How flattered am I that Amy Jussel at ShapingYouth.org decided to cross-post my AntiRacistParent column (Breaking the Color Code and Princess Power)?
ShapingYouth is a forum about media and marketing’s influence on kids, and is chock-full of great resources for parents and anyone interested in kids and consumer culture. Another such site is ParentsForEthicalMarketing.org/Corporate Babysitter. […]
I might have to start tuning in again…
My latest column, The Princess Problem: “There’s More Than One Way of Being Pretty”, is up over at AntiRacistParent. Toot-toot.
Dear Mini-Me,
The tulips, delivered to my front door yesterday, were indeed wonderful. Bright, fresh, and lovely.
The mini mylar balloon was cute.
The chocolates, which you and your little sister ate the majority of helped me eat, were heavenly.
But this afternoon, you topped yourself when you came bounding into my bedroom with a large collection of Dilbert […]
Growing up, I was one of those girls who hated gym class. One of those girls who the boys never wanted on their team during games because my fellow gym-haters and I would stand around gossiping, determined not to break a sweat in 90-plus degree Florida heat, reciting the words to “The Real Roxanne” […]
I’ve recently added some good folks to ye olde blogroll. Please go get your mind fed.
Love,
Mamalicious!
MyAmericanMeltingPot from the author of Kinky Gazpacho
Negrophile It’s Negrolicious!
The Learning Center in ExileMusings from DebbieDeb, my sister from another mother
VerySmartBrothas “best served with post-coital grits and turkey bacon”…The Champ is my homie, my ace boon, my bro-ham…allathat!
I’ve requested a review copy of this. So far, no response.
An Interview with Filmmaker Daphne Valerius
conducted by s. e. anderson
Filmmaker Daphne Valerius takes a stark look at the relationship
between media images and the self-esteem of African American women
in her moving documentary The Souls of Black Girls. Here, she shares
the purpose behind her passion, and […]
Good news…I got into VONA!
Bad news…I was accepted for a different week and a different class than I requested. So I’m passing. Maybe next year…
Good news…We got all the planting done!
Bad news…The same little girls who have asked me daily for the past month, “Are we gardening TODAY???” pretty much bailed after an […]
1. Spring
2. My neighborhood.
Is it just me, or is this the springest spring that ever sprung? It’s such a nice spring, it’s got me writing corny sentences like the preceding one. That’s some spring. Growing up in Florida, I never gave much thought to seasons. But now, living in PA and having children for whom […]
Financial Times endorses Obama
Democrats must choose Obama
Published: April 20 2008 18:59
Barack Obama goes into Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary as strong favourite, whatever happens, to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet the vote could still go either way.
This is a sign of how close this race has been and how deeply it has divided the party.
Mr Obama […]
