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Kimberly Dark, writer at Huffington Post, remembers the first time she picked up a copy of Shadow on a Tightrope:
That’s so sad, I thought. It’d be so sad to feel that way, to think about oneself as being fat — like it’s an identity, like it’s who you are. And the sweat ran through my...
The Blog Carnival comes to town tomorrow!
Join us tomorrow for the 30th Anniversary Blog Carnival event in celebration of Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression! Our Tumblr will be updated frequently throughout the day as bloggers post their thoughts about and experiences with Shadow on a Tightrope. You can get updates about the Blog Carnival on our Facebook and Twitter page, too.
OMG guys, aunt lute just got a tumblr. And we'll be able to post on it all sorts of things, and repost your awesome things, YOU KNO. Please spread the word and follow it--tomorrow there's going to be a really sweet fat activist blog event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our anthology Shadow on a Tightrope, and we'll be up and live after that as a real internet presence.
THANKS
Aunt Lute Books is a nonprofit multicultural womens press based in San Francisco, California. For...
Shadow on a Tightrope Blog Carnival two days away!
The countdown begins!
Join us in two days for Shadow on a Tightrope’s 30th Anniversary Blog Carnival! Participating bloggers are gearing up to share their thoughts and experiences with Shadow on a Tightrope. Follow the carnival on Aunt Lute’s website, twitter facebook and here on tumblr.
Team Rocket and pillow Pikachu for editor Shay’s birthday celebration!
Pikachu is ready to party.
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I need this tee shirt in my life. Like NOW.
can this be my life thanx
Oh my god, the classic.
FBI, IRS serve search warrants to American Indian Charter
OAKLAND, Calif. — The FBI and IRS executed search warrants at three locations of an embattled Oakland charter school Monday evening, an FBI spokeswoman said. The warrants were served at the three campuses of American Indian Model Schools at about 5 p.m. Wednesday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, FBI spokeswoman Julianne Sohn said.
I would love to hear some more Native analysis from people familiar with this school. I live in the Bay Area, and just after college I naively looked at a job here, they were pretty horrifying...oh good I found a quote from the job advertisement:
“We are looking for hardworking people who believe in free market capitalism . . . Multicultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply.”
The IACA has always rubbed me distinctly the wrong way. While it supposedly will help Indian artists protect the market for their arts, it's clearly designed with Whites in mind to make sure that White people aren't being tricked by those tricky Indians, and furthermore is just such an obvious consequence of regulating blood through money.
Indian blood with a dollar sign on it, stamped with federal approval for white consumption.
Okay but can we talk for a moment about the layers of complexity regarding race that are unfolding in this scene right here?
You have:
Two black women discussing very real issues of privilege and passing regarding dark and light skin tones in society.
In which topics of identity and feelings of belonging and kinship are discussed and dissected explicitly, because one is the bi-racial child of the other, at one point actually pointing out how she didn’t feel like she didn’t belong to either group.
Which is further complicated by the fact that Lena is a lesbian, so her comments about belonging (or rather not belonging) to the minority or majority take on another layer of unspoken but very present and implied exclusion/inclusion.
All of which is sparked from Lena’s mom calling Lena out on the fact that throwing a kickass Quinceanera (without really fully understanding the ins and outs and nuances of the culture) is not the same as making sure Mariana is part of her Latina culture, and actually in fact very finely skirts the line of cultural appropriation if it’s all about you projecting your feelings of cultural isolation.
This is what happens when you make women, women of color, and lesbians the main characters of your show. We can have conversations like this on TV, and regardless on whose side of the discussion you fall on, the fact that we’re even SEEING this conversation is, in itself, revolutionary. It has been a long time since I have seen a scene like this tackle the topics of race so head on, and on a family show at that.
Major props to everyone involved in bringing this scene to life, because the writing and the acting make it so neither woman is fully in the wrong, and I am so happy to see this bring brought up, because scene like this spark dialogue about topics that are rarely addressed so openly in our own lives.
Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian, Zig Jackson (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)
