About
Yvonne lives in Berkeley, California with her partner and their four-legged family. During the day, she works at a racial justice think tank, crunching numbers to eradicate white supremacy. At night and sometimes weekends, she sits at her computer, trying to make sense of the world.
These are the fruits of her attempts. Apologies in advance if they are sometimes sour, not always sweet, unripe or not fully ready to launch. Yvonne is working on her craft of writing and playing with using all five senses.
Yvonne tweets, shares what she reads, makes friends, takes pictures, and watches video. Occasionally, she chats and talks on the phone. She loves hearing from you at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
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The Cruxifiction of Van Jones
Philly artist Jasiri X made a music video linking the attack on Van Jones to how black and brown men are systemically discredited, especially when they are speaking truth to power and shaking up the status quo.
via Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner
Posted in race Also tagged music, obama, race, strategic essentialism, white supremacy Leave a comment
Ronald Takaki, Rest in Peace
via hapihour.org
According to numerous individuals, Prof. Ron Takaki passed away this week. Share your thoughts on Ron’s legacy on Facebook. We’ve lost a giant in the Asian American community. Join with me in wishing his family and friends our condolences.
Considered the father of multicultural studies, Ron was a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University [...]
Posted in race Also tagged critical theory, immigrants, national question, race, strategic essentialism 1 Comment
Happy Birthday, Yuri Kochiyama
Born on May 19, 1921, Yuri grew up in a white middle class suburb of San Pedro, California. Her life was irreparably changed when Pearl Harbor was bombed. She and her family were forcibly removed from their homes and interned at detention camps setup for Japanese Americans during World War II. There, Yuri connected the [...]
Posted in gender, multitudes, race Also tagged national question, nyc, race, stalking, strategic essentialism Leave a comment
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
From my perch here on the thirteenth floor in downtown San Francisco, I can catch a sliver of the Bay. There’s often a boat, usually cargo, floating in the water with a backdrop of a mountain range and sometimes at sunset a fantastic explosion of color streaking the sky: pinks, blues, violets, and then black.
One [...]
The Great Rehearsal
The Great Rehearsal:
A symposium and week of events
on the World Revolution of ‘68 and its legacies
September 17-25
www.greatrehearsal.org
1968 was a world revolution. From Mexico City to Tokyo, Paris to Prague, Columbia University to Berkeley, it was a revolutionary event that at once failed and transformed the world. The process it put into place continues today. 1968, [...]
Posted in multitudes Also tagged american indian movement, anarchism, capital crisis, critical theory, longue duree, marxism Leave a comment
AK Press is in the Blogosphere
From the anarchist publisher, AK Press, based in Oakland, CA…
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the AK Press Blog, REVOLUTION BY THE BOOK!
Visit such exciting posts as interviews with AK authors, reviews of and excerpts from AK books, and reports on the events at AK. We will also post news about other anarchist publishers [...]
Food Chains
A food chain, according to Wikipedia, is the flow of energy from one organism to the next and to the next and so on. You start with what’s called a primary producer, usually a being that rates low in terms of evolutionary development and differentiation, and go successively through various trophic levels of predators feeding [...]
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Ethnic Studies Beyond the Academy