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"G.s Up, Hos Down, While You Muthafuckahs . . . Seek Gender and Racial Equality"
I just got back from NYC’s incarnation of the Rock the Bells Hip Hop Festival on Randall’s Island this weekend, where I was struck by the ways that the mainstream, commercial hip hop scene differs from the “underground” or “conscious” hip hop scene that I stood for hours in mud and pouring rain to dance [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2007 under A Girl Named You, ATLiens, Andre, Andre 3000, Atmosphere, Bag Lady, Benzi Box, Best Buy, Brooklyn Masala, Brother Ali, Brown Skin Lady, CunninLynguists, Cypress Hill, Dead Prez, Eminem, Erykah Badu, Forest Whitaker, G, Gin and Juice, Hey Ya, Immortal Technique, MF DOOM, Masta Ace, Mos Def, Outkast, Psalm One, Rage Against the Machine, Rhymesayers, Rjd2, Sage Francis, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, The Light, agency, artist, audience, authenticity, bikini, bitch, black, blog, clitoral stimulation, clitoris, commercial, common, conscious, culture, cunnilingus, dance, dancer, exploitative, expression, fan, festival, fish and grits, future, gat, gender, go-go, heads down, hip hop, ho, hum, identity, independent, indie, individual, irony, island, label, love making, lovemaking, lover, mainstream, making love, marijuana, mass-produced, masturbation, men, message, mind sex, money, mother, motherfucker, mud, music, nigga, nonsense, objectification, pimp, polaroid, political, politics, produce, produced, prostitution, race, rain, randall, randall's, rap, rapper, rhyme, security, self acceptance, self-produced, sex, sincerity, sister, stereotype, stereotypes, sugar, talent, underground, women.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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Capitalism 1, Patriarchy 0.
Check out this awesome article on Patriarchy vs. Capitalism in the greeting card aisle from Pandagon. Apparently, Hallmark has started making Father’s Day cards for single mothers. And not just single mothers – black single mothers. Pandagon cites a City Journal article that details the outside of the card: for My Mother ON FATHER’S [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Hallmark, Pandagon, black, black single mother, capitalism, father's day, feminism, greeting card, motherhood, parenting, patriarchy, race, single mother.
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