So this week most of the mass media is purporting to believe that it is possible to produce alchohol from brewers yeast extract.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
race & racism
Media Circus: #ISupportAdamGoodes edition
Feeling so much rage right now against the troglodytes showing their arses all over the internet and mass media this week.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Media Circus: No Snappy Title edition
I have been mostly speechless/typingless at the latest news, taking refuge in offline activities. But I should still put up a post for the rest of you to vent/rant or even ideally substantively discuss these issues, because disengagement is never going to be a solution, even if it’s sometimes necessary for some self-care. Go for it.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Media Circus: #BringBackOurGirls Edition
So who else thinks that if 200+ white schoolgirls had been kidnapped from a boarding school anywhere on the planet that the media would be making it not just a top story but the top story for weeks until their whereabouts was discovered? So why aren’t there regular updates about the 200+ kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls every single day?
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
There can be no healing at Nottoway Plantation
In yet another example of white feminist cluelessness, Singer Ani DiFranco will hold her annual songwriting retreat this year on Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana. Righteous Retreat Song Camp is billed as a feminist songwriting retreat, and DiFranco’s choice to hold the event at this locale has drawn ire from Black women who note the offensiveness of the location.
Today in White Privilege: Intent, Noticing, Examining
Nothing induces more rage in others than your taking what you do not deserve and not even noticing.
Media Circus: Abbott’s Xmas gifts to the nation edition
If it looks like us pesky citizens might demand a say in what will happen to our country, the Abbott Government’s response is to simply stop the flow of information.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
The #NotYourAsianSidekick conversation
Watching the white supremacists try to derail the conversation with the #AsianPrivilege hashtag and by coopting the Shoah has been infuriating.
Vale Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Kelly Briggs on the Race Conversation We Need to Have
Gomeroi author, blogger and activist Kelly Briggs recently wrote in the Guardian’s Comment is Free of the pressing need for white feminists in Australia to talk seriously about race.
