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I’ve never been much of a comics fan, but I was much impressed with Broken Mystic’s two-part blog series, “Female, Muslim, and Mutant: A Critique of Muslim Women in Comic Books.” The first entry talks about the portrayal of the X-Men’s “Dust” character, an Afghan heroine introduced to the series in 2002. The second contrasts this [...]

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Last week we finally figured out with the help of the seven African powers, what the heck was going on with this site. Lynn and I thought the craziness was due to lack of memory juice in our server. That was only part of the problem. It's true, this here site is huge and sucks lots of bandwith even with the small community we have. What was really harshing our mellow was the blasted discussion groups (organic groups in Drupalese). So I stripped the site down for the fourth time but this time without that module and, voila! We have a site that is, albeit slowish, definitely not crashing. (Of course, as I type that, you know the server is going to go haywire.)

Much teching has been done, along also with much cup-caking and mothering : my baby turned six this past Thursday. Which is why this is a tweek recap.

After I did my previous recap, things got heated up with news that Cecilia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux nation in South Dakota will open a Planned Parenthood Clinic on their territory since the laws of South Dakota do not apply to them. Mole333 has outline a plan over at The Daily Gotham to help them with their effort. He will be posting here shortly as well. As blog is my witness, I will be smacking some wood with a hammer in the name of every sick pregnacist that thinks reproductive slavery is the new black.

This film will examine the negative impact that the misinterpretation of Islam has created for some of its women by ... all » looking at Muslim women's lives in two different countries -- Afghanistan and Pakistan. The central thesis of the film is that Islam has been politicized and misinterpreted to suit the ends of certain fundamentalist factions within the larger religious group. This misinterpretation resulted in the tragedy of 9/11. It has also resulted in extremely barbaric behavior towards women in some Muslim countries, where political upheavals have drastically and negatively impacted the status of its women.

I've been in a little of a kerfuffle with Nubian of BlackAcademic. I honestly get a knee-jerk reaction when I read or listen to people using racism to reduce every single negative aspect of American politics and culture. The knee-jerk reaction gets bigger when it comes from scholars and academics because it raises up a lot of issues I had with the part of US universities that fosters what I believe is a rhetorical posing that passes for a empirical analysis.

The problem though is that, not only are my biases strong but my articulation of them is weak, short-tempered, and unfocused. Which is why I haven't been too successful in engaging in a discussion about why reducing everything to racism is counterproductive to those trying to overcome racism in the first place.

I guess I am more into the grayish nuances of capitalist exploitation, the one's that can better explain why a Condoleeza Rice is Secretary of State or why there the genocidal war that rages across central Africa is all about slavery, human trading as capital, and not about race.

Yet ... and yet ... this image raises its ugly head at Feministing via Tennessee Guerilla Women: The Red Burka for A Red America

Get your Red Burka T-Shirt here, and tell the world what you think about the relentless, never-ending, Republican-led and State-financed War on Women.

I plan to wear a Red Burka Shirt when I go downtown to watch my elected representatives vote on whether or not women should be returned to the 19th century when the male-dominated state had the unmitigated audacity to rob women of their personhood.

I can't even begin to describe how culturally insensitive and narrow-minded this little campaign is.

I've been in a little of a kerfuffle with Nubian of BlackAcademic. I honestly get a knee-jerk reaction when I read or listen to people using racism to reduce every single negative aspect of American politics and culture. The knee-jerk reaction gets bigger when it comes from scholars and academics because it raises up a lot of issues I had with the part of US universities that fosters what I believe is a rhetorical posing that passes for a empirical analysis.

The problem though is that, not only are my biases strong but my articulation of them is weak, short-tempered, and unfocused. Which is why I haven't been too successful in engaging in a discussion about why reducing everything to racism is counterproductive to those trying to overcome racism in the first place.

I guess I am more into the grayish nuances of capitalist exploitation, the one's that can better explain why a Condoleeza Rice is Secretary of State or why there the genocidal war that rages across central Africa is all about slavery, human trading as capital, and not about race.

Yet ... and yet ... this image raises its ugly head at Feministing via Tennessee Guerilla Women: The Red Burka for A Red America

Get your Red Burka T-Shirt here, and tell the world what you think about the relentless, never-ending, Republican-led and State-financed War on Women.

I plan to wear a Red Burka Shirt when I go downtown to watch my elected representatives vote on whether or not women should be returned to the 19th century when the male-dominated state had the unmitigated audacity to rob women of their personhood.

I can't even begin to describe how culturally insensitive and narrow-minded this little campaign is.