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Dancing In The Dark

Sunday, March 21, 2010

I was raised to believe I could keep bad things from happening to me, as a woman, if I just followed certain rules.
The women in my life, trying, no doubt, to protect me, taught me these rules. When a woman was abducted and killed while leaving a nighttime party in a miniskirt, I was taught [...]

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Pa Ingalls Was Not The First Rapper

Friday, February 5, 2010

I was one of the first generations to grow up with rap music. When I was a child (in the good old days of Reaganomics) rap fell into two categories: message rap (Public Enemy) and party rap (Run D.M.C.). Message rap discussed politics and institutional racism and other important things. (Sometimes, but not always, Flavor [...]

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The Four Worst Christmas Songs

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

I have been a lonely Jew on Christmas for nearly ten years now, and, each year, my tolerance for fail-Christmas songs lowers perceptibly.
Part of it, I know, is merely old age: when I was a child, every Wham! “Last Christmas” or NKOTB “Funky Christmas” brought me closer to an obscene quantity of disposable plastic toys. [...]

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Children’s Books: Little Grey Rabbit Makes Lace

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Upon the release of her private diaries, the (British) world was recently shocked to discover that beloved children’s author Alison Uttley, was, apparently, not very nice:
She created the enduringly charming children’s characters Little Grey Rabbit and Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog but the private diaries of Alison Uttley reveal the author to have been a controlling, difficult [...]

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Whose Point of View?

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I think this is less post than rant.
I read an interesting post on Racialicious last week, from the point of view of an MFA student who has realized that writers of color are, largely, not being taught to new practitioners of the craft. Even blockbuster authors like Toni Morrison are relegated to Ethnic Studies curricula:
To [...]

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