oh man, hillary montage. cue erin's tears - not for hillz in particular, but for womankind.

ironic choice of lenny kravitz's are you gonna go my way, though.

if i don't see a woman in the white house by the time i die i'm gonna die a little pissed off.

yesterday i went on an inadvertent bar crawl in east atlanta (graveyard, cantina la casita, the earl.) we laughed almost to the point of crying when we put 'damage inc' on the jukebox at la casita and the baby we had been fawning over (with its hair growing into a seeming mohawk) picked up a knife. that's what two pitchers of margarita will do, i ( Read more... )

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here's some more important stuff, both from good magazine.

on skid row : there are five parts to this video series on skid row. they are all excellent and make their point in an extremely short period of time (each video is around 5 minutes.)

two tales of one city : confronting some of the same issues as the skid row pieces, this article ( Read more... )

if i'm to run the future, you've got to let the old world go : sleater-kinney

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Some people were ready to count us out. But you and I proved them wrong, just as we have every time they tried to declare this race over prematurely. And we're going to keep showing them exactly what we can do ( Read more... )

i've been listening to sleater-kinney & le tigre all day so i must be on this tip, but i have got to say, as a lady, i am so tired of every political show being a big circle jerk about obama. even bill maher has turned into everyone popping boners and calling him 'infallible' - NO ONE is infallible. that kind of view on a politician is so twisted ( Read more... )

hey here's a tip: don't listen to sleater-kinney's one beat during the election time with a lady as a candidate. if you're anything like me, you will probably experience the emotional cocktail, included but not limited to: being pissed, tearing up, wondering why you listened in the first place, and oh yeah, crying ( Read more... )

FEMINISM ( Read more... )

what is coming ( Read more... )

i want to start keeping a small journal of the books ive read, because i have been tearing through so much stuff and i want a record for some reason of my having read it. i just finished shirley chisholm's unbought and unbossed and it was phenomenal, and have now moved on to mary catherine bateson's composing a life. over the weekend, megan and i ( Read more... )