Archive for 'identity politics'
Eat Yo’ Beats: Ana Tijoux & The Political Power of Self-Examination
Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother’s job as a social worker put her in touch with hip-hop as an 8-year old, it was love. At 14, Ana and her family returned to Chile [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under ethics, etymology, expatriate, exploitation, expression, fascism, fat beats, hip hop, hip hop culture, identity, identity politics, invisibility, latin america, latino, mc, old school, oppression, poetry, politics, self, self awareness, social construction, social inequality.
Tags: ana tijoux, beats, black panthers, boxing, chicago gangsters, chile, christian, close reading, crime, democracy, devil, dissent, eden, eiffel tower, etymology, eve, fascism, france, garden, Hannah Arendt, hip hop, hip-hop is dead, hoodlums, hoods, IAM, identity, identity politics, innocence, Jay-Z, joe louis, l'ecole du micro d'argent, Lauryn Hill, LL Cool J, makiza, Mama said knock you out, man in the mirror, mc, MIA, michael jackson, nas, old frisian, Paris, pinochet, politics, power, prostitution, rap, rhymes, rock the bells, sampling, self-examination, serpents, sly and the family stone, snakes, social injustice, social justice, social work, star wars, the kkk, wu tang
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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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Flarf You, Ethnic Slurs: "Corrosive, Cute, or Cloying Awfulness."
According to Micheal Magee, “Poems are, like, total bullshit unless they are/squid or popsicles or deer piled/on elk in the trunk of David Hasselhoff’s/cutlass Sierra.” That’s pretty much the spirit of the first poetry movement of the 21st century: semi-dadist riffing with Googleian specifics. It’s an interesting metaphor for modern consciousness– globalization has brought the [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under agency, art, feminist, globalization, identity, identity politics, insult, poetry, politically correct, politics, pop culture, popular culture, postmodern, repression, slur.
Tags: agency, apathy, art, avant garde, Baudelaire, consciousness, contemporary, cracker, cutlass sierra, dadism, david hasselhoff, deer, elk, ethnic, Ezra Pound, flarf, globalization, google, googleian, identity politics, information age, john ashbery, kike, making it new, micheal magee, movement, offense, podcast, poems, poetry, poetry foundation, poetry off the shelf, popsicles, postmodern, reclamation, repression, slur, squid, trunk, walt whitman, whatever
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'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture
The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under Attack, Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Research, Sex Roles, alcohol, chauvinism, chauvinist, consent, constitution, constitutional, court, cultural bias, cultural criticism, culture, definitions, degradation, democracy, discrimination, disempowerment, disrespect, domestic violence, equality, exploitation, exploitative, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminist theory, feminists, fuck, fucking, gang rape, gender, gender culture, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, gender violence, genitalia, genitals, government, human dignity, human rights, humanism, humanist, humanity, identity politics, inequality, injury, injustice, institution, intercourse, international women's day, justice, legal, legal definition, male perspective, male sexuality, maleness, males, masculine systems, men, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, morality, object, objectification, objectification of women, partner abuse, partner violence, physical power, pop culture, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, propaganda, punishable offense, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, rapper, respect, science, science and gender, self image, self-esteem, sex, sex object, sex partner, sex research, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual activity, sexual advance, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual exploitation, sexual inequality, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexual relations, sexual subordination, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, social inequality, socialization, society, survivor, vagina, violation, violence, violence against women, women, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights, women's studies.
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When The Personal Was Revolutionary, 0r He's Not My Precedent
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Liturature. You’re saying, duh, this is not news. And so is she. According to Pheobe Connelly the American Prospect, after being informed that she had won the prize, Lessing shrugged and said, “”Oh Christ. It’s been going on now for 30 years; one can’t get more excited than [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2007 under New York Review of Books, New York Times, binary, camera, christ, connelly, contemporary, craft, doris, experience, female, feminine, feminism, feminists, gender, gender role, humility, identity, identity politics, inequality, lady, lessing, literature, men, misogynist, misogynists, motherhood, nobel, personal, personal experience, pheobe, philosophy, political, politics, prize, racist, racists, religion, sexuality, social construction, society, the small personal voice, women, writer, writing.
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