderful speaker, Benjamin Santamaria. He spoke less about what his organization does, and more about the issue overall, and the culture under which this problem has been permitted to flourish.
Human trafficking [...]
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Aulelia hipped me to this one: an interview with hip-hop producer Palow Da Don, in which he calles himself “King of the White Girls” and talks about how submissive white women are, how uppity black women are, and how he prefers a woman who knows her place in the “divine order” of things.
AllHipHop.com: Now, you [...]
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well, today is Canada Day, a day to celebrate all things Canadian, fly our flag high and proud, and talk about all the things that are wonderful about our great country. I’ve done this kind of thing before, and I will admit that each year on Canada Day I’ve felt kind of happy and proud [...]
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A reader, Alec, sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article, about the level of representation in the current US Congress as it relates to the population at large. It’s pretty clear that the Congress is not really representative of the US population demographics. Check it out:
Males - As of the 2006 [...]
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I wrote recently about white racism, and the post stirred up a lot of stuff for a lot of people. One of the things that kept coming up was that I was “redefining” the words “racist” and “racism,” and people didn’t like that - they wanted me to come up with another word for either [...]
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I thought I’d post a paper I recently wrote about the link between environmental protection and population control, and how population control practices and policies are bad for women of colour. I wish I had had more space to really delve into things a bit further, but this was only a 6 page assignment.
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Posted in Race Relations on March 21, 2007 | 119 Comments »
I want to write about being a white racist today.
I could write about how awful racism is, and the horrors it has inflicted in the world. We know this. We know how all the wars since WWII have been fought in developing countries where the people are black and brown. We know about slavery, the [...]
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Go read brownfemipower’s post, Women of Colour Morphing into Oppressor Status. And the comments.
stuff like this seriously makes me want to stop calling myself a feminist.
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So, I watched both of these movies today, for the second time. I saw both in theatres when they first came out, but not again since. I was left with very different impressions the second time around.
Brokeback Mountain - so, check it out. What I think I missed about this movie before was the [...]
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