Nearly a year ago, I posted a fragment of a poem I wrote back when I was in college. This weekend, as I packed up to move, I found a complete version of one of the early drafts.

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A post over at the Spock_Uhura comm sent me searching for ancient blog posts and poetry I'd written about Black women and hair ( Read more... )

I only recently joined the lj Spock_Uhura community, so I missed whatever dust-up caused a series of postings on avoiding racefails. Though I read them with interest and thoroughly enjoyed most of them and I was happy that they existed, for the most part, didn't give them much thought beyond recommending them to a former editor with whom I used to ( Read more... )