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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading.
I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways people [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn.
It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to want [...]

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The arrest of, and dropping of charges against, Henry Louis Gates

21 July 2009

If I had been able to, if this blog were not still acting up, I’d’ve been on time posting this story, which caught like wildfire and spread across the web; I’d’ve posted it yesterday.
As it is, I’m tempted to raise it in the seminars that I’m attending as part of this faculty meeting at the [...]

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Came across this while searching for something else

23 October 2008

And it’s worth another visit, and another.
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
A BLOGSITE FOR THE PRAISING OF ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME IN HONOR OF ALL BLACK WOMEN. A BLOGSITE TO SPEAK THE TRUTH OF BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN AMERICA.
“ONLY THE BLACK WOMAN CAN SAY “WHEN AND WHERE I ENTER, [...]

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“Red”

16 June 2008

Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called “Red”. It’s about being in between.
As Philp writes:
And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word “red,” which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or “half-caste.”
 
 

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Our Heterogeneous World

26 May 2008

… and if you don’t know what that long word up there means, go look it up.
I was reading Shashwati’s Blog this morning.  It’s been a long time since I’ve checked her stuff out, which doesn’t mean that I don’t value what she says, but rather that I really have not had the kind of [...]

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