Tag: racism

Complex Alliances

Dolores Park in the Castro, November 2009 Of course, Judith Butler states it all so much more succinctly than my previous post (in interview with Nina Power): The second problem is that lesbian/gay rights, and the rights of sexual minorities, need to join with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-war movements and are, in many instances, already…

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Race, Poetry, & Politics

How To Conjure the Power of Lynching! ~~~~ Baby Mama? Terrorist Bump? Too Black! ~~~~ Audio below from the Race and Poetry panel — from the PennSound blog: Recorded September 21, 2008 as part of this year’s BOOG City Festival, “Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental” is a panel discussion organized and moderated by Amy…

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Race and Poetry [preview]

Part 1 of 3 Stay tuned for the *complete* audio of the Race and Poetry panel @ PennSound [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/King.html or on a “bigger” page, waiting to hear]. In the meantime, *incomplete* video @ Blip.TV [http://amyking.blip.tv/ – better quality & only 3 long parts] or YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/user/amyhappens] with 7 shorter videos. The Wilders have also put…

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