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Florida lt. governor: ‘Usually black women that look like me’ aren’t lesbians
Florida’s Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll tried to deflect questions about an alleged same sex relationship with a staffer by saying women who look like her “don’t engage in relationships like that.” Ex-office aide, Carletha Cole said that she was fired shortly after she witnessed Carroll and a female staffer in…
The Problem with PRENDA: Reproductive Justice and Women of Color
I have been hearing murmurings to the effect of “I’m prochoice, but race and sex selection is morally repugnant.” So, I thought I’d address that concern briefly. The Republicans have tried very hard to make this issue about “black genocide” or the sort of sex selection that occurs in countries…
Why the debt ceiling is about dirty sluts
Matt picks up a drum I've been beating for a long time, which is "everything is culture war". There's a tendency in the mainstream media, which is encouraged by numerically small but well-funded and frankly deceitul "libertarians" to think there's some giant gap between "fiscal" and "social" conservatism. In theory,…
American Apparel’s ‘Full Body Head to Toe’ employment policy screens out the ‘uglies’
It’s 2010 and black women are still being told their hair is “bad,” ugly, lacks class, etc. If you saw Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” — that’s all you need to know about the pain, the humor and the self-loathing pathology black women (and men) have about natural hair (see my…
Where The Black Women At?
I’ve gotta agree with our esteemed media here: there’s just something deeply unsettling about a married couple that might still, you know, do it. And like, happily.…
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