February 2012
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Just tweeted it; might as well post it.
I’m thinking about this XXL controversy and wondering how possible it is to critique the sexual objectification of black women without, at the same time, sliding into a conservative discourse about sex and sexuality, and especially without relying on the most conservative anxieties about black girls’ and women’s sexuality. We play into that, of course, whenever we reaffirm the...
“Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from...”
– Anthology Call for Submissions • Survivors in Solidarity with Prison Abolition
I’ve written a little bit previously that I hope provides a few strategies for being in solidarity as a survivor, so I’m really glad this is happening on a larger and more intentional scale. Please pass on.
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shana—e replied to your post: Before someone asks me about this Cornel West-Melissa Harris-Perry Beef
(raining on my hate parade)
Oh no, the hate parade toward Cornel is welcome and long overdue. I just want to make sure we have enough floats in reserve to send in the direction of the political economy of representation that made a Cornel, and now an MH-P, possible. I often agree...
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Before someone asks me about this Cornel...
Two thoughts, in the slenderest form I can muster.
First: I can only pray that someday, the stakes of public beefs between card-carrying members of the Negroscenti will have less to do with the struggle of who gets to land the television contracts, speaking gigs, etc., in which she or he can position her or himself expertly as The Highly Celebrated Explainer of Black People to Audiences Primarily...
