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Link Love for 2007-12-23

What you should be reading:

NPR : Bloggers’ Roundtable: Blacks Targets of Nuisance Laws?
“This week, a new poll finds growing tensions among Hispanics, Asians and African Americans. Plus, in Philadelphia, blacks say they are often the target of suburban nuisance laws. Our bloggers include Wayne Bennett of The Field Negro, Richard Graves of DJ
(tags: blogging NPR)

Still Black
“a visual portrait of black trans men. a film by kortney ryan ziegler. this is a quick preview of my current experimental film project which is the first documentary to investigate the lives of black transgender men.”
(tags: transgender Black-folks)

Women Aren’t Funny, Part Wev in Another Ongoing Series
“Apparently, some genius from that world-renowned bastion of gender studies, Norwich University Hospital, has concluded that men are naturally funnier than women because of testosterone—and he came to this amazing conclusion via a rather amazing experim
(tags: Feminism WTF?)

A Convenient “Truth” « Aaminah Hernández
You say you want to learn, but in order to learn, you have to listen. And I don’t see too many of you listening. You say you want to understand, but when we speak to you, you are interrupting us the whole time with off-topic issues and demanding explana
(tags: Muslim-Women Islam)

Incite Plea to Help NOLA « Oh No a WoC PhD
www.defendneworleanspublichousing.org 12/20/07 13:30p.m. -New Orleans Public Housing residents, and affordable housing advocates are being locked out of the New Orleans City Council (public meeting) proceedings and being harassed by multiple ‘law enforc
(tags: NOLA)

Insider Baseball: The Sequel « bastard.logic
Here, let me spell it out: what compelled myself and others to suggest a boycott of the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards was the utterly asinine attempt to lump feminists into the LGBT category (provoked, I might add, by HER trollish whinging, not the request fo
(tags: WTF? 2007-Canadian-Blog-Awards Feminism)

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  1. Thanks for the love once again. Best fuckin’ activist blog. Jesus.

    Good dressing down from Dave @ The Galloping Beaver, along with a list of proud feminist blogs and bloggers from Canada.

    Posted by matttbastard | December 23, 2007, 1:08 am
  2. Also see my BnR homegrrl JJ aka The Unrepentant Hippie and Dr. Dawg.

    Posted by matttbastard | December 23, 2007, 1:10 am
  3. (Oh, and everyone go read Politics’n'Poetry; Berlynn deserves much love and respect for standing up and standing strong in the face of a whole hell of a lot of undeserved invective.)

    Ok, I’m out. Peace. ;-)

    Thanks again. Enjoy the holidays, my friend.

    Posted by matttbastard | December 23, 2007, 1:14 am
  4. And now we are “murderers” (and I am an unhinged racist. Knew I shouldn’t have self-identified as POC. Fucking bingo.)

    Posted by matttbastard | December 23, 2007, 2:24 pm
  5. Matt, I know I corrected the record, but just so you know: I did not call you a racist, I accused you of implying Saskboy was a racist.

    Posted by James Bot | December 24, 2007, 12:18 am
  6. And yes, I acknowledged (and expressed my appreciation of) your correction of the record elsewhere, James.

    Although Sask seems to consider what I said a “racial” slur (snicker), so in a way my framing proved prophetic.

    Sorry for bringing the bullshit south, Kev. lolz.

    Posted by matttbastard | December 24, 2007, 7:06 am