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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.
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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, capital crisis, new deal, obama, race, safety net, strategic essentialism, subprime, white supremacy Leave a comment
Reading Harry Potter Critically
Here’s my review of Harry Potter that I promised Channing for RaceWire’s round-up of the new movie…
Across cultures, fairy tales and myths are used to teach children the normative values of a society. Stories follow a similar template: the main character is a child that listeners can identify with. There are fantastical creatures, some good, [...]
Empire Strikes Black
“I want to join the Starfleet Academy!” I exclaimed to a colleague when leaving the theater. Watching the new Star Trek movie left me with a sense of optimism about intergalactic governance, a desire to trust and give of myself wholly to the Federation, who will school me, train me on how to [...]
Posted in dead white men, geek, race, the state Also tagged accumulation by dispossession, dead white men, obama, race, social darwinism, space and place, spatial fix 2 Comments
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, [...]
Sesquipedalian Obscurantism
The NY Times today pays way too much respect for a man that does the world a whole lot of good dead than alive.
William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate
conservatism to the center of American political discourse, died at 82.
Breathes the first sentence of Buckley’s obituary. [...]
Communities of Possibilities