It Takes a Little Sharing

In honor of the late, great Aaron Swartz, pictured above, I’m making an overdue effort to get some of my own works out from behind walls of various sorts and into the open. (This is always my practice, but sometimes there’s more of a lag than I’d like.) I can’t say that I ever met […]

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Linkthink #93877: We Want Easy

Jamaica Land We Lgbt “A tribute to and expression of Jamaica’s sexual minorities in the struggle to overcome prejudice and violence and to assume their rights as citizens, as full human beings” (tags: jamaica sexuality homophobia blog violence nation politics politricks) Jamaica Land We Lgbt: Kenneth Reeves speaks out my former (gay black) mayor is […]

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Where Do I Begin (To Tell the Story)?

As long as we’re on the topic of “Arab Face” I’ve decided to dust off and finish up this post that’s long been sitting in my drafts folder. (It’s post #100, and I’ve recently published #400, if that’s any indication of how long it’s been on a backburner.) There are countless twisty, tangly stories of […]

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In My Language (& Mine Too)

I asked for more arguments like this one — which is to say, compelling, self-produced video theses — and I think that A.M. Baggs’s “In My Lanuguage” most definitely qualifies. The pull quote: Far from being purposeless, the way that I move is an ongoing response to what is going around me. Ironically, the way […]

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