Earlier this month Dutch fashion designer Mattijs Van Bergen premiered his latest creation; a large dress made up of 72 national flags. The 72 flags are of the 72 countries were (male) homosexuality (or more precisely male sodomy) is illegal. The dress was photographed in a gallery of Rijksmuseum in front of the…
So today I’m browsing through YouTube trying to find something interesting to watch, and I come across this video; Africa: Will You Marry Me? I know poorly documentaries can portray Africa so I cautiously start the video.
Reading the comments on other sites about the Hulk Hogan ruling I’ve learned people really hate Gawker; or at least when it involves a rich white man being perceived as a victim...
On March 3rd, the international news agency Reuters published the article “Top Pakistani religious body rules women’s protection law ‘un-Islamic’.” The article is about the response of the head of the Pakistani Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to a women’s domestic violence protection law recently passed in the…
Like the ubiquitous Che Guevara t-shirt, Beyoncé’s new single “Formation” and her subsequent Super Bowl performance, it is all style and no substance. While many people have been swept away with Beyoncé’s invocation of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party, we must also remember what these movements…
I’m sure we’ve all heard of the New Year’s Eve Cologne attacks and have seen the rampant bigotry and racism it has provoked. The anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, and racist crowds have really latched on to this story.
How many of the people who shit all over the idea of safe spaces will be the first to pop-up in articles or discussions about race or religion and give their unwanted and unneeded, half baked and obstinate opinions and totally derail any “debate?”
The events happening at Yale have brought up a lot of discussion regarding freedom of speech and how people should deal with things they find offensive. Many critiquing the backlash started by the students are saying that the students are merely reacting by being offended by something, (as if being offended by…
On Sunday, a man in Tupelo Mississippi threw a homemade bomb into a Walmart in part over Walmart’s decision to stop selling Confederate flags.
So I’ve been wanting to do a post on here about FGC (Female Genital Cutting) for a while now, but I’ve never quite been able to create a cohesive post. The recent comments from Germaine Greer about FGC posted here and my Alice Walker comment spurred me to write (finally) write this post.
Nothing seems to stir up…
This article discusses how Ahmed Mohamed perceived race has been mentioned when discussing his infamous clock and subsequent arrest. It seems that Ahmed was sometimes said to be a “brown” kid, even though his family is from Sudan. The articles raises the question of how Muslims, and Black Arabs are understood in the…
So this story popped up the other day on some of the Islam/Muslim related blogs I read. A Muslim flight attendant named Charee Stanley was fired from her job at ExpressJet for apparently “refusing” to serve alcohol to passengers. The first article I read didn’t seem to do a good job of explaining the story so I…
I was reading St. Borg de Chupacabras ಠ_ಠ’s exchange (seriously, excellent job - glad to have you here) regarding the Jezebel India article and one of the arguments that stood out was that the US doesn’t sanction rape and sexual violence as a form of punishment, like “India” does. Well actually, the US does.
So, I just wanted to give everyone an update regarding my post from the other week regarding #BlackLivesMatter. First off let me thank everyone for their thoughtful and insightful replies. I read through all of them, and have been thinking about them and reading more about #BlackLivesMatter. All this has lead me…
This article did a good job of explaining my feelings regarding #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/31/how…
The New York Times published an article about the almost totally ignored threat of Right-Wing terrorism only one day before the Emanuel AME Church shooting.
Baltimore isn’t the only city experiencing anti-police brutality protests these days. Late Thursday, approximately 1,000 mostly Ethiopian-Israelis congregated in Jerusalem to protest what they say is unfair treatment of Ethiopian-Israelis by Israeli police forces. The protest was spurred by a video of an…
A report released earlier this month has estimated that between 1.3 and 2 million people have been killed in the US lead “War on Terror.” The author notes that this is a conservative number and its possible more than 2 million people have be killed. These deaths occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. The report…
