July 2012
Had a conversation with my niece tonight about why she wants to straighten her hair when kinky hair is IMO so awesome and she said “it’s just -normal- -poofy- -Black- hair! I didn’t grow up around Black people and I didn’t grow up thinking it is pretty! I just want something that isn’t a poofy mess all the time!”
I tried showing her different hairstyles my...
“The whole reason I started writing this book is because of this image I have of...”
– apparently the novel junot diaz is working on is going to be the best book ever written, again (via isabelthespy)
I cannot wait to read that
June 2012
Lots of strange symptoms? Nothing that weight loss... →
I have always been heavy for my height. However, as a child and teen I was also very active and generally healthy and so for a long time I only weighed 15-25 lbs more than I was “supposed” to. However, around the time I turned 16 my family’s regular doctor (whom we all loved) was preparing to retire and her office hired a new doctor to replace her. Unfortunately, this new doctor had a bad...
Shakespeare's Sonnets App Released Today - Watch... →
The Jaded Hippy: CHAPTER TWO: THE STAR TREK... →
While the previous discussion is one of a general transition from The Original Series to The Next Generation wherein we may observe how the imaginings of their time of creation influence and contain the raced and gendered future created by their writers and producers, I want to move now to a more specific example of the working-out-of contemporary concerns on screen. While there are many themes...
Introducing my niece to Awkward Black Girl, and she already wants a shirt. lol This is after she showed me some really fucked up videos she’s been watching on Youtube…oh dear. But you do what you can…
The Jaded Hippy: Imagining Social Justice Through... →
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa - This Bridge...
fuckyeahradicalliterature:
Complete version: http://ul.to/7wxrt6bu
Thanks a lot for sharing it in the first place.
The Jaded Hippy: Imagining Social Justice Through... →
Professor's patent strangles textbook sharing on... →
sociolab:
nakedcrip:
The realm of academic file-sharing is notorious — is it legal to share these notes, and this is alright because we need it for the course but it’s no longer in print, right? Students sharing textbooks, presentations and notes facilitated by Facebook’s new Group feature came to mind — but now, going beyond the realms of copyright infringement, it may go so far as to lower...
The Jaded Hippy: Imagining Social Justice Through... →
I’ve often shared the work I have been doing in the academy on this blog, and with my latest project I figured the tradition should continue, thus TJH’s newest series is born: Imagining Social Justice Through Sci-Fi TV. You’ve already seen pieces of this in rougher forms, but hopefully it will be more interesting when you see how they all came together. And it must be said,...
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