Pass it on. This filmmaker was at the 2007 Allied Media Conference; it’s going to be excellent ….
Thursday, February 07
7:30 pm
FILM & DISCUSSION
NO!
The Rape Documentary
Discussion with Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons
This feature length documentary explores the international reality of
rape and other forms of sexual assault through the intimate
first person testimonies from Black women victim-survivors,
commentaries from [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
NO! The Rape Documentary
January 22, 2008
My love affair with James
Rapid post. Be back for edits post-dinner if needed …
I first read James Baldwin’s Another Country two summers ago and fell completely in love with him. I gave my own mini review in this post a while back. His writing left me breathless. Since then, after moving to BK, [...]
January 21, 2008
Happy MLK Day!
I’m reposting Grace Lee Boggs column from the Michigan Citizen about MLK. She is a bit more optimistic in this column about Barak Obama then myself, but I like the rest of it.
Boggs’ presentation of the core parts of MLK’s philosophy are the parts that speak strongly to me as well. An important book [...]
January 9, 2008
I’m an Asshole
So turns out the whole GW Carver pencil thing is true:
“He taught himself to read. His family was so poor, he couldn’t afford to buy a pencil, so he made a holder and used a pencil that was only 1/4 inch long.” got it from this website. Apparently so did my student who [...]
January 8, 2008
“He Couldn’t Even Afford a Pencil”
Today was a really intense day at school. Some of the craziest moments came during the NYPD officer visiting my classroom and talking about gangs with the students. I was not happy about this when the social worker told me about it. I got my own cop issues, and I wasn’t into the idea of [...]
January 5, 2008
This gave me a good laugh this morning …
My friend Max is in Chile for the next five months. His posts are awesome–it makes me want to have more pictures on my blog. This post is my favorite. Peep the pic of the singing haircut guy–fantastic!!
January 1, 2008
Feminism
Happy New Year to all!
I’ve been meaning to blog about feminism for a while now. I am frustrated by a lot of the stuff that I find out in the blogging world and political world in general. Feminism has been an important part of my development as a political person, and as a human [...]
