Monthly Archives: May 2010
Interracial Relationship Round Up
TweetAlicia Keys, who I consider one of my all-time favorite artists, has a new video out that is, sad to say, seriously disappointing. It’s sort of a time travel through Hollywoodized interracial relationships, complete with a white dude in a truck and a bunch of angry black men. Really, Alicia? Granted, music videos rarely portray [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Housekeeping
TweetMarilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, and this, her first novel, clearly demonstrates why. It’s simply beautiful, chock full of so many breathtaking turns of phrase, emotional insights, and strange familiarities. It’s the story of Lucille and Ruth, orphaned when their mother commits suicide and forced to live with, first their grandmother, than [...]
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What We Missed
TweetAngie González Oquendo was killed in Puerto Rico on Monday — making it the second murder of a transgender woman in PR in less than two months. A crisis pregnancy center in Maryland is suing for the right to lie about their services. We can’t be too surprised that Rush Limbaugh’s fill-in for his show, [...]
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Quick Hit: Virginia teacher slips fetus dolls to third-graders
TweetThis is really disturbing. It looks a local paper in Norfolk, VA broke a story this week about a teacher that has been quietly slipping small fetus dolls with anti-choice messaging into the hands of third, fourth and fifth graders at Oakwood Elementary School. Reports NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia: The Pilot cites a teacher, who wished [...]
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Thank You Thursdays: the girls who don’t know (yet)