POC and the Politics of Medical Research

Poor, black families used as test subjects for sludge. This was done in the late 90’s. They didn’t tell any of the people in the study what exactly was meant by the term bio-solid, nor did they tell them of the potential health risks. I assume most people are aware of what happened at Tuskegee [...]

How to derail a conversation about race…Step 1

Faced with Pat Buchanan’s recent display of bigoted delusional rhetoric I find myself feeling more than a little overwrought at the idea of discussing race or racism ever again. Frankly I’d much rather nap until America got over itself. But, I can’t resist debunking sentiments like:
First, America has been the best country on earth for [...]

Racism in my feminism? You don’t say…

Hillary Clinton: Bow to the man, and take the vice presidency. Let our country heal. You will run in eight years and be unstoppable as a visionary world leader. You must pass through this filter first though: bow to the man.
Now, I’ll bet reading that made you want to reach for a hammer right? You’re [...]

I see a Swift Boat sinking…

For the last few days I’ve been seeing a lot of spasming about Barack Obama having an easier time of things with reporters because sexism makes them go after Hillary Clinton. Which sounds great as long as you ignore quite a few elephants in the room. Little things like her writing herself a check for [...]

February on the ABW

Welcome to February ABW readers. Already this month is making me angry, though less for public reasons than private. Still, there is a lot to look forward to, at least around here. One of those things is posts from a cavalcade of guest bloggers, some of whom you’ll see often, some who [...]

The Missing Black Woman Formation

Apropos of Monday’s political post, I wanted to point out some interesting blog posts. A few weeks ago, author and friend Scott Westerfeld posted this excerpt from his novel So Yesterday:
A focus group of cool-hunters has just been shown a new sneaker advertisement, and they all seem to agree that it’s awesome. That [...]

The Prodigal Blogger

You may have noticed the light posting around here lately. Sorry about that. The holidays kicked my ass, among other problems. Lately I’ve also been feeling pretty blah about doing political blogging, which makes me feel guilty because I said I’d do it. Then I freeze up because I can’t think [...]

Happy Holidays

Oh look at me being politically correct! And warring on Christmas!
Just a quick note to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Go Kwanzaa, Up With Solstice, and other festival greetings to my readers. I hope you’re all safe, loved, and happy this season.

Two completely unrelated things

First thing. You may have noticed there’s a new box on the right announcing the ABW store. I put a few shirts up and a mug since I’d had some interest from folks. Particularly for the hair ones. It’s a Zazzle store, not CafePress, because Zazzle has better quality shirts that [...]

Introducing: LadyJax

This week i’m attending the LaunchPad workshop in Wyoming.  I’ll let you know all about ti in detail when I get back.  Blogging will be light on my end since there’s no assurance of high speed internet access while we’re there.  So I arranged to bring in another guest blogger to enlighten and entertain you [...]