J and I first started dating around Halloween in 2004. We chatted back and forth, online and via text a lot, due to us both working full time and taking classes. Somehow that year, we both managed to go vote at the same time, but in polling locations across the city from one another, spent our long wait texting pictures of the voting lines back and ( Read more... )

It's going to sound somewhat odd to say, but I love living in the future. Not the Jetson's whitewashed creepy robot maid future, bu the skeeviem cyber terrorism, crazy censoring governments  future ( Read more... )

It makes me sad that in 2012 the First Lady of the U.S. has to defend herself from being an "angry black".

"I guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman. But that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced [he would run for president] - that I'm some angry black ( Read more... )

As someone who just looked at a $1300! handcrafted bike made in England last week this article does resonate with me. In the past few months, J and I have finally gotten to the point in our lives where we aren't living paycheck to paycheck, and I can see how over the next year or so we will have established ourselves squarely in the middle class. ( Read more... )

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever ( Read more... )

I haven't done a lot of ranting here on LJ lately, and in some cases I feel like I'm tapped out. It's exhausting to to be high dudgeon for long periods of time. However, this past week has just been one long WTF after another in a world wide level ( Read more... )

So J linked me to this comic the other day, and the following conversation ensued.
Me: I love how his idea of a librarian is basically someone obsessed with silence, myopic and angry.
J: stares at me
Me: Well, I'm not really obsessed with silence....
J: stares at me
Me:...ok, the squeaky mouse really was a bit bit much and stressing me out...


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When exactly will the American public start being afraid of white men?* I mean, based on acts of terrorism that have happened on American soil, it seems like a fair question ( Read more... )

Hair, for women in the black community is always a touchy issue to navigate. In some cases, to me at least, it seems like a lot of identity politics for black women is wrapped up in their hair. Even in my own family its been an issue, with my mother being the stereotypical 'light skinned' girl with 'good hair' and my aunt...well...not ( Read more... )

"What ever happened to the idea of striving . . . to be better human beings than we are?"

In talking to J the other night after the AZ discussion, I shrugged off mass ignorance, racism and prejudice, not because I'm not affected by it, but because I know it can't last. No offense to anyone, but I'm a mixed race girl in a mixed race marriage, and ( Read more... )