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Category Archives: Intersectionality

  • You may remember friend of SP Mean Asian Girl from her previous guest post, The Fantasy of Being White. We loved that post so much that we asked [...]

    Guest Blogger Mean Asian Girl: Oh? No! Or, Why I didn’t participate in the Facebook doppelganger meme

    February 16, 2010
  • America lost a great voice this weekend: the poet Lucille Clifton died. She was 73 years old. Clifton wrote wonderful, poignant, witty poems [...]

    “but who can distinguish one human voice amid such choruses of desire”

    February 15, 2010
  • Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to remember transgender victims of violence. Here’s a list of the people we’re [...]

    Transgender Day of Remembrance

    November 20, 2009
  • There’s a really wonderful article in the NYT magazine this week about queer teenagers and how cultural changes have made it safer (in many [...]

    High five a gay kid today

    September 24, 2009
  • I take the war on terror personally because the war on terror is really a war on difference, because my body strikes terror in the hearts of [...]

    Quote of the day: Normal

    September 23, 2009
  • Alternate title: Jesus H., Fellow White People, Shut Your Mouths and Use Your Brains for Five Minutes, Would You? So, I can’t stop thinking [...]

    “This is what happens to black men in America”

    July 21, 2009
  • By Mean Asian Girl I’m a friend, neighbor and grad-school classmate of Kate’s, but while I’m a faithful reader, I’m not much of a [...]

    Guest Post: The Fantasy of Being White

    July 8, 2009
  • -Lauredhel: Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer  An excellent elaboration of Rule 11, among other things. The [...]

    Read ‘Em

    May 14, 2009
  • OK, so nobody who reads this blog can be unaware that Yes Means Yes! is out, and I’m in it, and you should buy it, and I FELL DOWN FOUR [...]

    Yes Means Yes! Virtual Tour: Q&A with Kimberly Springer

    February 12, 2009
  • Nicholas Kristof:  The racism is difficult to measure, but a careful survey completed last month by Stanford University, with The Associated [...]

    Quick Hit: “Racism without Racists”

    October 6, 2008

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