this is a late post but i just came across it and wanted to share reposted from racialicious the delusion of hatred immunity by special correspondent thea lim excuse me if i seem a bit dim but this week im having trouble figuring out exactly what satire is. when satire takes the form of straightup replication of offensive images and ideas is it still satire or is it just imitation and if its the c...
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i know it dont thrill you i hope it dont kill you as the old very old song goes well historiann is back from vacation.a why cant famille historiann just rentaa beach house somewhere like normal vacationers instead of doing the indianapolis 500 from southern new england to northern new england and back again from the green and white mountains to narragansett baya but it was lots ofafun and full of ...
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in a follow up to the new yorkers ironic cartoon the washington post published the following via anxious black woman as i asked in comments here the interesting thing to consider is what could the new yorker artist have done differently in his comic such that he truly represented irony whats different between the wapo comic which seems to represent its message very clearly and the new yorker ...
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as we here in pottervilleapull on our boots and get readyafor the big rodeo andawestern celebrationacoming to town im happy to report that a few of you are getting out of your towns to attend conferences and conduct some research.aahere are someainteresting museums featured on a few blogs i read regularly anxious black woman is just back from the national womens studies association annual meeting...
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well kids i finally got away from my endless duties at historiann.com hq to see sex and the citya the movie.a and what can i saya it was a twohourplus excursionato candy land for me.a it was also a damn fine characterdriven comedydramaand how many of those are there out there that dont star extremely unphotogenic mena the four main broads in this movie looked like movie starsand how many movies ar...
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just to illustrate and amplify the point in the previous post click here to find another shockingly offensive racist and misogynistaimage from the 2008 primary campaign ht diary of an anxious black woman.a i wont put that image on my bloganxious b. has a different position but ive got a weak stomach for images that exploit lynching.a see also the commentary at black women vote and what about our d...
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pshaw racism smacism. victoria switzer a retired social studies teacher was on phonebank duty one night during the pennsylvania primary campaign. one night was all she could take it wasnt pretty. she made 60 calls to prospective voters in susquehanna county her home county which is 98 percent white. the responses were dispiriting. one caller switzer remembers said he couldnt possibly vote for oba...
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speaking of oil rightwing talking points about oil prices are nonsense. climate change may harm your furry friends too. thanking the monkey is to animal rights as full frontal feminism is to feminism no matter id still love a copy of karen dawns debut for my birthdaywhich is this fridayhint hint wink wink. i blame the kyriarchy. discovery cove dolphin dies performing trick in front of spectator...
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a please visit diary of an anxious black woman for an update i can hardly speak right now. update from mamita mala saturday 426 900am rally at rev sharptons house of justice 106 w. 145th street near adam clayton powell blvd. 1200pm harlem revolutionary club at 125 frederick douglas blvd. or in in queens at sutphin blvdarcher ave. stop on e j z trains. acall 2126913345......
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like many other women of color bloggers im done with slave ship status. we are not some mysterious sphinx awaiting our colonial discovery by european imperialists a la napoleon. we refuse to be footnoted in the history books as some mysterious other or unknown source. i love the grace with which wintley phipps delivers this message when i get to heaven i want to meet that slave called unknown dia...
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updated below lastanight i heard this report on the bbc world service about the rape of women and girls in the conflict in darfur based onathis study by human rights watch.a the bbc says that although rape has been a tool of warfare throughout this conflict the patterns have changedits not just the janjaweed anymore.a women and girls photo right are now as likely to be assaulted in periods of calm...
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email discussed unapproved use of drug john c. lechleiter an eli lilly official who is about to become the companys top executive wrote an email message in 2003 that appears to have encouraged lilly to promote its schizophrenia medicine zyprexa for a use not approved by federal drug regulators reports todays new york times. why is this an issue the email message was discussed this week in an anch...
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diary of an anxious black woman decolonizing feminism international womens day......
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well were a full week into womens history month but historiann has been so immersed in one womans fateathat she hasnt had time to come up for airuntil today.a apologies sisters and brothersa consider this an open thread for any and all random thoughts on womens history monthbut just for kicks here are a few lil tidbits for your brain to nosh on 1.a check out the patriarchive which ive blogrolled u...
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diary of an anxious black woman is doing a great black herstory month seriesbe sure to check it out.a shes doing aaspectacularajob of telling stories of women far beyond the usual suspects including nineteenth and twentiethcentury women in the arts like katherine dunham edmonia lewis and octavia butler.a in an post on margaret garner sheabrings us word of an epoynymous opera with a libretto by ton...
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...arody we need only think of the many white suburban kids who listen to his music and would then go on to don blackface during halloween costume parties resembling their favorite rap artists its time fdiaryofan anxiousbla ckwoman.bl ogspot.com still on the run im still rippin and runnin and will be through presidents day. sorry folks but duty calls. i just wanted to check in to say t...
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partisan politicslawrence lessig professor of law and founder of creative commons on moral courage rovean politics the need for fundamental political change and why hes supporting obama.michael chabon obama vs. the phobocracyjack and jill politics dear undecideds obama is not a nimbus of vague hopejack and jill politics a ridiculous list of what obama has done for black peopledavid rees clinton ob...
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