This is interesting – especially that money-quote about the supremacist logic behind the gender construction. Going to be thinking on that for a bit.

(Little bit of an aside: do you know Byron Hurt’s work on masculinity and justice? Worked briefly with him & Katz/MVP in the late ’90′s: while he gives generous props to that program for helping to get him on his film-making way, I felt at the time and even more so since that his work is WAY more nuanced, intelligent, actually invested in broad social justice, and finally useful. Pretty much, I love him, annoyingly plug his work at every opportunity, and really need to lay my hands on the movie this linked interview is about, because it’s one of very few reasons I regret not having TV. So, sharing the wealth.)

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Ha ha ha – I just finished watching the interview & realized “Barack & Curtis” IS Byron Hurt’s movie.

What a bonehead. And, love him.

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I had occasion to leave this is my own comments earlier today: “Obama has been, for me, a continuing lesson on what are and what are not mutually exclusive concepts. Being unthrilled about certain policy positions and tactics, sometimes unthrilled even to the point of feeling like we’re taking a step backwards, and regarding his candidacy as yet a step forward in other ways, aren’t mutually exclusive. Reconciling that with my tendency to view candidates as either singularly Progressive or Not Progressive has been an important learning experience for me.”

Some of the ideas raised in this video are closely associated with that learning experience.

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