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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Tag Archives: capital crisis
A Tale of Race and Recovery
via RaceWire
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.*
The Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) back in February, the largest boon to public spending and [...]
Posted in capital, gender, labor, race, realpolitik, the state Also tagged apartheid, neoliberal, new deal, obama, race, safety net, strategic essentialism, subprime, white supremacy Leave a comment
Sociology of Board Games
Sociological Images recently posted pictures taken at a toy store of board games targeted towards girls. Of course, they’re pink. The box of Scrabble spells out “f-a-s-h-i-o-n” and girls’ Monopoly comes in a pink, velvet-lined jewelry box where you can keep game pieces.
A dissertation should be written on the sociology of board games, if there [...]
Tent City
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?”
The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?”
Why indeed. Like [...]
Posted in capital, race, urban studies Also tagged accumulation by dispossession, new deal, obama, race, space and place, spatial fix, subprime 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 [...]
Hope from People
An open letter to those seeking to build a world from below, in which many worlds are possible
We call on all anarchists, horizontalists, autonomists, anti-capitalists, anti-authoritarians, and others organizing a world from below to bring our best creative spirits to the project of a “Celebrate People’s History and Build Popular Power” bloc on January 20, [...]
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, bay area, critical theory, longue duree, marxism Leave a comment
All Your Marbles Are Belong To Us
We’re all subprime now, so says the general consensus by economists while the Fed bails out Bear Stearns and provides corporate welfare to the tune of over $13 billion daily $28 billion in just three days.
How did this happen, I and David Leonhardt ask?
Steve Randy Waldman tries to explain it to us:
Alice, Bob, and Sue [...]
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Communities of Possibilities