Thanks to the work of women of color online, I finally get the dynamic of white women defending our privilege via (supposedly) feminist values around validating feelings.
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I've signed the pledge and donated but health keeps me from fasting ( Read more... )

... you are better than me.

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Here in Connecticut, the supreme court has ruled that barring same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Fantastic news ( Read more... )

Well, knock me over with a feather. A sorority, taking on fat hatred.

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It comes from Delta Delta Delta, so I wasn't expecting a whole lot in the aware-of-realities-other-than-middle-class-white-women department ... and it's a darn good thing, too. But as messages go, this one is 100% spot fscking on.

... especially women of color.

Michelle Obama, angry black woman.



And here's the Media Matters article, so that we don't just have to listen to Faux News ( Read more... )

This journal started out as a way to keep in touch with folks who had migrated to Livejournal from the Usenet community soc.singles.moderated (ssm)

Many things have changed since that time. So I am changing some things about my journal to reflect the changes and decrease the drama.

( Explanation for those who would like one )

LaVena Johnson was 19 years old, serving in Iraq as a private in the ( Read more... )

Is one of the original faculty on Northwestern's Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute. ABCD is the hottest of hot shit in community development and grassroots organizing.

This.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) reverses the "let's help those poor poor people" approach to urban and rural community development. From the ABCD ( Read more... )

There is something about preaching as we experience it here in the 20th/21st century that is iconically male. Is it the folksiness of much of effective preaching? The register of excited male voices vs that of excited female voices? Or was Mary Daly really onto something with her labyrinth of uncovering and re-membering about the male stamp on ( Read more... )