Archive for December, 2008
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
music that hits you in the gayplace
My friend Ramdasha shares her favorite queer music of 2008 (not necessarily from queer identified artists). She says, so aptly: to me, music becomes queer by possessing that certain something that hits you right in the gayplace. the same place that tingled whenever the ellen show came on. That’s ellen the sitcom, not the talk [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Elizabeth Alexander: Obama’s inaugural poet
Yolanda Pierce of The Kitchen Table, on the selection of Elizabeth Alexander as the inaugural poet laureate: I am celebrating this news because it honors a black woman we both know and deeply respect, a woman who has dedicated her life and work to not only writing, but training the next generation of writers. Alexander’s [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
practicing shoe throwing.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at president bush: Every once in a while I witness something that fully captures my own emotions. Something that tells the story I wanted to tell with such insight and precision that I am embarrassed for not having done it myself. It might be a [...]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Looking Inward: LA and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Below is cross-posted a post I wrote over at LAist.com) Photo by tao_zhyn on Flickr Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UHDR), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The 30 articles of this declaration were written after the Second World War and represent the first global [...]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Remembering Bhopal: 24 Years ago today
(cross-posted at LAist and Cure This) Photos by jbhangoo via flickr; graphic and videos from Students for Bhopal Today marks the 24th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster — one that has been called the “Hiroshima of the chemical industry” and that took place in Bhopal, India. Around midnight on December 3rd, 1984, a [...]
