Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Especially not these ones. Aren’t they beautiful? My daughter never much liked dolls, especially Barbie dolls, and neither did my only granddaughter (my youngest grandson will sometimes play with them for a few minutes, then usually winds up shoving them head-first into the trashcan) so I never had a reason to buy any. And really, [...]

Reclaiming the lucidity of our hearts by Sass Rogando Sasot (transcript; she speaks at about 3:00): Burned at stake. Strangled and hanged. Raped and shot and stabbed to death. Throats slashed. Left to bleed to death. These are just some of the ways transgender people were killed in different parts of the world, in different [...]

I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]

Thank the deities it is not just me. I hated that book. Not even half the stuff that is in this article occurred to me, but I wrote last year about picking up Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from the library and the trouble I was having getting through it. I am a very fast reader [...]

I have a story to tell. It’s about the day I went across the street to the convenience store to get milk and walked right into a… well, I’m still not sure what to call it. Maybe you have a name for it. A gift, anyway, it was. When I came out of the store [...]

Okay, not really. So, I decided to start dipping my toes back into poliblogging – very reluctantly, which is why there is next to nothing on here to reflect that decision – and part of that is also beginning to visit some of the bigger white feminist sites again as, of course, for me as [...]

This is pretty cool. There was nothing remarkable about the case before Hosi Nwamitwa II, chief of the Valoyi tribe that lives in the lush hills here. A villager said his brother’s wife had failed to show up for a hearing on an accusation that she insulted neighbors. The accused pleaded guilty and was fined [...]

I mean, Iowa. Who’da thought? A (primarily) white state that was pivotal in ensuring the potentially first Black president got a fair hearing in the rest of the US. And now becoming the first Midwest state to strike down anti-marriage equality laws. Good for them.

Obama, that is,  although I think she has almost reached one name status. I do, though, love the fashion stories – I know it’s reductive, that they often focus on her looks and what she is wearing instead of her intellect and personal achievements, and so on, but still… I love them. I even have [...]

Yeah, I don’t know… I’ve had the flu for the past few days so I may not be tracking all that well or making that much sense, but this just seems a bit um… Cosbyesque to me. (It also seems to replicate some of the same “I have no real idea what blogging is about [...]