Posted in action, brown + black, fucked up shit, history, intersections, queer, thoughts on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this year, I went to a panel discussion entitled, “Perceptions of Queer Identity in the Muslim World” where I came across two very interesting men. The first speaker was Michael Luongo, who is the author of the bestseller book, “Gay Travels in the Muslim World” that describes his experiences as an American traveler in [...]
Posted in education, thoughts, tagged education, literature, student on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If elementary, middle and high school students were given literature by mostly people of color, women, queer people, etc. and a few token white men, would they be missing out on their education? Would they be unprepared for the future?
What do you think?
What is a better question to ask?
Posted in action, brown + black, fucked up shit, history, links, thoughts, whiteness on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier this month, the New York Times released and article highlighting the ongoing health care disparities within the migrant farmworker population. Clearly, health care coverage and access is a larger discourse in national politics, but one might just as easily overlook the physical health of the laborers working in our agricultural fields.
The people need help [...]
Posted in action, brown + black, defining terms, queer, thoughts, tagged BBQ, Talk on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a lot of work to do in terms of addressing the issues of hetronormativity, white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, environmental racism, domestic abuse, police brutality, capitalism, mental colonization, imperialism.. you know all these things that oppress us and we continue to rebel against..
That doesn’t mean that we don’t perpetuate some of these oppresive tendencies [...]
Posted in brown + black, defining terms, intersections, thoughts, tagged intersections, race, whiteness, white, stuff white people life, brandon teena, lisa duggan, feminism, feminists, blogosphere on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
this is jsut a testerooo!
Posted in brown + black, thoughts, whiteness, tagged affirmative action, black, canon, class, life, priorities, race, responsibility, school, white, whiteness on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My roommate and I had a quick conversation. She asked me how my work was coming along and I explained to her that my priorities are messing me up. Basically, “my school priorities are not my life priorities, and right now I choose life,” said. “I choose life!” she repeated mockingly and melodramatically. Her response, [...]
Posted in brown + black, intersections, queer, thoughts, tagged gay marriage, black, anti-black, homonormative, populat culture, homophobia, community, allies on April 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
by Kenyon Farrow (source: kenyonfarrow.com)
Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?
By Kenyon Farrow
March 5, 2004
I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th 2004 edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to add some additional language to [...]
Posted in thoughts, tagged connections, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Maybe this is late, but maybe there’s no such thing, but I always knew there was a big connection between Martin Luther King, Jr. and me.
I am a MLK Jr. Scholar at New York University.
MLK passed away on April 4. I was born on April 4. (Maya Angelou was also born 4/4.)
I’m from Georgia. He’s [...]
Posted in quotes, thoughts on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Read this quote in Rebecca Walker’s “Black, White and Jewish.”
Who Am I if I am not a Movement Child?
Check it out on her website at RebeccaWalker.com
Posted in action, thoughts, tagged bodies, healing, health, juice, money, spiritual, sustain on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While NYU, or your own academic institution, is providing funding for your clubs to put on events (and let me be very clear that this money that they’re “giving” you, they already robbed you of) use it in all the ways you would normally want to do with the money you don’t have now. The [...]
