After The Crash

Identities: Race -- Undermining the Overclass

Published on 2012-02-13 02:17:46

I was planning on doing something about sexuality next, but I've read some really good articles lately speaking specifically to white privilege and so I would like to work through some of my own thoughts about the matter.  This is something I have difficulty speaking to, so I'm outside my comfort zone and I would really appreciate some critique if anyone cares to address what I'm saying here. I am socially identified as a 'white' person.  It's not a label I want, nor one I embrace. &n

Blood From a Stone

Published on 2012-02-10 01:59:31

Today I went down to the local blood bank and allowed them to siphon away a considerable quantity of my precious, precious blood.  It was my first time; I was inspired to donate by a book I recently read, The Red Market, a fascinating (and frequently gut-wrenching) examination of worldwide markets in human tissue from 'blood farms', kidneys and anatomical skeletons to human eggs, surrogate pregnancy, and international adoption.  The book takes a severely critical stance toward the mand

Identities: On Labels

Published on 2012-02-06 01:06:17

When the topic of socially-constructed identities -- 'labels', as some would have it -- is discussed in an open forum, particularly when the topic at hand is the proliferating, often ambiguous and confusing set of identities associated with gender and sexuality, a certain peculiar attitude almost inevitably shows itself.  This attitude is communicated by certain slogans, such as 'labels are for clothes' or 'we shouldn't put people in boxes'; or by such exasperated questions as 'Why do we ha