How do I get to be your friend, fellow anti-racist shit starter? :) I might be able to chop it up about cultural appropriation, but I still don't get understand all the buttons on this site- or on this computer.

Yiikes I read your response to my comment on the Guyland post from yesterday ("oh you!!") and I was just wondering if you could explain their reaction to your similar comments. Cliffs notes anyway?

I mean, I have seen women have that exact reaction to douchiness, so it does happen. Perhaps it was going too far though to say it was enabling; guyland guys would probably be assholes anyway. My boyfriend commented that his friend had no luck with women, and had to rely on picking up really drunk women from bars for one-night stands, so maybe many women do call this guy out on his behavior. My reaction was that if the friend were a lot cuter, his behavior would fly.

Hey! There's a Jez Happy Hour tonight from 6 to 9 at McGee's, 240 W. 55th Street between 8th and Broadway.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ:

It's where we're both from- he's doing some office work there, not too happy about it, but NY + Teach For America resulted in some unfortunate returns home. Luckily neither of us had to go to ISU for college- I was going to go to IU for the B.A. but somehow talked my dad into accepting NYU as an option. I still haven't figured that one out either, so there you go.

Obviously, reaching out to you doesn't work (and I did so privately because I did believe it was something best kept between you and I). Your response to me was bizarre and I can't for the life of me make any sense of it. Since you wish to "leave it the beejesus alone" lets have a deal: I ignore you and you ignore me. If you can't abide by that, then it is you that is the lesser of the two of us.

Um, hi, and THANK YOU! I am not an aloof bitch, I promise, I just always forget to look at my messages, as I do not expect to get them! So thanks very much for your compliment from, you know, a week ago! YOU, clearly, are the awesome one.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ:

He is, in fact, working at ISU. I didn't realize you were from Indiana too!

Ah some of the people on this site make me question humanity constantly.

And its cause I do hair and make people see gods. Its true. I can't help it. *hee hee*

Awesomesauce, is that like Bearnaise?

I apologize that people can't do the reading thing.

I just wanted to say that I think you're awesome. That is all.

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ:

Ohh I just saw from the past that you sent me a message about my dear, feminist brother. I believe he is single, but he is also located in Terre Haute, IN. Still interested? I will send him a message.

It may have taken me a half hour to figure out the meaning of "Ls and Gs," but thanks for the shout out!

My sweet! Of course! If you are in NY, I'm happy to meet for real, too!

Well, it was certainly awesome. Which is simply expected at this point. Expected I say.

Well, it was certainly awesome. Which is simply expected at this point. Execpted I say.

I left message for you last night, but I think it got eaten (unless the site settings have changed and you can no longer see messages you send to peeps marked as "private." But, just in case -- thanks for the support! I've been through a lot with my mother, concerning weight and much more beyond, and so many of us can completely empathize. I can only hope that I won't undermine my own daughter (should she exist someday) the way my mom has done to me.
See you 'round the site!

It was called Examining Whiteness, and it was at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. It was the first one, and I don't know if they'll do it again, but I wouldn't be surprised if more people started organizing CRT conferences. Those people are ENTHUSED.

It was such a bizarre place for a conference so "radical" (I use those quotes only b/c CRT is controversial, because it upsets a lot of people who don't want to believe that they are complicit in racism...but I digress) because Meadville is rural Western PA...I was able to go because my dad lives there and I could stay with him for 2 days.

I would say keep an eye open for more conferences. My inner idealist believes that the world might be more receptive to the CRT discussion in light of Obama's run.

Another quick digression: One thing that I find both interesting and problematic about CRT is that a lot of times it's about whites, really...and while usually it's about exposing how crappy we (yep, I'm white) can really be, I worry that it accidentally recenters whiteness...like, it exposes how shitty we can be but keeps us the center of attention. I don't know. Just an issue I haven't been able to work out for myself. That said, there are plenty of people writing blacks and other people of color out of the margins.

You left me a message SO long ago...I never check my profile page b/c I am friendless...

Anyway, list of Critical Race Theory texts (the class was taught by George Yancy):
-When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, ed. Bernestine Singley (these are anecdotal pieces, generally)
-White on White/Black on Black, ed. George Yancy (he edits a lot of crt collections)
-Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege by Shannon Sullivan (I think all white people need to read this one, and with an open mind)

We also read a lot of photocopied essays (which I can't find at the moment), but some other names to look for are Linda Martin Alcoff, Lucius Outlaw, bell hooks, Gloria Yamato, Gloria Lugones, and Charles Mills (a man who is hilarious in person).

I met a number of these people at a conference last spring. Dr. Yancy and I hung out the whole time and all these big name philosophers were there and they know him and in many cases are a little obsessed with him. Kinda surreal.

So, yes, if you want to know anymore stuff, feel free to contact me again. I know I kept all the readings, somewhere...